Mahābalipuram, Ādivarāha cave, curse

Editors: Sylvain Brocquet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00051.

Summary: A Sanskrit verse cursing those who do not worship Śiva.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (f2f3eaa), last modified (2f0a9d9).

Edition

I. Āryā

⟨1⟩ dhik teṣān dhik teṣāṁ punar api dhig dhig dhig astu dhik teṣāṁ

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yeṣān na vasati hṛdaye ⟨2⟩ k(u)-patha-gati-vimokṣako rudraḥ ||

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Translation by Emmanuel Francis

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Woe to them! Woe to them! Again woe woe woe woe be to them

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In whose heart does not dwell the one who releases from going the wrong path: Rudra!

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Translation into French by Brocquet 1997

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Malheur à ceux, malheur à ceux, et encore malheur, malheur, malheur à ceux

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Dans le cœur de qui n’habite point celui qui délivre des mauvais chemins : Rudra !

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Bibliography

Edited in Krishna Sastri 1926, with a facsimile; text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 51); text and translation in Brocquet 1997 (B 36b); Francis 2013 (IR 62).

This edition by Sylvain Brocquet & Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs.

Primary

[HKS] Krishna Sastri, H. 1926. Two statues of Pallava kings and five Pallava inscriptions in a rock-temple at Mahabalipuram. MASI 26. Calcutta: ASI.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 167, item 51.

[SB] Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris. Page 538, item 36b.

Secondary

Venkoba Rao, G. 1924. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1923. Madras: Government Press. Page 45, appendix B/1922, item 665.

Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-temples of the Pallavas. Architectural survey of temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 173.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Pages 288–289, item IR 62.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2017. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome II : Mythes dynastiques et panégyriques. Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Page 754, item IR 62.