Kūram plates, time of Parameśvaravarman

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

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Palaeographic description: Tamil script. The puḷḷi is regularly marked.

Language: Sanskrit (san).

Version: 2025-09-06 09:45 (c74dfdd), last modified 2025-09-06 09:21 (a62d33d).

Edition

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⟨7r1=81⟩ vara-maṅ(·)kalat(·)tu ni[la]m-āka Ik(·)-kāluḷ(·) kuṟ[·]ṟ-ē(tta) [********************]
⟨7r2=82⟩ maiyum· nāṭ(ā)ḻ·c·ciyu(ṉ) nāṭ(·)ṭu-p(·) paṇ(·)ṇik(·)keyu(m) [********************]
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⟨7r5=85⟩ p-puṟam(·) {k(·)} koṇ·ṭu vaḻipāṭu ...-
⟨7r6=86⟩ m(·) koṇ(·)ṭu pu ...
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⟨7v1=89⟩ k-kāt(·)tu koṭuk(·)ka ⁋ Asyā⟨ḥ⟩ praśaster avat [⏑–⏑–⏓] [––⏑––⏑⏑–⏑–⏓] somaś ca yasyās sahavāsa-bandhus tra(ya) [⏑––⏑⏑–⏑–⏓] [⏓⏓⏓⏓]hma-dattañ ca dvidhā bhaktiñ ca pātu yaḥ mac-chiram ma [⏑––⏓] [⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓] [brahma-sva-pari-
⟨7v4=92⟩ puṣṭāni] vāhanāni mahīpate yuddha-kāl(e) [viśīryante] [saikatāḥ setavo yathā]
⟨7v5=93⟩ deva-svam br¿a?hmaṇa-svañ ca lobhenopahin asti (ya)⟨ḥ⟩ [⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓] [⏓⏓]-
⟨7v6=94⟩ cchiṣṭena jīvati ⁋ bhūmi-dānāt paran dānam na bhūt¿o? na bhavi[ṣyati] [tasyaiva haraṇāt pāpaṁ] [na]
⟨7v7=95⟩ bhūt¿o? na bhaviṣyati || @ || ...

Apparatus

Plates

⟨85⟩ ppuṟam(·) {k(·)} koṇ·ṭu ⬦ ppura(m)kkoṇṭu SII1; ppura(ma)k koṇṭu TPC • Alternative reading: p-puṟam-⟨ā⟩ka koṇ·ṭu

⟨89⟩ avat ⬦ ava(tā) SII1; va(tā) B.

⟨91-92⟩ [brahma ... yathā] • Text restored after stanza 33 in Sircar’s list (Sircar 1965, p. 181).

Translation by Brocquet 1997

...

23.

...

24.

...

25.

O king, the mounts

[accrued from the wealth of brahmins]

[crumble] in time of war

[like dams/bridges made of sand].

26.

...

27.

A gift superior to the gift of land

There has not been and there won’t be.

[Therefore a sin [superior] to seizing it]

There has not been and there won’t be.

Bibliography

Edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1.151). Revised edition of plates 3-4 in Hultzsch 1923–1924. Edited in Subrahmanian 1966. Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 46). Text and French translation in Brocquet 1997 (B 33). Visual documentation in SII 2 (plates XI-XII).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2008, by Emmanuel Francis, by courtesy of Chennai Government Museum).

Primary

[SII1] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press.

[SII2] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor, V. Venkayya and H. Krishna Sastri. 1916. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume II. Tamil inscriptions in the Rajarajesvara Temple at Tanjavur and other miscellaneous records of the Chola, Pallava, Pandya and Vijayanagara dynasties. South Indian Inscriptions 2. Madras: Government Press.

[EI] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1923–1924. “Revised text and translation of two of the Kuram plates.” EI 17, pp. 340–344.

[TPC] Subrahmanian, T.N. 1966. Pallavar ceppēṭukaḷ muppatu / Thirty Pallava Copper-Plates (Prior to 1000 A.D.) Madras: Tamil Varalatru Kazhagam. [URL]. Pages 33–60.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 152–161, item 53.

[B] Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris. Pages 512–531, item 37.

Secondary

Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IV-IX siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Page 278, item IR 36.

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1965. Indian epigraphy. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

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Edited in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzsch1890_01"/></bibl> (SII 1.151).

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Edited in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Subrahmanian1966_01"/></bibl>.

Text and summary in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Mahalingam1988_01"/></bibl> (IP 46).

Text and French translation in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Brocquet1997_01"/></bibl> (B 33).

Visual documentation in SII 2 (plates XI-XII).

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