# Inscription near Kurubalakōṭa mentioning Gaṇḍaseṅkali and the Cōḻa

J. Ramayya Pantulu

Author of digital edition: J. Ramayya Pantulu

Contributor: Jens Thomas

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00079

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSTelugu00079.xml

Language: Telugu [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī gaṇḍa(se)ṅkali⟨2⟩nṟu sōḻapariyya⟨3⟩na pallalō
sembaḻi⟨4⟩na sōḻūḷa ca⟨5⟩[ca. 3*]macu

## Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 338, №
625 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. 300 of 1922 and first published
by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 338, № 625 with few metadata and
without translation. K. M. Sastri reprints J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition
and gives a summary: “Mentions a certain Gaṇḍaseṅkali.” (Sastri 1969, p.
338, № 79)

### 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 338, item 625.

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 338, item 79.