# Kūram, Śiva temple, time of Mahāmalla

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00038

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00038.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Name of a Pallava king.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Face A⟩ śrī-pallava⟨2⟩⟨Face B⟩-mā-rācaṉ ⟨3⟩ [3+] māmalla(ṉ)

## Translation

⟨1–3⟩ The glorious (śrī[1]) great Pallava king […] Māmalla.[2]

## Commentary

⟨1⟩ It is not clear whether śrī is an auspicious beginning or an
honorific prefix.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1899–1900 (ARIE/1899-1900/B/1900/39A).[3]

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.42). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 38). Edited in Civāṉantam 2013.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

### Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu
and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government
of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 16, item 42.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 137,
item 38.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2013. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV.
Kāñcipuram māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. TNSDA Epigraphical Series
43. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology.
Page 69, item 537/2013.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1899–1900. G.O. etc., Nos. 833-34, 22nd August 1900.
Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1899-1900. Copy
to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch.
Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1900. Page 50, appendix
B/1900, item 39.

[1] Alternatively: Prosperity! The great Pallava king [...] Māmalla.

[2] Sanskrit Mahāmalla.

[3] That is 39, disambiguated as 39 proprer (SII 7.41) and 39-A (SII
7.42), when Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 edited these inscriptions and
realized that more than one inscription was registered under number 39.