Malayakkōvil, musical inscription

Version: (152e922), last modified (df3f0d0).

Edition

Part A

⟨A1⟩ parivādinidā

Part B

⟨B1⟩ kaṟ·kap· paṭuvatu kāṇ(·)

⟨B2⟩ ñ colliya pukiṟ·paruk·kum· nimi

⟨B3⟩ muk·kan niruvattukkum· Urittu

Part C

⟨C1⟩ guṇaseṇa-pramāṇañ

⟨C2⟩ ceyta vidyā parivātini kaṟ

Commentary

Copies of the same inscription, likewise with a rectangular frame (single-lined or two-lined), are found in Kuṭumiyāmalai (Pallava 23 = IP 23) and, twice in Tirumayyam (Pallava 31 = IP 31; Pallava 514).

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939-43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/221).

Edited in Vaidyanatha Aiyar and Swaminatha Aiyar 1929 (IPS 4). Text in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 25). Visual documentation in Rajan et al. 2023 (vol. 1, p. 375, figs. 6.85-86)

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2009, kindly supplied by Valérie Gillet).

Primary

[IPS] Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. and N. Swaminatha Aiyar. 1929. Inscriptions (texts) of the Pudukkottai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 4, page 7.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 25, page 113.

Secondary

ARIE 1939-43. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu and N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 100, appendixes B/1940-1941, item 221.

Rajan, K., V.P. Yathees Kumar, V. Muthukumar and G. Pauldurai. 2023. Cultural heritage of Tamil Nadu: Pudukkōṭṭai region. 2 vols. Chennai, Inde: Government of Tamil Nadu, Department of Archaeology.

Srinivasa Aiyar, K. R. 1941. Inscriptions in the Pudukkóttai state: translated into English. Part I: Early, Pallava and Cola inscriptions. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 4, pages 10–11.

Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. and Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Chronological list of inscriptions of the Pudukkóttai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 4, page TBC.