Kīḻūr, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 16

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining perpetual lamps.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00129.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00129.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī k(ō)-vicaiya-na(n)ti-vik-
⟨2⟩ kirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu pati(ṉ ā)ṟ-āvatu
⟨3⟩ malāṭṭu-k kuṟukkai-k-kūṟṟattu-t ti-
⟨4⟩ ru-k-kōvalūr-t ti[ru-vīraṭṭā]ṉat-
⟨5⟩ tu mā-tē(va)rk[k’ oru nantā-vi]ḷa[kku]
⟨6⟩ Iravum pakalu[m cantirātitta-varai Erippa]-
⟨7⟩ taṟku teṉṉavaṉ iḷa[ṅkō-vēḷār-āyiṉa]
⟨8⟩ maṟavam pūti vaitta [poṉ] viṭēl-
⟨9⟩ -viṭuku tī-p-pōkku-c (cem-poṉ)
⟨10⟩ Iru-pattu nāṟ kaḻañcu ni[ṟai]
⟨11⟩ Itaṉ palicai kaḻañciṟ pērtt’ itu [nā]-
⟨12⟩ ḷ Uri-y ney Aṭṭuvat’ āka tiru-k-kōva-
⟨13⟩ lūr (na)karattār kai-vaḻi vaiytta-
⟨14⟩ tu

Apparatus

⟨7⟩ teṉṉavaṉ ⬦ te(ṉṉava)ṉ SII; teṉṉavaṉ EI.

⟨8⟩ maṟavam ⬦ maṟa(vam) SII; maṟavam EI.

⟨9⟩ tī° ⬦ ti° SII; tī° EI.

⟨13⟩ kaivaḻi ⬦ kaiyvaḻi SII; kaivaḻi EI.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Sixteenth year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.¹

⟨3–10⟩ The gold that Maṟavam Pūti alias Teṉṉavaṉ Iḷa[ṅkō Vēḷār] gave for burning day and night, as long as the moon and the sun, one perpetual lamp for Mātēvar² of the Ti[ruvīraṭṭā]ṉam of Tirukkōvalūr in the Kuṟukkaikkūṟṟam of Malāṭu ⟨is⟩ twenty-four kaḻañcus by weight (niṟai) of refined gold (tī-p-pōkku cem-poṉ) ⟨as per the standard named⟩ Viṭēlvituku.

⟨10–14⟩ So as to provide one uri of ghee ... the interest from this ⟨gold⟩ has been given in the hands of the Nakarattārs of Tirukkōvalūr.

Commentary

Compare with INSPallava00124.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/296).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.925). Edited in Krishnan 1957–1958 (EI 32.10). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 129).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[SII] 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: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 455, item 925.

[EI] Krishnan, K.G. 1957–1958. “Kilur inscription of Nandivarman, year 16.” EI 32, pp. 99–102.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 392–393, item 129.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1901–02. 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. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1902. Page 18, appendix B/1902, item 296.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.
2. Sanskrit Mahādeva

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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Sixteenth year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.<note>Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.</note>

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for burning day and night, as long as the moon and the sun,

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