Mahābalipuram, Dharmarājaratha, biruda

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: A biruda on the east face of the dvitala of the Dharmarājaratha.

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Grantha (grantha)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00317.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00317.xml.

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ mahāmalla

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahāmalla L ⬦ mahāmalla(ḥ) ARIE IP.

Translation

The great wrestler.

Translation into French

Le grand lutteur.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1958–59 (ARIE/1958-1959/B/1958-1959/384).

Edited in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 317); in Lockwood 1993.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis.

Photos: Lockwood 1993, p. 80, Rabe 1996, plate 29.

Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 716, item 317.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1958–59. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1958-59. Edited by Dines Chandra Sircar. Ootacamund: Archaelogical Survey of India. [URL]. Page 62, appendixes B/1958-1959, item 384.

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 TBC, item IR 56.

[L] Lockwood, Michael. 1993. Māmallapuram: A guide to the monuments. Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, Madras Christian College. Page 80.

Rabe, Michael D. 1996. “The Māmallapuram praśasti: A panegyric in Figures.” Artibus Asiae 57, pp. 189–241. Plate 29.

Srinivasan, K. R. 1975. The Dharmarāja Ratha and its sculptures: Mahābalipuram. New Delhi: Abhinav. Page 89.

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