Kāvērippākkam, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year [figure lost]

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00169.

Summary: Donation (?). The inscription is incomplete.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (61a9e6c), last modified (df38c20).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nirupa-toṅka-varmma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu pati[ṉ]-[2+][-ā]⟨2⟩vatu

paṭuvūr-k-kōṭṭattu māṅkāṭu-nāṭṭu viṭēlviṭuku[3+]⟨3⟩yamattu sabhaiyōm Ik-kōṭṭattu-k kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki]⟨4⟩ya Amani-nārāyaṇa-c-caturvveti-maṅkalam yāḷu[ṅkaṇat]⟨5⟩tāruḷ Aṅkāṇacca(n){yai} vasan=tayājiyār pa [unknown number of lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ nirupa° ⬦ nirupa° SIISII notes: “The letter pa is engraved below the line.” — ⟨1⟩ pati[ṉ][2+][ā]⟨2⟩vatu ⬦ pati[3+]⟨2⟩vatu SII.

⟨2⟩ viṭēlviṭuku ⬦ viṭēlviṭuku SIISII notes: “The letter ṭu is engraved below the line.”

⟨3⟩ sabhaiyōm ⬦ sabhaiyōm SIIIP notes: “The letter m engraved below the line.” — ⟨3⟩ kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki]⟨4⟩ya ⬦ kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki]⟨4⟩ya SII.

⟨4⟩ yāḷu[ṅkaṇat]⟨5⟩tāruḷ ⬦ yāḷu[4+]⟨5⟩tāruḷ SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) teenth year of Nirupatoṅkavarmar.1

(2–5)

Commentary

(1–2) Note on the lost year: between 11th and 19th.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1905-1906 (ARIE/1905-1906/B/1905/394).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.82). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 169).

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 35, item 82.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 483, item 169.

Secondary

ARIE 1905-1906. 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. Edited by V. Venkayya. No place, 1906. Page 25, appendix B/1905, item 394.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅkavarman.