# Kaḷāmpākkam, time of Vayirameghavarman, year 3

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00350

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00350.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

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## Summary

See ARIE 1943–45 (p. 26): “Incomplete. Records gift of sheep for a lamp
in the temple of Kaḷantai Nakkar by Paṅkāri Nanti Kuppaṭikaḷ of
Kiḷāmpākkam which was a Cālaipuṟam in Takkōlam. It is stated at the end
that the shepherds to whom the sheep were entrusted had died and that
these were given to other shepherds.”

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## Edition

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## Commentary

See ARIE 1943–45 (p. 56): “Vayirameghavarman, another later Pallava
chief whose position in the genealogy is not known, is represented by a
record (No. 178 of 1943-44), also from Kaḷāmpākkam, dated in his third
year. Kaḷāmpākkam is shortened into Kaḷantai in this record which
registers a donation made by a resident of the village who was called
Paṅkāri Nantikuppaṭikaḷ for maintaining lamps before god Śiva.”

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1943–45 (ARIE/1943-1945/B/1943-1944/178) and in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 350).

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 350,
page 749.

### Secondary

ARIE 1943–45. 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 178.