# Kāppalūr, Tirukkāmēśvara, time of Kampavarman, year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00340

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00340.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

Land donation by the assembly of Kāmappullūr to a Brahmin.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-kampa-vikkira⟨ma⟩-varmmarkku yāṇṭu […]

[…] [vacu]⟨2⟩kūr-nāṭṭu-k kāma-p-pullūr sabhaiyōm kīḻvati kumā
[…]⟨3⟩ṭaraiyum Āvaṭṭai kiḻavar pakkal pratigraham peṟṟa Ōṉṟ’ araiyu I
[…]⟨4⟩ttāruḷ Uṟupp¡i!⟨u⟩ṭṭ¡u!⟨ū⟩r naraciṅka-t-tiruvētikku kuṭuttōm sa
[…]

[…]⟨5⟩tiṉ kāṭi Āṇapaṭi nūṟṟ-iru-patiṉ kāṭi nel puṟa-k kālāl […]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °vikkira⟨ma⟩-varmmarkku ⬦ °vikkarama-varmarkku I.

⟨2⟩ […][vacu]⟨2⟩kūr-nāṭṭu-k ⬦ […]⟨2⟩vacakūr nāṭṭu pakkal I • The lacuna
before °kūr-nāṭu can be restored as pal-kuṉṟa-k-kōṭṭattu vacu°. See
INSTamilNadu00020, lines 13-14 — ⟨2⟩ sabhaiyōm ⬦ capaiyōm I. — ⟨2⟩
kīḻvati kumā […] ⬦ kiḻavatikumata I.

⟨3⟩ ṭaraiyum Āvaṭṭai kiḻavar pakkal ⬦ raiyum […] pakkal I.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ We, the members of the assembly of Kāmapullūr in Vacukūrnāṭu
[itself as subdivision in the Palkuṉṟakkōṭṭam] […] one and a half […]
obtained as a favour (? pratigraha) from […] We have given ⟨it⟩ to
Naraciṅkattiruvēti[1] ⟨of⟩ Uṟuppuṭṭūr, [We, the members of the assembly]
[…].

⟨4–5⟩ […] … one hundred twenty kāṭis of paddy … […]

## Commentary

See ARIE 1938–39 (p. 39): “Continuation of lines lost. Seems to register
a gift of land by the assembly of Kāmappullūr to a certain
Naraciṅkattiruvēti of Uṟuppuṭṭūr.” See ARIE 1938–39 (p. 91): “probably
as a bhaṭṭavr̥tti.”

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1938–39 (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/282).

Summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 340).

Edited in Īsvaraṉ 2009, p. 75, who does not read anything after the word
pakkal in line 3.

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the ASI transcript
consulted in Mysore (2004) by courtesy of Director (Epigraphy).

### Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 340,
page 739.

[I] Īsvaraṉ, Ka. 2009. Kāppalūr. TNSDA publications 206. No place:
Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu Tolliyal Tuṟai.

### Secondary

ARIE 1938–39. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year
ending 31st March 1939. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu. Delhi:
Government of India, 1952. Pages 39, 91 (§ 59), appendixes B/1938-1939,
item 282.

[1] Sanskrit Narasiṁha Trivedin.