# Cāttamaṅkalam, time of Kampavarman, year 6

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00198

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00198.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Rock inscription recording ...

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kampa-paṉmaṟku yāṇ⟨2⟩ṭ’ āṟ-āvatu

kāṭakati-y-araiyar ma⟨3⟩ṇavāṭṭi mātavi y-it-tiru-k-kō⟨4⟩yil putukki
muka-maṇṭakam e⟨5⟩ṭuppittu pāḻi putukki yak⟨6⟩kā-paṭāri
tiru-k-kōyi¡ll!⟨l⟩ eṭu⟨7⟩ppittu Ip-paḷḷikk’ iṭṭa ⟨8⟩ peru-maṇi Oṉṟu
Ūṭṭu(vi)ttāḷ

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ kāṭakatiyaraiyar ⬦ N; kāṭaka tīyaṉayar S.

⟨3⟩ mātavi ⬦ N; māntavi S. — ⟨3⟩ yittirukkō⟨4⟩yil ⬦ N; Ittirukkō⟨4⟩yil
S.

⟨5⟩ yak⟨6⟩kāpaṭāri ⬦ N; yak⟨6⟩kāpaṭṭārit S.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Sixth year of Kampapaṉmaṉ.[1]

⟨2–8⟩ Mātavi, the wife ⟨of⟩ Kāṭakati Araiyar, after renovating this
glorious temple, having a front hall erected, renovating the monastery
(pāḻi), ⟨and⟩ having a glorious temple ⟨of⟩ Yakṣa Bhaṭṭāri erected, had
one big bell fed (ūṭṭuvittāḷThat is, "gave one big bell.") given (iṭṭa)
to this paḷḷi.

## Commentary

⟨5⟩ The term pāḻi is polysemic. Several of its meanings, according to
the MTL could apply here: temple, hermitage; cave, mountain cavern;
sleeping place for human beings; small tank; flight of steps leading
into a tank. Sampath 1968 notes: “Pāḻi is a term, known in all the Jaina
Literature, and means a ‘temple’ or sometimes ‘monastery’.” According to
Mahalingam 1988, this means here "cavern."

⟨5⟩ The term paḷḷi appears to be used here in the sense of the entire
Jaina cultic place.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1968–69 (ARIE/1968-1969/B/1968-1969/221).

Edited in Sampath 1968, in Nagaswamy 1970. Text and summary in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 198). Edited in Civāṉantam 2018.

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

### Primary

[S] Sampath, M. D. 1968. “Jaina inscriptions of Sattamangalam.” In: SOI.
No place. Page 159.

[N] Nagaswamy, R. 1970. “cāttamaṅkalam kalveṭṭukaḷ.” tamiḻikam =
Damilica (December 1970), pp. 121–127. Page 125.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 532,
item 74.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2018. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XIII.
Tiruvaṇṇāmalai māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti II. TNSDA Epigraphical Series
52. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology.
Page 104, item 247/2018.

### Secondary

ARIE 1968–69. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1968-69. Edited by
G. S. Gai. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India, 1974. Page 46,
appendixes B/1968-1969, item 221.

[1] Sanskrit Kampavarman.