# Mahābalipuram, Dharmarājaratha, temple’s name

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00047

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00047.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Grantha]

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

Temple’s name on the west face of the tritala of the Dharmarājaratha.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ Atyanta-kāma-pallaveśvara-gr̥haM ∥

## Translation

The temple of the Lord of the Pallava Atyantakāma.

## Translation into French

Le temple du Seigneur du Pallava Atyantakāma.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1907–08 (ARIE/1907-1908/B/1907/529).

Edited in Hultzsch 1909–1910 (EI 10.1.A.18); text and translation in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 47).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[EI] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1909–1910. “The Pallava
inscriptions of the Seven Pagodas.” EI 10, pp. 1–14. Page 8, item A.18.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 162,
item 47.

### Secondary

ARIE 1907–08. G.O. No. 574, 17th July 1908. Epigraphy. Recording the
progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for
Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1907-1908. Edited by V.
Venkayya. No place, 1908. Page 36, appendix B/1907, item 529.

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 TBC, item IR 57.