Mahābalipuram, Shore Temple, temple name

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: A temple name.

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Grantha (grantha)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00319.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00319.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-narapati-si(ṁ)ha-pallava-viṣṇu-gṛha

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °si(ṁ)ha° ⬦ °siṁha° ARIE.

Translation

⟨1⟩ The glorious temple (gṛha) of Viṣṇu ⟨built by⟩ the Pallava Narapatisiṁha.¹

Translation into French

⟨1⟩ Le glorieux temple (gṛha) de Viṣṇu ⟨construit par⟩ le Pallava Narapatisiṁha².

Commentary

Narapatisiṁha is probably a biruda of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1966–67 (ARIE/1966-1967/B/1966-1967/188).

Text and translation in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 319).

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 1966–67. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1966-67. Edited by G. S. Gai. Mysore: Chief Epigraphist [ASI], 1972. Page 35, appendixes B/1966-1967, item 188.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 718, item 319.

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 290, item IR 66.

Notes

1. That is, the lion among kings.
2. Le lion parmi les rois.

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