Kāvantaṇṭalam, time of Kampavarman, year 18

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Transaction by a Brahman assembly (sabhā) concerning a donation of gold for conducting worship.

Palaeographic description: Medial u and ū interchangeable.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00222.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī ↝ kampava(r)mmar⟨k⟩ku yāṇṭu patiṉ eṭṭāvatu Ūṟṟukkāṭṭukkōṭṭa⟨t⟩tut tamaṉūrnāṭṭu caturvvedimaṅkalattu sabhaiy(ō)m Eḻuttu Emm¡u!r māṉasa¿t?paviṣṇugr̥hattu Irunta perumāṉaṭikaḷ pakkal yāṅkaḷ koṇṭu (kaṭa)va poṉ Ūrkkaṟ cemmai muppatiṉ kaḻañcu Ippoṉ kaḻañciṉvāy nālu mañcāṭip pali(cai)yāka Irupatiṉ ka-

⟨2⟩ ḻañcāl nāṟ kaḻañcukkum Āṭ(ṭā)ṇṭutōṟum cittirait tiruvōṇam peruviḻāvāka Eḻu nāḷum nicati nūṟu viḷakkum patiṉāṟāḷ taṭṭaḻikoṭṭikaḷaiyuṅ koṇṭu ceyvittu snapaṉam āṭṭuvittu tiruvamirtu Eḻu nāḷuṅ kuṭuttu ceyvippō⟨m ā⟩kavum niṉṟa pattup poṉṉāl Iru-kaḻañcukkum nicati Uri Eṇṇai Uṇṇāḻikaippuṟa(m) aṭṭuvō(m āṉ)ōm Emmūrc caṅ-

⟨3⟩ karappāṭi koṇṭu polippuṭaittākac cevippōm āṉōm sabhaiyōm Ipparicu sabhaiyāyu(n) taṉiyāyuñ cellāmai kāttārai śraddhāma(nta)rē dha(r)mmāsa(ṉa)ttu nicatam Irupattu nālu kāṇan taṇṭappaṭuvōm ākavuṅ gaṅgai-Iṭaik kumari-Iṭaic ceytār ceyta (pāvam pa)ṭavun tirunāraṇam piḻaitta taṇṭappaṭuvōm āṉom catu(r)vvetimaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm Itu rakṣittār aṭi en talai melaṉa ↝

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Eighteenth year of Kampavarmar.¹

⟨1⟩ Writing of we, the members of the assembly of Caturvedimaṅgala in the Tamaṉūrnāṭu in the Ūṟṟukkāṭukkōṭṭam.

⟨1⟩ ...

⟨1–2⟩ ...

⟨2⟩ ...

⟨2–3⟩ We have become ... we, the members of the assembly.

⟨3⟩ In that manner ...

⟨3⟩ We have become ... we, the members of the assembly of Caturvedimaṅgala.

⟨3⟩ The feet of he who protects this ⟨pious deed⟩ are on my head.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1900–01 (ARIE/1900-1901/A/1901/208).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.421). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 222). Edited in Civāṉantam 2013.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on available editions.

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 265, item 421.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 571–572, item 222.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2013. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. Kāñcipuram māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 43. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Pages 156–157, item 614/2013.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1900–01. G.O., etc., Nos. 762-63, 25th July 1901. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1900-1901. Copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1901. Page 22, appendix A/1901, item 208.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Kampavarman.

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Prosperity! Fortune!

Eighteenth year of Kampavarmar.<note>Sanskrit Kampavarman.</note>

Writing of we, the members of the assembly of Caturvedimaṅgala in the Tamaṉūrnāṭu in the Ūṟṟukkāṭukkōṭṭam.

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