Tiruvatikai, donation, time of Nantippōttaraiyar, year 10

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00123.

Summary: Donation of gold for the upkeep of perpetual lamps.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ tiru-v-iraṭṭāṉ⟨3⟩ttu mahā-de⟨4⟩varkku-t teḷ⟨5⟩ḷāṟṟ’ eṟinta ⟨6⟩ nanti-p-pō⟨7⟩tt-araiyar ti⟨8⟩ru-viḷakkiṉu⟨9⟩kku-k kuṭutta ⟨10⟩ poṉ niṟai ⟨11⟩ nūṟṟu-k ka⟨12⟩ḻañcu

Itaṉ ⟨13⟩ palic(ai-)y-ā(l) ⟨14⟩ yāṇṭu pa⟨15⟩tt-āvatu mu⟨16⟩tal-āka nāḷ⟨17⟩vāy (nāḻi) ⟨18⟩ ney aḷa⟨19⟩ntu kuṭuttu ⟨20⟩ Iraṇṭu nan⟨21⟩tā-viḷakku Erip⟨22⟩pippēṉ āṉēṉ ⟨23⟩ It-tiru-v-irattāṉa⟨24⟩ttu-k kuṭumpi-y-a⟨25⟩ruḷ kāḷi-¡(śś)!ś(a)ruma(ṉ-ē)⟨26⟩(ṉ)

Iv-viḷakku ⟨27⟩ [ca. 2*]akarattu pal-⟨28⟩[heśvara-rakṣai]

Apparatus

⟨27⟩ pal-⟨28⟩[heśvara-rakṣai]pal- KVS IPKVS notes that "[t]wo more lines are effaced at the end".

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–12)

(12–26)

(27–28)

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1937 (SII 8, no. 309); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 123); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

Primary

[KVS] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1937. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VIII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Page 168, item 309.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 382–383, item 123.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1903. G.O., etc., Nos. 655-656, 24th July 1903. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1902-1903. Copy to the Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 21, appendix B/1903, item 36.