Kāñcīpuram, temple-name on slab, time of Mahendravarman

Editors: Sylvain Brocquet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00070.

Summary: The name of a temple: Mahendravarmeśvaragṛha.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-mahendra-va(r)mm(e)śvara-gṛhaM

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ śrīmahendrava(r)mm(e)śvaragṛhaM ⬦ śrīmahendravarmm(e)śvaragṛhaM VVA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

The glorious temple of the Lord of Mahendravarman.

or

The temple of the Lord of the glorious Mahendravarman.

Translation into French by Brocquet 1997

Le glorieux temple de Mahendravarmeśvara.

ou

Le temple d’Īsvara du glorieux Mahendravarman.

Commentary

The lack of context hinders the identification of the Pallava Mahendravarman. But paleography could help when comparing with similar labels (see INSPallava00488-00489). Observe and compare the shape of the characters śa and ga. See ARIE argument (p. 54) and others (IP, SRB).

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.31); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 70); text and translation in Brocquet 1997 (B 53c).

This edition by Sylvain Brocquet & Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the facsimile published in Krishnamacharlu 1936, plate I.

Primary

[VVA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 13, item 31.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 214, item 70.

[SB] Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris. Page 611, item 53/c.

Secondary

Krishnamacharlu, C. R. 1936. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1933. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Pages 8, 54, appendixes B/1932-1933, item 1, plate I.

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 293–294.