# Māṅkāṭu, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 17

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00131

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00131.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī

kō-vicaiya nanti-vikkirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉ-eḻ-āvatu

puli⟨2⟩(yūr)-k-kuṭi-k-kōṭṭattu-k kuṉṟattūr-c ceḻiya-vāṇiyarkaḷō⟨3⟩(m
ti)ruvātiraiyun talai-y-uvāvum tiṅkaḷ (ni)laviyuṅ kāṭṭu(vō)⟨4⟩(m ā)ṉōm
tiruveḷḷi-k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ-uṭaiya (cavaiyōm) ↝

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Fortune!

⟨2⟩ Seventeenth year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.[1]

⟨2–4⟩ ...

## Commentary

⟨3⟩ ceḻiya-vāṇiyarkaḷ. See IP: “Perhaps they were merchants from the
Pāṇḍya (Ceḻiya) country.”

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1908–09 (ARIE/1908-1909/B/1908/352).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.53). Text
and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 131).

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

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
21, item 53.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 396,
item 131.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1908–09. G.O. No. 538, 28th July 1909. Epigraphy. Issuing
orders on progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent
for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1908-1909. Edited by V.
Venkayya. No place, 1909. Page 38, appendix B/1908, item 352.

[1] Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.