Tiruvālaṅkāṭu, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 15

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00160.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining two perpetual lamps.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-nirupatuṅka-tēvarkku yāṇṭu 10 5-Āvatu

Arikaṇṭaperumāḷ pakkal Eyiṟ-kōṭṭattu-p pu(l)ve⟨2⟩ḷūr sabhaiyār koṇṭu kaṭava poṉ-3 10

Ippoṉ muppatiṉ kaḻañcukkum palicaiyāka-t tiruvālaṅkāṭ-u⟨3⟩ṭaiyārkku Ivvūr sabhaiyār ceyya-k-kaṭava nimantam Uṭaiyārkku tiru n¡a!⟨o⟩ntā viḷakku Iraṇṭukku-p piruti-māṇi⟨4⟩kkatti¡n!⟨ṉ⟩āl nittamuṭṭāmal Aḷakka-k kaṭava Eṇṇai Uri

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) 15th year of the king, the king Nirupatuṅka.1

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Commentary

This appears to be a later copy of a Pallava original. See SII 12.66.

Bibliography

Reported in Venkayya 1906 (ARIE/1905-1906/B/1905/461).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.66). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 160).

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. Pages 27–28, item 66.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 466, item 160.

Secondary

[ARIE] Venkayya, V. 1906. 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. No place. Page 29, appendix B/1905, item 461.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅga.