Kāñcipuram, list of <foreign>biruda</foreign>s author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00021

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Ekāmbaranātha temple. Pillar inscription recording a list of birudas of Mahendravarman I Pallava.

There is only one horizontal stroke in the letter ṟa (whereas the horizontal stroke is crossed by vertical a stroke, for instance in the inscription Pallava 34).

The project DHARMA has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 809994).

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Face A = West

Eṟi

kucañāṇa

mahāmeghaḥ

dṛdhabhaktiḥ

Face B = South

Abhimukhaḥ

citrakārapuli

kuṟṟambu

Face C = East

curmbu

vaṁkaṁbu

vnāṟa

Face D = North

pisugu

vambara

bhrāntaḥ Akari

Face A = West Eṟi Eṟ Ēthi (p. 198, 216) in fact hesitates between the readings vnāṟa and vnātha. There is only one horizontal stroke in the letter ṟa, which makes it close to the letter tha. kucañāṇa kucagrāṇa kucañāṉa mahāmeghaḥ mahāmegha mahāmedha
Face B = South Abhimukhaḥ Abhimukha
Face C = East vnāṟa vnāṟpegu vnātha There is only one horizontal stroke in the letter ṟa, which makes it close to the letter tha.
Face A = West

...

He whose knowledge is sharp.

The great cloud.

He whose devotion is firm.

Face B = South

...

The tiger among artists.

...

Face C = East

...

...

...

Face D = North

The thunderbolt.

...

...

...

The orientation (west to north) of the pillar’s faces is given in and . It is presumably that of the pillar at the time it was found in situ in the Ekāmbaranātha temple. The pillar is currently (2025) displayed at the entrance of the main sculpture gallery in the Chennai Government Museum.

Reported and discussed in , with visual documentation. Reported in (ARIE/1920-1921/C/1921/82).

Edited in (SII 12.14), with visual documentation. Text in (IP 21). Text and French translation of the Sanskrit birudas in (B 17). Edited and translated in , with delineations of the original inscriptions. See (IR 29).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy (2017) and photos (2017, by Emmanuel Francis; 2024, by Emmanuel Francis).

8 14 IV 100-101 21 100-101 17 193-222 65 C/1921 51