Tirukkōṭikkāval, Tirukkōṭīśvara, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 24

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00184.

Summary: Donation of gold for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (e57d7e0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

Ituvu¡mm!⟨m⟩ oru paḻaṅ kal paṭi

kō-vicaya⟨2⟩-nṛpat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikrama-panmaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattu nāl-āvatu

tiru-k-kōṭikāvil mahādevarkku non=tā viḷakkiṉukku koṇṭanāṭuṭaiya veṭṭuvati Araiyaṉ-āṉa mallaṉ ve(ṅ)kaṭavaṉ kuṭutta poṉ patiṉ aiṅ-kaḻañcu

Ip-po¡n! koṇṭu Itaṉ palicaiyāl nāl u⟨3⟩ḻakkum piḻaiyānāḻikkiḻ muḻaiyāl nicati Uḻakku ney taḷi Ar⟨c⟩ci⟨p⟩(pāṟ)ku kuṇantu Aḷantu kuṭuppō¡mm!⟨m⟩ āṉō[¡m(m)!⟨m⟩ (ā)cantira-kālamum aḷan=tu kuṭuppōm āṉo(m) nāraṇakka-c-caturveti-maṅkalattu sabhaiyōm

Itu paḻ¡a!⟨ai⟩ya kal paṭi

I⟨4⟩nta śrī-vimānattile Ēṟa veṭṭinamaiyil muṉṉivājagam veṭṭi-k kiṭanta taṉi-⟨k⟩(-kallāl) Ubhaiyōkam illāmaiyāl Atu tavi{ṉ}n=tatu

Itu muṭṭil paṉ-māyeśvara⟨r⟩ kaṭai (kūṭṭa) peṟṟā⟨r⟩

Apparatus

⟨4⟩ peṟṟā⟨r⟩peṟṟār VVA • There is possibly a character engraved after peṟṟā, which looks like a Grantha ra.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) This also is the copy of an old stone.

(1–2) Twenty-fourth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

(2–3)

(3) This1 is the copy of the old stone.

(3–4)

(4)

Commentary

Later copy of an original Pallava inscription.

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 78); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 184); 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. Pages 33–34, item 78.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 513–514, item 184.

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 77, appendixes B/1930-1931, item 7.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, what precedes.