# Putuppākkam, time of [...]pōttaraiyar, year 24

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00183

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00183.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Donation of land after purchase?

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [10+]p-pōttaraiya⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭ’ iru-pattu
nā⟨2⟩[ṇkāvatu][6+](yi)ṟ-kōṭṭattu mēṟpaḷukūr-nāṭṭu nal⟨3⟩[10+](y ā)ḷum
kaṇattāruḷ (cū)¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ṟūr civa-nanti⟨4⟩[10+]vūrkku
bhaṭṭa-v¿ir?⟨r̥⟩tti-y-āka iru-nūṟṟu-k kaḻañ⟨5⟩[cu] [9+]po¡nn!⟨ṉṉ⟩āl vanta
nilam Epp¿o?⟨ē⟩rppaṭṭa Iṟai⟨6⟩[10+]m ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ōm

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ nā⟨2⟩[ṇkāvatu] ⬦ nā⟨2⟩[6+] SII.

⟨4⟩ kaḻañ⟨5⟩[cu] ⬦ kaḻañ⟨5⟩[1+] SII.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ […]

⟨1–2⟩ Twenty-[fourth] year of […]ppōttaraiyar.[1]

⟨2–6⟩

## Commentary

Note on the identification of the king.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1922–23 (ARIE/1922-1923/C/1923/60).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.76). Text
and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 183).

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
33, item 76.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 512,
item 183.

### Secondary

ARIE 1922–23. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year
ending 31st March 1923. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government
Press, 1924. Page 67, appendix C/1923, item 60.

[1] That is, the Pallava king […].