Marutāṭu, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year 12

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00157.

Summary: Construction of a weir and renovation of a sluice.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (508954f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-nṛpa⟨3⟩tuṅkavarmmaṟku yā⟨4⟩ṇṭu pa¡nn!⟨ṉṉ⟩iraṇṭ-āva⟨5⟩tu

marutāṭṭ’ ēri-k ka⟨6⟩li¿ñc?⟨ṅk⟩u ceyvit⟨7⟩tu-t tūmpu putuk⟨8⟩kuvittār koṅkarai⟨9⟩yar niṉṟaperu⟨10⟩māṉ

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ ka⟨6⟩li¿ñc?⟨ṅk⟩u ⬦ ka⟨6⟩liñcu SII; ka⟨6⟩li¿ñc?⟨ṅk⟩u IP.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–5) Twelfth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅkavarmmaṟ.1

(5–10) The Koṅkaraiyar Niṉṟaperumāṉ had a weir (kaliṅku) made [for] the tank at Marutāṭu and had a sluice (tūmpu)renovated.

Bibliography

Reported in Krishna Sastri 1913 (ARIE/1912-1913/B/1912/417).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.65). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 157).

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 27, item 65.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 462, item 157.

Secondary

[ARIE] Krishna Sastri, H. 1913. G.O. No. 961, 2nd August 1913. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for [Epigraphy], Southern Circle, for the year 1912-1913. No place. Page 49, appendix B/1912, item 417.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavarman.