Hero stone of Śrī Ēḷuḷakālavilmeṟe

Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00078.

Language: Telugu.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kalivade⟨2⟩jamunṟu vāri maganṟu ⟨3⟩ śrī vāṇakabhāru ⟨4⟩ maganṟu ¿vō?⟨vā⟩ri cē⟨5⟩ta paṭṭa(ṁ) kaṭṭabaḍi⟨6⟩navānṟu śrī Ēḷuḷa⟨7⟩kālavilmeṟe ⟨8⟩ sōramaḍi kayyaṁbu⟨9⟩na boḍici paḍiye

Apparatus

Translation by Sastri 1969

Hail! Sri Ēḷuḷakāla Vilmeṟe who was anointed by the son of Śrī Vāṇakabhāru (who is) the son of Śrī Kalivadejamunṟu fought in the battle of Sōramaḍi and fell.

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 340, № 629 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).

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 310 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 340, № 629 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry 1969, p. 340 provides a translation while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition.

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 340, item 629.

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 340, item 83.