Olakkūr, dedication, time of Pṛthvīvṛṣabhāṅkura

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00248.

Summary: Dedication of an image of the Goddess.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (6764560), last modified (8d6fc5b).

Edition

⟨1⟩ piritivi-vitapā⟨2⟩ṅkurati Arai⟨3⟩caṉ ceyvitta⟨tu⟩

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) This has been caused to be made by king Piritivivitapāṅkurati.1

Commentary

According to ARIE 1909-1910, p. 30, the inscription is in archaic characters and “[r]ecords that the much worn image at the top of the slab was caused to be made by the king,” while “[t]he image itself, perhaps, represents Piridiviviḍa[ṅga]-kurati.” Mahalingam 1988 dates the inscription to the 6th century and notes: “The inscription is engraved below the stated image of a goddess flanked by a lamp and canopied by an umbrella.”

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1909-1910 (ARIE/1909-1910/B/1909/356).

Edited in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 248).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 622, item 248.

Secondary

ARIE 1909-1910. G.O. No. 665, 28th July 1910. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for -, Southern Circle, for the year 1909-1910. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1910. Pages 30, 70, appendix B/1909, item 356.

Notes

  1. 1. SanskritPṛthvīvṛṣabhāṅkura.