Tiruvaikāvūr, donation, time of Nandivarman, year 22

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00143.

Summary: Donation of land for the upkeep of a perpetuel lamp and for food-offering to a god.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nantipa(nma)-rājaṟku yāṇṭu Iru-patt’ iraṇṭ-āvatu

tiruvaiykā-v-u⟨2⟩ṭaiya mahādevaṟku tiru non=tā viḷakkum Amutu paṭikkum U(paiya)m vai⟨3⟩ykka ca(n)tippeliyār tiri-puvaṉa-mātēvi-c-caruppēti-maṅkalat⟨4⟩tu sabhaiyār pakkal poṉ kuṭuttu-p poli-k kūlikku-c cela⟨5⟩vāka kācu koḷḷā Ūṟkiḻ Iṟaiyili-y-āka maṇaliṭil vēli⟨6⟩-y-āka-k koṇṭu-viṭṭa vaṇṇakka-viḷākam nilam {symbol} kaṟā I¡ṉ-ṉ!⟨n-n⟩ilam Oṉṟ’ a⟨7⟩raiyu⟨m⟩

Iṟakkātā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ tiru-v-aṭi Iraṇṭum en talai mēliṉa

Itu Iṟakkuvā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ taṅka⟨8⟩ḷ ammaikku-t tānē-y miṉāḷaṉ

Itu kalveṭṭu-p paṭi

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ nantipa(nma)° ⬦ nanti¿pma?⟨vanma° VVA; nantipa⟨nma⟩° YS.

⟨2⟩ non=tā ⬦ nontā VVA; non=tā YS.

⟨3⟩ ca(n)tippeliyār ⬦ ca(n)tippeliyār VVA; cantippeliyār YS.

⟨4⟩ poli-k ⬦ poli VVA; poli-k YS.

⟨5⟩ maṇaliṭil ⬦ maṇaliṭil VVA; maṇalīṭil YS.

⟨6⟩ {symbol} ⬦ kaṟā VVA; kaṟā YS • According to YS, these are symbols for 1 and 1/2.

⟨7⟩ mēliṉa ⬦ mēliṉa VVA; mēlaṉa YS. — ⟨7⟩ Iṟakkuvā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩Iṟakkuvān VVA; Iṟkkuvān YS.

⟨8⟩ miṉāḷaṉ ⬦ miṉāḷaṉ VVA; miṇāḷaṉ YS.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Twenty-second year of the king Nandivarman.

(1–7)

(7)

(7–8)

(8) This [is] the copy of a stone-inscription.

Commentary

This is a later copy of an original of the 9th century, as indicated in line 8.

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.58); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 143); re-edited by Subbarayalu 2015 (SII 34.48).

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 24, item 58.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 419–420, item 143.

[YS] Subbarayalu, Y. 2015. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXIV: Inscriptions collected during the year 1914. South Indian Inscriptions 34. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Page TBC, item 48.