Tiruvatikai, time of Nr̥patuṅgavarman, year 18

Authors of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr), Valérie Gillet (vagi).

Summary: Donation of gold for supplying food offerings.

Tiruvīraṭṭāṉeśvara temple, Tiruvatikai, Paṇruṭṭi taluk, Cuddalore district. On a pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine. There are donations by other royal figures on pillars in the same maṇḍapa: SII 8.309 registers a donation of gold by Pallava Nandivarman III; SII 12.73 records a gift of gold by the queen of Nr̥patuṅgavarman, Vīramahādevi.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00167.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00167.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī nr̥pat¡o!-
⟨2⟩ ṅka-panmaṟku (yāṇṭu)
⟨3⟩ pati¡n! eṭṭāvatu (A)-
⟨4⟩ ti(ya)raiya-maṅka-
⟨5⟩ lattu tiruviraṭṭā-
⟨6⟩ nattu mahādeva-
⟨7⟩ rkku (p)āṇ-
⟨8⟩ (ṭi)-varakuṇa-mahārā-
⟨9⟩ jaṉ kuṭutta poṉ
⟨10⟩ ¡Añ-ñ!ūṟṟ’ eḻu-patiṉ ka-
⟨11⟩ ḻañcu Ip-poṉ koṇ-
⟨12⟩ ṭu kaṭavōm Atiyarai-
⟨13⟩ ya-maṅkalattu nakara-
⟨14⟩ ttōm Ip-poṉni-
⟨15⟩ l Iru-nūṟṟu-t toṇṇū-
⟨16⟩ ṟṟu-k kaḻañcu poṉnā-
⟨17⟩ l palicaiyāl nicati
⟨18⟩ […]
⟨19⟩ […]
⟨20⟩ [**](mun)nā(ḻi Uri)-
⟨21⟩ kkum (me)ṟṟi pa(tiṟ)-
⟨22⟩ (ṟu) nāḻi Ari(ciyum) [**]
⟨23⟩ poḻutukku Uri pacca-
⟨24⟩ payaṟṟupparuppu kum-
⟨25⟩ māyam uḷḷiṭṭa ¡Añc!u kā-
⟨26⟩ yum poḻutu puḷi(ṅkaṟi)-
⟨27⟩ kku Uḻakku tayirum po-
⟨28⟩ ḻutu kaṟikku kā-
⟨29⟩ ya¡mm! iru-c-ce(vi){ṭa}ṭu⟨m⟩-
⟨30⟩ poḻutu kaṟi tu(mi)kka-
⟨31⟩ c cevi{ṭ}ṭu neyum
⟨32⟩ nivētikka naṟune-
⟨33⟩ y potu Uḻakk-ā-
⟨34⟩ ka nālu poḻutukku-
⟨35⟩ m mēṟṟi ney nāḻi
⟨36⟩ nivētikka poḻutu-
⟨37⟩ kkuṉ tayir Uri nālu
⟨38⟩ poḻutumē

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ nr̥pat¡o!⟨u⟩⟨2⟩ṅka° ⬦ SII; nr̥pato⟨2⟩ṅka- G.

⟨29⟩ °cce(vi){ṭa}ṭu⟨m⟩ ⬦ SII; °cce(li) ṭu⟨m⟩ G.

⟨31⟩ cevi{ṭ}ṭu ⬦ SII; ceviṭu G •

Translation by Gillet 2017

Hail! Prosperity! This is the 18th regnal year of Nr̥patuṅgavarman. For Mahādeva of Tiruvīraṭṭānam of Atiyaraiyamaṅkalam, Pāṇṭi Varaguṇa Mahārāja gave 570 kaḻañcu of gold; having taken this gold, we, the Nagaram (nakarattōm) of Atiyaraiyamaṅgalam, will have to ⟨do⟩ (kaṭavōm); in this gold, with the interests of 290 kaḻañcu of this gold, everyday […] having added (ēṟṟi) to the 3 nāḻi and one uri of […] 20 nāḻi of rice for one time (poḻukku), five side dishes (añcukāy) including (uḷḷiṭṭa) pongal (kumāya) and one uri of green lentils (pacca-payaṟṟuparuppu), one uḻakku of curd for tamarind-vegetable (puḷiṅkaṟikku) for one time, two ceviṭu (small measure) of asafoetida (kāyam) for the vegetables (kaṟikku) for one time, one ceviṭu of ghee for frying (tumikka) vegetables for one time, a nāḻi of ghee to which are added (ēṟṟi) for 4 times as one uḻakku each time (pōtu) of fragrant ghee in order to offer food to the deity (nivētikka), one uri of curd for each time for offering food (nivētikka), 4 times.¹

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–3⟩ Eighteenth year of Nr̥patoṅkapanmaṉ.²

⟨3–11⟩

⟨11–14⟩

⟨14–38⟩

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1921–22 (ARIE/1921-1922/B/1921/360).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.71). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 167). Text and translation in Gillet 2017.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis and Valérie Gillet, based on Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943.

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Pages 30–31, item 71.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 478–480, item 167.

[G] Gillet, Valérie. 2017. “Devotion and Dominion: Ninth-Century Donations of a Pāṇḍyan King in Temples along the River Kāvēri.” IIJ 60 (3), pp. 219–283. DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06003002. [URL]. Pages 272–273, item 27.

Secondary

ARIE 1921–22. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for the year 1921-1922. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1923. Page 29, appendix B/1921, item 360.

Notes

1. The details regarding the ingredients and their measures are not very clear to me.
2. Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅkavarman.

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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Eighteenth year of Nr̥patoṅkapanmaṉ.<note>Sanskrit Nr̥patuṅkavarman.</note>

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