Pāṭi, Tiruvallīśvara temple, time of Dēvarāya II

Editor: Dorotea Operato.

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv36p0i0215.

Summary: Gift of the tax iṭaṅkai-vari by the community of Left-hand classes and Vaṉṉiyars to a temple for conducting the hunting festival.

Hand description:

No distinction between o and ō nor between e and ē.

Languages: Kannada, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: (0dac393), last modified (36884e2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrīmaṉ-mak⟨ā⟩-maṇṭalīcuraṉ ⟨2⟩ pākṣaikku-t tappu-v-arāya⟨3⟩r kaṇṭaṉ mū-v-arāyar kaṇ⟨4⟩ṭaṉ pū⟨r⟩vva-pakṣa-tekṣaṇa-Uttirāpati ⟨5⟩ vīra-śrī-t¡e!⟨ē⟩va-rāyaṟkku-c cellā niṉṟa pila⟨6⟩vaṅka-varuṣattu mitaṉa-nāyaṟṟu pūṟuva-pak⟨7⟩ṣattu duvādaciyum veḷḷi-k-kiḻamaiyum pe⟨8⟩ṟṟa Aṉiḻattu nāḷ

jayaṅ-koṇṭa-c¡o!⟨ō⟩⟨9⟩ḻa-maṇṭalattu puḻal-koṭṭa(m)⟨10⟩-āṉa vikrama-c¡o!⟨ō⟩ḻa-vaḷa-nāṭṭu Ampattūr-nāṭṭu ⟨11⟩ tiru-vallitāyattu Uṭaiyār tiru-va⟨l⟩li⟨12⟩tāyam-uṭaiya nāyiṉār śrī-paṇṭārattuk⟨13⟩ku cantirakiri cūḻnta pala paṟṟil Iṭaṅkaiyi⟨14⟩l Ullārarum vaṉṉiyarum nāyaṉār tiru-val⟨15⟩litāyam uṭaiya nāyiṉāṟku pāṭiyil irukku⟨16⟩m paḷḷikaḷ p¡e!⟨ē⟩ril Iṭaṅkai-vari Uḷḷatukku sarvva⟨17⟩mānya⟨ṅ⟩ kal-veṭṭi-k kuṭutta paṭi

Ivarkaḷ p¡e!⟨ē⟩ril Iṭaṅkai-vari-p-pa⟨18⟩ṇam uḷḷatu nāyaṉār tiru-vēṭṭai Eḻunt’ aruḷukiṟa Upa⟨19⟩yattukku-c cellum kuṟai-v-aṟuppukku ⟨20⟩ Inta Ūr Iṭaṅkai-vari sarvva-mānyam akāvum

tiru-me⟨21⟩y-kāppāṟku nāṭṭil Oṉṟu pātiyum kuṭikku Oṉṟu mukkā⟨22⟩lum koḷḷa-k kaṭavarkaḷ ākavum

Ip-paṭi cammatittu kal-ve⟨23⟩ṭṭi kuṭutt¡o!⟨ō⟩m

nāyaṉār tiru-vallitāyam-uṭaiya nāyaṉāṟku ⟨24⟩ cantira-kiri cūḻnta pala paṟṟil Iṭaṅkaiyil Uḷḷārum ⟨25⟩ vaṉṉiyarum Ip-paṭikku cammatittu-t taṉma-cātaṉa⟨26⟩m paṇṇi-k kuṭutt¡o!⟨ō⟩m

Inta taṉma(ttu-k) ⟨27⟩ kuṭutt¡o!⟨ō⟩m

Ip-paṭikku Ivai Iṭaṅkai mīkāmaveḷāṉ eḻuttu

nāṣi prabākaranu

Apparatus

Translation by Dorotea Operato

(1–8) On the day of Aṉiḻam star, which coincindes with a Thursday, the 10th day of the bright fortnight of the month of Mitaṉa, in Pilavaṅka year, at the time when Vīra Śrī Devarāyar, the great emperor, punisher of the kings who disobeyd royal orders, destroyer of the three kings, was ruling … (pūrvva-pakṣa-tekṣaṇa-Uttirāpati)

(8–17) This is the manner in which we have engraved the rent-free grant (carva-māṉiyam) for those who [paid] the iṭaṅkai tax (iṭaṅkai vari) among the Paḷḷis who live in Pāṭi, the merchants, and those who belong to the Left-hand caste in the many villages that surround Cantirakiri [region] to the glorious treasury of the god of Tiruvallitāyam [temple] in Tiruvallitāyam, in Ampattūr nāṭu, within Vikkiramacōḻa vaḷanāṭu alias Puḻaṟ koṭṭam subdivision in Jayaṅkoṇṭacōḻa maṇṭalam.

(17–22)

  • So that in this village the itaṅkai tax is rent-free for [what concerns] the supplies (kuṟaivaṟuppukku) that are destined to the donations (upayattukku) that have been collected (eḻuntaruḷukiṟa) for the hunting ceremony (tiru-vēṭṭai) of the god, that is, the itaṅkai tax [collected] among these people,
  • and so that they should collect one third (oṉṟu mukkāl) [paṇam] for the tenants (kuṭikku)and one half [paṇam] for the temple watchmen in the district,
having agreed like this, we have authorised the inscription.

(23–25) Having agreed in this manner, we, the merchants who belong to the Left-hand caste in the many villages that surround Cantirakiri [region], have done and given an endowment (taṉmacātaṉam) to the god of Tiruvallitāyam.

(26–28) We have given this for charity. According to this, I, Mīkāmaveḷāṉ of Left-hand caste, have signed this.

Nāṣi Prabākaranu

Commentary

This inscription has a signature in Kannaḍa at the end.

Year 1427 A.D. according to Shanmugam 2018.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1910-1911 (ARIE/1910-1911/B/1910/215).

Edited in Shanmugam 2018 (SII 36.215).

This digital edition by Dorotea Operato, based on Shanmugam 2018.

Primary

[SII] Shanmugam, P. 2018. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXVI: Inscriptions collected during the year 1910. South Indian Inscriptions 36. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Pages 175–176, item 215.

Secondary

ARIE 1910-1911. G.O. No. 832, 28th July 1911. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1910-1911. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1911. Page 20, appendix B/1910, item 215.