Tiruvaikāvūr, time of Nandivarman, year 22

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00143.

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

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (dc2ee33), last modified (4f7623f).

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° SII 12; nantipa⟨nma⟩° SII 34.

⟨2⟩ non=tā ⬦ nontā SII 12; non=tā SII 34.

⟨3⟩ ca(n)tippeliyār ⬦ ca(n)tippeliyār SII 12; cantippeliyār SII 34.

⟨4⟩ poli-k ⬦ poli SII 12; poli-k SII 34.

⟨5⟩ maṇaliṭil ⬦ maṇaliṭil SII 12; maṇalīṭil SII 34.

⟨6⟩ {symbol} ⬦ kaṟā SII 12; kaṟā SII 34 • According to SII 34, these are symbols for 1 and 1/2.

⟨7⟩ mēliṉa ⬦ mēliṉa SII 12; mēlaṉa SII 34. — ⟨7⟩ Iṟakkuvā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩Iṟakkuvān SII 12; Iṟkkuvān SII 34.

⟨8⟩ miṉāḷaṉ ⬦ miṉāḷaṉ SII 12; miṇāḷaṉ SII 34.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Twenty-second year of the king Nantiparman1.

(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

Reported in Krishna Sastri 1915 (ARIE/1914-1915/B/1914/48).

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

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis , based on previous editions.

Primary

[SII 12] 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.

[SII 34] 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.

Secondary

[ARIE] Krishna Sastri, H. 1915. G.O. No. 1260, 25th August 1915. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1914-1915. No place. Page 48, appendix B/1914, item 48.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nandivarman.