Tirukkōṭikkāval, Tirukkōṭīśvara, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 24

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00184.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (5688f80).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

Ituvu¡mm!⟨m⟩ oru paḻaṅ kal paṭi

kō-vicaya⟨2⟩-nṛpat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikrama-panmaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattu nāl-āvatu

tiru-k-kōṭikāvil mahādevarkku non=tā viḷakkiṉukku koṇṭanāṭuṭaiya veṭṭuvati Araiyaṉ-āṉa mallaṉ ve(ṅ)kaṭavaṉ kuṭutta poṉ patiṉ aiṅ-kaḻañcu

Ip-po¡n! koṇṭu Itaṉ palicaiyāl nāl u⟨3⟩ḻakkum piḻaiyānāḻikkiḻ muḻaiyāl nicati Uḻakku ney taḷi Ar⟨c⟩ci⟨p⟩(pāṟ)ku kuṇantu Aḷantu kuṭuppō¡mm!⟨m⟩ āṉō[¡m(m)!⟨m⟩ (ā)cantira-kālamum aḷan=tu kuṭuppōm āṉo(m) nāraṇakka-c-caturveti-maṅkalattu sabhaiyōm

Itu paḻ¡a!⟨ai⟩ya kal paṭi

I⟨4⟩nta śrī-vimānattile Ēṟa veṭṭinamaiyil muṉṉivājagam veṭṭi-k kiṭanta taṉi-⟨k⟩(-kallāl) Ubhaiyōkam illāmaiyāl Atu tavi{ṉ}n=tatu

Itu muṭṭil paṉ-māyeśvara⟨r⟩ kaṭai (kūṭṭa) peṟṟā⟨r⟩

Apparatus

⟨4⟩ peṟṟā⟨r⟩peṟṟār SII • There is possibly a character engraved after peṟṟā, which looks like a Grantha ra.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) This also is the copy of an old stone.

(1–2) Twenty-fourth year of the victorious king Nṛpatoṅka-vikrama-panmaṉ.1

(2–3)

(3) This2 is the copy of the old stone.

(3–4)

(4)

Commentary

Later copy of an original Pallava inscription.

Bibliography

Reported in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1933 (ARIE/1930-1931/B/1930-1931/220).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.78). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 184).

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

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Pages 33–34, item 78.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 513–514, item 184.

Secondary

Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1933. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1931. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch. Page 7, appendixes B/1930-1931, item 22.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.
  2. 2. That is, what precedes.