Inscription near Kurubalakōṭa mentioning Gaṇḍaseṅkali and the Cōḻa

Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00079.

Hand description:

Language: Telugu.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī gaṇḍa(se)ṅkali⟨2⟩nṟu sōḻapariyya⟨3⟩na pallalō sembaḻi⟨4⟩na sōḻūḷa ca⟨5⟩[ca. 3*]macu

Apparatus

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 338, № 625 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. 300 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 338, № 625 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastri reprints J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition and gives a summary: “Mentions a certain Gaṇḍaseṅkali.” (Sastri 1969, p. 338, № 79)

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 338, item 625.

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 338, item 79.