# Kāvērippākkam, time of Kampavarman, year 6

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00197

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00197.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Donation of gold.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī

kō-vicaiya-kampa-varmmaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭ’ āṟ-āvatu

paṭuvūr-k-kōṭṭattu-k k(ā)va [5+] ⟨2⟩ (pa)tiṉ ka⟨ḻa⟩ñcu po⟨ṉ⟩ṉukkum
Emm¡u!⟨ū⟩r śrī-malaiyañ(ci) kumāra-kramavittaṉ [3+] ⟨3⟩ [8+] ṉuṭa(ṉ)
Iru-nūṟṟu nāṟ-patt’ oṉpa(tā)ṉāḷ mutal-āka Emm¡u!⟨ū⟩r Ūrāṭci

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ Ūrāṭci • “This inscription is highly damaged and it is built in at
the right end.” (Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943)

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Sixth year of of Kampavarmaṉ.[1]

⟨1–2⟩ In the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam [...] for ten kaḻañcus of gold, Śrī-malaiyañ
Śrī-Kumārakramavittaṉ [...] starting on the two-hundred fourty-ninth
day, the village administration [...]

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1905–06 (ARIE/1905-1906/B/1905/398).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.98). Text
and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 197).

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

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
44, item 98.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 531,
item 197.

### Secondary

ARIE 1905–06. G.O. No. 492, 2nd July 1906. Epigraphy. Recording the
annual report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for
Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1905-1906, and directing that
the report be forwarded to the Government of India. Edited by V.
Venkayya. No place, 1906. Page 25, appendix B/1905, item 398.

[1] Sanskrit Kampavarman.