Tirukkōṭikkāval, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 22

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00178.

Summary: Donation of gold for performing rituals (hiraṇyagrbha and tulābhāra).

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

Ituvu¡mm!⟨m⟩ oru paḻaṅ-kal paṭi

yāṇṭu I(rupa)tt’ iraṇ{ṭ}ṭu

nṛpat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-mahāja⟨r⟩ deviyār viramahādeviyār hiraṇyagarbhamu⟨m⟩ tulāpāra[mum] pukka poṉṉil tiru-k- koṭikāvil mahā[9+]⟨2⟩tta poṉ Aimpatiṉ kaḻañcu

Itaṉil Iru-patt’ aiṅ-kaḻañcu poṉṉiṉ palicaiyāl nicati Iru-nāḻi Ariciyum Oru piṭi neyyum taḷi Arcci⟨p⟩pār kai mahā[9+]⟨3⟩l nicati Uḻakku ney taḷi Aṟcippār kai¡yy!⟨y⟩ilē no[ṉ>n]tā viḷakki[ṉu*]kku kuṭu[p*]pōm āṉōm tirukkoṭikā-v-āṉa kaṇṇamaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm

Itu paḻaṅ-kal paṭi

I[9+]⟨4⟩Ubhaiyogam illāmaiyil Atu tavintatu Itu muṭṭil paṉmāyeśvarar kaṭaikkūṭṭa-p peṟṟār

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ yāṇṭu I(rupa)tt’ iraṇ{ṭ}ṭu ⬦ (Irupattiraṇ){ṭ}ṭu VVA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) This also [is] a copy of an old stone.

(1) Twenty-second year.

(1–2)

(2–3)

(3) This [is] the copy of the old stone.

(3–4)

Commentary

This is a later copy of an original Pallava inscription.

(1) Note on the king of the year.

(3–4) This phrase pertains to the time of the copy.

(4) Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 notes: “The inscription is built in at the right end.”

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 74); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 178); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions and photos.

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 32, item 74.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 501–502, item 178.

Secondary

Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1933. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1931. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch. Page 8, appendixes B/1930-31, item 38.