Kāñcīpuram, Maṅgalatīrtha steps

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00387.

Summary: The first half of a verse also found twice in Mahābalipuram (tfaPallava***, ***).

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

Text after Lockwood et al. 2001, p. 288

I. Anuṣṭubh

sambhava-sthiti-saṁhāra-

a

-kāraṇam vīta-kāraṇaḥ

b

Apparatus

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

The cause of ...

Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet

Lui qui est cause des naissances, des existences et de leur destruction, mais n’a lui-même nulle cause.

Commentary

Bibliography

Reported in the Indian Express (Madras edition) 28.07.1988; edited in Lockwood et al. 2001, p. 288; encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

Primary

[ML+al] Lockwood, Michael, Vishnu Bhat A, Gift Siromoney and Dayanandan P. 2001. Pallava art. Madras, Tambaram: Tambaram Research Associates. Page 288.

Secondary

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.