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

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00133

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00133.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-11 17:29 (458e70c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Donation of land for food-offering.

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## Edition

⟨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)nū⟨6⟩r iruntu vāḻu⟨m⟩ mōṉaiyār ma⟨7⟩(kaṉ)
viṉaiyādityan tikkāḷi⟨8⟩(ya)ṭikaḷukku Oḻuk(k-a)vi naṉ [3+]⟨9⟩[1+] ri
Ariciyum āḻākku ne¡y!⟨yy⟩um⟨10⟩[1+] kku toṇṭai-pūvun niyati [1+] ⟨11⟩
(ti)kkāli Aṭikaḷukku vaḻi⟨12⟩pāṭu cey(vat’ āka) kuṭuttān [2+]⟨13⟩[1+] lu
paṭṭi [4+] lvarkku (pūca)⟨14⟩[1+] kai-ceyya-k koṭut(tān)⟨15⟩[1+]
taṉaiyu¡mm!⟨m⟩ orunāḷ muṭ⟨16⟩[2+] māyiṟa kaṅkai Iṭai-(k kumari)

## Translation

⟨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 1897–98 (ARIE/1897-1898/A/1897/304).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.282). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 133). Edited in Caṇmukam 2021

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.

[C] Caṇmukam, Pa. 2021. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XIX. Vēlūr
māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti II. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 58. Chennai:
Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Pages
103–104, item 295/2021.

### 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 15, appendix A/1897, item 304.

[1] Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.