Hero stone near Nāgavūṭikālva

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00086

Hand Description:

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Origin:

Classification: commemorative-memorial-hero memorial

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000079 inscription on On a broken slab in a field near the Nāgavūṭikālva to the west of Cipili

Layout: 3 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1[?3*]dañcakeṟe
2(yu)ṭṭu sūragati naḍaci
3amaralōkamb ēṅge

Translation by Sastri 1969

...dancakere yuṭṭu walked (i.e. fought) after the manner of the warriors and went to Heaven. 

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 338, № 624 in absence of a picture. The dots used in the edition to indicate lost or unintelligible characters can not clearly be attributed to a certain quantity of characters (one dot may indicate one or more lost or unintelligible characters).

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 296 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 338, № 624 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry 1969: page 338 provides a translation while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition.

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Secondary

A. R. No. 296 of 1922
Ramayya Pantulu, J. 1948. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume X: Telugu Inscriptions from the Madras Presidency. South Indian Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications.
Page 338, № 624.
Sastri, Korada Mahadeva. 1969. Historical Grammar of Telugu with Special Reference to Old Telugu c. 200 B.C. - 1000 A.D. Anantapur: Sri Vekateswara Univ.
Pages 337–338, № 78.