Cīyamaṅkalam pillar inscription, time of Nandivarman, year 3

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00117.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (7dfaa44), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicai⟨2⟩ya-nanti-v(i)kkirama⟨3⟩-parumaṟku yā⟨4⟩ṇṭu mūṉṟ-ā⟨5⟩vatu

Ūṟṟukkā⟨6⟩ṭṭu-(k)-kōṭṭa(t)tu⟨7⟩(p) perum-pālai⟨8⟩-Ūr-t tiru-p-pālai⟨9⟩y-ūr kiḻava¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ aṭa⟨10⟩vi śrī-kaṅkaraiyar ⟨11⟩ nērkuṭṭi perumāṉā⟨12⟩rkku viṇṇappañ ceytu ⟨13⟩ Aṭavi taṉ ṟāyār naṅka(ṉ)i naṅkaiyārkk-āka-c ce⟨14⟩y(ta mu)ka-maṇṭakam

It’ aḻi-Āmai-k kāttāṉ a⟨15⟩ṭi Eṉ (muṭi mē)⟨16⟩l

Apparatus

⟨15⟩ mēl ⬦ mēla EH.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–5) Third year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

(5–14) Aṭavi, the lord (kiḻavaṉ) of Tiruppālaiyūr in Perumpālaiyūr in the district (kōṭṭam) of Ūṟṟukkāṭu, after having made request to the glorious king of the Gaṅgas, the mukhamaṇḍapa that Aṭavi made for his own mother Naṅkaṉi Naṅkaiyār.

(14–16) This [pious act], the feet of he who protects it without destroying it are on my head.

Commentary

(7) perumpālai-ūr. Compare with tiruppālai-y-ūr, line 8.

(14) aḻi-āmai. Here again, there is no sandhi. A more frequent form is aḻi-y-āmai.

Bibliography

Edited in Hultzsch 1902–1903 with facsimile and English translation (EI 7, no. 4); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 117); re-edited and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).

Primary

[EH] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1902–1903. “Three memorial stones.” EI 7, pp. 22–26. Item B, pages 320–322.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 117, pages 365–366.

Secondary

[ARIE 1899-1900] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1900. G.O. etc., Nos. 833-34, 22nd August 1900. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1899-1900. Copy to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 52, appendix B/1900, item 68.

Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-temples of the Pallavas. Architectural survey of temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 89–94.