Grant of a pannasa under the rule of Śrī Pōrirāju

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00087

Hand Description:

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Origin:

Classification: donative

Languages: Telugu

1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000080 inscription on On a slab in a field near Tupākulollapalle, hamlet of Gollapalle

Layout: 17107 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

^{A 1}svasti śrī pōrirā(ju)-
²la Ē[?1*]vilō(gō)yu
³ḻēmaṇḍa Eḷapi[?2*]-
⁴ni poṭṭuna[?3*] dāniko-
⁵ḷiśā[?1*]nave[?2*]rāju
⁶[?1*]va[?4*]na panasa
⁷ci(ṟa)kuḷḷu[?2*](ve)ṭṭiri
⁸naga[?5*]
⁹[?1*]koṭe[?5*]
¹⁰[1 line lost or illegible] ^B
11(va)kra(ṁ)bu vacuvānṟu
¹²bharaṇasi padunṟṟu [ca. 1 line lost or illegible]-
¹³salā campinavanṟu
¹⁴pādiga[ca. 1 line lost or illegible]niluvuṟēḷu
¹⁵canda[?1*](vṟa)[?3*]ḷuba
¹⁶ma(ha)ḷadārunṟu
¹⁷kṟoce

Translation by Sastri 1969

ll. 11-13. He who obstructs this incurs the sin of killing ten (cows?) at Benares. ll. 16-17. Mahaḷaḍārunṟu engraved (the inscription).

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 339, № 627 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. 307 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 339, № 627 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, provides a partial translation and and a short note: Refers to a certain Pōrirāju and the grant of a pannasa.Sastri 1969, page 339, № 81.

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Secondary

A. R. No. 307 of 1922