# Kiḷiyaṉūr, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 3

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00115

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00115.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Donation of sheep for maintaining a perpetual lamp and of land for food
offerings.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vi(caiya)-nanti-vikkirama-pa¿ṟ?⟨ṉ⟩ma⟨r⟩kk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu muṉṟ-āvatu

O⟨2⟩ymā-ṉāṭṭu kiḷi(ñe)lūr tikaittiṟal viṣṇu(gra)ham· Eṭu⟨3⟩ppitta
tikaittiṟalār tiruviḷakku⟨k⟩ku vaitta Āṭu mu-¡(n)n!⟨n⟩ūṟum Ivarē
tiru-v-amu⟨4⟩tukku vaitta śrī-kōyiliṉ kiḻai ceṟuv’ iraṇṭum Iṟaiyili

I⟨dha⟩nmam rakṣi⟨t⟩tār śrī-pātam Eṉ ṟa‡laiy (mēl)i¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Third year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramapaṉmar.[1]

⟨2–4⟩ Three hundred goats that the honourable Tikaittiṟal, who had the
temple of Viṣṇu ⟨named after⟩ Tikaittiṟal built in Kiḷiñelūr in the
Oymānāṭu, gave for a glorious lamp and two fields, east of the glorious
temple, that he also (ivarē) gave for the glorious food ⟨are given⟩
tax-free (iṟaiyili[2]).

⟨4⟩ The florious feet of those who protect this pious deed are on my
head.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1918–19 (ARIE/1918-1919/C/1919/158).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 with visual
documentation (SII 12.47). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 115).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2009, kindly
supplied by Valérie Gillet).

### 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
19, item 47.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 363,
item 115.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1918–19. G.O. No. 1003, 16th August 1919. Epigraphy.
Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant
Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the
year 1918-1919. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1919. Page 61,
appendix C/1919, item 158.

[1] Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.

[2] According to the summary in IP, this applies only to the land
donation. This makes sense but goes agaisnt the syntax of the sentence.