Tiruvatikai, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 10

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00162.

Summary: Renovation and donation of gold for the upkeep of two perpetual lamps.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ tiru-vīraṭṭāṉa⟨3⟩m putukki Im⟨4⟩-mahādevarkku ⟨5⟩ nirupatoṅkaṟku⟨6⟩yāṇṭu pati¡ṉ!⟨7⟩ṉ āṟ-āvatu muta¡l!⟨8⟩l-āka

muṉaippāṭi ⟨9⟩ Āṉmūr-nāṭṭu pe⟨10⟩ruṅkuḷattūr vā⟨11⟩ḻum muṉai-p-pēr-a⟨12⟩raiyar makaṉ mu⟨13⟩ṉaiya-kōṉ-i(ḷa)⟨14⟩varaiyaṉ tiru⟨15⟩vīraṭṭāṉam pu⟨16⟩tukki It-tēvar ⟨17⟩ kku n¡a!⟨o⟩ntā viḷak(kukku)⟨18⟩Ati-Araiya-maṅ⟨19⟩kalattu nakaratattār⟨20⟩kku-k kuṭutta po⟨21⟩ṉ Oṉpatu mā(ṟi) ⟨22⟩ Eṇpatiṉ (ka)⟨23⟩¡ai!⟨a⟩ñcu (mutal)

⟨24⟩ Itaṉ pa(licai)⟨25⟩yāl(l iraṇ)⟨26⟩ṭu n¡a!⟨o⟩n(tā viḷa)⟨27⟩{k}kkukku nāḷvāy⟨28⟩(y uri-y) ney Aḷa⟨29⟩(ntu) kuṭuppō⟨30⟩m a(ṉō)m tiru-k-kōyi⟨31⟩l-uṭaiyār kaiyilē ⟨32⟩ (na)kara(t)tōm

I-vi⟨33⟩ḷakku nantil pal-ma⟨34⟩(he)śvara⟨r⟩ ka(ṭai kū)⟨35⟩ṭṭa-p peṟṟār

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–8)

(8–23)

(24–32)

(32–35)

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1937 (SII 8, no. 308); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 162); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

Primary

[KVS] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1937. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VIII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Pages 167–168, item 308.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 469–470, item 162.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1903. G.O., etc., Nos. 655-656, 24th July 1903. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1902-1903. Copy to the Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 21, appendix B/1903, item 35.