Kunnāṇṭār Kōyil, time of Nantipōttaraiyar, year 3

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of rice for feeding hundred persons on the day of tiruvātirai.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00116.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00116.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-nanti-p-pōtta-
⟨2⟩ raiyarkku yāṇṭu 3-Āvatu mī-
⟨3⟩ puḻai-nāṭṭu vaṭuvūr-k kaṇavatimā-
⟨4⟩ ¡ṉṉ!-āyiṉa pakai-c-cantira-vicai¡-A!-
⟨5⟩ raiyaṉ ṟiru-v-ātirai nāṉṟu A-
⟨6⟩ ṭṭ-aḻiya vaitta Arici 200 Iru-
⟨7⟩ nūṟṟu nāḻi nūṟṟuvarkku ↝

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ mī⟨3⟩puḻai° ⬦ mi⟨3⟩puḻai° SII12 • SII12 reads however mīpuḻai° in his summary.

⟨7⟩ ↝ • SII12 has 3 daṇḍas followed by an hyphen; SII34 has a piḷḷaiyār cuḻi.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Third year of the king Nantipōttaraiyar.¹

⟨2–7⟩ ⟨There are⟩ 200 ⟨that is⟩, two hundred, nāḻis of paddy that Pakaiccantiravicai Araiyaṉ, alias Kaṇavatimāṉ, ⟨of⟩ Vaṭuvūr in the Mīpuḷaināṭu, gave to cook and distribute (aṭṭ-aḻiya) at the time/on the day (nāṉṟu) ⟨of⟩ tiruvātirai; ⟨this is for the food⟩ for one hundred persons.

Commentary

⟨1⟩ On Nandivarman = Nandivarman III Pallava. See SII and IP.

⟨5⟩ tiruvātirai. A festival?

⟨7⟩ nūṟṟuvar. A corporate body ("the One Hundred")? Or one hundred people at random?

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1903–04 (ARIE/1903-1904/B/1904/262).

Edited in Vaidyanatha Aiyar & Swaminatha Aiyar 1929 (IPS 15); translated in Srinivasa Aiyar 1941 (IPS 15); reedited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 with visual documentation (SII 12.46). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 116); reedited in Subbarayalu 2015 with visual documentation (SII 34.347).

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

Primary

[IPS] Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. & N. Swaminatha Aiyar. 1929. Inscriptions (texts) of the Pudukkottai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Page 10, item 15.

[SII12] 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 46.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 364, item 116.

[SII34] Subbarayalu, Y. 2015. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXIV: Inscriptions collected during the year 1914. South Indian Inscriptions 34. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Page 321, item 347.

Secondary

Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. & Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Chronological list of inscriptions of the Pudukkóttai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Pages 18–19, item 15.

[ARIE] ARIE 1914–15. G.O. No. 1260, 25th August 1915. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1914-1915. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1915. Page 37, appendix B/1914, item 347.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nandin + Tamil Pōttaraiyar. That is, the Pallava king Nandin.

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