Āṉūr, time of Kampavikramavarman, year 25

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Recording a transaction concerning a donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00230.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00230.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 13:33 (d9e9623), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (ecb0276).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-vi⟨cai⟩ya-kampa-vik(kira)[ma-parumaṟku] yāṇṭu Irupattu ¡añc!-āvatu kāliyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉ-kū[ṟṟu] [**] [Arivili-ma]-
⟨2⟩ ṅkalam y-āḷum kaṇattā[ruḷ] [****] yap periya-śrī-dhara-kramavitta{ṉ}ṉ-ēṉ kaḷattūr-k-kōṭṭattu Āṉiyūr (sa)[bhaiyōm] [*****]
⟨3⟩ (nā)l-p-patiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉum Itaṉ palicai [******] vampaṅkāṭṭu mahādevarkku nondā viḷakku{ka}k=k-āka kuṭuttēṉ (Arivili)-maṅka[lattu] p(e)riya-śrī-dhara-krama[vittaṉēṉ] [Ā]-
⟨4⟩ ṉiyūr sabhaiyōmum Ip-poṉ nāl-p-patiṉ ka[ḻañc] [***] taṉ policaikku¡mm!-āka nondā viḷakku Oru viḷakku muṭṭām¡ē! Erippōm āṉōm sabh¿a?yōm I [*********]
⟨5⟩ ceytāṉ ceyta pāpattil-{p} paṭuvārka[ḷ] [*********] [unknown number of lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ vik(kira)[ma-parumaṟku] ⬦ vik(kira)[6+] SII • Alternative text restorations are possible, such as vik(kira)[ma-varmmaṟku]. — ⟨1⟩ taṉ-kū[ṟṟu] [2+] [Arivili-ma]⟨2⟩ṅkalam ⬦ taṉ-kū [9+]⟨2⟩ṅkalam SII.

⟨2⟩ kaṇattā[ruḷ] [4+] yap ⬦ kaṇattā [6+] yap SII. — ⟨2⟩ (sa)[bhaiyōm] [5+] ⬦ (sa) [9+] SII.

⟨3⟩ viḷakku{ka}k=k-āka ⬦ viḷakkuka-k=kāka SII. — ⟨3⟩ śrī-dhara-krama[vittaṉēṉ] ⬦ śrī-dhara-krama[5+] SII.

⟨4⟩ ka[ḻañc] [3+] ⬦ ka[6+] SII • Possible alternative text restorations are kaḻañcu and kaḻañcē. — ⟨4⟩ I [9+] ⟨5⟩ ceytāṉ • A possible text restoration is ...

⟨5⟩ paṭuvārka[ḷ] [9+] ⬦ paṭuvārka [10+] SII.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Twenty-fifth year of the victorious king Kampavikkiramaparumaṉ.¹

⟨1–2⟩ I, Periya Śrīdharakramavitta […], one among the governing delegates of [Arivili]maṅgala, in the division of same name in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam, in the division of the same name (taṉ kūṟṟu²).

⟨2⟩ We, the members of the assembly ⟨of⟩ Āṉiyūr in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam […]

⟨3⟩ I have given forty kaḻañcus of gold for the sake of a perpetual for the Mahādeva of Vampaṅkāṭu, [with] its interests, I Periya Śrīdharakramavitta of Arivilimaṅgalam.

⟨3–4⟩ We, all the members of the assembly ⟨of⟩ Āṉiyūr, we have become those who will without default light one lamp, a perpetual lamp, for the sake of the interests of these forty kaḻañcus of gold, we, the members of the assembly.

⟨4–5⟩ He who does [harm to this pious act] he will suffer in the sin done by he who does […]

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1932–33 (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/82).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.109). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 230). Edited in Civāṉantam 2013.

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. Pages 51–52, item 109.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 588, item 230.

[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. Page 119, item 579/2013.

Secondary

ARIE 1932–33. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1933. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications), 1936. Page 15, appendixes B/1932-1933, item 82.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Kampavikramavarman.
2. Literally: in the division of itself.

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Twenty-fifth year of the victorious king Kampavikkiramaparumaṉ.<note>Sanskrit Kampavikramavarman.</note>

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