Hero stone of Aravaḷa
Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00005.
Summary: Quite destroyed hero stone that mentions Aravaḷa, (probably) son of Śrī Cōḻamahārāju.
Language: Telugu.
Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy).
Version: (585a60b), last modified (ec27c2b).
Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī cōḻamahārāju[ca. 1*] ⟨2⟩ maganṟu Aravaḷamahā[ca. 3*] ⟨3⟩ [ca. 2*]dipra[ca. 2*]khamu[ca. 3*] ⟨4⟩ [1 lost or illegible line]
Apparatus
Translation by Jens Thomas
Salutation! Aravaḷamahā[...], son of Śrī Cōḻamahārāju [...].
Bibliography
The inscription was noted in the Annual Report (Krishna Sastri 1918, appendix B/1917, № 798) with a summary of the content and edited by J. Ramayya Pantulu (1948, pp. 331–332, № 602) without translation. K. M. Sastry, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives the following summary: “Mentions Aravaḷa, son of Cōḻamahārāja.” (Sastri 1969, p. 333).
Primary
[ARIE] Krishna Sastri, H. 1918. G.O. No. 1172, 6th September 1918. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1917-1918. No place. Page 82, appendix B/1917, item 798.
[JRP] Ramayya Pantulu, J. 1948. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume X: Telugu inscriptions from the Madras Presidency. South Indian Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications. Pages 331–332, item 602.
Secondary
Sastri, Korada Mahadeva. 1969. Historical grammar of Telugu with special reference to Old Telugu c. 200 B.C. - 1000 A.D. Anantapur: Sri Vekateswara Univ. Page 333, item 67.
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Commentary
The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu (1948, pp. 331–332, № 602) in absence of a picture. The dots used in the edition to indicate lost or unintelligible characters can not clearly be attributed to a certain quantity of characters (one dot may indicate one or more lost or unintelligible characters). The Annual Report informs us that the inscription was found on a hero stone and states that it “[s]eems to record the death of another hero called Ara[va]ḷa-Mahēndra Raṭṭaguḍi, a subordinate of Chōḻa-Mahārāja” (Krishna Sastri 1918, p. 82).