# Kāñcīpuram, Maṅgalatīrtha steps

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00387

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00387.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Grantha]

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## Summary

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

## Palaeographic description

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

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## Edition

1. Anuṣṭubh

sambhava-sthiti-saṁhāra-
-kāraṇam vīta-kāraṇaḥ

## Translation

The cause of ...

## Translation into French

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 & 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, IV^(ème)-IX^(ème) 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.