# Hero stone for some unknown warrior

J. Ramayya Pantulu

Author of digital edition: J. Ramayya Pantulu

Contributor: Jens Thomas

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00074

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSTelugu00074.xml

Language: Telugu [Script (unspecified)]

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

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī mai[ca. 3*]⟨2⟩rājula koḍuku[ca. 2*] ⟨3⟩ maganṟu
mada(ṁ)buri[ca. 3*] ⟨4⟩ madavunṟu[ca. 3*] ⟨5⟩ mahārājula ya[ca. 3*] ⟨6⟩
poḍici paḍi(ye)[ca. 3*] ⟨7⟩ kaḷli[ca. 3*]

## Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 343, №
641 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. 535 of 1906 and first published
by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 343, № 641 with few metadata and
without translation. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s
edition, gives a short summary: “States that some one fell in a battle.”
(Sastri 1969, p. 343)

### Secondary

Ramayya Pantulu, Jayanti. 1948. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume X: Telugu inscriptions from the Madras Presidency. South Indian
Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications. Page 343, item 641.

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 343, item 92.