SII 12.7: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar MAHENDRAVARMAN I. No. 7. (A.R. No. 354 of 1904). KUḌIMIYĀMALAI, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. ON A ROCK TO THE SOUTH OF THE MĒLAKKŌYIL TEMPLE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0007 DHARMAbase

This inscription which is engraved in the Pallava-Grantha characters of the 7th century A.D., consists of a musical treatise composed by a royal disciple of Rudrāchārya. Though the name of the king is not mentioned, the characters of the record as well as the title ‘Saṅkīrṇajāti’ assumed by the Pallava king Mahēndravarman whose inscriptions are also found in the region round Trichinopoly, have led to the attribution of this record to the same Pallava monarch, who, we know, achieved distinction in the realm of architecture, literature and drama. A little to the north of this inscription, over the Valampuri-Gaṇēśa image is engraved the word ‘parivādini-ē,’ meaning a lute with seven strings ‘only’, which indicates that the musical instrument intended for the notations used in this record was the Vīṇā.

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Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XII, pp. 231 ff.

Digital edition of SII 12.7 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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