Uttiramērūr, Vaikuṇṭhaperumāḷ, no king, no year

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00096.

Summary: Land donation.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (a90ca73), last modified (1e3f6d8).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tiru-p-pulivalattu mahā-devarkku malliyaṉ kārāṇai nālu paṭṭi nilam oru tiraḷ-ē-y arccanā-bhogam-āka vaittōm ut=tara⟨2⟩meru-caturvvedi-maṅkalattu sabhaiyōm

itu pārāyaṇa-mārggam vēdam vallaṉ āy uktaṉ-ākiya brāhmaṇaṉ brahmācāri-y-ē-y mūṉṟu poḻutu⟨3⟩(m) ārādhitt’ uṇpat’ ākavum

ip-paricu pukkār pukkārkku mūṉṟu yāṇṭ’ avadhi-y-āka vaittōm vastu-vidyā-mayaṉ eḻuttu

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

Prosperity! Fortune!

We the members of the assembly (sabhā) of Uttaramērucaturvedimaṅkalam, we have allotted (vaittōm) one land of four paṭṭis [named] kārāṇai of Malliyaṉ, as a single plot (tiraḷ-ē), as arcanābhoga, to the great god of Tiruppulivanam.

This should be for feeding (uṇpatu) a Brahmin, who is reputed as (uktaṉ-ākiya) skilled in the Vedas and the proper way of its recitation and who is a brahmācārin, for making worship (ārādhittu) three times [a day].

In this manner (ipparicu) we have alloted [this] for a limit of three years for each entrant (pukkār pukkārkku).

Signature of Vastuvidyāmayaṉ.

Commentary

(1) Malliyaṉ Kārāṇai designates the land given. It incorporates the personal name Malliyaṉ.

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1898 (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/71).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.355). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 96).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photos (2019).

Primary

[SII] 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 355, item 166.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 332, item 96.

Secondary

[ARIE] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1898. G.O. Nos. 1093-1096, 29th August 1898. Epigraphy. Directing that the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for 1897-98 be forwarded to the Government of India, approving provisionally his programme of work for the next fields season. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 18, appendix B/1898, item 71.