Piḷḷaipāḷaiyam, donation, time of Dantivarman, year lost

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00112.

Summary: Donation of land.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [svasti śrī]

[kō-vi]caiya-tanti-vikkirama-parumakki yā[ṇṭu] [2*] ⟨2⟩ [5*] [kā](ṭu-ve)ṭṭi muttaraiyaṉ viṇṇappattāl [6*] ⟨3⟩ [6*]ṭṭu Iṟaiyāṉ-cēri paḻan tiru-mēṟṟaḷiyum maṭamum U[6*] ⟨4⟩ [5*][u]ḷḷiṭṭu catur-¡vv!ppaṭṭi nālu paṭṭi nilamum paḻan tirumēl[4*]⟨5⟩[4*] parihāram-āka p¿ād?⟨aradatti ceṉ(ṟa)tu

Itu kāttā¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ aṭi Eṉ ṟa[lai mēḻaṉa]

Apparatus

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Prosperity! Fortune!]

(1–2) […] year of the victorious [king] Dantivikramavarman.

(2) at the request of [Kā]ṭuveṭṭi Muttaraiyaṉ

(3) […] the ancient glorious western temple and the hermitage at Iṟaiyaṉ Cēri […]

(4) including […] four paṭṭis (catur-¡vv!ppaṭṭi) [that is], four paṭṭis (nālu paṭṭi) of land; the ancient glorious western [temple] […]

(5) […] with exemption (parihāram-āka1), a donation by another2 is in force (ceṉṟatu3) […]

(5) The feet of he who protects this [donation] are [on] my [head].

Commentary

(2) [Kā]ṭuveṭṭi Muttaraiyaṉ. Note on his identification.

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 with facsimile (SII 12, no. 44); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 112); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

Primary

[VVA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 18, item 44.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 360, item 112.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, tax-free.
  2. 2. Skt. paradatti.
  3. 3. Literally: “has gone”.