# Tirukkōṭikkāval, Tirukkōṭīśvara, time of Nr̥patuṅgavikramavarman, year
24

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00184

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00184.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

Ituvu¡mm!⟨m⟩ oru paḻaṅ kal paṭi

kō-vicaya⟨2⟩-nr̥pat¡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)!⟨_(ṉ)⟩ 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

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ This also is the copy of an old stone.

⟨1–2⟩ Twenty-fourth year of the victorious king
Nr̥patoṅka-vikrama-panmaṉ.[1]

⟨2–3⟩

⟨3⟩ This[2] is the copy of the old stone.

⟨3–4⟩

⟨4⟩

## Commentary

Later copy of an original Pallava inscription.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1930–31 (ARIE/1930-1931/B/1930-1931/220).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 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. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 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

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

[1] Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅgavikramavarman.

[2] That is, what precedes.