Kāvērippākkam, donation (?), time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year lost

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00169.

Summary: Donation (?). The inscription is incomplete.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nirupa-toṅka-varmma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu pati[ṉ]-[2+][-ā]⟨2⟩vatu

paṭuvūr-k-kōṭṭattu māṅkāṭu-nāṭṭu viṭēlviṭuku[3+]⟨3⟩yamattu sabhaiyōm Ik-kōṭṭattu-k kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki]⟨4⟩ya Amani-nārāyaṇa-c-caturvveti-maṅkalam yāḷu[ṅkaṇat]⟨5⟩tāruḷ Aṅkāṇacca(n){yai} vasan=tayājiyār pa [unknown number of lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ nirupa° ⬦ nirupa° VVAVVA notes: “The letter pa is engraved below the line.” — ⟨1⟩ pati[ṉ][2+][ā]⟨2⟩vatu ⬦ pati[3+]⟨2⟩vatu VVA.

⟨2⟩ viṭēlviṭuku ⬦ viṭēlviṭuku VVAVVA notes: “The letter ṭu is engraved below the line.”

⟨3⟩ sabhaiyōm ⬦ sabhaiyōm VVAIP notes: “The letter m engraved below the line.” — ⟨3⟩ kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki]⟨4⟩ya ⬦ kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki]⟨4⟩ya VVA.

⟨4⟩ yāḷu[ṅkaṇat]⟨5⟩tāruḷ ⬦ yāḷu[4+]⟨5⟩tāruḷ VVA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) teenth year of Nṛpatuṅkavarman.

(2–5)

Commentary

(1–2) Note on the lost year: between 11th and 19th.

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 82); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 169); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

Primary

[VVA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 35, item 82.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 483, item 169.

Secondary

Venkayya, V. 1906. G.O. No. 492, 2nd July 1906. Epigraphy. Recording the annual report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1905-1906, and directing that the report be forwarded to the Government of India. No place. Page 25, appendix B/1905, item 394.