Kunnāṇṭār Kōyil, time of Nantipōttaraiyar, year 3

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of rice for feeding hundred persons on the day of tiruvātirai.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Version: 2025-10-30 16:41 (152e922), last modified 2025-09-24 16:03 (df3f0d0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-nanti-p-pōtta-
⟨2⟩ raiyarkku yāṇṭu 3-Āvatu mī-
⟨3⟩ puḻai-nāṭṭu vaṭuvūr-k kaṇavatimā-
⟨4⟩ ¡ṉṉ!-āyiṉa pakai-c-cantira-vicai¡-A!-
⟨5⟩ raiyaṉ ṟiru-v-ātirai nāṉṟu A-
⟨6⟩ ṭṭ-aḻiya vaitta Arici 200 Iru-
⟨7⟩ nūṟṟu nāḻi nūṟṟuvarkku⁋

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ mī⟨3⟩puḻai° ⬦ mi⟨3⟩puḻai° SII12 • SII12 reads however mīpuḻai° in his summary.

⟨7⟩ ⁋ • SII12 has 3 daṇḍas followed by an hyphen; SII34 has a piḷḷaiyār cuḻi.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Third year of the king Nantipōttaraiyar.¹

⟨2–7⟩ [There are] 200 [that is], two hundred, nāḻis of paddy that Pakaiccantiravicai Araiyaṉ, alias Kaṇavatimāṉ, [of] Vaṭuvūr in the Mīpuḷaināṭu, gave to cook and distribute (aṭṭ-aḻiya) at the time/on the day (nāṉṟu) [of] tiruvātirai; [this is for the food] for one hundred persons.

Commentary

⟨1⟩ On Nandivarman = Nandivarman III Pallava. See SII and IP.

⟨5⟩ tiruvātirai. A festival?

⟨7⟩ nūṟṟuvar. A corporate body ("the One Hundred")? Or one hundred people at random?

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1903-04 (ARIE/1903-1904/B/1904/262).

Edited in Vaidyanatha Aiyar and Swaminatha Aiyar 1929 (IPS 15); translated in Srinivasa Aiyar 1941 (IPS 15); reedited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 with visual documentation (SII 12.46). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 116); reedited in Subbarayalu 2015 with visual documentation (SII 34.347).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2009, kindly supplied by Valérie Gillet).

Primary

[IPS] Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. and N. Swaminatha Aiyar. 1929. Inscriptions (texts) of the Pudukkottai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Page 10, item 15.

[SII12] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 19, item 46.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 364, item 116.

[SII34] Subbarayalu, Y. 2015. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXIV: Inscriptions collected during the year 1914. South Indian Inscriptions 34. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Page 321, item 347.

Secondary

Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. and Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Chronological list of inscriptions of the Pudukkóttai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Pages 18–19, item 15.

[ARIE] ARIE 1914-15. G.O. No. 1260, 25th August 1915. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1914-1915. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1915. Page 37, appendix B/1914, item 347.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nandin + Tamil Pōttaraiyar. That is, the Pallava king Nandin.

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