# Kīḻūr, time of Nr̥patuṅgavikrama, year 21

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00172

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00172.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-nirupat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikramaṟkku yāṇṭu 2 10 1-āvatu

milā⟨2⟩ṭṭu-k kuṟukkai-k-kūṟṟattu tiru-k-kōvalūr tiru-v¡i!⟨ī⟩raṭṭāṉattu
mahādevarkku na¿tnā?⟨ntā⟩ viḷa⟨3⟩kkiṉukku veṭṭuvataraiyarkku Aṟāmuṇṇum
naṉṉaṉ koṟṟaṉ kuṭutta poṉ ⟨4⟩ 10 2 <kaḻañcu>

paṉṉiru-kaḻañciṉ palicaiyālē-y iravum pa⟨ka⟩lum oru nontā viḷak⟨5⟩k’
erippōm ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ōm tiru-k-kōvalūr nakarattōm candrādittaval

Itu pa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩-mā⟨6⟩heśvara-rakṣai

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ 21st year of the victorious king Nirupatoṅkavikramaṉ.[1]

⟨1–4⟩

⟨4–5⟩

⟨5–6⟩

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/277).

Edited in by Hultzsch 1902–1903 (EI 7.20B). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 172).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).
The Grantha characters and numerals are not warranted due to the
defective transliteration scheme used by EI.

### Primary

[EI] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1902–1903. “Fourteen inscriptions
at Tirukkovalur.” EI 7, pp. 138–147. Item B.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages
489–490, item 172.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1901–02. G.O. Nos. 763, 764, 6th August 1902. Epigraphy.
Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1901-1902. Copy to the
Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras:
Government of Madras, Public Department, 1902. Page 17, appendix B/1902,
item 277.

[1] Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅgavikrama.