# Eṇṇāyiram, time of Nr̥patuṅga, year 2

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00446

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00446.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

Cave inscription recording the donation of goats for maintaining a
perpetual lamp.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-nirupa-t¡o!⟨u⟩ṅkarkku⟨2⟩yāṇṭu Iraṇṭ-āvatu

paṉai-¡Ū!⟨y-ū⟩r-nāṭṭu-c cēnta-ma⟨3⟩ṅka(la)ttu śrī-mūla-tāṉattu-t
tēvāṟku-t tiru-viḷa⟨4⟩kkukku Atikārikaḷōṅ kārik-uṭaiyā⟨5⟩r vaitta Āṭu
Ēḻu-nuṟṟ’ aim-patu

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Second year of the victorious king Nirupatoṅkaṉ.[1]

⟨2–5⟩ ⟨There are⟩ seven hundred fifty goats that Kārikuṭaiyār, ⟨one
among⟩ We the officials (atikārikaḷ-ōm), gave for a perpetual lamp for
the god of the glorious mūlatāṉam[2] in Cēntamaṅkalam in the
Pāṉaiyūrnāṭu.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1990–91 (ARIE/1990-1991/B/1990-1991/265).

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 1303, item 66.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1990–91. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1990-91.
Edited by Madhav N. Katti. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India,
2006. Pages 7, 117, appendixes B/1990-1991, item 265.

[1] Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅga.

[2] Sanskrit mūlasthāna.