Kāñcipuram, Ekāmbaranātha, fragment (1/2) author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00314.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Fragment comprising a biruda (?).

Ornate Grantha script.

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lanaḥ . nr̥pa-cūḷāmaṇi

lanaḥ . °cūḷāmaṇi °cūḍāmaṇi

the best among kings

le meilleur d’entre les rois

This fragment is possibly to be considered with another fragment (INSPallava00358) as two parts of a single inscription.

According to Mahalingam xc Nr̥pacūḷāmaṇi is probably an epithet of Mahendravarman I. The palaeography however points towards one of his successors.

Reported in .

Text in (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.

69, 272 B/1939-1940 347 xc, 713 314 292 IR 72