Hero stone for some unknown warrior
Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00074.
Hand description:
Language: Telugu.
Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy).
Version: (585a60b), last modified (ec27c2b).
Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī mai[ca. 3*]⟨2⟩rājula koḍuku[ca. 2*] ⟨3⟩ maganṟu mada(ṁ)buri[ca. 3*] ⟨4⟩ madavunṟu[ca. 3*] ⟨5⟩ mahārājula ya[ca. 3*] ⟨6⟩ poḍici paḍi(ye)[ca. 3*] ⟨7⟩ kaḷli[ca. 3*]
Apparatus
Translation by Jens Thomas
Bibliography
The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 535 of 1906 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 343, № 641 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives a short summary: “States that some one fell in a battle.” (Sastri 1969, p. 343)
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 343, item 641.
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 343, item 92.
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Commentary
The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 343, № 641 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).