Piḷḷaippākkam, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 20

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Imprecation. The inscription is incomplete.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00170.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00170.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
⟨2⟩ nṛ{ru}pa(t)¡(o)!ṅ-
⟨3⟩ ka(r)kku yāṇ-
⟨4⟩ ṭu Iru-pat-āva-
⟨5⟩ tu Iv-vūṟ ṟa-
⟨6⟩ (la)ttu (ne)¡ll! a-
⟨7⟩ (ṭ)ṭuvār kaṅkai-
⟨8⟩ Iṭai kumari-
⟨9⟩ yiṭai-c cey-
⟨10⟩ tār ceyta
⟨11⟩ pāvam paṭuvā-
⟨12⟩ r (ne)¡ll! aṭṭi-
⟨13⟩ ṉārum aṭṭav uṭaṉ-
⟨14⟩ paṭṭāruñ [**]-
⟨15⟩ ta [***]
⟨16⟩ [*****] […]

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–5⟩ Twentieth year of Nṛpatuṅkar.¹

⟨5–12⟩ Those who dump paddy on the premises [talam] of this village will encur the sin done by those who did ⟨sin⟩ between the Ganges and Kanniyakumari.

⟨12–16⟩ ...

Commentary

⟨16⟩ IP notes: “Letters at the end of the inscription have been chiselled away.”

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1929–30 (ARIE/1929-1930/B/1929-1930/175).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.72). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 170).

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 31, item 72.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 484–485, item 170.

Secondary

ARIE 1929–30. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1930. Edited by K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1932. Page 20, appendixes B/1929-1930, item 175.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅka.

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