Viriñcipuram, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 47

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: See ARIE 1939–43: “Damaged. Mentions Kalanippā⟨kka⟩m in Mēyāṟu-nāṭu and refers to a [ka]ṉṉāṭu evidently erected in memory of the hero, who is represented in relief near the inscription with a bow and arrow in his hands.”

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00321.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00321.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ vicaiya-nanti-vikkirama-parumaṟku

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu nār-patt’ ēḻ-āvatu

Translation

⟨1–2⟩ Forty-seventh year of the victorious Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.¹

Commentary

It is not clear if the inscription consists only in a date phrase.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1886–87 (ARIE/1886-1887/II/1886-1887/55), in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1939-1940/207).

Date phrase edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1.125). Summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 321). Edited (date phrase only) in Pūṅkuṉṟaṉ 2021.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Hultzsch 1890.

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

Primary

[EH] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Page 133, item 125.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 321, page 720.

[P] Pūṅkuṉṟaṉ, Ra. 2021. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XVIII. Vēlūr māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti I. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 57. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Item 44/2021, page 56.

Secondary

ARIE 1886–87. G.O. No. 1462, 24th October 1887. Archaeology. Noting with satisfaction the work performed by Dr. Hultzsch, Epigraphist, from 21st November 1886 to 20th September 1887. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1887. Page 6, appendixes II/1886-1887, item 55.

ARIE 1939–43. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu & N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 55, appendixes B/1939-1940, item 207.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.

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