Kunnāṇṭār Kōyil, time of Nantipōttaraiyar, year 3 author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00116.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Donation of rice for feeding hundred persons on the day of tiruvātirai.

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svasti śrī

kō-nanti-p-pōtta raiyarkku yāṇṭu 3-Āvatu

mī puḻai-nāṭṭu vaṭuvūr-k kaṇavatimā ṉṉṉ-āyiṉa pakai-c-cantira-vicai-Aya raiyaṉ ṟiru-v-ātirai nāṉṟu A ṭṭ-aḻiya vaitta Arici 200 Iru nūṟṟu nāḻi nūṟṟuvarkku .

mīpuḻai° mipuḻai° reads however mīpuḻai° in his summary. . has 3 daṇḍas followed by an hyphen; has a piḷḷaiyār cuḻi.

Prosperity! Fortune!

Third year of the king Nantipōttaraiyar.Sanskrit Nandin + Tamil Pōttaraiyar. That is, the Pallava king Nandin.

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.

On Nandivarman = Nandivarman III Pallava. See SII and IP.

tiruvātirai. A festival?

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

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

Edited in (IPS 15); translated in (IPS 15); reedited in with visual documentation (SII 12.46). Text and summary in (IP 116); reedited in with visual documentation (SII 34.347).

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

10 15 19 46 364 116 321 347 18-19 15 37 B/1914 347