Piḷḷaippākkam, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year [figure lost]

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of land for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Languages: Sanskrit (san), Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-09-09 12:00 (265f3f1), last modified 2025-01-11 12:43 (ee4d0a2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī nṛpa-t¡o!ṅkarkku yāṇṭu [*****] (pura)ttu-p pātiri-kiḻār ciṅkaṉ mah¿a?-devarkku [***] vi[.]ai [***]-

⟨2⟩ -c ceṟuvu Eḻu māvuṅ kuṭuttēṉ tiru [******] can¡t!rātitta-var (tiru)-n¿a?ndā-viḷakku kāṭṭuvōm āṉōm Id-dharmam· rakṣippōm Ūrōm Itu muṭṭi [******]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ muṭṭi • “The inscription stops here.” (Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ [...]th year of Nṛpatoṅkar.¹

⟨1–2⟩ [I,] Pātirikiḻār Ciṅkaṉ of [...]puram, have given seven mās of field [...]

⟨2⟩ We have become those who will present a glorious perpetual lamp, as long as the moon and the sun, [to] [...].

⟨2⟩ We, the villagers, will protect this pious act.

⟨2⟩ This, if opposing/failing, […]²

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1929-1930 (ARIE/1929-1930/B/1929-1930/172).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.81), described there as ARIE/1929-1930/B/1929-30/172-A, that is, ARIE/1929-1930/B/1929-30/172 was wrongly attributed to 2 inscriptions, the other being DHARMA_INSPallava00193. Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 193).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

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 81.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 524, item 192.

Secondary

ARIE 1929-1930. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1930. Edited by K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1932. Page 19, appendixes B/1929-30, item 172.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅga.
2. This lacunose sentence appears to state what happens in case of default.

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