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225 <p>The epigraph is inscribed on 3 wall sections: A and B on the eastern side of the main niche of the southern façade; C on southernmost wall section of the eastern façade. Moreover, it is not inscribed continuously: from lines 1 to 22, inscribed from the middle of wall section A; from lines 23 to 33, inscribed on the bottom of wall section B; lines 34 to 37, inscribed on top of wall section A; lines 38 to 64, inscribed on the upper part of wall section B; lines 65 to 96, inscribed on the wall section C. From the line 34, this is a series of signatures. The editions in SII do not consider the signatures after the line 37. Only the revised edition in <foreign>Āvaṇam</foreign> includes them.</p>
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230 <p>Reported in <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1923-1924"/></bibl> (ARIE 1923-1924/C/1924/356).</p>
· <p>Edited (36 lines) in <bibl><ptr target="bib:SrinivasaRao1967_01"/></bibl> (SII 19.378), in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Swaminathan2012_01"/></bibl> (SII 32.2.166).</p>
· <p>Edited (93 lines), in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Tiyakaracan1993_01"/></bibl> (Āvaṇam 3.2).</p>
· <p>This edition by Valérie Gillet (2020), based on autopsy and photographs.</p>
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Commentary
The epigraph is inscribed on 3 wall sections: A and B on the eastern side of the main niche of the southern façade; C on southernmost wall section of the eastern façade. Moreover, it is not inscribed continuously: from lines 1 to 22, inscribed from the middle of wall section A; from lines 23 to 33, inscribed on the bottom of wall section B; lines 34 to 37, inscribed on top of wall section A; lines 38 to 64, inscribed on the upper part of wall section B; lines 65 to 96, inscribed on the wall section C. From the line 34, this is a series of signatures. The editions in SII do not consider the signatures after the line 37. Only the revised edition in Āvaṇam includes them.