Taḷavāṉūr, regulation, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 15

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00128.

Summary: Agreement concerning a donation of gold.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (f2f3eaa), last modified (c50ad8e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya⟨2⟩-nanti-vikkirama-(p)⟨3⟩-paruma⟨r⟩(kku) yāṇṭu pati⟨4⟩ṉ aint-āvatu

veṇ⟨5⟩pēṭṭu vāḻum taḷi-Uṭai(ya) ⟨6⟩ (kā)ḷa(ya I) [ca. 4×] (ma)kaṉ te⟨7⟩[ca. 10+] ⟨8⟩ [ca. 10+] ⟨9⟩ (m)ula(ṅkūr-p) pur(ai)car ⟨10⟩ mōṭa¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ iṭai-k ka⟨11⟩ḻañcu-(p po)ṉ muta⟨12⟩l koṇṭu Ip-po

[ca. 4 lost lines]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–4) Fifteenth year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumar.1

(4–12) […], the son [of] […], the lord of the temple (taḷi-y-uṭaiya), who lives in Veṇpēṭu […] with (koṇṭu) the capital (mutal) [of one] kaḻañcu [of] gold [deposited] with (iṭai2) Puraicar Mōṭaṉ [of] Mulaṅkūr, this gold […]

Bibliography

Reported in Venkayya 1905 (ARIE/1904-1905/B/1905/49).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.52); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 128).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photographs.

Primary

[VVA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 21, item 52.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 390, item 128.

Secondary

Venkayya, V. 1905. G.O. No. 518, 18th July 1905. Epigraphy. Recording the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for the year 1904-1905, and directing that the report be forwarded to the government of India. No place. Page 32, appendix B/1905, item 49.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.
  2. 2. Literally, "in the place of."