# Tiruvatikai, time of Nantippōttaraiyar, no year

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00123

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00123.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-11 17:29 (458e70c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Donation of gold for maintaining perpetual lamps.

## Palaeographic description

ṟai with two aligned kompus (line 10).

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ tiru-v-iraṭṭāṉ⟨3⟩ttu mahā-de⟨4⟩varkku-t teḷ⟨5⟩ḷāṟṟ’ eṟinta ⟨6⟩
nanti-p-pō⟨7⟩tt-araiyar ti⟨8⟩ru-viḷakkiṉu⟨9⟩kku-k kuṭutta ⟨10⟩ poṉ niṟai
⟨11⟩ nūṟṟu-k ka⟨12⟩ḻañcu

Itaṉ ⟨13⟩ palic(ai-)y-ā(l) ⟨14⟩ yāṇṭu pa⟨15⟩tt-āvatu mu⟨16⟩tal-āka
nāḷ⟨17⟩vāy (nāḻi) ⟨18⟩ ney aḷa⟨19⟩ntu kuṭuttu ⟨20⟩ Iraṇṭu
nan⟨21⟩tā-viḷakku Erip⟨22⟩pippēṉ āṉēṉ ⟨23⟩ It-tiru-v-irattāṉa⟨24⟩ttu-k
kuṭumpi-y-a⟨25⟩ruḷ kāḷi-¡(śś)!⟨ś⟩(a)ruma(ṉ-ē)⟨26⟩(ṉ)

Iv-viḷakku ⟨27⟩ [ca. 2+]akarattu pal-mā⟨28⟩[heśvara-rakṣai]

## Apparatus

⟨27⟩ pal-mā⟨28⟩[heśvara-rakṣai] ⬦ pal-mā SII IP • SII notes that "[t]wo
more lines are effaced at the end".

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–12⟩ ...

⟨12–26⟩ ...

⟨27–28⟩ ...

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1902–03 (ARIE/1902-1903/B/1903/36).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1937 (SII 8.309). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 123).

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

### Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1937. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume VIII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam,
Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Delhi:
Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Page 168, item
309.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages
382–383, item 123.

### Secondary

ARIE 1902–03. G.O., etc., Nos. 655-656, 24th July 1903. Epigraphy.
Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1902-1903. Copy to the
Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture. Edited by
Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public
Department, 1903. Page 21, appendix B/1903, item 36.