Lālkuṭi, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 3

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00149.

Summary: Donation of gold for annual festival food-offering.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaya-nirupat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikkirama-parumarkku yāṇṭu 2~ṇṭ-āvatu

Iṭaiyāṟṟu-nāṭṭu-t tiru-t-tava-t-tuṟai mahādeva(rkku) ⟨2⟩ I¡ñ-ñ!⟨n-n⟩āṭṭu kavira-p-poṟ-kaṭṭiyūr-Uṭaiyāṉ pūti kaṇṭaṉ ci(t)tirai-viṣu tiru-viḻāvukku tāyārai-c cārtti v¿a?⟨ai⟩tta poṉ (pati)⟨3⟩ṉ kaḻ¿a?⟨ai⟩ñc’ arai

Ip-poṉ patiṉ kaḻ¿a?⟨ai⟩ñc’ arai poṉṉuṅ I¡(ñ)-ñ!⟨n-n⟩āṭṭu muttaiyil sabhaiyōṅ koṇṭu ca¡ṉ!⟨n⟩(tirātittava)⟨4⟩Āṭṭāṇṭu-toṟuñ cittirai-viṣu tiru-viḻāvukku nārāya-n(āḻi)yāl Eḻu nāḷaikkum nicati kalavarai Arici patt-e(ṭṭu-k kuttal) ⟨5⟩ [ma]ṭāvil Aṭṭum paricē Eḻu nāḷ muṉt’ uṟa śrī-kōyilukkē (koṇ)ṭu ceṉṟu Aḷappōm āṉōm

Aḷavōmāyi(l muṭṭ’ ira)⟨6⟩[ṭṭi] panmāheśvarar· taṇṭi-k-koḷḷa Oṭṭi-k kuṭuttōm t-tiru-t-tava-(t-tu)ṟai mahādevarkku muttaiyil sabhaiyōm

Itu (pa)(nm)āheśva(ra-rakṣai)

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ (koṇ)ṭu ⬦ (ko)⟨ṇ⟩{ṭ}ṭu VA.

⟨6⟩ t-tiru° ⬦ tiru° VA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2) Second year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

(1–3)

(3–5)

(5–6)

(6) This [is] under the protection of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 61); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 149).

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

Primary

[VA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 25, item 61.

[M] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 435–436, item 149.

Secondary

[ARIE] Viswanatha, S. V. [1930]. Annual report on epigraphy for the year 1928-1929. Madras: Government Press. Page 16, appendixes B/1928-29, item 122.