Kūram, Śiva temple pillar

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00174.

Summary: Regulation by the Kūram assembly pertaining to four kaḻañcus of gold, apparently received in donation.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nṛpat¡o!⟨u⟩⟨2⟩(ṅkarkku) yāṇṭu Iru⟨3⟩patt-oṉṟ-āvatu

⟨4⟩ kūrattu sabhai⟨5⟩y(ō)m eḻuttu

O⟨6⟩ymā-n(ā)ṭṭu perā⟨7⟩yūr-nāṭṭu nallā⟨8⟩yūr peruñci[ca. 4*]⟨9⟩[ca. 4*] pakkal nāṟ-⟨10⟩kalañcu po[ṉ]

[ca. 2*] ⟨11⟩ [ca. 6*] I⟨12⟩[ca. 2*] cāṉa [ca. 4*] ru⟨13⟩ṭṭa[ca. 6*]⟨14⟩kaḻit[ca. 7*]⟨15⟩ṇṭa mu-p-patu[ca. 2*] ⟨16⟩ [ca. 10*] ⟨17⟩ [ca. 10*] ⟨18⟩ [ca. 10*] ⟨19⟩ [ca. 10*] ⟨20⟩ [ca. 10*]⟨21⟩ṭṭi-y ūṭṭuvat[-āka][ca. 3*]⟨22⟩ttōm Ūṭṭa[ca. 2*]⟨23⟩vitaṉāl vanta [ca. 3*] ⟨24⟩ [ca. 2*] Avvavv-āṭṭai [ca. 4*] ⟨25⟩ [ca. 3*] kay-āka-p paṇit⟨26⟩(tō)m sabhai(m)[ca. 2*]

⟨27⟩-p paṇikka-v eḻuti [ca. 3*] ⟨28⟩ Ivv-ūr (ma)dhyasthan [ca. 3*] ⟨29⟩ [ca. 2*] vinīta¡(n)!⟨ṉ⟩¡(n)!⟨ṉ⟩[ca. 3*]⟨30⟩ṭṭi-p-pōttaṉ [ca. 4*]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sabhai⟨5⟩y(ō)m • Only the kāl in (o) is unclear.

⟨10⟩ po[ṉ]po[1*] KVSA.

⟨21⟩ ūṭṭuvat[-āka] [ca. 3*]ūṭṭuvata [ca. 5*] KVSA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–3) Twenty-first year of the Nṛpatuṅga.

(3–30) ...

Commentary

Mahalingam 1988 uncorrectly locates this inscription in the Viṣṇu temple (Ādikeśavaperumāḷ).

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 39); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 174); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021).

Primary

[KVSA] 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: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 15, item 39.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 492–493, item 174.

Secondary

[ARIE 1899-1900] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 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. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 50, appendix B/1900, item 37.