# SII 12.23: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PARAMESVARAVARMAN I. No. 23. (A.R. No. 530 of 1907).
ON A PILLAR OF THE ROCK-CUT MAṆḌAPA SOUTH-WEST OF THE ‘GŌPIS’ CHURN’ IN
THE SAME VILLAGE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0023

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0023.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This inscription in Pallava-Grantha characters reads ‘Śrī-Vāmāṅkuśa’. It
is not known to whom this title is to be attributed.

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## Commentary

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 19, p. 8.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.23 by Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu
1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
11, item 23.