Hero stone of Gaṇḍara Mutrāju

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00092

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Classification: commemorative-memorial-hero memorial

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000084 inscription on On a slab in a field at Mudivēḍu

Layout: 6 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1svasti śrī kalivadeja-
2muni maganṟu śrī sa(ja)ḷa
3koḍuku gaṇḍara mutrāju
4vaidu(ṁ)buḷa cēta(ṁ) baṭṭa(ṁ)kaṭṭaba-
5ḍi yē(li) kumu(ḷu) kayya(ṁ)buna bo-
6ḍici paḍiye ḻōṅkaḷāku[?1*]

Translation by Sastri 1969

Hail! Gaṇḍara Mutrāju, son of Śrī Sajaḷa, (who is) the son of Kalivadejama, having been anointed by the Vaidumbas and having ruled, fought with the Ḷōṅkuḷas in the battle at Kumuḷu and fell.

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 343, № 640 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). In line 6 J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition reads ḻōjkaḷāku which is corrected to ḻōṅkaḷāku by Lakshminarayan Rao (1948: page lviii). The form ḻōjkaḷāku in the edition is clearly a misprint.

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 309 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 343, № 640 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry 1969: page 343 provides a translation while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition.↓1

Primary

Secondary

A. R. No. 309 of 1922
Lakshminarayan Rao, N. 1948. “Appendix II - Additions and Corrections.” South-Indian inscriptions (texts) Volume X: Telugu inscriptions from the Madras presidency. South Indian Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications.
Page lviii.
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 343, № 640.
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 343, № 91.

Notes

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