Kūram, Śiva temple, time of Nandivarman
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00140.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a regulation by the king Nandivarman pertaining to a land-grant.
Hand description:
Note the form of bhai (line 6).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (61a9e6c), last modified (ee4d0a2).
Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
na⟨n⟩ti⟨2⟩-va(r)mma-mahārāja⟨3⟩¡nn!⟨ṉ⟩ eḻuttu
Ūṟ⟨4⟩ṟukk(ā)ṭṭu-k kōṭ⟨5⟩ṭattu-k kūrat⟨6⟩tu sabhaiyār ⟨7⟩ kāṇka
tamm (u/ū)⟨8⟩r akkaḷa(nimma)ṭi⟨9⟩-p-poṟṟi-paṭi ⟨10⟩ Āyiṉa Āṟu pa⟨11⟩ṭṭi nilam(u)m (mu)⟨12⟩(ṉ) p(e)ṟ(ṟā)r(ai) māṟṟi ⟨13⟩ (y)āṇ(ṭu Irupa)⟨14⟩ttu
[ca. 4+] ⟨15⟩ [ca. 6+] ⟨16⟩ (ma)hādeva [ca. 3+] ⟨17⟩ [ca. 2+] Arccanābhoga⟨18⟩[ca. 3+]-k kāḷaṉ Arcci⟨19⟩(tt’ uṇ)pāṉ-āka-k kā⟨20⟩[ca. 3+]ku-p paṇit [ca. 2+] ⟨21⟩ [ca. 2+] taluṭṭāṅ kaṇ⟨22⟩ṭ-aruḷa tirukkōyi⟨23⟩(liṟ) bhaṭārar tiruva(ṭi)⟨24⟩-(k) kiḻai ¿ślā?⟨śīlā⟩-le(kh)ai ⟨25⟩ c(e)ytu kuṭukka Iṟ ⟨26⟩ n¡i!⟨ī⟩kki [ca. 4+]
Apparatus
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
Bibliography
Reported in ARIE 1899-1900 (ARIE/1899-1900/B/1900/38).
Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.38). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 140).
This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s). Lines 1-11 revised by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos.
Primary
[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 16, item 40.
[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 413–414, item 140.
Secondary
[ARIE] ARIE 1899-1900. G.O. etc., Nos. 833-34, 22nd August 1900. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1899-1900. Copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1900. Page 50, appendix B/1900, item 38.
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Prosperity! Fortune!
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Writ of the <foreign>mahārāja</foreign> Nantivarman.<note>Sanskrit Nandivarman.</note>
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Let the honourable members of the assembly of Kūram know!<note>Literally: see.</note>
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Having removed the previous holders of the six <foreign>paṭṭi</foreign>s of land named <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>āyiṉa</foreign><note>Literally: which is.</note></supplied> Akkaḷanimmaṭippoṟṟi in their village, in the twentieth year <gap reason="lost"/>
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