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

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00151

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00151.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

yāṇṭu m¡u!⟨ū⟩ṉṟu

malāṭṭu-k (kuṟukkai-k-kūṟṟa)⟨2⟩ttu-t tiru-k-kōva(lū)r-t
tiru-v¡i!⟨ī⟩raṭṭāṉattu maha(d)e(vaṟ)ku [3+]⟨3⟩-k-kālammum pakalum-iravum
Oru nontā viḷakkiṉukku [7+]⟨4⟩ṭṭ-uṭai(yā)r ciṅkaperumāṉār (maka)ṉar
vi[9+] ⟨5⟩ poṉ patiṉ (Eḻu) kaḻañcu

I(p)-palicai [10+] ⟨6⟩ tiru-k-kōvalūr nakarattōm

pa(nmā)heśvara-[rakṣai]

## Apparatus

⟨6⟩ pa(nmā)heśvara-[rakṣai] ⬦ pa(nmā)heśvara[3+] SII.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Year three.

⟨1–5⟩

⟨5–6⟩

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

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/305).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.934). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 151).

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

### 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 934.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 438,
item 151.

### 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 305.