Pāṭi, Tiruvallīśvara temple

Editor: Dorotea Operato.

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv36p0i0221.

Summary: Mentions the taxes paṭṭaṭai-āyam and paṭṭaṭai-nūl-āyam to be paid by the Ceṭṭis, Kaikkōlars, Vāṇikars and other communities working in the eighteen professional castes.

Hand description:

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

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

Version: (05cda97), last modified (36884e2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

mahā-maṇḍalīśvaraṉ kaṇṭa-nāṭu koṇṭāṉ koṇṭa-nāṭu kuṭātāṉ pākṣaikku-t tappu-v-ār-irāyar kaṇṭaṉ śrī-vīra-ariyar-irāyaṉukku-c cellā niṉṟa tātri varuṣattu makara-nāyaṟṟu-p pūṟuva-pakṣattu-⟨2⟩t tecamiyum peṟṟa Uttirattu nāḷ

jayaṅ-koṇṭa-c¡o!⟨ō⟩ḻa-maṇṭalattu puḻaṟ-koṭṭam-āṉa vikkirama-c¡o!⟨ō⟩ḻa-vaḷa-nāṭṭu Ampattūr-nāṭṭil pāṭi tiru-vallitāyattil uṭaiyār tiru-vallitā⟨3⟩yam-uṭaiya nāyaṉārkku mallaṇṇa-uṭaiyā⟨r⟩ niru-p-paṭikku pāṭi tiru-vallitāyattil paṭṭaṭai-k-kuṭi ceṭṭikaḷ kaikk¡o!⟨ō⟩ḷar vāṇikar Eṇṇai vāṇikar maṟṟum Uḷḷiṭṭa ⟨4⟩ puṟa-k-kalaṉaiyil patiṉ-eṭṭu-p paṭṭaṭaiyil Uḷḷa p¡e!⟨ē⟩ṟkku paṭṭaṭai-Āyam paṭṭaṭai-nūl-āyam māta Iraṭṭi cammātam cekkum maṟṟum Ep-p¡e!⟨ē⟩ṟpaṭṭa Āyattai n¡o!⟨ō⟩kki varum Ilāpa-l¡o!⟨ō⟩kaṅkaḷukkum ⟨5⟩ Uṭpaṭa Uṭaiyār tiru-vallitāyam-uṭaiya nāyaṉārkku cantirātittakaḷ varaikkum carvva-māṉiyam Āka naṭakka kaṭavatu Āka-c cilā-l¡e!⟨ē⟩kai paṇṇi-k kuṭutt¡e!⟨ē⟩

It-taṉmattukku Akitam niṉaittār Uṇṭākil keṅkai karaiyiṟ-k kurā-p pacuvai-k koṉṟa […]

Apparatus

Translation by Dorotea Operato

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

Commentary

This inscriptions belongs to the time of Harihara II, 1397 A.D., according to Shanmugam 2018.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1910-1911 (ARIE/1910-1911/B/1910/221).

Edited in Shanmugam 2018 (SII 36.221).

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). Page 183, item 221.

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 221.