Mahābalipuram, Kōṭikal Maṇḍapa, Biruda intellectual authorship of edition Sylvain Brocquet Emmanuel Francis EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00061

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śrī-vāmāṁkuśaḥ

śrī-vāmāṁkuśaḥ 81 notes that the anusvāra is doubtful. It does not indeed appear clearly on the facsimile published in 8 19 . In situ, it seems to be above the letter ku. The visarga is clear in situ. 5861056 reads śrī-vāmāṅkuśa and notes that this should be analysed as a Vocative form.

The glorious hook of Vāma Śiva.

or

The glorious one whose hook is splendid/terrible/cruel.

or

The glorious pleasant hook.

Le glorieux croc de Vāma Śiva.

ou

Le glorieux au croc splendide/terrible/cruel.

ou

Le glorieux aimable croc.

Ô Śrī-VāmāṅkuṣaEn l’absence d'autre désinence, on peut interpréter cette forme comme un vocatif le croc de Vāma.

The glorious Vāmāṅkuśa bearer of handsome elephant-goad.

The inscription -- the only one on the monument bearing it -- consists in what appears to be a biruda, "gloryfying soubriquet". Although Pallava kings have had hundreds of their birudas engraved on their monuments, this one does not appear among these and is found only on this pillar of the Kōṭikal Maṇḍapa. Note that the biruda Vāma is engraved twice on the Dharmarājaratha at Mahābalipuram. Vāmāṅkuṣa might be the biruda of one among the Pallava biruda-bearers of Mahābalipuram or of an obscure Pallava prince or, as suggested by 110, of a chief, subordinated to the Pallavas.

Edited in (EI 10, no. 1.18), with a facsimile; text and summary in (IP 61); text and translation in .

This edition by Sylvain Brocquet & Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy, photographs (2009), and facsimile published in .

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