# Tirumukkūṭal, time of Nr̥patuṅgavikramavarman, year 24

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00185

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00185.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

kō-vi⟨2⟩caiya-nr̥pat¡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 sabhaiyō¡mm!⟨m⟩ oṭ⟨9⟩ṭi-k
kuṭutta paric-āvatu

tiru-mu⟨10⟩k-kūṭal viṣṇu-bhaṭāra⟨r⟩kku n¿u?⟨o⟩n=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⟩ nā⟨22⟩ḻiyālum Iravum pakalu [unknown number
of lost lines]

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ Twenty-fourth year of the victorious king
Nr̥patoṅka-vikkirama-parumar.[1]

⟨4–9⟩

⟨9–22⟩

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1915–16 (ARIE/1915-1916/B/1915/179).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 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. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 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 & 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 1915–16. 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.

[1] Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅgavikramavarman.