SII 12.54: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. No. 54. (A.R. No. 8 of 1934-35). PAḌŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP IN THE STREET CALLED ‘MĒṬṬUTTERUVU’.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0054.

Summary: The beginning of this inscription is lost, but from palaeography and the letters Nan traceable in the first line, it may be assigned to Nandivarman III. It is dated in the 18th year and registers the gift of 96 sheep by the shepherds (kōṭṭamaṉṟāḍis) of Āmūr-kōṭṭam for burning a perpetual lamp before the god Perumā[ṉa*]ḍigaḷ ‘who was pleased’ to stand at Viḻupperundāya-Vishṇugṛiham in Paḍuvūr.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

Version: (97de750), last modified (180a207).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [7+] nan⟨2⟩[4+] ṟku yāṇṭu pati⟨3⟩ṉeṭṭāvatu Āmurkoṭ⟨4⟩ṭattuk (ko)ṭṭamaṉṟāṭi⟨5⟩kaḷ paṭuvūr viḻuppe⟨6⟩runtāyaviṣṇugrahattu ⟨7⟩ niṉṟa(ruḷu)kiṉṟa perumā⟨8⟩⟨ṉa⟩ṭikaḷukku vaiytta nan⟨9⟩tāviḷakkoṉṟukku vai⟨10⟩tta Āṭu cāvāmuvāpperā⟨11⟩ṭu toṇṇūṟu Idhanmam ra(kṣi)⟨12⟩⟨p⟩pār Aṭipoṭi Eṉ talaimela⟨13⟩tu [||]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.54 by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 22, item 54.