Paḷḷikoṇḍa, foundation, time of Nantipōttaraiyar, year 2

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00114.

Summary: Building of a mukhamaṇḍapa.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [śrī]

nanti-pō⟨2⟩ttarayar⟨k⟩ku yā⟨3⟩ṇṭu Iraṇṭ-āvatu

⟨4⟩ Amaṉi-kaṅkaraiyar ⟨5⟩ makaṉ celva-vā⟨6⟩ṇa-rayaṉ vittū⟨7⟩r āṇṭu ceyvit⟨8⟩ta muka-maṇṭaka⟨9⟩m

Apparatus

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Fortune!]

(1–3) Second year of Nantipōttaraiyar.

(4–9) [This is] the mukhamaṇḍapa that Celvavāṇarayaṉ, the son [of] Amaṉikaṅkaraiyar had made [when] ruling over Vittūr.

Commentary

(1) On Nandivarman = Nandivarman III Pallava. See SII and IP.

(5) On Celva-vāṇa-rayaṉ, son of Amaṉi-kaṅkaraiyar. See SII.

(6) On Vittūr = Viccūr. See SII and IP.

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 with facsimile (SII 12, no. 45); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 114); 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 45.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 362, item 114.