Kīḻūr, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 17

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00108.

Summary: Slab inscription recording the gift of 15 kaḻañcus of gold to the god (Perumāṉaṭikaḷ) of the Tiruvīraṭṭānam at Tirukkōvalūr by Māṇikkattār [...] Nakkaṉār.

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Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (a90ca73), last modified (007a50e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sva(sti) śrī

kō-vic(ai)ya-tanti-vikkirama-[parumaṟku] ⟨2⟩ (yāṇ)ṭu pati(ṉ E)ḻavatu

mil(ā)ṭṭu [kuṟuk]⟨3⟩kai-k-kūṟṟattu tiru-¿ke?⟨kkō⟩valūr ti[ruvīraṭṭā]⟨4⟩ṉattu Perumā⟨ṉa⟩ṭi(ka)ḷuk=ku tiru [ca. 5+] ⟨5⟩ O(ru n)¡(a)!⟨o⟩nt¿a?⟨ā⟩ viḷakku māṇikka⟨t⟩tār [ca. 5+] ⟨6⟩ (ṉa)kkaṉār vā(ṇa)-kō-v-a(rai)yar pōkiyār[ca. 5+]⟨7⟩ṉ kāci¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-ōṭ’ urai Oppa(tu) patiṉ aiṅ-kaḻa[ñcu][ca. 3+]⟨8⟩[ca. 1+] ṉāl kaḻañci [ca. 4+] kaḷ [ca. 3+] ⟨9⟩ (kai)-k-koṇṭu (kaṭavē)ṉ-āka [ca. 3+] ⟨10⟩ Ip-poṉṉāl palicai ni[ca. 3+]⟨11⟩ [ca. 2+][E]ṇṇai-y aṭṭuvō¡mm!⟨m⟩ ā[ṉōm]

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ viḷakku ⬦ viḷakku SII; viḷakku⟨kku⟩ IP.

⟨7⟩ urai ⬦ urai SII IPIP’s summary seems to imply the correction of urai to uri.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) Seventeenth year of the victorious king Tantivikkiramaparumaṉ.1

(2–11) ...

Commentary

(1) The inscriptions stops short. See Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932, p. 457, n. 1.

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1902 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/302).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.931). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 108).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis; with restoration of text compared to previous editions.

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 457, item 931.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 351, item 108.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1902. G.O. Nos. 763, 764, 6th August 1902. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1901-1902. Copy to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 18, appendix B/1902, item 302.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Dantivikramavarman.