Malaiyaṭippaṭṭi, time of Dantivarman, year 16
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00526.
Summary: Assignment of people to supply oil for a lamp.
Hand description:
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (350e545), last modified (7f63b44).
Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
kō-vicaiya⟨2⟩-tan·t¡ī!⟨i⟩-(p)arumaṟ(·)ku yāṇ(·)⟨3⟩ṭu pat¡ī!⟨i⟩¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ ā(ṟ-ā)vatu
v¡ī!⟨i⟩ṭēl(·)⟨4⟩-viṭuku mut·taraiyaṉ-āyiṉa ⟨5⟩ (ku)vāvañ cāt·taṉ· t¡ī!⟨i⟩ru-vāla⟨6⟩ttūr-p paṭāra(r)kku-t tiru⟨7⟩viḷak·ku ney Aṭṭa vait⟨8⟩t(a) kuṭi (m)āyāṉ kāṭaṉum ⟨9⟩ (m)āyāṉ v¡ī!⟨i⟩ll¡ī!⟨i⟩yum k [1×] r¡ī!⟨i⟩ ⟨10⟩ (vait)tuvaṉum ka [1×] ar¡ī!⟨i⟩ naṅkaḷ ma⟨11⟩kkaḷum nakkaṉ (koṇai)[1×]⟨12⟩m (nakka)ṉ [2×] ṉum ka
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) Prosperity! Fortune!
(1–3) Sixteenth year of the victorious king Tantiparumaṉ.1
(3–12) The people (kuṭi) that Kuvāvaṉ Cāttaṉ alias Viṭēlviṭuku Muttaraiyaṉ assigned (vaitta2) so as to supply oil for a glorious lamp for the god (paṭārar) of Tiruvalattūr [are]: Māyāṉ Kāṭaṉ, Māyāṉ villi, …, …, our relatives, Nakkaṉ Koṇai, Nakkaṉ ….
Bibliography
Reported in Gai 1979 (ARIE/1969-1970/B/1969-70/320).
This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2009, by Valérie Gillet; 2015, by Emmanuel Francis).
Secondary
[ARIE] Gai, G. S. 1979. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1969-70. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India. Page 54, appendixes B/1969-1970, item 320.
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Prosperity! Fortune!
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Sixteenth year of the victorious king Tantiparumaṉ.<note>Sanskrit Dantivarmaṉ.</note>
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The inscription appears to stop short.