Māmaṇṭūr, eulogy of Śatrumalla

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00026.

Summary: Lacunose cave-temple wall inscription recording a eulogy of Śatrumalla, Nityavinīta, Sātyasandha, that is, Mahendravarman I Pallava, and probably his foundation of the cave-temple.

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Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (6764560), last modified (d5fcb3d).

Edition

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Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/38).

Edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.136). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 26). Text in Brocquet 1997 (B 21). See Francis 2013 (IR 32).

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

Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1923. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume IV: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada countries and Ceylon. South Indian Inscriptions 4. Madras: Government Press. Page 12, item 136, plate III.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 114–116, item 26.

[B] Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris. Pages 474–475, item 21.

Secondary

[ARIE] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1888. G.O. No. 424, 20th April 1888. Archaeology. Recording letter from the Director-General forwarding Dr. Hultzsch's progress report from 21st September 1887 to 31st January 1888. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 5, appendixes I/1887-1888, item 38.

Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-temples of the Pallavas. Architectural survey of temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 67–71.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème 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 276.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2017. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème 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. Pages 530–532.