SII 12.31: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – MAHĒNDRAVARMAN III. No. 31. (A.R. No. 1 of 1932-33). CONJEEVERAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB FIXED IN THE NORTHERN END OF THE OKKAPIṞANDĀṈKUḶAM STREET.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0031.

Summary: This is a label inscription1 in the Pallava-Grantha script engraved on the lateral face of a stray granite slab fixed at the northern entrance into the Okkapiṟandāṉkuḷam street. From general appearance, the slab seems to have formed the lintel of a structural temple in the village. The inscription reads ‘Śrī-Mahēndravarmmēśvaragṛiham’. A similar label is also found in the same village in the Kailāsanātha temple, engraved on the two wing-stones of the steps leading to the Mahēndravarmēśvara shrine which is stated to have been built by Mahēndravarman III (S.I.I. Vol. I. p. 23). The original location of this slab may be traced to this shrine where the present lintel appears to be a later substitution or to some other shrine not far from its present position.2

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

Version: (97de750), last modified (530fd60).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrīmahēndravarmm(e)śvaragṛhaM [||]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.31 by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Pages 13–14, item 31.

Notes

  1. 1. See also An. Rep. on S.I. Epy. for 1932-33, p. 54.
  2. 2. [The inscription was first brought to my notice by the late Dr. C.Meenakshi, M.A., Ph. D.—Ed.]