Uttiramērūr, time of Nr̥patuṅgavarman, year 26 author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00190.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Sale-deed.

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svasti śrī

kō-vicaeaiya-nr̥patuṁka-vikramava-r·mmaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattāṟāvatu

kā liyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉ kūṟṟ’ uttaramēru-c-caturvvetimaṁkalattu sabhaiyōm nila-vileai Āvaṇa-k-kai-Ekai-y-eḻuttu

muttaraaiyar-nāṭṭu mī-kūṟṟu viḷā-nāṭṭu-k kūkūr-k kū kūr vicaaiyanalluḷāṉ kāṭavatiyāṉ-ākiya pūti-tīraṉukku Emm-ūr-t teṉ-paṭākai p peruṅ-kōṭṭ' ēri-k kīḻ āṭalam pūṇṭi-t teṟku-k kūṟiṭātē kiṭanta kīḻ-p-pūṇṭiyum

°vicaeaiya° °vicaya° °nr̥patuṁka° °nr̥patuṁka° °caturvvetimaṁkalattu °caturvvetimaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm sabhaiyōm The kāl of -ō is lost, but not the kompu. °vileai vila 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. muttaraaiyar-nāṭṭu muttarayā nāṭṭu This might just be a typo for missing puḷḷi. kūkūr-k kūkūr kūkūraka kūkūr These might just be typos for missing puḷḷis. vicaaiyanalluḷāṉ vicayanalluḻāṉ kāṭavatiyāṉ-ākiya kāṭavatiyarayaṉākiya pūti pūti kīḻ āṭalam kīḻ āṭalam

Prosperity! Fortune!

Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Nr̥patuṁkavikramavarmaṉ.Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅgavikramavarman.

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 kūṟṟuLiterally: in the division of itself..

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 Literally: the eastern village/hamlet., which lies fallow kiṭanta without being ... kūṟiṭātē, in the southern hamlet paṭākai of our village, east of the Peruṅkōṭu lake, south of Āṭalam Pūṇṭi

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.

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

Edited in (SII 6.368). Text and summary in (IP 190).

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

169 368 521 190 18 B/1898 83