Māṅkāṭu, regulation, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 17

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00131.

Summary: Agreement on the management of a donation.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī

kō-vicaiya nanti-vikkirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉ-eḻ-āvatu

puli⟨2⟩(yūr)-k-kuṭi-k-kōṭṭattu-k kuṉṟattūr-c ceḻiya-vāṇiyarkaḷō⟨3⟩(m ti)ruvātiraiyun talai-y-uvāvum tiṅkaḷ (ni)laviyuṅ kāṭṭu(vō)⟨4⟩(m ā)ṉōm tiruveḷḷi-k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ-uṭaiya (cavaiyōm)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Fortune!

(2) Seventeenth year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

(2–4)

Commentary

(3) ceḻiya-vāṇiyarkaḷ. See Mahalingam 1988: “Perhaps they were merchants from the Pāṇḍya (Ceḻiya) country.”

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.53); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 131).

Encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous editions.

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 53.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 396, item 131.