Viriñcipuram, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 9

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00072.

Summary: Seemingly records the grant of exemptions to merchants (nakarattārs).

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (3d95840).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī

kō-vicaiya-nanti-vik(kirama-paruma)⟨2⟩ṟku yāṇṭu Oṉpat-āvatu

[3*] [peru]⟨3⟩māṉaṭikaṉ cerut=talai-maṅ[kalat]⟨4⟩tu nakarattārkku Uḷḷūr [4*] ⟨5⟩ v-iṭṭu sarvva-paricālam koṭu [4*] ⟨6⟩ viṭēlviṭuku mammaḷi na[5*]⟨7⟩ṇamum pi[6*]⟨8⟩m maḻit [5*]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ cerut=talai° ⬦ ceruvālai° ARIE. — ⟨3⟩ °maṅ[kalat]⟨4⟩tu ⬦ °maṅ[3+]⟨4⟩tu SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Fortune!

(1–2) Ninth year of the victorious king Nantivik(kiramaparuma)ṉ.1

(2–8) […] [peru]māṉaṭikaṉ, for the nakarattārs of Ceruttalaimaṅgala, Uḷḷūr […] (viṭṭu sarvvaparicālam koṭu2) […] Viṭēlviṭuku (mammaḷi na) […] (ṇamum pi) […] (m maḻit) […]

Bibliography

Reported Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952 (ARIE/1886-1887/II/1886-1887/54) and again in Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1939-1940/206).

Date phrase edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1.124); fully edited in Krishna Sastri 1925 (SII 5, Appendix I, no. 54); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 72).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on Krishna Sastri 1925.

Primary

[EH] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Page 133, item 124.

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1925. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume V: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 5. Madras: Government Press. Page 518, appendix I, item 54.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 137, item 221.

Secondary

[ARIE] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1887. G.O. No. 1462, 24th October 1887. Archaeology. Noting with satisfaction the work performed by Dr. Hultzsch, Epigraphist, from 21st November 1886 to 20th September 1887. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 5, appendix II, item 54.

[ARIE] Krishnamacharlu, C. R. and N. Laksminarayan Rao. 1952. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Delhi: Government of India. Page 55, appendixes B/1939-1940, item 206.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.
  2. 2. The term paricālam seems to be a variant of parikāram (Sanskrit parihāra).