# Tank construction at Gommalōviḍi

K. V. Subrahmanya Ayer

Author of digital edition: K. V. Subrahmanya Ayer

Contributor: Jens Thomas

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00021

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSTelugu00021.xml

Language: Telugu [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [ca. 2*]gommalōviḍi samudraṁbu ni(lpi) mahimindamaṟipo[ca. 1*]ma[ca.
4*] ⟨2⟩ [ca. 3*]peru veḷpu guḍlu nandavanaṁbu[ca. 1*]ndiṟlu pēvu
vēvura[ca. 1*](gha)rmma[ca. 2*] ⟨3⟩ [ca. 3*]śrī viḷēvani
pogaḻakuḍumu[ca. 1*]sēpuṭa kalimuḍi[ca. 2*] ⟨4⟩ [ca. 2*]na prasādaṁbuḷ
anniyu mi[ca. 4*]hatakaputrakamuniyō ⟨5⟩ (śrī śi)lāviśālavipula[ca.
4*]saṁpūrṇṇagāṁ(bhī)[ca. 2*] ⟨6⟩ (śu)bhradabhra(śu)śaucyassa[ca.
1*]jananuta[ca. 2*]vartti[ca. 2*] ⟨7⟩ ptānasapra[ca. 1*]svasu[ca.
3*][ca. 3*]lasadbhitticitra(vi)rā(ja)⟨8⟩[ca.
1*]dhi(ṣṭhā)vā(sa)bhadrasakalavā[ca. 1*](yu)ta(n ni)rmmitan
ni(rvvartta)na ⟨9⟩ śrīsalaku Iru vuṭṭi Āḍḷapaṭṭu kuṟiti yī (Ū)ḍlaṁdu
⟨10⟩ Ēnu vuṭlu Āḍḷa paṭṭu[ca. 1*]bu cēnu śrī vitpaṟti[ca. 2*] ⟨11⟩
ndrātityala kalayanta (gāla)ṁbuga naḍiya vālu[ca. 2*] ⟨12⟩ [ca.
2*]kavula Āyaṁbu dīniki vakraṁbuvaccina ⟨13⟩ [ca. 3*]pāṟanu vēyu
kavilalā[ca. 6*] ⟨14⟩ [ca. 4*]vu vraccinavāru bhāranā[ca. 5*]

## Translation by Sastri 1969

ll. 1-4.[1] Seem to refer to the construction of a tank (called or at ?)
Gommalōviḍi, big temples for Gods, and flower-garden, and food-offerings
(as) pogara (pongara ?) and kuḍumu for (the God) Śrī viḷēvani. ll. 9-10.
To (the temple of) Śrīśa (i.e. Viṣṇu, Lord of Lakṣmi), land sowable with
two puṭṭis of paddy in these villages; land sowable with five puṭṭis of
paddy in the village of Vitpaṟṟu. l. 11. So long as the Moon and the Sun
exist . . l. 12. Those who obstruct this (incur the sin of killing). ll.
13-14. Brahmins and thousand cows in Benares . . .

## Commentary

The inscription is found on the same stone as the one in Subrahmanya
Aiyer 1928, pp. 208–209, № 584. The text follows the edition of K. V.
Subrahmanya Ayer in 1928, p. 209, № 585 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).

## Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 147-A of 1899 and first published
by K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer without picture and translation (1928, p.
209, № 585). Korada Mahadeva Sastri reprinted the text (with a few
mistakes) and provided a summary and partial translation (1969, p. 286,
№ 10).

### Secondary

Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume
VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Government of India,
Central Publication Branch. Page 209, item 585.

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 286, item 10.

[1] K. M. Sastri edits this inscription together with another one (see
commentary) and counts the lines continuously. I have adjusted the lines
in order to avoid confusion. Lines 1-4 correspond to his lines 21-24.