Pillar from the Bhīmeśvara temple in Chebrolu (EIAD 651) EpiDoc Encoding Arlo Griffiths intellectual authorship of edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Jakarta DHARMA_INSEIAD00651

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Characters of the 4th or 5th c. CE.

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 encoded the inscription

rmmāṇaḥ manuṣyeṇa la-potena rājñaḥo vijayā naś ca hitārtthaM tāmmrāpe kārttikeyo 'py ātta- t san-nāmadheyaḥ bhagavatyāḥ śakti-mātr̥kāyāḥ maṇḍapaẖ kāritaḥ

bhavati cātra ślokaḥ

naraḫ prāsāda-maṇḍapāN devānāṅ kārayet sammyaK

Iti saṁvatsaraḫ pañcamaḥ 5 hepa 7 diva 4

rmmāṇaḥ varmmaṇaḥ Restore dharmmāṇaḥ? manuṣyeṇa mātru dakṣaṇo mātru dakṣiṇo Neither here not in any line below does Munirathnam indicate any loss of characters. la-potena ra lo pā tena ra lopa tena Imaginable readings include purāṇa-maṅgala-potena, purāṇāṅ śaila-potena, purāṇāM śaila-potena and pūrṇe maṅgala-potena. rājñaḥo rājña rājñā vijayā Our translation below assumes that we must restore something like vijayābhivr̥ddhaye. naś ca hitārtthaM hiśca hatārthaṁ hi śca hitārthaṁ If the suggestion in the previous note is accepted, then the text on line 2 may have continued with cātma- so we would get cātmanaś ca hitārtthaM. tāmmrāpe tāmprāpe tāmbrāpe kārttikeyo 'py ātta- kārtika prakyātta t san-nāmadheyaḥ nāmadheyaḥ nāmadheyaḥ maṇḍapaẖ kāritaḥ maṇḍpañca kāritaḥ maṇḍapāñca kāritaḥ naraḫ su devānāṅ kārayet devānā kārayet saṁvatsaraḫ pañcamaḥ savatsaraṟ pañcamaḥ saṁvatsara pañcamaḥ In his 2018 publication, Munirathnam actually prints an r with double underdot (that we cannot reproduce) before the p. We suppose he may have imagined that we are dealing with one of the Dravidian consonants ṟ or ḻ. From both of his editions it is clear that has not recognized any of the upadhmānīya and jihvāmūlīya characters in this inscription. hepa 7 he pakhe

by the man boat/young — for the purpose of the increase of victory of the king and for his own benefit, in Tāmbrāpa — who as Kārttikeya has also gained the good name , has been commissioned the pavilion of the Lady Śaktimātr̥kā.

And on this there is a stanza:

Man should duly commission towers and pavilions for the gods .

Fifth year 5, 7th fortnight of the cold season, day 4.

The toponym Tāmrāpa also figures in EIAD 650 (in its Prakrit guise Tabāva) and in the Oṁgoḍu grant, time of Skandavarman, year 33.

Munirathnam's publications assume that the inscription was issued by the Satavahana king called Vijaya-Sātakaṇṇi, but this is based on a misunderstanding of the text.

Reported in ; published twice, with slightly differing editions both full or errors and both without translation, by K. Munirathnam ( and ). Re-edited by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier on the basis of the published photo of the ASI rubbing as well as photos made on the site in 2019.

119-120, 127 B14