SII 12.67: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 67. (A.R. No. 404 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE AMMAN SHRINE IN THE KOṄKAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0067.

Summary: This inscription states that in the 15th year of Nṛipatuṅgavarman, the assembly of Kāvidipākkam [alias] Avaṉinārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam agreed to measure one uḻakku of oil daily by the liquid measure Māṉāya-nāḻi, for lighting the central shrine of the temple of Tirumēṟṟaḷi-Aḍigaḷ, with the interest on 17 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Śaḍaṅkaviyār of Kaṇviḻchchil in Ōḍappuṟai. The name Avaṉinārāyaṇachaturvēdimaṅgalam must have been given to Kāvidipākkam after the surname ‘Avaṉinārāyaṇa’1 borne by Nandivarman III. The record is left incomplete and it is engraved in characters of the 11th century A.D. The stone bearing this record must have belonged originally to a temple of Vishṇu (Tirumēṟṟaḷi-Aḍigaḷ) in the village and was probably shifted here at some later time.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (c2424c5), last modified (8ea237f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ nṛpatoṅkaparmma⟨rk⟩ku yāṇṭu patiṉaintāvatu kā(vi)tipākkamum Avaṉinārā⟨2⟩yaṇaccaturvvetimaṅkalattu sabhaiyom Oṭappuṟaik kaṇviḻccil caṭaṅka⟨3⟩viyār pakkal patiṉeḻu kaḻañcu poṉkoṇṭu Emmūr tirumeṟṟaḷi Aṭikaḷukku U⟨4⟩ṇṇāḻikai⟨p⟩puṟam nicati Uḻakkeṇṇai māṉāyaṉāḻi(y)oṭokkum Uḻakkiṉāl pakal

Commentary

(4) Continuation of the inscription is lost.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.67 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 28, item 67.

Notes

  1. 1. Nandikkalambagam, vv. 18, 44, 46.