Kadri / Kadiri, Mañjanātha temple, pedestal of bronze image of Lokeśvara

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: On the pedestal of a bronze of Lokeśvara, which has been replaced in the course of time on this pedestal by a bronze of Mañjuvajra as pointed out in Mallinson 2019 (page 15; figures 4 and 5).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Grantha (grantha)].

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv07p0i0191.

File path: SII07_adapted/DHARMA_INStfaSIIv07p0i0191.xml.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī śrīmat-soma-kulāṁbhojaraviṇā dīpta-(t)ejasā rāja-lakṣmī-kucā(lakta)-kalaṁkīkṛta-vakṣasā Uddāma-bāhu-vīryyeṇa rakṣitā kṣiti-maṇḍal(ā) niskalaṁka-yaśaś-candra-candrikā-vilasaddiśā surāpānakṛto d(o)so yena rājñā nirākṛtaḥ dvijānām agrahāre-

⟨2⟩ bhyaś cārucāritra¿ṣ?āḷinā dattā bhūpa¿nn?irākṛtya balād viśvāsakhātinaM rājyaṁ sva-bhuja-vīryyeṇa gṛhītaṁ yena māninā so ’yaṁ ka⟨r⟩ṇṇa-samas tyāge (pārttha)-kalpaḥ parākrame surendra-sadṛśo lakṣmyā bṛhaspati-samo dhiyā śrī-kundavarmar guṇav¿a?n (ā)lupe(ndro) mahīpatiḥ

⟨3⟩ pād(ā)ravinda-bhramaro bāla-candra-śikhāmaṇeḥ kalau va⟨r⟩ṣa-sahasrāṇām atikrānte catuṣ¿ṭh?aye pu(nar abda)-śate caivāṣṭaṣaṣṭyā samanvite gateṣu nava-māseṣu kanyāyāṁ saṁsthite gurau paścime ’hani rohiṇyām muhū(r)tte śubha-lakṣaṇe

⟨4⟩ lokeśvarasya devasya pratiṣṭhām akaro(t pra)bhuḥ śrīmat-kadi(ri)kā-nāmni vihāre su-manohare ⯼◦ svasti śrī ◦◦|

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ °śate ⬦ °gate SII • On the correct reading, already suggested by Pai (1941), see Mallinson 2019 (p. 12, footnote 93).

Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE 1900–01 (ARIE/1900-1901/A/1901/27).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.191, restrospectively numbered ARIE/1900-1901/A/1901/27-B).

This revised digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932.

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 87, item 191.

Secondary

ARIE 1900–01. G.O., etc., Nos. 762-63, 25th July 1901. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1900-1901. Copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1901. Page 11, appendix A/1901, item 27.

Mallinson, James. 2019. “Kālavañcana in the Konkan: How a Vajrayāna Haṭhayoga tradition cheated Buddhism’s death in India.” Religions 10 (4), p. 273. DOI: 10.3390/rel10040273. [URL].

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