Hero stone of Menṭha (?), mentioning the Cōḻa

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2025-01-09Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00088

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Classification: commemorative-memorial-hero memorial

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000075 inscription on On a slab lying in a field to the north of Rāmanāyanikōṭa

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

Edition

1svasti śrī (sē)vuṇḍūre[?2*]
2(go)¡(nḍa)! koḍuku aribha[?1*]me¡(nṭha)! cō-
3la gada(si) poḍici surāla(yaṁ)b ēge

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 340, № 630 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. 374 of 1904 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 340, № 630 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives a short summary: Mentions that the son of some one attacked a certain person and having fought with him went to heaven.Sastri 1969, page 340

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Secondary

A. R. No. 374 of 1904
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 340, № 630.
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.
Page 340, № 84.