Mahābalipuram, Shore temple, capital inscription author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00382.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata A list of 4 birudas on a capital stone found lying around the Shore temple.

This is a biscript inscription. The honorific śrī is written in Siddhamātr̥kā, while the rest of the inscription is in Grantha. The double daṇḍa is of the type where both daṇḍas are joined.

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śrī-rāja-siṁhaḥ . śrī-kṣatra-siṁhaḥ . śrī-narendra-siṁhaḥ . śrī-maheśvara-cūḷāmaṇiḥ

śrī-narendrasiṁhaḥ śrī-narendrasiṁhaḥ The surface defect seems the best explanation for the space left blank. The image in Lockwood (p. 265) is misleading as it does not represent the blank space between na and re. śrī-maheśvara- cūḷāmaṇiḥ śrī-maheśvara- cūḷāmaṇiḥ The surface defect seems again the best explanation for the space left blank. The restoration candra suggested by Lockwood is unwarranted, the more so as another blank space interrupts another biruda.

The glorious lion among kings.

The glorious lion of the warrior order kṣatra.

The glorious lion among kings.

The glorious one whose diadem is Maheśvara Śiva.

Le glorieux lion d’entre les rois.

Le glorieux lion de la classe guerrière kṣatra.

Le glorieux lion d’entre les rois.

Le glorieux dont le diadème est Maheśvara Śiva.

Rājasiṁha is the favourite biruda of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava. The three other birudas are attested in other inscriptions: Kṣatrasiṁha in Pallava 68 and Pallava 380; Narendrasiṁha in Pallava 60, Pallava 68, and Pallava 380; Maheśvaracūḷāmaṇi in Pallava 64.

Other birudas of of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava are synonymous with Maheśvaracūḷāmaṇi: Śivacūḷāmaṇi, Candrārdhaśekharaśikhāmaṇi, and Maheśvaraśikhāmaṇi.

Reported in and .

Edited in , in , with visual documentation.

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, from autopsy and photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2004).

3, 40 B/1993-1994 217 5, 37 B/1995-1996 32 263-265 281 IR 42