# Hero stone of Aravaḷa

J. Ramayya Pantulu

Author of digital edition: J. Ramayya Pantulu

Contributor: Jens Thomas

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00005

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSTelugu00005.xml

Language: Telugu [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-09 14:31 (ea24452), last modified 2026-09-09 14:25
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## Summary

Quite destroyed hero stone that mentions Aravaḷa, (probably) son of Śrī
Cōḻamahārāju.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī cōḻamahārāju[ca. 1*] ⟨2⟩ maganṟu Aravaḷamahā[ca. 3*] ⟨3⟩
[ca. 2*]dipra[ca. 2*]khamu[ca. 3*] ⟨4⟩ [1 lost or illegible line]

## Translation

Salutation! Aravaḷamahā[...], son of Śrī Cōḻamahārāju [...].

## Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu (1948, pp. 331–332, №
602) in absence of a picture. The dots used in the edition to indicate
lost or unintelligible characters can not clearly be attributed to a
certain quantity of characters (one dot may indicate one or more lost or
unintelligible characters). The Annual Report informs us that the
inscription was found on a hero stone and states that it “[s]eems to
record the death of another hero called Ara[va]ḷa-Mahēndra Raṭṭaguḍi, a
subordinate of Chōḻa-Mahārāja” (ARIE 1917–18, p. 82).

## Bibliography

The inscription was noted in the Annual Report (ARIE 1917–18, appendix
B/1917, № 798) with a summary of the content and edited by J. Ramayya
Pantulu (1948, pp. 331–332, № 602) without translation. K. M. Sastry,
while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives the following
summary: “Mentions Aravaḷa, son of Cōḻamahārāja.” (Sastri 1969, p. 333).

### Primary

[ARIE] ARIE 1917–18. G.O. No. 1172, 6th September 1918. Epigraphy.
Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant
Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the
year 1917-1918. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1918. Page 82,
appendix B/1917, item 798.

[JRP] Ramayya Pantulu, Jayanti. 1948. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume X: Telugu inscriptions from the Madras Presidency. South Indian
Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications. Pages 331–332, item
602.

### Secondary

Sastri, Korada Mahadeva. 1969. Historical grammar of Telugu with special
reference to Old Telugu c. 200 B.C. - 1000 A.D. Anantapur: Sri
Venkateswara Univ. Page 333, item 67.