Tank construction at Gommalōviḍi Creation of file Jens Christian Thomas intellectual authorship of edition K. V. Subrahmanya Ayer DHARMA Berlin DHARMA_INSTelugu00021

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gommalōviḍi samudraṁbu nilpi mahimindamaṟipoma peru veḷpu guḍlu nandavanaṁbundiṟlu pēvu vēvuragharmma śrī viḷēvani pogaḻakuḍumusēpuṭa kalimuḍi na prasādaṁbuḷ anniyu mihatakaputrakamuniyō śrī śilāviśālavipulasaṁpūrṇṇagāṁbhī śubhradabhraśuśaucyassajananutavartti ptānasaprasvasulasadbhitticitravirājadhiṣṭhāvāsabhadrasakalavāyutan nirmmitan nirvvarttana śrīsalaku Iru vuṭṭi Āḍḷapaṭṭu kuṟiti yī Ūḍlaṁdu Ēnu vuṭlu Āḍḷa paṭṭubu cēnu śrī vitpaṟti ndrātityala kalayanta gālaṁbuga naḍiya vālu kavula Āyaṁbu dīniki vakraṁbuvaccina pāṟanu vēyu kavilalā vu vraccinavāru bhāranā

ll. 1-4.K. M. Sastri edits this inscription together with another one (see commentary) and counts the lines continuously. I have adjusted the lines in order to avoid confusion. Lines 1-4 correspond to his lines 21-24. Seem to refer to the construction of a tank (called or at ?) Gommalōviḍi, big temples for Gods, and flower-garden, and food-offerings (as) pogara (pongara ?) and kuḍumu for (the God) Śrī viḷēvani. ll. 9-10. To (the temple of) Śrīśa (i.e. Viṣṇu, Lord of Lakṣmi), land sowable with two puṭṭis of paddy in these villages; land sowable with five puṭṭis of paddy in the village of Vitpaṟṟu. l. 11. So long as the Moon and the Sun exist . . l. 12. Those who obstruct this (incur the sin of killing). ll. 13-14. Brahmins and thousand cows in Benares . . .

The inscription is found on the same stone as the one in 208-209584. The text follows the edition of K. V. Subrahmanya Ayer in 209585 in absence of a picture. The dots used in the edition to indicate lost or unintelligible characters can not clearly be attributed to a certain quantity of characters (one dot may indicate one or more lost or unintelligible characters).

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 147-A of 1899 and first published by K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer without picture and translation (209585). Korada Mahadeva Sastri reprinted the text (with a few mistakes) and provided a summary and partial translation (28610).

A. R. No. 147-A of 1899 209585 28610