Tiruveḷḷaṟai, Puṇḍarikākṣaperumāḷ, time of Nandivarman II, year 10

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00073.

Summary: Lacunose inscription on a pillar. Mentions Nandivarman II Pallava and Vicaiyanalluḻāṉ of the Ādityakula.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (8cc44b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nan=di-parmma¡k!⟨rk⟩ku yā(ṇṭu) ⟨2⟩ 10 ÷

pallava-kula-tilaka[ca. 4+]⟨3⟩nan=dipanma¡ṟ!⟨r⟩kku [ca. 5+] [ā]⟨4⟩(di)t=ta-kula-ketana [ca. 7+] ⟨5⟩ vic¡a!⟨ai⟩ya-nalluḻā [ca. 7+] ⟨6⟩ [ca. 1+] (rai)yaṉāl ni [ca. 7+] ⟨7⟩ [ca. 3+] ni [ca. 4+] ḷiṭam ⟨8⟩[ca. 3+] tiyā [ca. 5+] ⟨9⟩[ca. 10+]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ 10 ÷ • It is unclear what the symbol "÷" represents in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943. It seems to be an abbreviated form of the ordinal suffix -āvatu.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) 10th year of Nandivarman.

(2–3) to Nandivarman […] the ornament of the Pallava lineage

(4–5) Vicaiyanalluḻāṉ […] the banner of the Āditya lineage

(6–9) [too lacunose to be translated]

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.32); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 73).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis (2020). The available visual documentation (photos, 2011) does not enable to assess the edition by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943, as the inscription is too heavily damaged.

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 14, item 32.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 222, item 73.

Secondary

[ARIE 1905-1906] Venkayya, V. 1906. G.O. No. 492, 2nd July 1906. Epigraphy. Recording the annual report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1905-1906, and directing that the report be forwarded to the Government of India. No place. Page 33, appendix B/1905, item 537.