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Kāma at the Kadamba Court: The Guḍnāpur Pillar Inscription of Ravivarman as a Text-Monument
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In March 1971, B.R. Gopal discovered a partially buried pillar with visible inscribed writing in the village of Guḍnāpur in Karnataka. The monument has since become known as the Guḍnāpur Pillar Inscription of Ravivarman (ca. 465–500 CE) after the ruler of the early Kadamba kingdom who commissioned it. The inscription preserves a compelling historical record that details the intersections of religious and political performance at the Kadamba court as centered around a temple to Kāma constructed within the confines of the royal residence at Vaijayantī (Banavasi), and the distribution of agrarian lands to support its maintenance. This study presents a new translation and analysis of the text and a discussion of the pillar as a ‘text-monument’ that was both embedded within and constitutive of landscapes: physical and built as well as rhetorical and imagined. By presenting the Guḍnāpur inscription as a text-monument situated within multiple landscapes, the article reveals how documentary, donative, religious, and agrarian practices supported state-making in an early South Indian kingdom.
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The use of Sanskrit inscriptions as media for royal representation and public self-fashioning was highly developed in the Kadamba polity, where idioms and trends developed independent of the Gupta royal model.
“More specifically, it shows that the use of Sanskrit inscriptions as media for royal representation and public self-fashioning was highly developed in the Kadamba polity, where idioms and trends developed independent of the Gupta royal model.71”
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The discussion of Kadamba inscriptions describes them as tools of royal representation and self-fashioning, and the Conclusions say the Guḍnāpur inscription expressed a locally inflected royal identity. But the Conclusions also say it participated in established political idioms, while §6.1 identifies an idiom popularized by the Guptas. The claim that Kadamba idioms developed independent of the Gupta model is therefore not supported. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe Guḍnāpur Pillar Inscription of Ravivarman details the endowment of a temple to Kāma in the heart of the royal capital at Vaijayantī (Banavasi).
“the Guḍnāpur Pillar Inscription of Ravivarman details the endowment of a temple to Kāma in the heart of the royal capital at Vaijayantī (Banavasi).”
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- Cecil, E. A., & Gomes, M.
- Affiliations
- Florida State University (US)
- Durham University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Cecil, Elizabeth A.
- Venue
- Indo-Iranian Journal
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2021-03-29
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 10-50
- ISSN
- 0019-7246 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-8536
- OpenAlex
- W3159830297
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- Indo-Iranian Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › South Asian Studies and Diaspora
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Historical and Architectural Studies
- Keywords
- kama, temple construction, landscape, state-making, epigraphy, translation of inscriptions
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