Grant of a certain geographical property under the rule of Vaidumba-Mutturāju

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00091

Hand Description:

Additional Metadata

Alternative identifier:

Origin:

Classification: donative

Languages: Telugu and Sanskrit

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and
  2. Secondary language is Sanskrit, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000083 inscription on On a slab set up in a field to the west of Raṅgasamudram

Layout: 17 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1svasti śrī
2vaidumbamutturājula
3(nu)trōdārabuddi(N)
4(sō)magrahaṇa[?3*]
5[1 line lost or illegible]
6[1 line lost or illegible]
7[1 line lost or illegible]
8[1 line lost or illegible]
9[1 line lost or illegible]


10

I. Anuṣṭubh
svadattaṁ paradattaṁ vā
yo harēti vasundharā(ṁ)
ṣaṣṭivarṣasahasrāṇi
viṣṭāyāṁ jāyatē kr̥miḥ


14
II. Anuṣṭubh
bahubhir vvasudhā dattā
15rājabhis sagarādibhi(ḥ)
16yasya yasya yadā bhūmi17[s]
[ta]sya tasya tadā phalaṁ

Translation

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 342, № 638 in absence of a picture. The restoration of the Sanskrit verse in line 17 was done by Jens Christian Thomas. 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. 347 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 342, № 638 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives a short summary: Refers to a Vaidumba Mutturāju (who made a grant ?) with a liberal mind on the occasion of the lunar eclipse.Sastri 1969, page 342↓1

Primary

Secondary

A. R. No. 347 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 342, № 638.
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 342, № 89.

Notes

↑1. The original entry number of the inscription (1948: № 638) was flipped with 1948: № 640 in the bibliographical reference in Sastri 1969: pages 342–343.