# Kīḻūr, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 17

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00108

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00108.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Slab inscription recording the gift of 15 kaḻañcus of gold to the god
(Perumāṉaṭikaḷ) of the Tiruvīraṭṭānam at Tirukkōvalūr by Māṇikkattār
[...] Nakkaṉār.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sva(sti) śrī

kō-vic(ai)ya-tanti-vikkirama-[parumaṟku] ⟨2⟩ (yāṇ)ṭu pati(ṉ E)ḻavatu

mil(ā)ṭṭu [kuṟuk]⟨3⟩kai-k-kūṟṟattu tiru-¿ke?⟨kkō⟩valūr
ti[ruvīraṭṭā]⟨4⟩ṉattu Perumā⟨ṉa⟩ṭi(ka)ḷuk=ku tiru [ca. 5+] ⟨5⟩ O(ru
n)¡(a)!⟨o⟩nt¿a?⟨ā⟩ viḷakku māṇikka⟨t⟩tār [ca. 5+] ⟨6⟩ (ṉa)kkaṉār
vā(ṇa)-kō-v-a(rai)yar pōkiyār [ca. 5+]⟨7⟩ṉ kāci¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-ōṭ’ urai Oppa(tu)
patiṉ aiṅ-kaḻa[ñcu] [ca. 3+]⟨8⟩[ca. 1+] ṉāl kaḻañci [ca. 4+] kaḷ [ca.
3+] ⟨9⟩ (kai)-k-koṇṭu (kaṭavē)ṉ-āka [ca. 3+] ⟨10⟩ Ip-poṉṉāl palicai ni
[ca. 3+]⟨11⟩[ca. 2+][E]ṇṇai-y aṭṭuvō¡mm!⟨m⟩ ā[ṉōm]

## Apparatus

⟨5⟩ viḷakku ⬦ viḷakku SII; viḷakku⟨kku⟩ IP.

⟨7⟩ urai ⬦ urai SII IP • IP’s summary seems to imply the correction of
urai to uri.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Seventeenth year of the victorious king Tantivikkiramaparumaṉ.[1]

⟨2–11⟩ ...

## Commentary

⟨1⟩ The inscriptions stops short. See Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932, p. 457, n.
1.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/302).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.931). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 108).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis; with restoration of text
compared to previous editions.

### Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu
and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government
of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 457, item 931.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 351,
item 108.

### Secondary

ARIE 1901–02. G.O. Nos. 763, 764, 6th August 1902. Epigraphy. Passing
orders on the annual report on – for 1901-1902. Copy to the Government
of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of
Madras, Public Department, 1902. Page 18, appendix B/1902, item 302.

[1] Sanskrit Dantivikramavarman.