No. 1. (B.K. No. 100 of 1928-29). BĀDĀMI, BADAMI TALUK, BIJAPUR DISTRICT. ON A ROCK BEHIND THE TEMPLE OF MALLIKĀRJUNADĒVA.

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This inscription in Pallava-Grantha characters is much obliterated. Of the king’s name, only the epithet or surname ‘Mahāmalla’ is preserved, and the record has to be assigned to king Narasiṁhavarman I of the Pallava dynasty of Kāñchī. It is dated in the 13th year of the king’s reign. From the characters it may be ascribed to about the 7th century A.D. Bādāmi is herein mentioned under the ancient name of ‘Vātāpi.’ According to Dr. Fleet, the present inscription will have to be assigned to the end of the reign of Pulakēśin II.¹

(Published in Ind. Ant., Vol. IX, p 99. The revised text of the inscription is given below with a plate).

Language: Sanskrit (san).

Version: 2025-09-03 17:33 (3305256), last modified 2025-07-03 14:51 (0ec4724).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [************] (saṁ)vatsare Ātmano rājyavarṣe ca varddhamāne tra(yodaśe) (|)
⟨2⟩ [***] siṁhena mahāma(lle)na vidviṣām vātāpiratimā(nena) [******]
⟨3⟩ bhāradvāja(malaṁka)riṣṇuratulaṁ gotraṁ guṇairātmano [**********]
⟨4⟩ [**] (ta)yaḥ kṣitibhujāmagresaraḥ palla [*********]
⟨5⟩ [******] śiṁhaviṣṇura(dhi)paḥ stambhañjaya(śrī) [*******]
⟨6⟩ [***] (maṇḍa)pairbbahumate prakhyāta(khaṇḍopale) [*******]
⟨7⟩ [*******] sti śakavarṣe ṣa(ṣṭya) [********]
⟨8⟩ [******] śame [***************]
⟨9⟩ [*********]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ tra(yodaśe) • The letter śe has been read from the stone.

Commentary

⟨7–8⟩ Lines 7 and 8 are engraved in the Chālukyan characters of the 7th century A.D. and from a separate inscription.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 11.1 by Krishnamacharlu et al. 1940 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis. See plate I.

Primary

[SII] Krishnamacharlu, C. R., R. S. Panchamukhi, N. Lakshminaraya Rao and H. K. Narasimhaswami. 1940. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume XI: Bombay-Karnatak inscriptions: Volume I, Part I. With introductory notes in English. South Indian Inscriptions 11, Part 1. Madras: Government Press. Page 1, item 1.

Notes

1. Bomb. Gaz. Vol. I, pt. II, p. 328.

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