Kāñcipuram, Mātaṅgeśvara, <foreign>biruda</foreign>s author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00392.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Two glorifying soubriquets (birudas), each one on a different pillar.

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South Pillar

śrī-Araty-aṁkan·

North Pillar

śrī-prabhu-pr̥tthu

South Pillar śrī-Araty-aṁkan· śrī-Aratyakana śrī-Aratyaṁkan śrī-Aratyamakaṉ
North Pillar śrī-prabhu-pr̥tthu śrī-prabhupatiḥ śrī-prabhupatiḥ
South Pillar

He who is a hook for pain / He whose hook is painful.See other birudas of the Pallavas ending in aṅkuśa, e.g., in inscription Pallava 55.

North Pillar

He who is an able Pr̥thu.Pr̥thu is a mythical paragon of kingship.

(p. 68), who reads Aratyamakaṉ, suggests it is equivalent to Aratikalaḥ, a biruda of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava.See Arātikālaḥ, “he who is death to his enemies,” in inscription Pallava 55.

Reported in , in (ARIE/1972-1973/B/1972-1973/261–262).

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

15 62 B/1972-1973 261-262 68 304 IR 96