Centalai, time of Nantippōttaraiyar, year 12

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of land for food-offering and for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Palaeographic description: The puḷḷi is used.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00125.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00125.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu 10 2-
⟨3⟩ -Āvatu te-
⟨4⟩ ḷḷārṟu
⟨5⟩ Eṟi¡ñc!a
⟨6⟩ nanti-p-
⟨7⟩ -pōtta-
⟨8⟩ raiyar
⟨9⟩ niyama-m(ā)-
⟨10⟩ kāḷattu
⟨11⟩ piṭāriy(ā)-
⟨12⟩ rkku
⟨13⟩ 4 100 pa-
⟨14⟩ ḻaṅ-kā-
⟨15⟩ cu kuṭu-
⟨16⟩ ttu vi-
⟨17⟩ lai ko-
⟨18⟩ ṇṭu ni(ca)-
⟨19⟩ (t)i mu-k-k(u)-
⟨20⟩ ṟuṇi ne-
⟨21⟩ ¡l(·)l!-āka
⟨22⟩ Oru tiru-
⟨23⟩ v-amiti(ṉu)-
⟨24⟩ kkum· O-
⟨25⟩ ru non-
⟨26⟩ tā viḷa-
⟨27⟩ kkiṉu⟨k⟩ku
⟨28⟩ m
⟨29⟩ v¡acca! (ni)-
⟨30⟩ lam· mā-
⟨31⟩ ḷikai-
⟨32⟩ Uṭaiy(ā)-
⟨33⟩ ṉ vē-
⟨34⟩ li Itu
⟨35⟩ kātta-
⟨36⟩ ṉ Aṭi E-
⟨37⟩ ṉ talai
⟨38⟩ mēli-
⟨39⟩ ṉa

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–3⟩ 12th year.¹

⟨3–34⟩ ...

⟨34–39⟩ ...

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1903–04 (ARIE/1898-1899/B/1899/11).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.447). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 125).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photos.

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 185, item 447.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 386–387, item 125.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1897–98. G.O. Nos. 1093-1096, 29th August 1898. Epigraphy. Directing that the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for 1897-98 be forwarded to the Government of India, approving provisionally his programme of work for the next fields season. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1898. Page 23, appendix B/1899, item 11.

Notes

1. This is most probably the regnal year of tellāṟṟ’ eṟinta nanti-pōttaraiyar mentioned in lines 4-9.

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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