Shrine of Śrī Dāmōdhara
Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00031.
Language: Telugu.
Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy).
Version: (585a60b), last modified (ec27c2b).
Apparatus
Translation by Jens Thomas
(This is the shrine of) Śrī Dāmōdhara
Bibliography
The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 266 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu with few metadata and without picture and translation (1948, p. 18, № 41). K. M. Sastri summarizes: “Records the name of the shrine Dāmōdharēśvaraṁbu” (1969, p. 328, № 56).
Secondary
Ramayya Pantulu, J. 1948. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume X: Telugu inscriptions from the Madras Presidency. South Indian Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications. Page 18, item 41.
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 328, item 56.
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(This is the shrine of) Śrī Dāmōdhara
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The ending -aṁbu makes clear that the inscription does not represent a proper noun. The context, <cit><quote>On top of a niche containing a linga</quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:RamayyaPantulu1948_01"/><citedRange unit="page">18</citedRange></bibl></cit>, shows that it probably is the name of that niche.
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Commentary
The ending -aṁbu makes clear that the inscription does not represent a proper noun. The context, “On top of a niche containing a linga” (Ramayya Pantulu 1948, p. 18), shows that it probably is the name of that niche.