# Kīḻūr, time of Nandivikrama, year 17

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00130

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00130.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-vikrama-nanti-vi⟨k⟩kiramaṟkku yāṇṭu 10 7-Āva¿ṭ?⟨t⟩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!⟨aiṅ⟩-kaḻañcuṅ koṇṭu kaṭavōm ivv-ūr nakarattōm

Ip-poṉ⟨6⟩ṉiṉ palicaiyālē-y nicatam uḻakk’ eṇṇai ¿Ā?⟨A⟩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.

[1] Sanskrit Nandivikrama.