Kūram, Śiva temple, time of Mahāmalla

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Name of a Pallava king.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00038.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00038.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Face A⟩ śrī-pallava-

⟨2⟩ ⟨Face B⟩-mā-rācaṉ

⟨3⟩ [***] māmalla(ṉ)

Translation

⟨1–3⟩ The glorious (śrī¹) great Pallava king […] Māmalla.²

Commentary

⟨1⟩ It is not clear whether śrī is an auspicious beginning or an honorific prefix.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1899–1900 (ARIE/1899-1900/B/1900/39A).³

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.42). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 38). Edited in Civāṉantam 2013.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

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 16, item 42.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 137, item 38.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2013. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. Kāñcipuram māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 43. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 69, item 537/2013.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1899–1900. G.O. etc., Nos. 833-34, 22nd August 1900. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1899-1900. Copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1900. Page 50, appendix B/1900, item 39.

Notes

1. Alternatively: Prosperity! The great Pallava king [...] Māmalla.
2. Sanskrit Mahāmalla.
3. That is 39, disambiguated as 39 proprer (SII 7.41) and 39-A (SII 7.42), when Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 edited these inscriptions and realized that more than one inscription was registered under number 39.

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