Uḻalūr land donation, time of Nandivarman II

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00094.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nanti-p⟨2⟩pōttaraiyar koṭukka-p-pi⟨3⟩ḷḷaika¡ḷḷ!⟨ḷ⟩ukku Uḻalū¡rr!⟨r⟩ ¿u?⟨ū⟩rār makaḷmai paṭi ⟨4⟩ perumāṉaṭika¡ḷḷ!⟨ḷ⟩ukku viṇṇappañ ce⟨5⟩ytu sa(r)vva-pariram koṇṭu koṭu⟨6⟩ttōm mēlālum koṭukka-p-pi⟨7⟩¡ḷḷ!⟨ḷ⟩aika¡ḷḷ!⟨ḷ⟩ itu k(ā)tt(ā)r Aṭi muṭi mēliṉa ⟨8⟩ koṭukka-p-piḷḷaikaḷ paṇiyāl mā⟨9⟩ṇikka-p-paṇṭāraṅ-kāppāṉ ⟨10⟩ ciṅkaḷamey{ar}-kāppaṉ Arituṭṭa⟨11⟩ṉ vantu ceyvittatu

Apparatus

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

Prosperity! Fortune!

To the koṭukkappiḷḷais (koṭukkappiḷḷaikaḷ) [at the service of] Nantippōttaraiyar:

"[We,] the ūrārs of Uḻalūr, according to (paṭi) the makaḷmai, after having made a request to the lord (perumāṉaṭikaḷukku), we have given with (koṇṭu) all immunities."

As per the above (mēlālum), the koṭukkappiḷḷais:

"The feet of he who protects this (donation) are on [our] heads (literally: tufts)."

At the order (paṇi-y-āl) of the koṭukkappiḷḷais, (this is) what Arituṭṭaṉ, the guard (kāppāṉ) of the gem-treasury (māṇikka-p-paṇṭāram) and guard of the body of the Siṁhala [king] [OR: the Siṁhala body-guard from] (ciṅkaḷa-mey-kāppaṉ), after coming, had made.

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

(2, 6) koṭukkappiḷḷaikaḷ: ...

(3) makaḷmai: i.e. makaṇmai or makaṉmai, a tax? I.e. what is given is a tax? according to sonship? Cf. piḷḷai = "son" of NP?

(10) ciṅkaḷamey{ar}-kāppaṉ: ...

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.453); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 94).

Edited here and translated by Emmanuel Francis, based on a partial photographic documentation (2008).

Primary

[KVSA] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 87, item 453.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 330, item 94.

Secondary

[ARIE 1898-1899] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1899. G.O., &c., Nos. 922-23, 19th August 1899. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1898-99. Copy to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 23, appendix B/1899, item 17.