Kīḻūr, time of Nandivikrama, year 17

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00130.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-vicaiya-vikrama-nanti-vi⟨k⟩kiramaṟkku yāṇṭu 10 7-Āva¿ṭ?u malāṭṭu
⟨2⟩ kuṟukkai-k-kūṟṟattu tirukkōvalūr tiruvi{vī}(ra)ṭṭāṉattu-p perumāḷukku Oru no-
⟨3⟩ ntā viḷakku māṇikka⟨t⟩tār makaḷār kōṉakkaṉār vāṇa-kō-v-araiyar pōki-
⟨4⟩ yār vaitta poṉ paḻaṅ-kāciṉōṭu urai y-oppatu 10 5 <kaḻañcu> Ip-poṉ
⟨5⟩ patiṉ ¡añ!-kaḻañcuṅ koṇṭu kaṭavōm ivv-ūr nakarattōm Ip-poṉ-
⟨6⟩ ṉiṉ palicaiyālē-y nicatam uḻakk’ eṇṇai ¿Ā?ṭṭuvōm āṉōm nakarattōm Itu pan-māheśvara-rakṣai

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-vikrama° ⬦ kō-vicaiya-{vikrama}° EI • The formula is indeed unusual, but contra EI, it is retained here.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ 17th year of the victorious and valorous king Nantivikramaṉ.¹

⟨1–4⟩ ...

⟨4–5⟩ ...

⟨5–6⟩ ...

⟨6⟩ ...

Commentary

Perumāḷ = Śiva. See IP p395fn1.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/278).

Edited in by Hultzsch 1902–1903 (EI 7.20A). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 130).

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

Primary

[EI] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1902–1903. “Fourteen inscriptions at Tirukkovalur.” EI 7, pp. 138–147. Item A.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 394–395, item 130.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1901–02. 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. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1902. Page 17, appendix B/1902, item 278.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nandivikrama.

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