Piḷḷaippākkam, imprecation, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 20

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00170.

Summary: Imprecation. The inscription is incomplete.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ nṛ{ru}pa(t)¡(o)!(u)⟨3⟩ka(r)kku yāṇ⟨4⟩ṭu Iru-pat-āva⟨5⟩tu

Iv-vūṟ ṟa⟨6⟩(la)ttu (ne)¡ll!⟨l⟩ a⟨7⟩(ṭ)ṭuvār kaṅkai⟨8⟩Iṭai kumari⟨9⟩yiṭai-c cey⟨10⟩tār ceyta ⟨11⟩ pāvam paṭuvā⟨12⟩r

(ne)¡ll!⟨l⟩ aṭṭi⟨13⟩ṉārum aṭṭav uṭaṉ⟨14⟩paṭṭāruñ[2+]⟨15⟩ta [3+] ⟨16⟩ [5+] […]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–5) Twentieth year of Nṛpatuṅka.

(5–12) Those who dump paddy on the premises [talam] of this village will encur the sin done by those who did [sin] between the Ganges and Kanniyakumari.

(12–16)

Commentary

(16) Mahalingam 1988 notes: “Letters at the end of the inscription have been chiselled away.”

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 72); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 170); 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 31, item 72.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 484–485, item 170.

Secondary

Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1932. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1930. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch. Page 20, appendixes B/1929-1930, item 175.