Piḷḷaipāḷaiyam, time of Dantivikramavarman, year [figure lost]

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00112.

Summary: Donation of land.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (6764560), last modified (007a50e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [svasti śrī]

[kō-vi]caiya-tanti-vikkirama-paruma⟨r⟩kk¡i!⟨u⟩[ṇṭu] [2+] ⟨2⟩ [5+] [kā](ṭu-ve)ṭṭi muttaraiyaṉ viṇṇappattāl [6+] ⟨3⟩ [6+]ṭṭu Iṟaiyāṉ-cēri paḻan tiru-mēṟṟaḷiyum maṭamum U[6+] ⟨4⟩ [5+][u]ḷḷiṭṭu catur-¡vv!ppaṭṭi nālu paṭṭi nilamum paḻan tirumēl[4+]⟨5⟩[4+] parihāram-āka p¿ād?⟨aradatti ceṉ(ṟa)tu

Itu kāttā¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ aṭi Eṉ ṟa[lai mēḻaṉa]

Apparatus

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Prosperity! Fortune!]

(1–2) […] year of the victorious [king] Tantivikkiramaparumar.1

(2) at the request of [Kā]ṭuveṭṭi Muttaraiyaṉ

(3) […] the ancient glorious western temple and the hermitage at Iṟaiyaṉ Cēri […]

(4) including […] four paṭṭis (catur-¡vv!ppaṭṭi) [that is], four paṭṭis (nālu paṭṭi) of land; the ancient glorious western [temple] […]

(5) […] with exemption (parihāram-āka2), a donation by another3 is in force (ceṉṟatu4) […]

(5) The feet of he who protects this [donation] are [on] my [head].

Commentary

(2) [Kā]ṭuveṭṭi Muttaraiyaṉ. Note on his identification.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1920-1921 (ARIE/1920-1921/C/1921/89).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 with visual documentation (SII 12.44). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 112).

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

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 18, item 44.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 360, item 112.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1920-1921. G.O. No. 183, 23rd September 1921, Epigraphy, Annual report for the year 1920-21 of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent, Recorded. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. No place, 1921. Page 66, appendix C/1921, item 89.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Dantivikramavarman.
  2. 2. That is, tax-free.
  3. 3. Sanskrit paradatti.
  4. 4. Literally: “has gone”.