Koṭuṅkalūr, time of Kampavikramavarman, year (3)2

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation after sale by a villagers assembly.

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

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00233.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00233.xml.

Version: 2026-05-10 23:43 (066b6dc), last modified 2026-05-06 08:33 (9e928b6).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-kampa-vi-
⟨3⟩ kkirama-pa¡t!ma⟨ṟ⟩ku yāṇ-
⟨4⟩ ṭu (3) 10 2 Āvatu I-
⟨5⟩ v-vūr-k kāṭantai na-
⟨6⟩ kkaṉ caṭaiyaṉukku-
⟨7⟩ -k kāviṭṭ’ ¡u!rōm Iv(v-ū)-
⟨8⟩ (r) [**] viṭa viṟṟu-k ku-
⟨9⟩ ṭut(tō)m I-dhanmaṅ keṭut-
⟨10⟩ (tāṉ) keṅk(ai)¡I!ṭai-k kumari¡I!-
⟨11⟩ ṭai-c ceytāṉ pāva-
⟨12⟩ […] [ca. 1 lost line]

Translation

⟨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 ARIE 1923–24 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/144).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar and Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.111). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 233). Edited in Civāṉantam 2018.

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

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. and C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 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.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2018. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XIII. Tiruvaṇṇāmalai māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti II. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 52. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Item 192/2018, page 23.

Secondary

ARIE 1923–24. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1924. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1925. Page 53, appendix C/1924, item 144.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Kampavikramavarman.

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