Kāñcipuram, Ekāmbaranātha, fragment (1of 2)

Kāñcipuram, Ekāmbaranātha, fragment (1of 2) EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00314

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Fragment comprising a biruda (?).

Ornate Grantha script.

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lanaḥ . nṛpa-cūḷāmaṇi

lanaḥ . °cūḷāmaṇi °cūḍāmaṇi

the best among kings

le meilleur d'entre les rois

This fragment is possibly to be considered with another fragment (INSPallava00358) as two parts of a single inscription.

According to Mahalingam xc Nṛpacūḷāmaṇi is probably an epithet of Mahendravarman I. The palaeography however points towards one of his successors.

First recorded in ; text in (IP 314); re-edited by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the ASI estampage, consulted in Mysore with the kind permission of the Director of Epigraphy.

69, 272 B/1939-1940 347 xc, 713 314 292 IR 72