Hero stone at Basinikoṇḍa
Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00085.
Language: Telugu.
Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy).
Version: (585a60b), last modified (ec27c2b).
Edition
⟨1⟩ (sva)sti śrī ḻōṅkuḷa[ca. 3*] ⟨2⟩ [ca. 1*]ḷki kumbandukala celvu[ca. 3*] ⟨3⟩ [ca. 1*](ppa)na (ve)ggeḍaḷ ādityana ⟨4⟩ prabhugaḷa gōṣṭi (bi)rakayi(lō) ⟨5⟩ [ca. 2*]vikramarāmanamaḻuvakkadhū⟨6⟩(r)ttaN A[ca. 1*]nabaladakaya ḻō⟨7⟩ṅkuḷaprākara[ca. 1*]mavumuḍuvuka⟨8⟩yyaṁbuḷōna Ēnugu taṇki ⟨9⟩ poḍici paḍiye(N)
Apparatus
Translation by Jens Thomas
Bibliography
The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 294 of 1905 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 338, № 623 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry 1969, p. 337 provides a short summary 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 338, item 623.
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 337, item 77.
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States that a certain person attacked an elephant in the battle of Mavumaḍuvu (i.e. Mudumaḍuvu), and having fought with it fell.</quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Sastri1969_01"/><citedRange unit="page">337</citedRange><citedRange unit="item">77</citedRange></bibl></cit>
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Commentary
The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 338, № 623 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). Sastri gives a summary of the content: