Mēlaccēri, foundation, time of Candrāditya author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00249

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kāritam idan nṛpatinā candrādityena sarvva-nāthena śrī-śikhari-pallaveśvaram iti śaivan dhāma siṅhapure

nāthena nāthena dhāma dhāma
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This home of Śiva named Śrī-śikhari-pallaveśvaram, was caused to be made at Siṁhapura Ciṅkavaram by king Candrāditya who was a sarvanātha.

Le roi Candrāditya, maître de l’univers, fit construire

Cette demeure de Śiva, appelée Śrī-Śikhari-Pallaveśvara, à Siṁhapura siṅhapure.

The founder Candrāditya has not been identified with certainty. He could be a Pallava prince, not known from other sources. According to 118 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. 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, 188 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 birudas ending with the term āditya.

The name Śrī-Śikhari-Pallaveśvara might be translated as "The glorious temple of the Lord of the Pallava Śikharin." Śikharin (literally "peaked" or "mountain") appears to be the biruda (gloryfying soubriquet) of an unidentified Pallava king, meaning "eminent." This is its only attestattion. Alternatively, one could also translated "The glorious temple of the Lord of the Pallava founded by Śikharin." In that case Śikharin would be a biruda of the founder Candrāditya."

The placename Siṁhapura ("The city of the lion") is reflected in that of the nearby village Ciṅkavaram.

Reported in (ARIE/1915-1916/C/1916/284).

First tentatively edited and translated into French and into English by and with visual documentation. Edited in with visual documentation (SII 12.115). Text and summary in (IP 249). Edited and translated into French by (B 68).

This revised edition Emmanuel Francis, based on the visual documentation published in and photos (2008).

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