# Kunnāṇṭār Kōyil, time of Nantipōttaraiyar, year 3

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00116

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00116.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-nanti-p-pōtta⟨2⟩raiyarkku yāṇṭu 3-Āvatu

mī⟨3⟩puḻai-nāṭṭu vaṭuvūr-k kaṇavatimā⟨4⟩¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-āyiṉa
pakai-c-cantira-vicai¡-A!⟨ya⟩⟨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.

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