Ceṉṉivāyakkāl, time of Nantippōtairayar, year 21

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00141.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a Brahmin during a raid on a maṭha.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (374637e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

teḷ⟨2⟩ḷāṟṟ’ eṟintu ⟨3⟩ rājya(mu)ṅ ko⟨4⟩ṇṭa nanti-p⟨5⟩-pōttaraiyar⟨k⟩⟨6⟩ku yāṇṭu Iru⟨7⟩patt-oṉṟ-āvatu

⟨8⟩ parāntakapurat⟨9⟩tu Aṟinti⟨10⟩kai-Īśvaragṛ⟨11⟩haṁ śāsana⟨12⟩t=tāl uṭaiyo⟨13⟩rum [4+] ⟨14⟩ [4+] taḷi⟨15⟩yilāt’ āki niṉṟa bhaṭṭar-ēṉ māvali-y-ani⟨16⟩yasthānam-āḷvāṉ cē(vaṇaṟ kuṇṭu) ko⟨17⟩ṇṭu vantu maṭamuñ cuṭṭu-k kātta ś¿i?-gura⟨18⟩varaiyum eṟintu Ivar śiṣyan Oru brā⟨19⟩hmaṇaṉ cattimuṟṟa-t-tēvan ṟuṇṭu pa⟨20⟩ṭṭāṉ valluva-(ṉāṭ)ṭāṉ

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–7) Twenty-first year of Nantippōttaraiyar1 who destroyed Teḷḷāṟu and took the kingdom/assumed sovereignty.

(8–20) ...

Commentary

This appears to be a later copy of an original of the 9th century, as indicated by Cōḻa-period placenames (updated to the time of the copy).

Bibliography

Reported in Viswanatha [1930] (ARIE/1928-1929/B/1928-1929/144).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.56). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 141).

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

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 23, item 56.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 415–416, item 141.

Secondary

[ARIE] Viswanatha, S. V. [1930]. Annual report on epigraphy for the year 1928-1929. Madras: Government Press. Page 18, appendixes B/1928-1929, item 144.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nandin + Tamil Pōttaraiyar. That is, the Pallava king Nandin.