Current Version: draft, 2024-05-22Z
No editor has been identified for this inscription.
DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00090
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Classification: commemorative-memorial-hero memorial
Languages: Telugu
Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000082 inscription on On a slab lying in a field of Pullagaṇṭivaripalle, hamlet of Pedda-Tippasamudram
Layout: 5 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.
1svasti (A)nēkasamaraśaṁghaṭṭaṇōpaladdhajaya-
2lakṣamīsamāliṁgitavakṣastala-kalige-triṇē[tra-]
3śrī-cavamākulasēnāpati vīrāmāhārāju ya¡gr̥i!sutunṟu
4cānda Iti putr̥(malla)dēvumāganṟu (sagaladēse mēgi)
5(Ē)ḻupakāla Ēḷuvā¡nḍu! poḍici paḍiye
2 kalige-triṇē[tra] ◇ (ra)triṇētr̥ṇḍu
3 śrī-cavamākulasēnā ◇ śrī (vava)mā[?1*](sē)nā — 3 sutuṇḍu ◇ sutunṟu
4 cānda Iti putr̥ ◇ nā(nda)[?1*]putr̥ — 4 -māganṟu (sagaladēse mēgi) ◇ -māga[?4*]laṅgasamagi
The text follows the re-reading of N. Lakshminarayan Rao in 1948: page lviii of the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 342, № 637. N. Lakshminarayan Rao consulted the impression for his re-reading (1948: page xxxv) but did not provide a picture of it. 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).
The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 536 of 1906 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 342, № 637 with few metadata and without translation. N. Lakshminarayan Rao (1948: page lviii) improved the reading by consulting the respective impression. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives a short summary: The inscription refers to a Triṇētra with the usual praśasti of the Vaidumba kings and the eldest son of his commander Śrī Vīramahārāju. l. 5 states that the ruler of Ēḻupakālu fought and fell.Sastri 1969, page 342