Cātuppēri, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 52

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Lacunose inscription. Vellore archaeological museum.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00087.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00087.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-nanti-(vik)-

⟨2⟩ kirama-parumarkku yā(ṇṭu)

⟨3⟩ A¡y!m-patt’ iraṇṭ-ā(vatu)

⟨4⟩ [unknown number of lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ Aympattiraṇṭ-ā(vatu) ⬦ Ayampattiraṇṭ-ā(vatu) SII IP • The reading Ayam° instead of Aym° might stem from a typographical error.

Translation

⟨1–3⟩ Fifty-second year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumar.¹

Translation into French

⟨1–3⟩ Cinquante-deuxième année du roi victorieux Nandivikramavarman.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1886–87 (ARIE/1886-1887/II/1886-1887/27).

Edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1.108). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 87). Edited in Pūṅkuṉṟaṉ 2021.

This digital edition encoded by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[SII] 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. Page 130, item 108.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 286, item 87.

[P] Pūṅkuṉṟaṉ, Ra. 2021. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XVIII. Vēlūr māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti I. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 57. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 165, item 140/2021.

Secondary

ARIE 1886–87. G.O. No. 1462, 24th October 1887. Archaeology. Noting with satisfaction the work performed by Dr. Hultzsch, Epigraphist, from 21st November 1886 to 20th September 1887. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1887. Page 5, appendixes II/1886-1887, item 27.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.

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