[INDOLOGY] Earliest epigraphical attestations of Telugu kōyila, kōvela 'temple'

[Jens Thomas]

What I meant was that kōyilamu, which indeed means 'temple', may have been
used for that specific temple called peddakōyilamu instead of choosing the
generic term because pedda guḍi would simply be "the old temple" but
peddakōyilamu perhaps had another ring to it. I made that assumption
because the inscription is from Agiripalli near Nuzvid which is not so
close to the Tamil or Kannaḍa speaking area.

Best wishes,
Jens

Am Sa., 8. Jan. 2022 um 20:38 Uhr schrieb Suresh Kolichala <
suresh.kolichala at gmail.com>:

> I agree with Jens that *guḍi* is more common in inscriptional Telugu than
> *kōvil(a)* or *kōyil(a) (*one instance of *kōyilamu* vs more than 10
> instances of *guḍi *and its various forms of inflection*)*. Do we assume
> the usage of  *kōvila/kōyila *for 'temple' is possibly a result of
> influence from Tamil or Karnataka areas?
>
> I agree with Chandra that *kōyilamu* is unlikely to be a personal name
> given a clear neuter gender marker -*mu*.
>
> Looks like Kannada has older instances of usage of *kōvil(a/u/e) and*
> *kōyil(a/u/e).*
>
> Thanks,
> Suresh.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 2:03 PM Periannan Chandrasekaran via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much for the discussion and for the data that " the word
>> guḍi is normally used for 'temple' in the early Telugu inscriptions."
>> However as for the meaning of kōyilamu in the inscription I referred
>> to,  Budaraju asserts on page 292
>> <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.493129/page/291/mode/2up?view=theater>
>> that it means 'Temple' and is a variant of kōyila, kōvela.
>>
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Periannan Chandrasekaran
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 5:06 AM Jens Thomas <jens.c.thomas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Periannan Chandrasekaran,
>>>
>>> the word guḍi is normally used for 'temple' in the early Telugu
>>> inscriptions.
>>>
>>> K. M. Sastri (Historical Grammar of Telugu, p. 68) refers to SII X, 709
>>> (kōyilala) but the text has kayilala (~ kavilala 'cows'), so it is probably
>>> a misprint.
>>>
>>> The inscription that you refer to (e. g. IA 13, pp. 50-55) has
>>> peddakōyilamu 'old temple' but it occurs in the delineation of a grant and
>>> may hence rather be an individual name.
>>>
>>> Apart from that I am not aware of another early inscription that has the
>>> words kōyila or kōvela. If I happen to come accross another instance I will
>>> let you know.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Jens
>>>
>>> Am Fr., 7. Jan. 2022 um 23:32 Uhr schrieb Periannan Chandrasekaran via
>>> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>:
>>>
>>>> Dear Indology members
>>>>
>>>>    - I am looking for the earliest epigraphical attestations of Telugu
>>>>    *kōyila*, *kōvela *'temple' which DEDR lists.
>>>>    - DEDR has left out the form *kōyilamu *attested in an early 10th
>>>>    century inscription (p.186)
>>>>    <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.493129/page/185/mode/2up?view=theater>
>>>>    .
>>>>    - The same DEDR entry has interestingly no cognate Kannada words.
>>>>    Is this still true?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Periannan Chandrasekaran
>>>>
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