# SII 1.33: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART I. SANSKRIT INSCRIPTIONS. I. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE
PALLAVA DYNASTY. Nos. 33 AND 34. TWO CAVE-INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE
TRIŚIRÂPAḶḶI ROCK. No. 33. ON THE PILLAR TO THE LEFT

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0033

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0033.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Grantha]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kāvīrīnnayanābhirāmasalilāmārā⟨2⟩mamālādharām· devo vīkṣya
nadīpriyaḥ ⟨3⟩ priya(gu)ṇāmapyeṣa rajyediti ⟨|⟩ sāśaṁ⟨4⟩kā girikanyakā
pitṛkulaṁ hitveha manye gi⟨5⟩(rau) nityantiṣṭhati pallavasya dayitāmetāṁ
bru⟨6⟩vāṇā nadīm· ∥ ⟨1⟩ guṇabharanāmani rājanyanena li⟨7⟩ṅgena liṅgini
jñānam· ⟨|⟩ prathatāñcirāya loke vi⟨8⟩pakṣavṛtteḥ parāvṛttam· ∥ ⟨2⟩
coḷaviṣayasya śailo ⟨9⟩ maulirivāyaṁ mahāmaṇirivāsya ⟨|⟩
haragṛhameta⟨10⟩jjyotistadīyamiva śāṁkaraṁ jyotiḥ ∥ ⟨3⟩
śilā(kha)re⟨11⟩ṇa janitā satyasandhasya bhautikī ⟨|⟩ mūrttiḥ
kīrttima⟨12⟩yī cāsya kṛtā tenaiva śāśvatī ∥ ⟨4⟩ niṣkṛ(ṣya) calā
(sa)⟨13⟩madhāyi (guṇabha)re bhaktiḥ [2+]

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ priya(gu)ṇāmapyeṣa • ṣa looks like pa.

## Translation by Hultzsch 1890

(Verse 1.) Being afraid, that the god who is fond of rivers (Śiva),
having perceived the Kāvīrī, whose waters please the eye, who wears a
garland of gardens, and who possesses lovely qualities, might fall in
love (with her), the daughter of the mountain (Pārvatī) has, I think,
left her father’s family and resides permanently on this mountain,
calling this river the beloved of the Pallava (king).[1]

(2.) While the king called Guṇabhara is a worshipper of the liṅga, let
the knowledge, which has turned back from hostile (vipaksha) conduct, be
spread for a long time in the world by this liṅga ![2]

(3.) This mountain resembles the diadem of the Choḷa province, this
temple of Hara (Śiva) its chief jewel, and the splendour of Śaṁkara
(Śiva) its splendour.

(4.) By the stone-chisel a material body of Satyasaṁdha was executed,[3]
and by the same an eternal body of his fame was produced.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.33 by Hultzsch 1890 converted to DHARMA
conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions,
Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram,
Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras
Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian
Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Pages 29–30, item 33.

[1] Pārvatī calls Kāvīrī the wife of another, in order to prevent Śiva
from coveting her.

[2] This whole verse has a double entendre. It contains allusions to the
Indian logic (tarkaśāstra), in which liṅgin means the subject of a
proposition, liṅga the predicate of a proposition and vipaksha an
instance on the opposite side.

[3] Satyasaṁdha must have been a biruda of Guṇabhara. A statue of the
king is also alluded to in the first verse of the right pillar.