Lālkuṭi, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 3

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00149.

Summary: Donation of gold for annual festival food-offering.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (c6678de).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaya-nirupat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikkirama-parumarkku yāṇṭu 2~ṇṭ-āvatu

Iṭaiyāṟṟu-nāṭṭu-t tiru-t-tava-t-tuṟai mahādeva(rkku) ⟨2⟩ I¡ñ-ñ!⟨n-n⟩āṭṭu kavira-p-poṟ-kaṭṭiyūr-Uṭaiyāṉ pūti kaṇṭaṉ ci(t)tirai-viṣu tiru-viḻāvukku tāyārai-c cārtti v¿a?⟨ai⟩tta poṉ (pati)⟨3⟩ṉ kaḻ¿a?⟨ai⟩ñc’ arai

Ip-poṉ patiṉ kaḻ¿a?⟨ai⟩ñc’ arai poṉṉuṅ I¡(ñ)-ñ!⟨n-n⟩āṭṭu muttaiyil sabhaiyōṅ koṇṭu ca¡ṉ!⟨n⟩(tirātittava)⟨4⟩Āṭṭāṇṭu-toṟuñ cittirai-viṣu tiru-viḻāvukku nārāya-n(āḻi)yāl Eḻu nāḷaikkum nicati kalavarai Arici patt-e(ṭṭu-k kuttal) ⟨5⟩ [ma]ṭāvil Aṭṭum paricē Eḻu nāḷ muṉt’ uṟa śrī-kōyilukkē (koṇ)ṭu ceṉṟu Aḷappōm āṉōm

Aḷavōmāyi(l muṭṭ’ ira)⟨6⟩[ṭṭi] panmāheśvarar· taṇṭi-k-koḷḷa Oṭṭi-k kuṭuttōm t-tiru-t-tava-(t-tu)ṟai mahādevarkku muttaiyil sabhaiyōm

Itu (pa)(nm)āheśva(ra-rakṣai)

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ (koṇ)ṭu ⬦ (ko)⟨ṇ⟩{ṭ}ṭu SII.

⟨6⟩ t-tiru° ⬦ tiru° SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2) Second year of the victorious king nirupatoṅka-vikkirama-parumar.1

(1–3)

(3–5)

(5–6)

(6) This [is] under the protection of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

Bibliography

Reported in Viswanatha [1930] (ARIE/1928-1929/B/1928-1929/122).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.61). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 149).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s) and photos (2016, kindly supplied by Valérie Gillet).

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 25, item 61.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 435–436, item 149.

Secondary

[ARIE] Viswanatha, S. V. [1930]. Annual report on epigraphy for the year 1928-1929. Madras: Government Press. Page 16, appendixes B/1928-29, item 122.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.