Accaravākkam, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year [figure lost]

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00192.

Summary: Donation of land after purchase for worship offerings (arcanābhoga).

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (382592b), last modified (ee4d0a2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī

nṛpatuṅka-parm(ma)rkku (yāṇṭu) [6+]

⟨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.