Tiruvallam, time of Nandi[vikra]mava[r]man, year 17

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⟨1⟩ (sva)[sti śrī] kō-vicaiya nan-

⟨2⟩ ti-[vikkira]-

⟨3⟩ ma-[pa]rumarkku yā-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭu patiṉ eḻ-āva-

⟨5⟩ tu Iḷaiyanūr-nāṭṭu I(ḷaiya)-

⟨6⟩ r iruntu vāḻu⟨m⟩ mōṉaiyār ma-

⟨7⟩ (kaṉ) viṉaiyādityan tikkāḷi-

⟨8⟩ (ya)ṭikaḷukku Oḻuk(k-a)vi naṉ [***]-

⟨9⟩ [*] ri Ariciyum āḻākku ne¡y!um-

⟨10⟩ [*] kku toṇṭai-pūvun niyati [*]

⟨11⟩ (ti)kkāli Aṭikaḷukku vaḻi-

⟨12⟩ pāṭu cey(vatāka) kuṭuttān [**]-

⟨13⟩ [*] lu paṭṭi [****] lvarkku (pūca)-

⟨14⟩ [*] kai-ceyya-k koṭut(tān)-

⟨15⟩ [*] taṉaiyu¡mm! orunāḷ muṭ-

⟨16⟩ [**] māyiṟa kaṅkai Iṭai(k kumari)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–5⟩ Seventeenth year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.1

⟨5–16⟩ ...

Commentary

Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 notes: "This inscription is damaged and obstructed by a pillar."

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1897-1898 (ARIE/1897-1898/A/1897/304).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.282). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 133).

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

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 144, item 282.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 400–401, item 133.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1897-1898. 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 15, appendix A/1897, item 304.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.