Mahābalipuram Shore temple, capital inscription

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00382.

Summary: A list of 4 birudas on a capital stone found lying around the Shore temple.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: 2024-09-19 15:29 (e8a670e), last modified 2024-06-06 16:22 (18e0138).

⟨1⟩ śrī-rāja-siṁhaḥ || śrī-kṣatra-siṁhaḥ || śrī-narendra-siṁhaḥ || śrī-maheśvara-cūḷāmaṇiḥ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ śrī-na□rendrasiṁhaḥ ⬦ śrī-narendrasiṁhaḥ ML • The surface defect seems the best explanation for the space left blank. The image in Lockwood (p. 265) is misleading as it does not represent the blank space between na and re. — ⟨1⟩ śrī-maheśvara- □ cūḷāmaṇiḥ ⬦ śrī-maheśvara- _ cūḷāmaṇiḥ ML • The surface defect seems again the best explanation for the space left blank. The restoration candra suggested by Lockwood is unwarranted, the more so as another blank space interrupts another biruda.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

The glorious lion among kings.

The glorious lion of the warrior order (kṣatra).

The glorious lion among kings.

The glorious one whose diadem is Maheśvara (Śiva).

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Le glorieux lion d’entre les rois.

Le glorieux lion de la classe guerrière (kṣatra).

Le glorieux lion d’entre les rois.

Le glorieux dont le diadème est Maheśvara (Śiva).

Commentary

Rājasiṁha is the favourite biruda of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava. The three other birudas are attested in other inscriptions: Kṣatrasiṁha in INSPallava00068 and INSPallava00380; Narendrasiṁha in INSPallava00060, INSPallava00068, and INSPallava00380; Maheśvaracūḷāmaṇi in INSPallava00064.

Other birudas of of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava are synonymous with Maheśvaracūḷāmaṇi: Śivacūḷāmaṇi, Candrārdhaśekharaśikhāmaṇi, and Maheśvaraśikhāmaṇi.

Bibliography

Reported in Katti 1999; reported again in Bhadri 2005; re-edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), from autopsy and photos (2004).

Primary

[ARIE1993-1994] Katti, Madhav N. 1999. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1993-94. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 3, 40, appendixes B/1993-1994, item 217.

[ARIE1995-1996] Bhadri, M. K. 2005. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1995-96. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 5, 37, appendixes B/1995-1996, item 32.

Secondary

[ML+al] Lockwood, Michael and A. Vishnu Bhat. 1999. “Shore Temple: South-side capital inscription.” JESI 25, pp. 20–25.

[ML] Lockwood, Michael, Vishnu Bhat A, Gift Siromoney and Dayanandan P. 2001. Pallava art. Madras, Tambaram: Tambaram Research Associates. Pages 263–265.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IV^ème-IX^ème 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 281, item IR 42.

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