SII 12.117: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – MISCELLANEOUS. No. 117. (A.R. No. 665 of 1922). ON THE FLOOR OF THE SAME CAVE TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0117.

Summary: This is an imprecatory verse¹ engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters. It is also found in the concluding portion of some of the inscriptions at Mahābalipuram but sometimes with the substitute Vishṇuḥ for Rudrah, cursing ‘those in whose hearts does not dwell Rudra (Śiva), the deliverer from the walking on the evil path’. In Mahābalipuram this verse is found at three other places, viz., the Gaṇēśa temple and the Dharmarāja and Rāmānuja maṇḍapas.² The characters employed in all these cases are of the florid variety.

Hand description:

Language: Undetermined.

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

Version: 2025-04-19 11:19 (9e960d9), last modified 2025-04-12 18:53 (771119f).

Commentary

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, Nos. 20, 21 and 22; pp. 9 and 11, and Archaeological Survey Memoir, No. 26.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.117 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. Page 55, item 117.

Notes

1. A.R. No. 533 of 1907 records the same verse.
2. Ep. Ind. Vol. X, p. 8 ff.

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