Tiruvaṭikai, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅgappōttarar, year 22

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00179.

Summary: Donation of gold for performing a ritual.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

nṛ⟨2⟩pat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅkap⟨3⟩pottaraiya(r)⟨4⟩kku yāṇṭu Iru⟨5⟩patt’ iraṇṭ-āvatu

⟨6⟩ v¡i!⟨ī⟩ramādeviyā[2+] ⟨7⟩ [2+]n vāḻum tu(la)⟨8⟩(vār)muṭi pakka[2+] ⟨9⟩ po¡(n)!(ṉ) [2+] tiruv¡i!⟨ī⟩ra⟨10⟩ṭṭāṉattu mahā⟨11⟩devarkku kuṭutta ⟨12⟩ poṉ Aimpatiṉ ⟨13⟩ kaḻañcu

Itiṟṟu⟨14⟩ḷ Irupatt’ (ai)⟨15⟩kaḻañci[5+] ⟨16⟩ ta[5+]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–5) Twenty-second year of Nṛpatungappōttaraiyar.

(6–13)

(13–16)

Commentary

(16) Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 notes: “The remaining lines are completely damaged.”

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 73); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 179); 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 73.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 502–503, item 179.

Secondary

Venkoba Rao, G. 1923. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for the year 1921-1922. Madras: Governement Press. Page 30, appendix B/1921, item 367.