Vantavāci, sale-deed, time of Nantippōtairayar, year 6

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00120.

Summary: Sale-deed of tax incomes for conducting worship.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nanti-p-pōttaraiya(rk)ku yāṇṭ’ ā⟨2⟩(ṟ-ā)vatu

veṇ-kuṉ(ṟa)-k-kōṭṭattu veṇ-kuṉṟattu ⟨3⟩ sabhaiyōm Emm-(u/ū)r malai mēṟ-p bhaṭārarai nō⟨4⟩k(ka)tt’ ellā-nellum Aiyaciyum poṉṉun ⟨5⟩ neyyum Epp¿o?⟨ē⟩rppaṭṭatum nelvāyilil iruntu⟨6⟩(v)āḻum tōciyārkku viṟṟu vilai-y-āva(ṇa)m cey(tu) ku⟨7⟩ṭuttōm veṇ-kuṉ⟨ṟa⟩ttu sabhai¡m-m!⟨m⟩

it’ aṉṟ’ eṉ(ṟō)⟨8⟩m Uṇṭik¿e?⟨ai⟩yum paṭṭikaiyum kāṭṭāmē(y/l) nilaikk(ā)t⟨9⟩tu muṉpu ni(ṟka)vēy meyv(oṟ ā)yiraṅ-⟨10⟩kāṇam iṭa-v oṭṭi-k kuṭuttōm

It-tarmma⟨11⟩ttai ¿Ilakkittāṉ?⟨Irakṣittāṉ⟩ aṭi Eṉ ṟal¿e?⟨ai⟩ mēlaṉa

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ °kuṉ(ṟa)° ⬦ °kuṉṟa° KVSA • A damage appears to have occurred after the edition by KVSA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–3) Sixth year of Nantippōtaraiyar.

(2–7) We the members of the assembly of Veṇkuṉṟam in the Veṇkuṉṟakkōṭṭam, so as to look for (nōkka) the god (bhaṭār) on the hill in our village, having sold to Tōciyār, who resides in Nelvāyil, all [the tax income from] the paddy, the gold of the Aippaci month, and the oil, of whatsoever kind, having made the sale-document, We the members of the assembly of Veṇkuṉṟam, we have given it.

(7–10) If we say that this is not so, we solemnly declare (oṭṭi-k kuṭuttōm) so that we place one thousand kāṇams ...

(10–11) The feet of he who protects this pious deed are on my head.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 80); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 120); re-edited by Valérie Gillet (ref); re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on photos.

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 34, item 80.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 369–371, item 120.

Secondary

[ARIE] 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 53, appendix B/1900, item 73.