Looking for Rāma: Traces of the Rāmāyaṇa in Temples of the Pallava dynasty

Valérie Gillet · 2023

A recent study by E Francis focusing on the royal discourse of the Pallava dynasty shows that Rama did in fact, appear rather often in the dynasty’s royal inscriptions.

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Kitap Bölümü
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Valérie Gillet
Yayın yılı:
2023
Yayıncı:
Routledge
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A recent study by E Francis focusing on the royal discourse of the Pallava dynasty shows that Rama did in fact, appear rather often in the dynasty’s royal inscriptions. The first testimonies of the rule of the Pallava dynasty come from the south of the Andhra country, where we find Prakrit and Sanskrit inscriptions assigned to a period ranging from the 3rd to the 6th centuries. Sanskrit is the main language used in Pallava royal epigraphs, although in the 6th century they introduced Tamil in the technical part of their copper-plates, probably because they wanted to ensure that the local population understood where the boundaries of the donated land lay. Rama is an incarnation of Visnu who descends to earth to save the world from the tyranny of the demons. The episode of the descent of Ganga to the earth is a recurring theme in both Pallava epigraphy and iconography.

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