Tirumukkūṭal, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 24

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00185.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (6764560), last modified (ee4d0a2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vi⟨2⟩caiya-nṛpat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vi⟨3⟩kkirama-paruma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu Iru⟨4⟩pattu nāl-āvatu

kāṭupaṭṭi ⟨5⟩ muttaraiyar makaṉār Ari⟨6⟩kaṇṭaperumāṉārkku Ūṟṟu⟨7⟩k-kāṭṭu-k-kō[ṭ]ṭattu ciyapu⟨8⟩rattu sabhai¡mm!⟨m⟩ oṭ⟨9⟩ṭi-k kuṭutta paric-āvatu

tiru-mu⟨10⟩k-kūṭal viṣṇu-bhaṭāra⟨r⟩kku n¿u?on=tā⟨11⟩viḷa⟨k⟩k’ erippataṟku Eṅka⟨12⟩ḷ kaiyi{l}ṟ ṟanta poṉ ⟨13⟩ mu-p-patiṉ kaḻañciṉā⟨14⟩lum poli-y-ūṭṭu Āṇṭu⟨15⟩varai-y kaḻañciṉ vāy ⟨16⟩ m¡u!⟨ū⟩ṉṟu mañcāṭi poṉ ⟨17⟩ Āyaṉpaṭiyāl nāṟ-ka⟨18⟩ḻañc-araiyālum Ēṟilu⟨19⟩ñ curuṅkiluṅ kaḻañcu⟨20⟩k=ku nāṟ-pati¡ṉ!⟨ṉ n⟩āḻi-p paṭi E⟨21⟩ṇṇai nūṟṟ’ eṇ-pati⟨ṉ⟩⟨22⟩ḻiyālum Iravum pakalu [unknown number of lost lines]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–4) Twenty-fourth year of the victorious king Nṛpatoṅka-vikkirama-parumar.1

(4–9)

(9–22)

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1915-1916 (ARIE/1915-1916/B/1915/179).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.75). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 185).

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 32–33, item 78.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 515–516, item 185.

[NMG] Marxia Gandhi, N., A. Padmavathy and S. Swaminathan. 2011. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXX: Inscriptions collected during the year 1915. South Indian Inscriptions 30. New Delhi; Chennai: Archaeological Survey of India; Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamilnadu. Pages 85–86, item 102.

Secondary

ARIE 1915-1916. G.O. No. 99, 29th August 1916. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1915-1916. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1916. Page 16, appendix B/1915, item 179.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.