Taṇṭalam, time of Pallavamārāyaṉ, year 10

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Construction of a sluice.

Palaeographic description: Medial i and ī, u and ū interchangeable.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00261.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00261.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kāṭavar-taṅ kōṉ catti (poṟ)-ṟōṭṭil iṭṭa yāṇṭ’ ēṭ’ iyal ¡i!r-aintil iṭuvittā-ṉ[i>ī]-
⟨2⟩ ṭiya-c¡i!r pa⟨l⟩lavamārāyaṉ paci n¡i!kki taṇṭalattu-k kal-l-ivar n¡i!r-ēri-kkaliṅkum aṇṭattu-
⟨3⟩ (ḷ)ōr matippavaṉ pōḷi(y)¡(u)!(r)-nāṭṭu-t taṇṭalatt’ ēri-kka-
⟨4⟩ liṅk’ amaittāṉṉ oṇ-ṭamiḻ-p pārmaṅkai-tāṉ
⟨5⟩ virumbum pallavamārāyaṉ eḻiṟ-p¡u!maṅkai-ta(ṅ)
⟨6⟩ kōṉ purintu (௳)

Translation by Hultzsch 1902–1903

⟨1⟩ Hail! Prosperity!

In (the year) twice five (i.e. ten), which was engraved on palm-leaves,¹ (from) the year when (the name of) Catti, the king of the Kāṭavas, was entered on a gold leaf,²― Pallavamārāyaṉ of enduring fame, who is respected by (all) the inhabitants of the world, having freed (the villagers) of hunger, caused to be built also a sluice, composed of stones, for the water-tank at Taṇṭalam.

The lord of the beautiful goddess of the (lotus) flower (i.e. Lakshmī), Pallavamārāyaṉ, who is beloved by the excellent goddess of the Tamiḻ country, graciously constructed a sluice for the tank at Taṇṭalam in Pōḷiyūr-nāṭu.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1912–13 (ARIE/1891-1892/B/1892/1).

Edited and translated in Hultzsch 1902–1903 (EI 7.5). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 261).

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

Primary

[EI] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1902–1903. “A rock-inscription at Tandalam.” EI 7, pp. 25–26.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 641, item 261.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1891–92. G.O., etc., Nos. 544-45, 6th August 1892. Epigraphy. Directing that certain reports containing the information called for by the Government of India in letter No. 1095--27-5, dated 27th May 1891, in connexion with --, be forwarded to that Govrnement. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1892. Page 14, appendix B/1892, item 1.

Notes

1. I.e. with which all documents issued at this time had to begin.
2. This seems to refer to some custom observed at the coronation of a king; compare South,-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. p. 135 and note 2.

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Hail! Prosperity!

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