# SII 12.117: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: MISCELLANEOUS. No. 117. (A.R. No. 665 of 1922). ON
THE FLOOR OF THE SAME CAVE TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0117

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0117.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This is an imprecatory verse[1] 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.

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## 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 & 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
55, item 117.

[1] A.R. No. 533 of 1907 records the same verse.

[2] Ep. Ind. Vol. X, p. 8 ff.