Hero stone of Bīreya at Kurubalakōṭa mentioning Gaṇḍasaṅkali and the Cōḻas
Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00080.
Language: Telugu.
Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy).
Version: (585a60b), last modified (ec27c2b).
Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī gaṇḍasa(ṅka)liyya ⟨2⟩ maṟandi koḻanaḍippibī⟨3⟩reya vallesappa yēḷuvānṟu ⟨4⟩ sōḍuḷatōḍa poḍicci vīralō⟨5⟩kamb ēge
Apparatus
Translation by Sastri 1969
Hail! Koḻanaḍippi Bīreya, ruler of Vallesappa, (and) younger brother-in-law of Sri Gaṇḍasaṅkaliyya fought with the Cōdas and went to the world of heroes.
Translation by Jens Thomas
Bibliography
The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 301 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 339, № 626 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry 1969, p. 338 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 339, item 626.
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 336, item 80.
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Hail! Koḻanaḍippi Bīreya, ruler of Vallesappa, (and) younger brother-in-law of Sri Gaṇḍasaṅkaliyya fought with the Cōdas and went to the world of heroes.
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The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 339, № 626 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).