Uttiramērūr, sale-deed, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year 26

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00190.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vic¡(a/e)!⟨ai⟩ya-nṛpatuka-vikramava-r(·)mmaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattāṟāvatu

⟨2⟩liyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉ kūṟṟ’ uttaramēru-c-catu(r)vvetima(ka)lattu sabhaiy[ōm] ⟨3⟩ nila-vil¿e?⟨ai⟩ Āvaṇa-k-¡kai-E!⟨kai-y-e⟩ḻuttu

muttar¡a!⟨ai⟩yar-n(ā)ṭṭu mī-kūṟṟu viḷā-nāṭṭu-k kūkūr-k [kū]⟨4⟩kūr vic¡a!⟨ai⟩yanalluḷāṉ kāṭavati(y)āṉ-ākiya p(ū)ti-tīraṉukku Emm-ūr-t teṉ-paṭākai⟨5⟩p peruṅ-kōṭṭ’ ēri-k kīḻ āṭalam pūṇṭi-t teṟku-k kūṟiṭātē kiṭanta kīḻ-p-pūṇṭiy(u)m

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °vic¡(a/e)!⟨ai⟩ya° ⬦ °vicaya° KVSA. — ⟨1⟩ °nṛpatuka° ⬦ °nṛpatuṁka° KVSA.

⟨2⟩ °catu(r)vvetima(ka)lattu ⬦ °caturvvetima(ṅka)lattu KVSA. — ⟨2⟩ sabhaiy[ōm]sabhai(m) KVSA • The kāl of -ō is lost, but not the kompu.

⟨3⟩ °vil¿e?⟨ai⟩vila KVSA • Note the special form of ai in lai. See regular ai in kai same line. nile could as well be considered an unstandard usage for nilai, like vicaya/viceya for vicaiya. — ⟨3⟩ muttar¡a!⟨ai⟩yar-n(ā)ṭṭu ⬦ muttarayā nāṭṭu KVSA • This might just be a typo for missing puḷḷi. — ⟨3⟩ kūkūr-k [kū]kūr ⬦ kūkūraka (kū)kūr KVSA • These might just be typos for missing puḷḷis.

⟨4⟩ vic¡a!⟨ai⟩yanalluḷāṉ ⬦ vicayanalluḻāṉ KVSA. — ⟨4⟩ kāṭavati(y)āṉ-ākiya ⬦ kāṭavati(yaraya)ṉākiya KVSA. — ⟨4⟩ p(ū)ti ⬦ pūti KVSA.

⟨5⟩ kīḻ āṭalam ⬦ (ḻ ā)ṭalam KVSA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

(1–2) Hand-written (kai-y-eḻuttu) document (āvaṇam) for the price of a land (nila-vilai, that is, sale-deed) [by] We, the members of the assembly (sabhaiyōm) of Uttaramērucaturvedimaṅgalam in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam and the division of the same name (taṉ kūṟṟu1).

(3–5) [In] Kūkūr, in the Viḷānāṭu, in the western division (mīkūṟṟu), in the Muttaraiyarnāṭu, to Pūti Tīraṉ alias Vicaiyanalluḷāṉ Kāṭavati [of] Kūkūr, the whole of Kīlppūṇṭi 2, which lies fallow (kiṭanta) without being ... (kūṟiṭātē), in the southern hamlet (paṭākai) of our village, east of the Peruṅkōṭu lake, south of Āṭalam Pūṇṭi

Commentary

Incomplete/Unfinished inscription.

End of lines 2-3 covered by later construction (stairs’ string wall). Thus encoded as supplied, lost.

What western division? That of KāliyūrK or of Viḷa-ṇāṭu?

Check Subbarayalu, Geography, and add reference and discussion: Viḷānaṭu = mīkūṟu of KāliyūrK.

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 368); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 190); re-edited and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).

Primary

[KVSA] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 169, item 368.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 521, item 190.

Secondary

[ARIE 1897-1898] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1898. G.O. Nos. 1093-1096, 29th August 1898. Epigraphy. Directing that the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for 1897-98 be forwarded to the Government of India, approving provisionally his programme of work for the next fields season. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 18, appendix B/1898, item 83.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, literally, "in the division of itself".
  2. 2. literally, "the eastern village/hamlet"