Accaravākkam, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year [figure lost]

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⟨1⟩ śrī nṛpatuṅka-parm(ma)rkku (yāṇṭu) [******]

⟨2⟩ caṅkaṉ viṟṟu-k-koṇṭu Arccaṉā-pōkañ

⟨3⟩ ceyta nilam viraṉ ceṟuvuṅ kaḻuvaluṅ

⟨4⟩ koṭumāṭiyuṅ kāḻiyu(m) āka Eṇ-

⟨5⟩ ṇūṟu kuḻiyum Agatti śrī-t-tēvar-

⟨6⟩ k=ku-k= kuṭutta dharmmam· rakṣippār aṭi E-

⟨7⟩ ṉ ṟalai mēlaṉa I(vai vilaiyum oṟṟi)-

⟨8⟩ yuñ cellā

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

⟨1⟩ Fortune!1

⟨1⟩ [Umpteenth] year of Nṛpatuṅkaparmar.2

⟨2–5⟩ The land that Caṅkaṉ made, after purchase, an arcanābhoga, [is] eight hundred kuḻis [comprising the plots named] Vīraṉ Ceṟuvu, Kaḻuval, Koṭumāṭi and Kāḻi.

⟨5–7⟩ [This] pious donation (dharma) that he gave for Akatti Śrītēvar, the feet of he who protects [it] are on my feet.

⟨8⟩ These cannot go into sale or mortgage.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1933-1934 (ARIE/1933-1934/B/1933-1934/108).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.83). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 192).

This edition and translation by Emmanuel Francis, based on Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943.

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 35, item 83.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 524, item 191.

Secondary

ARIE 1933-1934. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1934. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications), 1937. Page 16, appendixes B/1933-34, item 108.

Notes

  1. 1. This could alternatively be considered an honourific prefix to the name of the king, thus: "year of the glorious Nṛpatuṅgavarman."

  2. 2. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavarman.