# Hero stone of Menṭha (?), mentioning the Cōḻa

J. Ramayya Pantulu

Author of digital edition: J. Ramayya Pantulu

Contributor: Jens Thomas

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00088

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSTelugu00088.xml

Language: Telugu [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī (sē)vuṇḍūre[ca. 2*] ⟨2⟩ (go)¡(nḍa)! koḍuku aribha[ca.
1*]me¡(nṭha)! cō⟨3⟩la gada(si) poḍici surāla(yaṁ)b ēge

## Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 340, №
630 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. 374 of 1904 and first published
by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 340, № 630 with few metadata and
without translation. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s
edition, gives a short summary: “Mentions that the son of some one
attacked a certain person and having fought with him went to heaven.”
(Sastri 1969, p. 340)

### 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 340, item 630.

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 340, item 84.