# SII 12.33: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: NANDIVARMAN II. No. 33. (C.P. No. 10 of 1911-12).
KAŚĀKUḌI PLATES OF NANDIVARMAN: 22ND YEAR

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0033

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0033.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This copper-plate charter in Grantha and Tamil characters was found at
Kaśākuḍi near Kāraikāl in French India. It is dated in the 22nd year of
Nandivarman II, also known as Pallavamalla, Kshatriyamalla, Nayadhīra,
and Śrīdhara, and records a gift made by the king, at the request of his
minister Brahmaśrīrāja, of the village Koḍukoḷḷi which was later
surnamed as Ēkadhīramaṅgalam,[1] to a Brāhmaṇa named
Jyēshṭapāda-Sōmayājin of the Bhāradvāja-gōtra residing at Pūniya in
Toṇḍāka-rāshṭra.

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## Commentary

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II. pp. 342 ff.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.33 by Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu
1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
14, item 33.

[1] Ēkadhīra-chaturvēdimaṅgalam referred to in a record of Rājarāja I
(A. R. No. 370 of 1902) is probably another village named after Ēkadhīra
i.e., Pallavamalla. cf. also Nayadhīramaṅgalam (S.I.I. Vol. II, p. 338).