Mahābalipuram Shore Temple biruda (1/2)
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00316.
Summary: An isolated biruda.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ Ekavīra • The reading Ekavīraḥ seems possible, considering the other biruda inscriptions at Mahābalipuram.
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
The unique hero.
Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis
Le héros unique.
Bibliography
Reported in IAR 1957-58; text and translation in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 316).
Encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2020).
Primary
[IAR] IAR 1957-58. Indian Archaeology 1957-58: A Review. Edited by A. Ghosh. New Delhi: Department of Archaeology, Government of India, 1958. Page 56, plate 19.
[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 715, item 316.
Secondary
Srinivasan, K. R. 1975. The Dharmarāja Ratha and its sculptures: Mahābalipuram. New Delhi: Abhinav. Plate 89.
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. Page 289, item IR 64.
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Commentary
Mahalingam 1988, p. 715, № 316 translates as "The unrivalled hero".
This appears to be a biruda of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, also attested in IP 54, 60 and 63.