Uttiramērūr, donation, time of Dantivarman, year 9

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00102.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

dan=tippōttaracarkku yāṇṭ’ oṉpat-āvatu

Ut=ta(rameru)catu(r)vvedimaṁgalattu sabhaiyōm eḻuttu-k

ka(c)cippē(ṭ)ṭup [3+] tuvāy(ccēri) cēṭṭatarayar tā⟨2⟩ṉavēntaṉ pakkal irupatiṉ kaḻañcu poṉ koṇṭ’ emmūr ellāccērit toṟu-nilaiyum mēlait toṟu-nilaiyum ivvaṉaittiṉālum vanta Eru-vilaiyāl vanta ⟨3⟩ māṭ’ epp¿o?⟨e⟩rppaṭṭatum ippoṉṉukk’ immāṭu vilaiy aṟutiyāy vayiramēkataṭākattuṭk kuḻi kuttuvat’ āka Oṭṭi-k-kuṭuttōm sabhaiyōn tāṉavēnta⟨4⟩ṉ eṉum appoṉṉum ivveru-vilaiyāl vanta dravyamum avvērikkēy aṟam-āka-k kuṭuttēṉ sabhaiyōmum maṟṟu viniyōgañ ceyyātēy av⟨5⟩vakkālattu vāriyarēy māsantōṟun kuḻi kut=tuvat’ ākavu⟨m⟩ paṇittōm maṟ(ṟu) viniyōgañ ceytār paṇiyum piḻaitt’ aṟam iṟakkiṉa pāpamum paṭuvā(r-āka)⟨6⟩p paṇittōm sabhaiyōm

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ut=ta(rameru)catu(r)vvedimaṁgalattu ⬦ Uttaramerucaturvvedimaṁgalattu KVSA. — ⟨1⟩ eḻuttuk ka(c)cippē(ṭ)ṭup ⬦ eḻuttu ka(c)ci(p)pēṭṭu KVSA. — ⟨1⟩ cēṭṭatarayar ⬦ cēṭṭataray(ā/ar) KVSA. — ⟨1⟩ tāṉavēntaṉ ⬦ (tā)ṉavēntaṉ KVSA.

⟨2⟩ ellāccērit ⬦ elalāccērit IP.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Ninth year of Dantippōttaracar (Dantivarman).

(1) Writ (eḻuttu) of We the members of the assembly (sabhā) of Uttaramerucaturvedimaṅgalam:

(1–6) Translation to be completed.

Bibliography

Edited with a facsimile in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 359); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 102); re-edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).

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. Item 359, page 167.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 102, pages 342–343.

Secondary

[ARIE 1897-1898] 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 74.