Kāvērippākkam, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 25

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00186.

Summary: Donation of gold for supplying oil.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (ee4d0a2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [svasti śrī]

kō-vicaiya-nirupat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikkirama-pa[nmarkku] yāṇṭu Irupatt’ aint-āvatu

[9+] ⟨2⟩ [3+]m-ākiya Avani-nārāyaṇa-c-cat¿i?⟨u⟩(rvēti-ma)ṅkalattu sabhaiyōm [8+] ⟨3⟩ [3+]āka maṭattu caṭṭa-p-peru-makkaḷukku maṭa⟨t⟩tu [5+] Uḻakk’ eṇṇaikku vēṇṭum [10+] ⟨4⟩ [3+](kar) Āḷvāṉ nicati Uḻakk’ eṇṇaiyu [8+] kal Ivar pakkal poṉ ko(ṇ) [10+] ⟨5⟩ [2+] [I]vv-āṇṭu cilālekai cey(ti) [6+] Ip-paṇiyāl ivv-āṭṭai [7+] ⟨6⟩ [3+] yati uḻakk’ eṇ(ṇai)yum Ūr Āḷvāṉē Aṭṭuva [5+] cilālēkai ce⟨y⟩tu kuṭuttōm

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Twenty-fifth year of the victorious king Nirupatoṅka-vikkirama-pa[nmar].1

(1–6)

Commentary

Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 notes: “The inscription is damaged in the middle and is built in at the right and left ends.”

Bibliography

Reported in Venkayya 1906 (ARIE/1905-1906/B/1905/397).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.79). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 186).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s). Lost portions supplied compared to Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943’s edition.

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. Page 34, item 79.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 517, item 186.

Secondary

Venkayya, V. 1906. G.O. No. 492, 2nd July 1906. Epigraphy. Recording the annual report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1905-1906, and directing that the report be forwarded to the Government of India. No place. Page 25, appendix B/1905, item 397.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.