Kāñcīpuram, Maṅgalatīrtha steps

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00387.

Summary: The first half of a verse also found twice complete in Mahābalipuram in the inscriptions Pallava 0 and Pallava 0.

Hand description:

The delineation in Lockwood et al. 2001 (p. 288) shows a well executed and almost ornate Grantha.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (61a9e6c), last modified (60da6ad).

Edition

I. Anuṣṭubh

sambhava-sthiti-saṁhāra-

a

-kāraṇam vīta-kāraṇaḥ

b

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

The cause of ...

Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet

Lui qui est cause des naissances, des existences et de leur destruction, mais n’a lui-même nulle cause.

Bibliography

Reported in the Indian Express (Madras edition) 28.07.1988. Edited in Lockwood et al. 2001, p. 288.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on available edition(s).

Primary

[ML+al] Lockwood, Michael, Vishnu Bhat A, Gift Siromoney and Dayanandan P. 2001. Pallava art. Madras, Tambaram: Tambaram Research Associates. Page 288.

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.