Uttiramērūr, time of Nr̥patuṅgavarman, year 16 author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00163.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Donation.

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svasti śrī

nr̥patouṅka-varmmarkkku yāṇṭu patināṟ-āvatu

Ut=tarameru-c-caturvvedi-maṁkalattu tiru-p -pulivalattu mahādevarkkku naṉntā-viḷakkukk' āka Ālappākkattu kōyilāṉ harinandi maṇavāṭṭi paṭā ri-y-ēnṉ kuoṭutta poṉ patiṉ mu-k-kaḻañcu

Ip-poṉṉiṉ poliyālē naṉntā-viḷakk’ erippa t’ āka kuoṭuttēṉ

Itu rakṣippār vāriya-p-perumakkaḷ

Id-dharmaṁ rakṣittār tiruvaṭi En talai mē l āka

Ut=tarameru° U or U?

Prosperity! Fortune!

Sixteenth year of Nr̥patuṅkavarmar.Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅgavarman.

The gold that I, Paṭāri,Sanskrit Bhaṭāri. wife maṇavāṭṭi of Harinandin, temple-man kōyilāṉ at Ālappākkam, have given for the sake of an unperishable lamp for the Mahādeva of Tiruppulivalam in Uttaramerucaturvedimaṅgala: thirteen kaḻañcus.

This gold, I have given for burning an unperishable lamp with its interest poliyālē.

The great men of the supervision committee vāriyapperumakkaḷ are the protectors of this.

Let the feet of those who will protect this pious act dharma be on my head.

Compare t=ta (line 1) and tta (line 4). Thus first could be encoded as Grantha.

Reported in (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/63).

Edited in (SII 6.346). Text and summary in (IP 163).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photos (2019), and ASI estampage “AR_B0063_1897-98” available on BharatSHRI, Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (accessed 2026-06-25).

17 162 471 163 18 B/1898 63