# Āṉūr, time of Kampavikramavarman, year 25

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00230

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00230.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vi⟨cai⟩ya-kampa-vik(kira)[ma-parumaṟku] yāṇṭu Irupattu
¡añc!⟨aint⟩-āvatu

kāliyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉ-kū[ṟṟu] [2+] [Arivili-ma]⟨2⟩ṅkalam y-āḷum
kaṇattā[ruḷ] [4+] yap periya-śrī-dhara-kramavitta{ṉ}ṉ-ēṉ

kaḷattūr-k-kōṭṭattu Āṉiyūr (sa)[bhaiyōm] [5+]

⟨3⟩ (nā)l-p-patiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉum Itaṉ palicai [6+] 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] [3+] taṉ
policaikku¡mm!⟨m⟩-āka nondā viḷakku Oru viḷakku muṭṭām¡ē!⟨ai⟩ Erippōm
āṉōm sabh¿a?⟨ai⟩yōm

I [9+] ⟨5⟩ ceytāṉ ceyta pāpattil-{p} paṭuvārka[ḷ] [9+]

[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 kūṟṟu[2]).

⟨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.

[1] Sanskrit Kampavikramavarman.

[2] Literally: in the division of itself.