Kūram, Keśavaperumāḷ temple, time of Nṛpatuṅkavikramavarman, year 17

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Sale-deed of land in the Pallava-nārāyaṇa-caturvedimaṅgala to members of the ... (āḷuṅ-kaṇattārs) of Avani-nārāyaṇa-caturvedimaṅgala, sanctioned by the assembly (sabhā) of Pallava-nārāyaṇa-caturvedimaṅgala.

Palaeographic description: Example of Grantha tu and Tamil tu used alternatively for the same word (caturvedi, line 1).

Languages: Sanskrit (san), Tamil (tam).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-vicaiya-nirupa-t¡o!ṅka-vikkarama-paruma¡ṟkk!u yāṇṭu pati⟨ṉ⟩ Eḻ-āvatu (pa)ṭuvūr-k-kōṭṭattu karai-nāṭṭu-p pallava-nārāyaṇa-¿(śa)?turvvedi-maṅkalattu (sa)bhaiyōm Em(m-ū)r kaṟkayam Iru-patt-eḻ-āyiraṅ kuḻi [*****] Ik-kōṭṭattu [******] Amaṉi-nārāyaṇa-¿(śa)?turvve(di)-maṅkalamum (y)-āluṅka(ṇa)tt(ā)r-uḷ śrī-bhālekka(ṇa) carma-kramavitta(ṉu)m [****] rukku mu-v-āyiraṅ kuḻiyum (krā)ñci-k ku(ma)raṭi-c-caṭaṅkavikku A-

⟨2⟩ ¡y!-(y)-āyiraṅ ku⟨ḻi⟩yum paciṇṭi kaṇacanna-kramavittaṉukku mu-v-āyiraṅ kuḻiyum nallūr-c caṉṉa (Ā)ticca-carma-mē veḷi [***] rikku Ir-āyiraṅ kuḻi(yum) muṭumpai-c cappaṭi-kramavitta-c-com(āci)kku (Ā)yiraṅ kuḷiyum Ivar (tampi) kāḷimaṇṭai-c caṭaṅka(vi)kku Āyiraṅ kuḻiyum [*****] ṉukku Ir-āyiraṅ kuḻiyum kumaṭṭūr-c ca[**]-c caṭaṅkavikku Āyiraṅ kuḻiyum makacira poṟkāḷi bhaṭṭaṉukku Āyiraṅ kuḻiyum [*****] yiṟ Iru-patt-eḻu maṉaiyum pāḻ [*******]

⟨3⟩ p-pāṭi Iru-patt-eḻu (paṅ)kum maṟṟum pañcākamum-uḷḷa iṭattu Ivv-iru-patt-eḻu paṅkiṉā(lu)m van=ta nilamum Im-mēṟ-colla-p-paṭṭa [**********] m nilava(ḻi)yāl vilai-p-(po)ru(ḷ a)ṟa-k koṇṭu viṟ(ṟu)-k-(ku)ṭuttu-c cilālekai ceytu kuṭuṭṭōm sabhaiyōm Ivv-iru-patt-eḻ-ā(yiraṅ kuḻiyum paṉṉi)ru-c-cāṇ kōlāl

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (krā)ñci ⬦ (krā)ñci SII IP • Possibly read (kā)ñci.

⟨2⟩ (Ā)ticca-carma-mē veḷi ⬦ (Ā)ticcacāmamē veḷi SII; (Ā)ticcacarma-(mē vaḷi) IP. — ⟨2⟩ ca[ca. 2+]-c ⬦ ca[ca. 2+]-c SII; ca[ṉṉa]-c IP.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Seventeenth year of the victorious king Nirupatoṅkavikkaramaparumaṉ.¹

⟨1⟩ ...

Commentary

Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 notes after the last word of his edition: “The continuation is much effaced.”

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1899-1900 (ARIE/1899-1900/B/1900/33).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.33). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 164). Edited in Civāṉantam 2013.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Pages 13–14, item 33.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 472–473, item 164.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2013. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. Kāñcipuram māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IV. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 43. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 57, item 528/2013.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1899-1900. G.O. etc., Nos. 833-34, 22nd August 1900. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1899-1900. Copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1900. Page 50, appendix B/1900, item 33.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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