Image of Viṣṇu probably donated by Cōḷaṟaviti EpiDoc Encoding Jens Christian Thomas intellectual authorship of edition J. Ramayya Pantulu European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Berlin DHARMA_INSTelugu00004.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Probably the name of a female donor.

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śrī cōḷaṟaviti
śrī cōḷaṟaviti śrīcōḷōṟuvṛiti I am not sure whether this spelling indicates that two vowel signs were read or rather simply renders r̥.

Śrī Cōḷaṟaviti

The Annual Report states that the inscription was found [b]elow the image of Vishṇu carved in the first cave-temple at Bhairavakōna in Bhairavakonda79. It may be the name of the donor of this image. While cōḷa most certainly refers to the dynasty, ṟaviti may consist of ṟava 'jewel' and the female suffix -iti 'woman' (confer 139). Hence, the name probably means 'a jewel of a woman of the Cōḻa (dynasty)'. If this is the case ṟaviti parallels the skt. expression kanyāratna-. The inscription, albeit short, is therefore of a certain importance because it is evidence of a donation made by a woman. Since the dynasty is normally spelt cōḻa or cōḍa (with /ḍ/ from /ḻ/) and ‹ḍa› and ‹ḷa› are often spelt quite similarly, the intended spelling might have been cōḍa. The following remarks were made in the Annual Report regarding the reading therein: This probably means 'the work or style of Śrīchōḷōṟu. Might Chōḷōṟu be another form of Chōḷōju?79. Accordingly, Sastri summarizes the content as: Records the work of Śrī Cōḻāṟu327, but follows J. Ramayya Pantulu's edition.

The inscription was noted and edited in the Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy (79265) and was re-edited by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1740 with few metadata and without translation.

79C/1922265 1740 32755