Kāñcipuram, Ekāmbaranātha, fragment (1/2)
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00314.
Summary: Fragment comprising a biruda (?).
Hand description:
Ornate Grantha script.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (b304e8f), last modified (a787961).
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
[…] the best among kings […]
Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis
[…] le meilleur d’entre les rois […]
Bibliography
Reported in ARIE 1939-1943.
Text in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 314).
This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the ASI estampage, consulted in Mysore with the kind permission of the Director of Epigraphy.
Primary
[ARIE] ARIE 1939-1943. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu and N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Pages 69, 272, appendixes B/1939-1940, item 347.
[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages xc, 713, item 314.
Secondary
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 292, item IR 72.
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Commentary
This fragment is possibly to be considered with another fragment (INSPallava00358) as two parts of a single inscription.
According to Mahalingam 1988, p. xc Nṛpacūḷāmaṇi is probably an epithet of Mahendravarman I. The palaeography however points towards one of his successors.