# Kāvērippākkam, time of Nr̥patuṅgavarman, year 15

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00158

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00158.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Undertaking by an assembly (sabhā) concerning a donation of
uṇṇāḻikaippuṟam.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ nr̥pat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅkaparmma⟨ṟ⟩ku yāṇṭu patiṉ aint-āvatu

kā(vi)tipākkamum Avaṉi-nārā⟨2⟩yaṇa-c-caturvvetimaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm
Ōṭappuṟai-k kaṇv¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻccil caṭaṅka⟨3⟩viyār pakkal patiṉ eḻu kaḻañcu poṉ
koṇṭu Emm-ūr tirumēṟṟaḷi Aṭikaḷukku U⟨4⟩ṇṇāḻikai-⟨p⟩-puṟam nicati Uḻakk’
eṇṇai māṉāya-ṉāḻi-y ōṭokkum Uḻakkiṉāl pakal [unknown number of lost
lines]

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Fifteenth year of Nr̥patoṅkaparmmaṉ.[1]

⟨2–4⟩[2]

## Commentary

The inscription is incomplete. It appears to be a later copy (11th
century?) of an original Pallava inscription.IP notes: “Continuation is
lost. It is engraved in characters of the 11 th century A.D. The stone
bearing this record must have belonged originally to a temple of Viṣṇu
(Tirumēṟṟaḷi-Aḍigaḷ) in the village and was probably shifted here at
some later time.” and “The name Avaṉinārāyaṇa-caturvēdimaṅgalam must
have been given to Kāvidipākkam after the surname of Avaṉinārāyaṇa borne
by Nandivarman III.”

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1905–06 (ARIE/1905-1906/B/1905/404).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.67). Text
and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 158).

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

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
28, item 67.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 463,
item 158.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1905–06. G.O. No. 492, 2nd July 1906. Epigraphy. Recording
the annual report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for
Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1905-1906, and directing that
the report be forwarded to the Government of India. Edited by V.
Venkayya. No place, 1906. Page 26, appendix B/1905, item 404.

[1] Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅgavarman.

[2] SII notes: “Continuation of the inscription is lost.”