Kāñcipuram, Mātaṅgeśvara temple, birudas
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00392.
Summary: Two glorifying soubriquets (birudas), each one on a different pillar.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).
Edition
South Pillar
⟨1⟩ śrī-Araty-a(ṁ)kan(·)
North Pillar
⟨1⟩ śrī-pra(bhu)-p(ṛ)¡(t)!⟨th⟩(u)
Apparatus
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
South Pillar
(1) He who is a hook for pain / He whose hook is painful.1
North Pillar
(1) He who is an able Pṛthu.2
Bibliography
Reported in Jouveau-Dubreuil 1918, in Gai 1983.
Edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), from autopsy and photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2004).
Primary
[D] Jouveau-Dubreuil, Gabriel. 1918. Pallava antiquities: Vol. II. Vol. 2. Pondicherry. Page 15.
[ARIE] Gai, G. S. 1983. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1972-73. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 62, appendixes B/1972-1973, items 261-262.
[S] Srinivasan, K. R. 1983. “Early Toṇḍaināḍu style, c. A.D. 650-800. Pallavas of Kāñcī. Phase I and Middle Toṇḍaināḍu Style, c. A.D. 800-900. Pallavas of Kāñcī. Phase II.” In: Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture. I.1. South India. Lower Drāviḍadēśa. 200 B.C.–A.D. 1324. Edited by Michael W. Meister and Madhusudan A. Dhaky. Vol. 1. New Delhi and Philadelphia: American Institute of Indian Studies and University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 23–79 et 87–106. Pages 67–68.
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. Page 304, item IR 96.
Notes
- 1. See other birudas of the Pallavas ending in aṅkuśa, e.g., in Pallava00055.
- 2. Pṛthu is a mythical paragon of kingship.
- 3. See Arātikālaḥ, "he who is death to his enemies," (Pallava00055).
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Commentary
Srinivasan 1983, who reads Aratyamakaṉ, suggests it is equivalent to Aratikalaḥ, a biruda of Narasiṃhavarman II Pallava.3