Kuttālam, Uttaravēdīśvara, no king, no year

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv23p0i0488.

Summary: Divine order (śāsana).

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: (9dba97d), last modified (36884e2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

I. Anuṣṭubh

yat⟨·⟩-kr¡i!⟨ī⟩ḍākila⟨-loka⟩sy¿ā?⟨a⟩

a

saṃhāra-sthiti-sṛṣṭayaḥ

b

⟨2⟩ tad idaṃ śāsanaṃ śaṃbhoḥ

c

kalyāṇālaya-vāsinaḥ |||

d

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °⟨loka⟩sy¿ā?⟨a⟩°lokasya SII. — ⟨1⟩ yat⟨·⟩° ⬦ yat·° SII. — ⟨1⟩ °kr¡i!⟨ī⟩ḍā° ⬦ °kriḍā° SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

I

This is an order of Śambhu

?

Who resides in an auspicious abode (kalyāṇālaya1)

?

Whose play is for the universe [the cause of]

?

Destruction, preservation and creation.

?

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1907-1908 (ARIE/1907-1908/B/1907/488).

Edited in Srinivasa Rao 1979 (SII 23.488).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on autopsy (2024) and photos (E. Francis, 2024).

Primary

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1979. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXIII: inscriptions collected during the year 1906-07. South Indian Inscriptions 23. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director-General). Page 366, item 488.

Secondary

ARIE 1907-1908. G.O. No. 574, 17th July 1908. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1907-1908. Edited by V. Venkayya. No place, 1908. Page 35, appendix B/1907, item 488.

Notes

  1. 1. Kalyāṇālaya is the name of the temple according to ARIE 1907-1908 and Srinivasa Rao 1979.