Poyyaṉūr, time of Vajrameghavarman, year 2

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of gold (?) for food offerings to a god temple.

Palaeographic description: Medial i and ī interchangeable.

Languages: Sanskrit (san), Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-09-04 15:12 (8878885), last modified 2025-01-11 12:43 (ee4d0a2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī śrī-vayira-(m)ēka-panma⟨r⟩kku
⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu (2-Āvatu) tāmaṟ-kōṭṭattu
⟨3⟩ poy(kai)-nallūr sabhaiyō¡(mm)! (iv)-vūr
⟨4⟩ tiru-v-akatt¡i!śvara[m-uṭaiya mahādevarkku]
⟨5⟩ nitta tiru-v-amirtu paṇ [****] mayil [*******]
⟨6⟩ [**] tiru-v-amirtukkum-āka ¡v(ai)yt[ta]! [****] [unknown number of lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨4⟩ tiru-v-akatt¡i!⟨ī⟩śvara[m-uṭaiya mahādevarkku] ⬦ tiru-v-akattiśvara[9+] SII.

⟨6⟩ ¡v(ai)yt[ta]!⟨vait[ta]⟩ [4+] ⬦ v(ai)yta [5+] SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ (Second) year of the glorious Vayiramēkapanmar.¹

⟨2–3⟩ We, the members of the assembly [of] Poykainallūr in the Tāmaṟkōṭṭam.

⟨4–6⟩ For the Mahādeva, Lord of the glorious Tiruvakaṭtīśvaram [of] this village […][…] permanent food offerings […][…] that […][…] has given as glorious food offerings […][…]

[unknown number of lost lines][unknown number of lost lines]

Commentary

On the identity of Vayiramēkavarman (Sanskrit Vajrameghavarman), see Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943: “The surname Vayiramēkaṉ [fn3] is applied to Dantivarman in the Triplicane inscription [fn4]. As the characters of the present [SII 12.113 = DHARMA_INSPallava00264] and the following inscription [SII 12.114 = DHARMA_INSPallava00265] belong to a later period than Dantivarman, the king figuring in these two records was probably different. A certain chieftain named Vayiramēkaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyar figures in two inscriptions from Tiruvoṟṟiyūr [fn5], with whom Vayiramēkavarman of the present record may be identified.”

See also DHARMA_INSPallava00265, DHARMA_INSPallava00266, DHARMA_INSPallava00350, DHARMA_INSPallava00351.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1915-1916 (ARIE/1915-1916/C/1916/150).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.113), with visual documentation. Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 264).

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 53, item 113.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 644, item 264.

Secondary

ARIE 1915-1916. G.O. No. 99, 29th August 1916. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1915-1916. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1916. Page 78, appendix C/1916, item 150.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Vajrameghavarman.

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