# Malayakkōvil, musical inscription

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00025

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00025.xml

Languages: Sanskrit [Grantha], Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

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## 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 & 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. & 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 & N. Laksminarayan
Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 100, appendixes B/1940-1941,
item 221.

Rajan, K., V.P. Yathees Kumar, V. Muthukumar & 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. & Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Chronological
list of inscriptions of the Pudukkóttai state arranged according to
dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 4, page TBC.