Hero stone of the reign of Vaidumbamahārāju

Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00082.

Hand description:

Language: Telugu.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [ca. 2*](sty a)nēkasamara[ca. 3*]⟨2⟩kṣmīsamāliṁgitava[ca. 3*] ⟨3⟩ [ca. 2*]duṁbamahārāju prithi[ca. 2*] ⟨4⟩ [ca. 2*]koḍuku valleya[ca. 1*]tri[…] ⟨5⟩ [ca. 2*]ko[ca. 1*]karaṇambu(ṇa dōsi) ⟨6⟩ [1 lost or illegible line]⟨7⟩(na) pōḍi[ca. 4*] ⟨8⟩ [ca. 2*]ku[ca. 3*] ⟨9⟩(ṁge) ⟨10⟩ ku[ca. 3*] ⟨11⟩ (ṭṭi) vrāse[ca. 1*]

Apparatus

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 341, № 633 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. 327 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 341, № 634 with few metadata and without translation.

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 341, item 634.