Hero stone of Menṭha (?), mentioning the Cōḻa
Editors: Jens Thomas, J. Ramayya Pantulu.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00088.
Language: Telugu.
Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy).
Version: (585a60b), last modified (ec27c2b).
Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī (sē)vuṇḍūre[ca. 2*] ⟨2⟩ (go)¡(nḍa)! koḍuku aribha[ca. 1*]me¡(nṭha)! cō⟨3⟩la gada(si) poḍici surāla(yaṁ)b ēge
Apparatus
Translation by Jens Thomas
Bibliography
The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 374 of 1904 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 340, № 630 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives a short summary: “Mentions that the son of some one attacked a certain person and having fought with him went to heaven.” (Sastri 1969, p. 340)
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 630.
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 84.
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Commentary
The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948, p. 340, № 630 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).