Paṭūr, donation, time of Nandi[varman], year 18

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00136.

Summary: Donation of sheep for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [svasti śrī]

[kō-vicaiya]-nan⟨2⟩[ti-paruma]ṟku yāṇṭu pati⟨3⟩ṉ eṭṭ-āvatu

Ām¡u!⟨ū⟩r-kōṭ⟨4⟩ṭattu-k (kō)ṭṭa-maṉṟāṭi⟨5⟩kaḷ paṭuvūr viḻu-p-pe⟨6⟩run-tāya-viṣṇu-grahattu ⟨7⟩ niṉṟ’ a(ruḷu)kiṉṟa perumā⟨8⟩⟨ṉa⟩ṭikaḷukku v¡aiy!⟨ai⟩tta nan⟨9⟩tā viḷakk’ oṉṟukku vai⟨10⟩tta Āṭu cāvā muvā-p pēr-ā⟨11⟩ṭu toṇṇūṟu

I-dhanmam ra(kṣi)⟨12⟩⟨p⟩pār Aṭi-poṭi Eṉ talai mēla-⟨13⟩tu

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Prosperity! Fortune!]

(1–3) Eighteenth year of the [victorious] king Nandi[varman].

(3–11) The sheep that the province shepherds of the province of Āmūr gave for one perpetual lamp given to the great Lord who graciously remains in the temple of Viṣṇu (named) Viḻupperuntāya in Paṭuvūr: ninety undying and un-aging great sheep.

(11–13) The dust on the feet of he who protects this pious act is on my head.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 54); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 136).

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 22, item 54.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 406–407, item 136.