Kumāravāṭi, time of Nṛpatuṅkavikramavarman, year 9

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Contributor: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiyya{n}-nirupa-t¡o!ṅka-vikkirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu Onpat-āvatu kaḷattūr-kōṭṭattu vaiyyāvūr-nāṭṭu-k kumārapāṭi Aṉ(ṭu)ṟai Araiyar puttaperumāṉār tēviyār kuṇapperumāṉār tāyār Araicaṭikaḷār ceyyappaṭṭa ceṟuvāṉai Īsvarakaram Itaṟkup pōkam{c} ceṟuvum kīḻaik kōṭṭa-c-ceṟuvum mēṭṭu-c-ceṟuvu¡mm! uḷḷiṭṭa nilamum nantavāṉattukk’ ellai kīḻpāl ellai

⟨2⟩ mēṭṭu-c-ceṟuvin mēṟkum tenpāl ellai vīrappuliyār tōṭṭattiṉ vaṭakkum mēlpāl ellai vatiyiṉ kiḻakkum vaṭapāl ellai kiḻaik kōṭṭaic ceṟuviṉ teṟkum Innāṟpāl Uḷḷiṭṭa nantavāṉamum Ic-colla-p-paṭṭa pūmiyum Itaṟku ce¡yi!tōm Itu rakṣittār tiruvaṭi Em muṭi mēliṉa It-taḷiyum pōkamuṅ kāttār paramēspara-prāsitakaḷ āka

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pōkam{c} ⬦ pōkamac T • Alternatively one could emend to pōkam ākac.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Ninth year of the victorious king Nirupat¡o!ṅkavikkiramaparumaṉ.¹

⟨1–2⟩ ... the temple of Śiva ... that Araicaṭikaḷār, the spouse of Puttaperumāṉār, king ⟨of⟩ Kumārapāṭi Aṉṭuṟai in the Vaiyyāvūrnāṭu in the Kaḷattūrkōṭṭam had made, to this ⟨temple⟩ a land comprising ... ⟨has been given⟩ as ... (pōkam)

⟨1–2⟩ The boundaries for the garden ⟨are as follows⟩:

the eastern boundary is ...;
the southern boundary is ...;
the westernn boundary is ...;
the northern boundary is ...;

⟨2⟩ The garden comprised within these four boundaries ...

⟨2⟩ The feet of he who protects this ⟨pious act⟩ are on my head.

⟨2⟩ Let the ... be those who protect the ... (pōkam) ⟨of⟩ this whole temple.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 2000–01 (ARIE/2000-2001/B/2000-2001/196).

Edited in Tirumūrtti 1994 (Āvaṇam 5.2). Text in Dayalan 2005.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[T] Tirumūrtti, Ji. 1994. “pallava nirupatuṅkavarmaṉiṉ kumāravaṭik kalveṭṭu.” Āvaṇam 5, p. 2. Item 2.

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1304, item 67.

Secondary

ARIE 2001–02. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2001-02. Edited by D. M. Nagaraju. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2016. Pages 4, 46, appendixes B/2001-2002, item 196.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅkavikramavarman.

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