# Kīḻūr, time of Nr̥patuṅgavarman (?), year 3

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00150

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00150.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

yāṇ(ṭu 3)⁓Āvatu

milāṭṭu kuṟukkai⟨2⟩-k-kūṟṟattu tiru-k-kōvalūr-t
tiru-v¡i!⟨ī⟩raṭṭāṉat⟨3⟩tu mahādevarkku koṇṭa-(nā)ṭṭ-uṭaiya
veṭṭavati⟨4⟩(ya)raiya(ṉ) tāyār (naṅ)kai-y-(ā)ṉa maruta[4+]
[vi]⟨5⟩ḷakki(ṉu)kku vaiytta poṉ patiṉ aṟu ka[ḻañcu] [4+] ⟨6⟩ Itaṉ
palicaiyāl Ācandr[ārkkam vi]⟨7⟩ḷakk’ oṉṟ’ erippō¡mm!⟨m⟩ ā[ṉōm] [7+]

⟨8⟩ Itu paṉmāyecuvara-[rakṣai]

## Apparatus

⟨4⟩ maruta[4+] [vi] ⬦ maruta[5+] SII.

⟨5⟩ ka[ḻañcu] [4+] ⬦ ka[6+] SII.

⟨6⟩ Ācandr[ārkkam vi] ⬦ Ācandra[4+] SII.

⟨7⟩ ā[ṉōm] [7+] ⬦ ā[10+] SII.

⟨8⟩ paṉmāyecuvara-[rakṣai] ⬦ paṉmāyecuvara[3+] SII.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Third year.

⟨1–7⟩

⟨8⟩ This ⟨is⟩ under the protection of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/304).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.933). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 150).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis.

### 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 457, item 933.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 437,
item 150.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1901–02. G.O. Nos. 763, 764, 6th August 1902. Epigraphy.
Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1901-1902. Copy to the
Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras:
Government of Madras, Public Department, 1902. Page 18, appendix B/1902,
item 304.