Kīḻūr, Vīraṭṭānēśvara, rock, time of Nandivarman III, year 4

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00118.

Summary: Donation (16 kaḻañcus of gold) for a perpetual lamp in honour of the Mahādeva of the Tiruviraṭṭānam at Tirukkōvalūr.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-(vicaiya)-nanti-vi(kkira)⟨2⟩ma-parumaṟku yāṇṭu nāl-āvatu

tiru⟨3⟩-k-kōvalūr tiru-viraṭṭānattu mā⟨4⟩-tēvarkku naṉtā viḷakkiṉu⟨5⟩kku Ati-(Araiya)-maṅkalattu ⟨6⟩ tirunilai-kiḻa[vaṉ] [ca. 5*] kaṉṉa[ṉ kuṭu]⟨7⟩tta poṉ [ca. 5*] ma [ca. 1*] ma [ca. 2*] ⟨8⟩ pati¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ aṟu kaḻa(ñcu)

(I)p-po¡(n)⟨9⟩n!⟨ṉ⟩i¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ukku nicatam Uri-y ne⟨10⟩y poliyūṭṭ’ āka

Aṭṭa vaittatu

⟨11⟩ kāttār kayy uḻutu kuṭu⟨t⟩tu

⟨12⟩ Ip-poṉ panmāyeśvara-⟨ra⟩kṣai

Apparatus

⟨7⟩ tirunilaikiḻa[vaṉ] [ca. 5*] kaṉṉa[ṉ kuṭu]tirunilaikiḻa [7*] kaṉṉa [2*] KVSA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) Fourth year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

(2–8) [As for] the sixteen kaḻañcus […] of gold that Tirunilaikiḻa[vaṉ] […] Kaṉṉa[ṉ] of Atiyaraimaṅkalam [gave] for a perpetual lamp for the Mahādeva of the Tiruviṭṭānam at Tirukkōvalūr.

(8–10) With this gold there shall be poured daily [out of its] interest one uri of ghee.

(10) [Thus] has it been given.

(11) (kāttār kayy uḻutu kuṭu⟨t⟩tu)

(12) This gold [is under] the protection of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 929); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 118); encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

Primary

[KVSA] 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 456, item 929.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 118, page 367.

Secondary

[ARIE 1901-1902] 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 300.