Kaḷāmpākkam, time of Aparājitavarman, year 8

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00346.

Summary: See ARIE 1943–1945 (p. 26): “Damaged. Records the provision made for celebration on the new and full-moon days (uvā), evidently in the temple, by the ūrārs of Kiḷāmbā(kkam).”

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (382592b), last modified (91e0841).

Edition

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Commentary

See ARIE 1943–1945 (p. 56): “A record of the 8th year of the reign of Aparājita (No. 174 of 1943-44) was found in the Tirunāgeśvara temple in Kaḷāmpākkam village. The inscription registers a provision made by the ūravar of the village for the performance of worship in the local temple on the days of the full moon and the new moon (uvā). Adjacent to this inscription, on the same wall, is a record (No. 173 of 1943-44) incised in similar characters and dated in the year 16 without mentioning the king. It registers a donation made to the temple by a private individual for conducting a festival. It is not unlikely that this inscription also belongs to the reign of Aparājita.”

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1943–1945 (ARIE/1943-1945/B/1943-1944/174) and in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 345).

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

Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 345, page 745.

Secondary

ARIE 1943–1945. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1943-44 and 1944-45. By N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1955. Pages 26, 56 (§4), appendixes B/1943-1945, item 174.