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<lb n="1"/>kāritam idan nṛpatinā
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<lb n="3"/>śrī-śikhari-pallaveśvaram iti
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<p>This home of Śiva named Śrī-śikhari-pallaveśvaram, was caused to be made at Siṁhapura <supplied reason="explanation">Ciṅkavaram</supplied> by king Candrāditya who was a <foreign>sarvanātha</foreign>.</p>
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<p>Le roi Candrāditya, maître de l’univers, fit construire</p>
<p>Cette demeure de Śiva, appelée Śrī-Śikhari-Pallaveśvara, à Siṁhapura <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>siṅhapure</foreign></supplied>.</p>
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The founder Candrāditya has not been identified with certainty. He could be a Pallava prince, not known from other sources. According to <bibl><ptr target="bib:Srinivasan1964_01"/><citedRange unit="page">118</citedRange></bibl> he might be a Cāḷukya prince, contemporary of the Pallava king Narasiṁhavarman II Māmalla, who was the son of Pulakeśin and is known from records of his queen Vijayamahādevī. <bibl><ptr target="bib:Srinivasan1964_01"/></bibl> notes that Vijayamahādevī is known as Pōtti, the feminine of Pōttaṉ, that is, Pallava, and suggests that she was a Pallava princess. This would explain how her husband, a Cāḷukya prince, could have founded a rock-cut cave in the Pallava realm.
However, <bibl><ptr target="bib:Nagaswamy1982_01"/><citedRange unit="page">188</citedRange></bibl> considers that the cave was founded by a Pallava king, as the name Pallava is included in the name of the foundation and as Pallava kings had <foreign>biruda</foreign>s ending with the term <foreign>āditya</foreign>.</p>
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The name Śrī-Śikhari-Pallaveśvara might be translated as "The glorious <supplied reason="subaudible">temple</supplied> of the Lord of the Pallava Śikharin." Śikharin (literally "peaked" or "mountain") appears to be the <foreign>biruda</foreign> (gloryfying soubriquet) of an unidentified Pallava king, meaning "eminent." This is its only attestattion. Alternatively, one could also translated "The glorious <supplied reason="subaudible">temple</supplied> of the Lord of the Pallava <supplied reason="subaudible">founded by</supplied> Śikharin." In that case Śikharin would be a <foreign>biruda</foreign> of the founder Candrāditya."</p>
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The placename Siṁhapura ("The city of the lion") is reflected in that of the nearby village Ciṅkavaram.</p>
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<p>Reported in <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1915-1916"/></bibl> (ARIE/1915-1916/C/1916/284).</p>
<p>First tentatively edited and translated into French and into English by <bibl><ptr target="bib:Jouveau-Dubreuil1916-1917_01"/></bibl> and <bibl><ptr target="bib:Jouveau-Dubreuil1916_01"/></bibl> with visual documentation. Edited in <bibl><ptr target="bib:VenkatasubbaAyyar1943_01"/></bibl> with visual documentation (SII 12.115). Text and summary in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Mahalingam1988_01"/></bibl> (IP 249). Edited and translated into French by <bibl><ptr target="bib:Brocquet1997_01"/></bibl> (B 68).</p>
<p>This revised edition Emmanuel Francis, based on the visual documentation published in <bibl><ptr target="bib:VenkatasubbaAyyar1943_01"/></bibl> and photos (2008).
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On the upper portion of the right pillar in the Śikharipallaveśvara rock-cut cave, also called Maṭṭileśvara (Hiltebeitel, Draupadī, vol. 1).
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