# Uttiramērūr, time of Nr̥patuṅgavarman, year 26

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00190

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00190.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-11 17:29 (458e70c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Sale-deed.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vic¡(a/e)!⟨ai⟩ya-nr̥patuṁka-vikramava-r(·)mmaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattāṟāvatu

kā⟨2⟩liyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉ kūṟṟ’ uttaramēru-c-catu(r)vvetimaṁ(ka)lattu
sabhaiy[ōm] ⟨3⟩ nila-vil¿e?⟨ai⟩ Āvaṇa-k-¡kai-E!⟨kai-y-e⟩ḻuttu

muttar¡a!⟨ai⟩yar-n(ā)ṭṭu mī-kūṟṟu viḷā-nāṭṭu-k kūkūr-k [kū]⟨4⟩kūr
vic¡a!⟨ai⟩yanalluḷāṉ kāṭavati(y)āṉ-ākiya p(ū)ti-tīraṉukku Emm-ūr-t
teṉ-paṭākai⟨5⟩p peruṅ-kōṭṭ’ ēri-k kīḻ āṭalam pūṇṭi-t teṟku-k kūṟiṭātē
kiṭanta kīḻ-p-pūṇṭiy(u)m

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °vic¡(a/e)!⟨ai⟩ya° ⬦ °vicaya° SII. — ⟨1⟩ °nr̥patuṁka° ⬦ °nr̥patuṁka°
SII.

⟨2⟩ °catu(r)vvetimaṁ(ka)lattu ⬦ °caturvvetima(ṅka)lattu SII. — ⟨2⟩
sabhaiy[ōm] ⬦ sabhaiyō(m) SII • The kāl of -ō is lost, but not the
kompu.

⟨3⟩ °vil¿e?⟨ai⟩ ⬦ vila SII • Note the special form of ai in lai. See
regular ai in kai same line. nile could as well be considered an
unstandard usage for nilai, like vicaya/viceya for vicaiya. — ⟨3⟩
muttar¡a!⟨ai⟩yar-n(ā)ṭṭu ⬦ muttarayā nāṭṭu SII • This might just be a
typo for missing puḷḷi. — ⟨3⟩ kūkūr-k [kū]kūr ⬦ kūkūraka (kū)kūr SII •
These might just be typos for missing puḷḷis.

⟨4⟩ vic¡a!⟨ai⟩yanalluḷāṉ ⬦ vicayanalluḻāṉ SII. — ⟨4⟩ kāṭavati(y)āṉ-ākiya
⬦ kāṭavati(yaraya)ṉākiya SII. — ⟨4⟩ p(ū)ti ⬦ pūti SII.

⟨5⟩ kīḻ āṭalam ⬦ kī(ḻ ā)ṭalam SII.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Nr̥patuṁkavikramavarmaṉ.[1]

⟨1–2⟩ Hand-written (kai-y-eḻuttu) document (āvaṇam) for the price of a
land (nila-vilai, that is, sale-deed) ⟨by⟩ We, the members of the
assembly (sabhaiyōm) of Uttaramērucaturvedimaṅgalam in the
Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam and the division of the same name (taṉ kūṟṟu[2]).

⟨3–5⟩ ⟨In⟩ Kūkūr, in the Viḷānāṭu, in the western division (mīkūṟṟu), in
the Muttaraiyarnāṭu, to Pūti Tīraṉ alias Vicaiyanalluḷāṉ Kāṭavati ⟨of⟩
Kūkūr, the whole of Kīlppūṇṭi[3], which lies fallow (kiṭanta) without
being ... (kūṟiṭātē), in the southern hamlet (paṭākai) of our village,
east of the Peruṅkōṭu lake, south of Āṭalam Pūṇṭi

## Commentary

Incomplete/Unfinished inscription.

End of lines 2-3 covered by later construction (stairs’ string wall).
Thus encoded as supplied, lost.

What western division? That of KāliyūrK or of Viḷa-ṇāṭu?

Check Subbarayalu, Geography, and add reference and discussion: Viḷānaṭu
= mīkūṟu of KāliyūrK.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1897–98 (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/83).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.368). Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 190).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photos
(2019).

### Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Government of India,
Central Publication Branch. Page 169, item 368.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 521,
item 190.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1897–98. G.O. Nos. 1093-1096, 29th August 1898. Epigraphy.
Directing that the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for
1897-98 be forwarded to the Government of India, approving provisionally
his programme of work for the next fields season. Edited by Eugen Julius
Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1898.
Page 18, appendix B/1898, item 83.

[1] Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅgavikramavarman.

[2] Literally: in the division of itself.

[3] Literally: the eastern village/hamlet.