Tiruvallam, donation, time of Nandi[vikrama]varman, year 17

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00133.

Summary: Donation of land for food-offering.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (f2f3eaa), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (sva)[sti śrī]

kō-vicaiya nan⟨2⟩ti-[vikkira]⟨3⟩ma-[pa]rumarkku yā⟨4⟩ṇṭu patiṉ eḻ-āva⟨5⟩tu

Iḷaiyanūr-nāṭṭu I(ḷaiya)⟨6⟩r iruntu vāḻu⟨m⟩ mōṉaiyār ma⟨7⟩(kaṉ) viṉaiyādityan tikkāḷi⟨8⟩(ya)ṭikaḷukku Oḻuk(k-a)vi naṉ[3*]⟨9⟩[1*] ri Ariciyum āḻākku ne¡y!⟨yy⟩um⟨10⟩[1*] kku toṇṭai-pūvun niyati [1*] ⟨11⟩ (ti)kkāli Aṭikaḷukku vaḻi⟨12⟩pāṭu cey(vatāka) kuṭuttān[2*]⟨13⟩[1*] lu paṭṭi [4*] lvarkku (pūca)⟨14⟩[1*] kai-ceyya-k koṭut(tān)⟨15⟩[1*] taṉaiyu¡mm!⟨m⟩ orunāḷ muṭ⟨16⟩[2*] māyiṟa kaṅkai Iṭai(k kumari)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–5) Seventeenth year of the victorious king Nandi[vikrama]varman.

(5–16) ...

Commentary

Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 notes: "This inscription is damaged and obstructed by a pillar."

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 282); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 133); encoded and translated for the first time here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[KVS] 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: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 144, item 282.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 400–401, item 133.

Secondary

[ARIE 1897-1898] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1898. 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. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 15, appendix A/1897, item 304.