# Koṭuṅkalūr, time of Kampavikramavarman, year (3)2

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00233

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00233.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

Donation after sale by a villagers assembly.

## Palaeographic description

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-kampa-vi⟨3⟩kkirama-pa¡t!⟨n⟩ma⟨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⟩[…]

[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 & 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. & 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.

[1] Sanskrit Kampavikramavarman.