# Grant of a pannasa under the rule of Śrī Pōrirāju

J. Ramayya Pantulu

Author of digital edition: J. Ramayya Pantulu

Contributor: Jens Thomas

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00087

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSTelugu00087.xml

Language: Telugu [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨Face A⟩ ⟨1⟩ svasti śrī pōrirā(ju)⟨2⟩la Ē[ca. 1*]vilō(gō)yu ⟨3⟩ ḻēmaṇḍa
Eḷapi[ca. 2*]⟨4⟩ni poṭṭuna[ca. 3*] dāniko⟨5⟩ḷiśā[ca. 1*]nave[ca. 2*]rāju
⟨6⟩ [ca. 1*]va[ca. 4*]na panasa ⟨7⟩ ci(ṟa)kuḷḷu[ca. 2*](ve)ṭṭiri ⟨8⟩
naga[ca. 5*] ⟨9⟩ [ca. 1*]koṭe[ca. 5*] ⟨10⟩ [1 lost or illegible line]
⟨Face B⟩ ⟨11⟩ (va)kra(ṁ)bu vacuvānṟu ⟨12⟩ bharaṇasi padunṟṟu [ca. 1 lost
or illegible line]⟨13⟩salā campinavanṟu ⟨14⟩ pādiga[ca. 1 lost or
illegible line]niluvuṟēḷu ⟨15⟩ canda[ca. 1*](vṟa)[ca. 3*]ḷuba ⟨16⟩
ma(ha)ḷadārunṟu ⟨17⟩ kṟoce

## Translation by Sastri 1969

ll. 11-13. He who obstructs this incurs the sin of killing ten (cows ?)
at Benares. ll. 16-17. Mahaḷaḍārunṟu engraved (the inscription).

## Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 339, №
627 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. 307 of 1922 and first published
by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 339, № 627 with few metadata and
without translation. K. M. Sastry, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s
edition, provides a partial translation and and a short note: “Refers to
a certain Pōrirāju and the grant of a pannasa.” (Sastri 1969, p. 339, №
81).

### 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 339, item 627.

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. Pages 338–339, item 81.