Makēntiraravāṭi, time of Mahendra

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00024.

Summary: A Sanskrit verse recording the foundation of the cave-temple named Mahendraviṣṇugṛha by the Guṇabhara (Mahendravarman I Pallava) around 600/625 CE.

Hand description:

The stone engraving of Grantha script is not yet fully mastered. This inscription was engraved by a beginner or was one of the early attempts to engrave Grantha script on stone.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: 2025-01-17 18:23 (350e545), last modified 2025-01-10 18:40 (a0ca2ab).

I. Nardaṭaka

⟨1⟩ mahitatamaṁ satām upa mahendra-(ta)ṭākam ida¡(M)!

⟨2⟩ sthiram uru kāritaṁ guṇabhareṇa vidāryya śil(āM)

⟨3⟩ ja(na)-nayanābhir(ā)ma-guṇa-dhāma mahendrapure

⟨4⟩ maha(t)i mahendra-viṣṇu-gṛha-nāma murār(i)-gṛha(ṁ)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ upa ⬦ u(pa) EI. — ⟨1⟩ ida¡(M)! ⬦ i(da)¡(M)!⟨ṁ⟩ EI • The final (M) is written between lines 1 and 2, below the character da.

⟨2⟩ śil(āM) • The final (M) is written between lines 2 and 3, below the character l(ā).

⟨4⟩ maha(t)i ⬦ maha(ti) EI. — ⟨4⟩ murār(i)-gṛha(ṁ) ⬦ murā(ri)-gṛ(haṁ) EI.

Translation into French by Brocquet 1997

I

Objet des plus chauds éloges auprès des gens de bien, solide et spacieuse,

Guṇabhara fit construire au bord de l’étang de Mahendra-taṭāka, en creusant la roche,

En la grande cité de Mahendrapura, cette demeure de vertus qui charment les yeux des hommes :

la maison de Murāri, nommée Mahendra-Viṣṇugṛha.

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1896 (ARIE/1895-1896/B/1896/13), in Laksminarayan Rao 1955 (ARIE/1943-1945/B/1943-1944/83).

Edited and translated in Hultzsch 1896–1897, with visual documentation (EI 4.19). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 24). Text and translation in Filliozat 1984, pp. 104–105, in Brocquet 1997 (B no. 20). See Francis 2013 (IR 24).

This revised edition Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photos (2004).

Primary

[EI] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1896–1897. “Two Tamil inscriptions at Ambur.” EI 4, pp. 180–183.

[F] Filliozat, Pierre-Sylvain. 1984. “Les inscriptions sanskrites du roi Pallava Mahendravarman Ier.” Bulletin des Études Indiennes 2, pp. 99–116. Pages 104–105.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 112, item 24.

[B] Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris. Pages 472–473, item 20.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1896. G.O. Nos. 814-15, 6th August 1896. Epigraphy. Reviewing the report on epigraphical work accomplished during 1895-96 and directing ist transmission to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 9, appendix B/1896, item 13.

Laksminarayan Rao, N. 1955. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1943-44 and 1944-45. Delhi: Government of India. Page 17, appendixes B/1943-1944, item 83.

Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-temples of the Pallavas. Architectural survey of temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 64.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IV^ème-IX^ème siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Page 273.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2017. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IV^ème-IX^ème siècles. Tome II : Mythes dynastiques et panégyriques. Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Page 512.

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