Pillar from the Bhīmeśvara temple in Chebrolu (EIAD 650)
Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00650.
Hand description:
Characters of the 1st c. CE.
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).
Version: (77e39b7), last modified (139433a).
Edition
⟨1⟩ tabāva-vāsino bha(ga)⟨2⟩vato dhaḍusa maṭavo ⟨3⟩ cātusāla ca ⟨4⟩ catuna ca vetānaṁ
Apparatus
Translation by Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier
The pavillion and the four-halled [building] belong to the Lord Dhaḍu who resides in Tabāva (i.e., Tāmrāpa) — as well as the canopy of the four [halls].
Bibliography
Reported in ARIE 2015–2016; published without translation in Munirathnam 2020–2021. Re-edited by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier on the basis of the published photo of the ASI rubbing as well as photos shared by R. Phalguna Rao.
Primary
[M] Munirathnam, K. 2020–2021. “Landmark Brāhmī inscriptions from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.” JESI 45, pp. 117–129. Pages 118–119, 126.
Secondary
ARIE 2015–2016. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2015-16. Edited by K. Munirathnam. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2016. Appendix B, item 15.
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<p>The toponym Tāmrāpa also figures in <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00651.xml">EIAD 651</ref> and in the <ref target="DHARMA_INSPallava00005.xml">Oṁgoḍu grant, time of Skandavarman, year 33</ref>.</p>
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Commentary
The toponym Tāmrāpa also figures in EIAD 651 and in the Oṁgoḍu grant, time of Skandavarman, year 33.