Kuttālam, Uttaravēdīśvara, no king, no year

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII2300488.

Summary: Divine order (śāsana).

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: (ba872b0), last modified (55d0c15).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

I. Anuṣṭubh

yat⟨·⟩-kr¡i!⟨ī⟩ḍākila⟨-loka⟩sy¿ā?⟨a⟩

a

saṃhāra-sthiti-sṛṣṭayaḥ

b

⟨2⟩ tad idaṃ śāsanaṃ śaṃbhoḥ

c

kalyāṇālaya-vāsinaḥ |||

d

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °⟨loka⟩sy¿ā?⟨a⟩°lokasya SII. — ⟨1⟩ yat⟨·⟩° ⬦ yat·° SII. — ⟨1⟩ °kr¡i!⟨ī⟩ḍā° ⬦ °kriḍā° SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

I

This is an order of Śambhu

?

Who resides in an auspicious abode (kalyāṇālaya1)

?

Whose play is for the universe [the cause of]

?

Destruction, preservation and creation.

?

Bibliography

Reported in Venkayya 1908 (ARIE/1907-1908/B/1907/488).

Edited in Srinivasa Rao 1979 (SII 23.488).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on autopsy (2024) and photos (E. Francis, 2024).

Primary

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1979. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXIII: inscriptions collected during the year 1906-07. South Indian Inscriptions 23. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director-General). Page 366, item 488.

Secondary

Venkayya, V. 1908. G.O. No. 574, 17th July 1908. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1907-1908. No place. Page 35, appendix B/1907, item 488.

Notes

  1. 1. Kalyāṇālaya is the name of the temple according to Venkayya 1908 and Srinivasa Rao 1979.