The name Māyalūrunṟu

Editors: Jens Thomas, N. Lakshminarayan Rao.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00051.

Language: Telugu.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ māyalūrunṟu

Apparatus

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The name appears to consist of māyalūru and the suffix -nṟu. The first element probably contains ūru ’village’ as the second member. To this day there is at least one village with the name Māyalūru (to the west from Ahobilam). The personal name is one of the comparatively few instances in which the first element and the suffix -nṟu form a tatpuruṣa: ’the one of/from Māyalūru’.

Bibliography

Secondary

Radhakrishna, Budaraju. 1971. Early Telugu inscriptions (up to 1100 A.D.): with texts, glossary & brief linguistic history. Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi. Page 27, item 43.