Hero stone of Bīreya at Kurubalakōṭa mentioning Gaṇḍasaṅkali and the Cōḻas EpiDoc encoding Jens Christian Thomas intellectual authorship of edition J. Ramayya Pantulu European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Berlin DHARMA_INSTelugu00080.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata

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svasti śrī gaṇḍasaṅkaliyya maṟandi koḻanaḍippibīreya vallesappa yēḷuvānṟu sōḍuḷatōḍa poḍicci vīralōkamb ēge

Hail! Koḻanaḍippi Bīreya, ruler of Vallesappa, (and) younger brother-in-law of Sri Gaṇḍasaṅkaliyya fought with the Cōdas and went to the world of heroes.

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 339626 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 inscription was noted in A. R. No. 301 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 339626 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry 338 provides a translation while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu's edition.

A. R. No. 301 of 1922 339626 33680