svasti śrī

kampa-varmmaṟku yāṇṭu patinṉ-āaiñc-āvatu

Uṭkar sabhaiyōm Eḻuttu-c

caṭaiyaṉ pakkal āyira-k-kāṭi nel koṇ ṭōm

Ivv-āyira-k-kāṭi nellālum palicai Ayin-nūṟṟu-k kāṭi nel āṭṭ-āṇṭu tōṟum ērikk’ aṭṭi Ikuttuvippōm āṉōm sabhai yōm

It’ aṉṟ’ eṉṟār kaṅkai Iṭaik= kumari Iṭai ceytār ceyta pāvam paṭuvar āka-p paṇittōm

sam·bvatsara-vāriya-p-peru-makkaḷē Aṭṭuvik=ka kaṭavār .

palicai notes: palicai is another form of policai; see the Index to vol. I. s.v. palicai, and Dr. Gundert’s Malayâḷam Dictionary, s.v. paliśa. āṉōm In ṉō, the kāl is marked twice, as a kāl proper and as a curl added to ṉ.

Hail! Prosperity! In the fifteenth year of the reign of Kampavarman. The writing of us, the assembly of Uṭkar. We have received one thousand kāṭis of paddy from Caṭaiyaṉ.

We, the assembly, shall close the sluice of the tank to collect water for irrigation, and shall cause five hundred kāṭis of paddy to be supplied every year as interest on these one thousand kāṭis of paddy.

We declare that those who disobey this, shall incur all the sins committed between the Gaṅgā and Kumari. The great menPerumakkaḷ is an honorific designation of respectable villagers. The corresponding Sanskrit term is mahājana, on which see the Index to Vol. I. electedCompare ūram[ai] ceyyum vāriyapperumakkaḷ in Vol. I. p. 117. for the year shall cause thepaddy to be supplied.

Prosperity! Fortune!

Fifteenth year of Kampavarmaṉ.Sanskrit Kampavarman.

Writings i.e. writ of We the members of the assembly sabhai, i.e. Sanskrit sabhā of Uṭkal.

We have got i.e. received one thousand kāṭis from Caṭaiyaṉ.

Having endowed/supplied aṭṭi for the tank the interest of five hundred kāṭis every year which comes through the paddy of these one thousand kāṭis, We, the members of the assembly sabhā are those who will close it, i.e. the sluice of the tank.

Those who say it is not so, let them undergo the sin done by those who do ceytār sin between the Ganges and Kumari i.e. Kaṉṉiyākumari. So have we ordered/declared paṇittōm.

The great men of the committee for the year are due to/should/have the duty of kaṭavār having it the five hundred kāṭi flowing/being supplied/endowed.

The same Caṭaiyaṉ is the donor of paddy for the feeding daily two Brahmins at Uṭkal in DHARMA_INSPallava00210 (year 10 of Kampavarman).

Reported in (ARIE/1892-1893/B/1893/26).

Edited in , with English translation and visual documentation (SII 3.5). Text and summary in (IP 215).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on and published visual documentation.

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