# Tiruppāccaṉūr, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 3

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00427

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00427.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-11 17:29 (458e70c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Donation of a flower garden (nantavaṉam).

## Palaeographic description

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-danti-(vi)⟨3⟩krama-pammarkku yā⟨4⟩ṇṭu mūṉṟ-āvatu

tiru⟨5⟩-p-pācca-nallūr (mūla)⟨6⟩-s¡tt!⟨t⟩ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩attu bhaṭārakku [ca.
2+]⟨7⟩ma-p-piṟiyār vilaikku ⟨8⟩ koṇṭa pa(ṉai)-c-cēri [ca. 3+]⟨9⟩ṅ tōṭṭam
Iru peṭa [ca. 4+]⟨10⟩ttu-k kīḻakk’ aṭaiya [ca. 3+] ⟨11⟩ nilamum
nanta-vaṉamum (Ā)⟨12⟩ka kuṭuttēṉ

Itu kāttā [ca. 4+]

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–4⟩ Third year of the victorious king Dantivikramapammar[1].

⟨4–12⟩ So that there be a flower garden with[2] a land, ⟨which is
situated⟩ ... ⟨in⟩ Paṉaiccēri, ⟨and⟩ which […]ma-piṟiyār bought for the
Lord (bhaṭarar) of the (mūla)stāṉam[3] of the glorious Pāccanallūr, I
have given.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1991–92 (ARIE/1991-1992/B/1991-1992/317).

Edited in Dayalan 2005.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Dayalan 2005. The
distinction between initial and medial vowels, and between Grantha and
Tamil letters could not be implemented with full confidence. The present
digital edition is thus provisional and should be revised with proper
visual documentation.

### Primary

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava
period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix
I, page 1277, item 42.

### Secondary

ARIE 1992–93. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1992-93. Edited by
Madhav N. Katti. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1998. Page
121, appendixes B/1991-1992, item 317.

[1] Sanskrit Dantivikramavarman.

[2] Literally: a land and a flower garden. That is, more properly, nilam
nantavaṉam āka kututtēṉ (“I have given, for a flower garden, a land”).

[3] Sanskrit mūlasthāna.