Kīḻūr, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 11

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00124.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining perpetual lamps.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (ee4d0a2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

(kō)-vicaiya-nanti-vikkirama-paruma⟨2⟩ṟku (yā)ṇṭu patiṉ oṉ(ṟ-ā)vatu

malāṭṭu-k ku⟨3⟩ṟukkai-k-kūṟṟattu-t tiru-k-kōvalūr-t ti⟨4⟩ruvīraṭṭāṉattu mātēvarku nantā viḷa⟨5⟩kk’ i(ravu)m pakalu¡mm!⟨m⟩ iraṇṭu viḷakk’ erippata⟨6⟩(ku viṭēlvi)ṭuku I(ḷaṅkō) Ati-Araiyaṉ āyi⟨7⟩[ṉa] [9+] vikramapūti makaḷ viṭē⟨8⟩[l-viṭuku] [6+] [ā]yiṉa cāttaṉ maṟavaṉ ṟēvi pūti ⟨9⟩ [10+] viṭēlviṭuku kallā⟨l⟩ ni⟨10⟩[10+] ṉ ṉiṟai nārpatt’ eṇ ka⟨11⟩[ḻañcu] [5+] [pali]cai kaḻañciṉ vāy-t tiṅ⟨12⟩[8+] [a]ṭṭuvat’ āka tiru-k-kōvalūr ⟨13⟩ [nakara]ttār [kai]y v¿ai?⟨a⟩ḻi ⟨vai⟩ttatu

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ āyi⟨7⟩[ṉa]āyi⟨7⟩[1+] SII.

⟨7⟩ viṭē⟨8⟩[l-viṭuku]viṭē⟨8⟩[4+] SII.

⟨10⟩ ka⟨11⟩[ḻañcu]ka⟨11⟩[3+] SII.

⟨13⟩ [nakara]ttār ⬦ [3+]ttār SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) Eleventh year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.1

(2–13)

Commentary

Compare IP 129.

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1902 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/295).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.924). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 124).

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

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 455, item 924.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 384–385, item 124.

Secondary

[ARIE] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1902. G.O. Nos. 763, 764, 6th August 1902. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1901-1902. Copy to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 18, appendix B/1902, item 295.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.