Mahābalipuram, list of <foreign>avatāra</foreign>s in the Ādivarāha cave author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00250.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata A verse list of the ten avatāras, which interestingly includes Buddha, but not Kr̥ṣṇa.

The Grantha script is not well mastered. See p and s confusion.

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matsyaḥ kūrmo varāhasyś ca nārasiṁhaś ca vāmanaḥ rāmo rāmapyś ca rāmasyś ca buddhaḥ kalkī ca te daśa .
matsyaḥ kūrmo varāhasyś ca We follow here the restoration suggested by . nārasiṁhaś nārasiṁhaś rāmapyś ca rāmasyś ca . ||| The punctuation mark (end of stanza) is, it seems from the estampage published in , a joint double daṇḍa.

The Fish, the Turtle, and the Boar, The Man-Lion and the Dwarf, Rāma, Rāma, and Rāma, Buddha and Kalkin: such are the ten.

Le poisson, la tortue, et le sanglier, Et l’homme-lion, le nain, Rāma, et Rāma, et Rāma, Buddha, et Kalkin : tels sont les Dix.

The three Rāmas are respectively Paraśurāma, Rāmacandra or Dāśaratha Rāma, and Balarāma.

This verse is also found in the Southern recension of the Mahābhārata. See 84 , 216-218 .

84 note que la strophe est quasi identique à Mbh XII.348.2 (Kumbhakoṇam ed. mais pas dans les éd. ASB, Bombay et Vaṅga) : matsyaḥ kūrmo varāhaś ca narasiṁho ’tha vāmanaḥ | rāmo rāmaś ca rāmaś ca buddhaḥ kalkīti te daśa ||.

173: la plus ancienne énumération épigraphique des dix avatāra. Fait intéressant, elle n’inclut pas Kr̥ṣṇa et inclut Buddha.

15: renvoie à R. C. HAZRA (1940, p. 88) avec une strophe encore plus proche : matsyaḥ kūrmo varāhaś ca nārasiṁho ’tha vāmanaḥ | rāmo rāmaś ca rāmaś ca buddhaḥ kalkī ca te daśa ||.

227: atteste l’implication dynastique, impliquant que le roi appartient à la continuation de la lignée des avatāra de Viṣṇu (et les 2 autres rois aussi). But it is not clear if this is a royal inscription or not.

Reported in (ARIE/1922-1923/B/1922/663).

Edited and translated in , with visual documentation (EI 17.5). Text and summary in (IP 53). Text and translation in (B no. 69), (IR 53).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the estampage published in .

624 250 777 69 538 45, 94 B/1922 663 84 173 15 227 285 IR 53 216-218