# Centalai, time of Nantippōttaraiyar, year 12

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00125

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00125.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Donation of land for food-offering and for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

## Palaeographic description

The puḷḷi is used.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu 10 2⟨3⟩-Āvatu

te⟨4⟩ḷḷārṟu ⟨5⟩ Eṟi¡ñc!⟨nt⟩a ⟨6⟩ nanti-p⟨7⟩-pōtta⟨8⟩raiyar ⟨9⟩
niyama-m(ā)⟨10⟩kāḷattu ⟨11⟩ piṭāriy(ā)⟨12⟩rkku ⟨13⟩ 4 100
pa⟨14⟩ḻaṅ-kā⟨15⟩cu kuṭu⟨16⟩ttu vi⟨17⟩lai ko⟨18⟩ṇṭu ni(ca)⟨19⟩(t)i
mu-k-k(u)⟨20⟩ṟuṇi ne⟨21⟩¡l(·)l!⟨l⟩-āka ⟨22⟩ Oru
tiru⟨23⟩v-amiti(ṉu)⟨24⟩kkum· O⟨25⟩ru non⟨26⟩tā viḷa⟨27⟩kkiṉu⟨k⟩ku ⟨28⟩ m
⟨29⟩ v¡acca!⟨aitta⟩ (ni)⟨30⟩lam· mā⟨31⟩ḷikai⟨32⟩Uṭaiy(ā)⟨33⟩ṉ vē⟨34⟩li

Itu ⟨35⟩ kātta⟨36⟩ṉ Aṭi E⟨37⟩ṉ talai ⟨38⟩ mēli⟨39⟩ṉa

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–3⟩ 12th year.[1]

⟨3–34⟩ ...

⟨34–39⟩ ...

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1903–04 (ARIE/1898-1899/B/1899/11).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.447). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 125).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photos.

### Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Government of India,
Central Publication Branch. Page 185, item 447.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages
386–387, item 125.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1897–98. G.O. Nos. 1093-1096, 29th August 1898. Epigraphy.
Directing that the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for
1897-98 be forwarded to the Government of India, approving provisionally
his programme of work for the next fields season. Edited by Eugen Julius
Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1898.
Page 23, appendix B/1899, item 11.

[1] This is most probably the regnal year of tellāṟṟ’ eṟinta
nanti-pōttaraiyar mentioned in lines 4-9.