# Vayalaikkāvūr, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 2

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00097

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00097.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Donation by five land-owners at Paḷḷikkaṭṭil.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-tanti⟨2⟩-vikkirama-parumaṟku (yā)⟨3⟩ṇṭu Iraṇṭ-āva⟨4⟩tu

paḷḷikkaṭṭil-uṭai⟨5⟩ya kaṇṭiyum para(ṉum) ⟨6⟩ ciṟu-nampiyum
Ātu(ri)⟨7⟩yum Āyiravaṉum (I)⟨8⟩vva¡(y)!⟨i⟩vōm vayalai⟨9⟩-k-kāvil
(Aṭu)tta kā⟨10⟩ṭi m¡u!⟨ū⟩ṉṟu kūṟṟālum ⟨11⟩ bhaṭārarkku
Oḻu(kka)vi(k)⟨12⟩kum nantā viḷa(kkuk)⟨13⟩k{k}um kuṭuttō[m]

[1+]⟨14⟩[2+] tt’ ūṭṭuvōm ā(ka-k)

⟨15⟩ [ca. 10+] [ā]⟨16⟩(nō)m

Itu kā(tt’ ū)⟨17⟩(ṭṭu)vāṉ Aṭi E¡m!⟨n⟩ (talai)⟨18⟩mēlana

## Apparatus

⟨7⟩ (I)⟨8⟩vva¡(y)!⟨i⟩vōm ⬦ (I)⟨8⟩vvayvōm SII.

⟨12⟩ viḷa(kkuk)⟨13⟩k{k}um ⬦ viḷa(kkuka)⟨13⟩kkum SII.

⟨13⟩ kuṭuttō[m] ⬦ kuṭuttō[1+] SII.

⟨15⟩ [ā]⟨16⟩(nō)m ⬦ [1+]⟨16⟩(nō)m SII.

⟨17⟩ E¡m!⟨n⟩ ⬦ Em SII.

## Translation

⟨1–4⟩ Second year of the victorious king Tantivikikkiramaparumaṉ.[1]

⟨4–13⟩ Kaṇṭi, Paraṉ, Ciṟu-nampi, Āturi, and Āyiravaṉ, owners at
Paḷḷikkaṭṭil, We, these five ⟨persons⟩ (ivv-ay-v-ōm, that is
ivv-ai-v-ōm) by a share (kūṟṟ-āl-um) ⟨of⟩ three kāṭis adjacent to
(aṭutta) Vayalaikkāvil, for the Bhaṭārar, We have given for food
offerings (oḻukkavi) and for a perpetual lamp.

⟨13–14⟩ […] we shall feed.

⟨15–16⟩ […] we have become (āṉōm)

⟨16–18⟩ ⟨Of⟩ He, who, protecting this ⟨donation⟩, feeds (the Bhaṭārar),
the feet are on our heads.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1921–22 (ARIE/1921-1922/B/1921/256).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.39). Text
and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 97).

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

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
16, item 39.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages
333–334, item 97.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1921–22. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for the year
1921-1922. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1923.
Page 78, appendix C/1922, item 256.

[1] Sanskrit Dantivikramavarman.