Kūram, Śiva temple, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 21

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Śiva temple pillar. Regulation by the Kūram assembly pertaining to four kaḻañcus of gold, apparently received in donation.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00174.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00174.xml.

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī nṛpat¡o!-
⟨2⟩ (ṅkarkku) yāṇṭu Iru-
⟨3⟩ -patt’ oṉṟ-āvatu
⟨4⟩ kūrattu sabhai-
⟨5⟩ y(ō)m eḻuttu O-
⟨6⟩ ymā-n(ā)ṭṭu perā-
⟨7⟩ yūr-nāṭṭu nallā-
⟨8⟩ yūr peruñci [****]-
⟨9⟩ [****] pakkal nāṟ--
⟨10⟩ kalañcu po[ṉ] [**]
⟨11⟩ [******] I-
⟨12⟩ [**] cāṉa [****] ru-
⟨13⟩ ṭṭa [******]-
⟨14⟩ kaḻit [*******]-
⟨15⟩ ṇṭa mu-p-patu [**]
⟨16⟩ [**********]
⟨17⟩ [**********]
⟨18⟩ [**********]
⟨19⟩ [**********]
⟨20⟩ [**********]-
⟨21⟩ ṭṭi-y ūṭṭuvat[-āka] [***]-
⟨22⟩ ttōm Ūṭṭa [**]-
⟨23⟩ vitaṉāl vanta [***]
⟨24⟩ [**] Avvavv-āṭṭai [****]
⟨25⟩ [***] kay-āka-p paṇit-
⟨26⟩ (tō)m sabhaiyō(m) [**]-
⟨27⟩ -p paṇikka-v eḻuti [***]
⟨28⟩ Ivv-ūr (ma)dhyasthan [***]
⟨29⟩ [**] vinīta¡(n)!-ē¡(n)! [***]-
⟨30⟩ ṭṭi-p-pōttaṉ [****]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sabhai⟨5⟩y(ō)m • Only the kāl in (o) is unclear.

⟨10⟩ po[ṉ] ⬦ po[1+] SII.

⟨21⟩ ūṭṭuvat[-āka] [ca. 3+] ⬦ ūṭṭuvata [ca. 5+] SII.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–3⟩ Twenty-first year of Nṛpato(ṅkar).¹

⟨3–30⟩ ...

Commentary

Mahalingam 1988 uncorrectly locates this inscription in the Viṣṇu temple (Ādikeśavaperumāḷ).

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1899–1900 (ARIE/1899-1900/B/1900/37).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.39). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 174). Edited in Civāṉantam 2013.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 15, item 39.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 492–493, item 174.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2013. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. Kāñcipuram māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 43. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 64, item 534/2013.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1899–1900. G.O. etc., Nos. 833-34, 22nd August 1900. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1899-1900. Copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1900. Page 50, appendix B/1900, item 37.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅga.

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