Tirucceṉṉampūṇṭi, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year 22
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00177.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Hand description:
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (350e545), last modified (fa51eec).
Edition
⟨Zone 1: Pillar, upper square portion, face 1⟩ ⟨1⟩ [svas]ti ⟨2⟩ śrī
kō-vi⟨3⟩⟨cai⟩ya-ni⟨ru⟩pa⟨4⟩-t¡o!⟨u⟩ṅ⟨5⟩ka-va(ṉ)⟨6⟩¿v?⟨m⟩aṟku ⟨7⟩ Irupat⟨8⟩t’ iraṇṭā⟨Zone 2: Pillar, middle octagonal portion, faces 1-2⟩⟨9⟩vatu
(tanu) ⟨10⟩ (nāyaṟṟu) ⟨11⟩ (v)e(ḷḷ)i(k)⟨12⟩kiḻamai ⟨13⟩ p(e)ṟṟa ti(ru)⟨14⟩k(ē)ṭṭ(ai) [1+] ⟨15⟩ [5+] ⟨16⟩ tiru(kka)ṭai⟨17⟩muṭi ma[hā]⟨18⟩t(ē)varkku ⟨19⟩ (n)i(ca)ti [U]⟨Zone 3: Pillar, lower square portion, face 1⟩⟨20⟩[ḻa]kku ney⟨21⟩(y)āl no⟨22⟩(n)tā viḷa⟨23⟩kku Eri[ya]
⟨Zone 4: Pillar, upper square portion, face 2⟩ ⟨24⟩ śrī-kaṇ(ṭa)⟨25⟩purattu ⟨26⟩ peru⟨ñ⟩-cēri⟨27⟩ya⟨r⟩ kai Uḻa⟨28⟩(tār)ka ci [C]e⟨29⟩ṭṭu Aric[V]⟨30⟩ṇi ceri⟨31⟩yaṉ ti(ṇ)⟨32⟩ṭiyūr kuṭu⟨33⟩tta [poṉ]⟨Zone 5: Pillar, middle octagonal portion, face 3⟩⟨34⟩(paṉ)⟨35⟩(niru)⟨36⟩(nra) (kaḻa)⟨37⟩(ñ)[cu][1+]⟨38⟩[3+]⟨39⟩[3+]⟨40⟩(viḷa)⟨41⟩(kku pa)⟨42⟩l-mā⟨43⟩ye⟨44⟩sūra⟨45⟩⟨ra⟩kṣai
Apparatus
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1–2) Prosperity! Fortune!
(2–9) Twenty-second year of the victorious king Nirupatoṅkavaṉmaṉ.1
(10–23)
(24–45)
(24–26)
Bibliography
Reported in Hultzsch 1901 (ARIE/1900-1901/A/1901/303C).
Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.528). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 177). Edited and translated in Schmid 2014.
This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos and on previous editions.
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: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 320, item 528.
[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 498–500, item 177.
[CS] Schmid, Charlotte. 2014. La Bhakti d’une reine: Śiva à Tirucceṉṉampūṇṭi. Collection Indologie 123. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry; École française d'Extrême-Orient. [URL]. Pages 310–312, item 8.
Secondary
Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1901. G.O., etc., Nos. 762-63, 25th July 1901. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1900-1901. Copy to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 27, appendix A/1901, item 303C.
Notes
- 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavarman.
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Prosperity! Fortune!
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Twenty-second year of the victorious king Nirupatoṅkavaṉmaṉ.<note>Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavarman.</note>
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