Koṭuṅkalūr, time of Kampavikramavarman, year (3)2

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00233.

Summary: Donation after sale by a villagers assembly.

Hand description:

Medial u and ū interchangeable. Initial vowel I used instead of yi.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (ee4d0a2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-kampa-vi⟨3⟩kkirama-pa¡t!nma⟨ṟ⟩ku yāṇ⟨4⟩ṭu (3) 10 2 Āvatu

I⟨5⟩v-vūr-k kāṭantai na⟨6⟩kkaṉ caṭaiyaṉukku⟨7⟩-k kāviṭṭ’ ¡u!⟨ū⟩rōm Iv(v-ū)⟨8⟩(r) [2+] viṭa viṟṟu-k ku⟨9⟩ṭut(tō)m

I-dhanmaṅ keṭut⟨10⟩(tāṉ) keṅk(ai)¡I!⟨yi⟩ṭai-k kumari¡I!⟨yi⟩⟨11⟩ṭai-c ceytāṉ pāva⟨12⟩[…]

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Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–4) (Tirthy)-second year of the victorious king Kampavikkiramapanmaṉ.1

(4–9) To Kāṭantai Nakkaṉ Caṭaiyaṉ of this village, we, the villagers of Kāviṭu we have given after selling […]

(9–12) He who destroys this pious act [will incur] the sin of he does that between the Ganges and Kumari.

Bibliography

Reported in Venkoba Rao 1925 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/144).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.111). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 233).

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

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 52, item 111.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 592, item 233.

Secondary

Venkoba Rao, G. 1925. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1924. Madras: Government Press. Page 53, appendix C/1924, item 144.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Kampavikramavarman.