Bhīmeśvara temple donation of an eternal lamp(?)

Editors: Jens Thomas, H. Krishna Sastri.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00014.

Language: Telugu.

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy).

Version: (585a60b), last modified (ec27c2b).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti rudra[ca. 4*](ṇḍārkka)⟨2⟩di[ca. 5*]śrī⟨3⟩[ca. 1*](mō)ju bhīmavrō⟨4⟩li[ca. 7*] ⟨5⟩[…][kaliviṣṇu]rāju vi(ḍci)⟨6⟩(na) sthitiḍāgunuṁḍugadu(jē)⟨7⟩(ṭi)yu (ve)ṭṭiyuṁ gona⟨8⟩kuṇḍa sariyiñcē dī⟨9⟩(ni)n deppi cēsinavāṇḍu ⟨10⟩ pañcamahāpātakaṁbu ⟨11⟩ (sē)sinavāṇḍu bāranā⟨12⟩si (vaccina)vāṇḍu

Apparatus

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of H. Krishna Sastri in 1925, p. 21, № 58 in absence of a picture. Following the entry in A. R. No. 471 of 1893 Krishna Sastri edited the text which was written on two faces on a stone slab as one entry with continuous line numbering although the two faces evidently display two distinct inscriptions. They are given here as 58a and 58b respectively. The line numbering was adapted to this situation wherefore line 5 in 1925, p. 21, № 58 corresponds to line 1 in this edition. Krishna Sastri suggests the tentative reading kaliviṣṇu in line 5.

Bibliography

The text was edited together with a second inscription on the same stone by H. Krishna Sastri in 1925, p. 21, № 58 without a picture. The text was re-edited by K. M. Sastri (1969, p. 345, № 97) on basis of SII with some errors and without translation.

Secondary

Krishna Sastri, H. 1925. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume V: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 5. Madras: Government Press. Page 21, item 58.

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 345, item 97.