Piḷḷaippākkam, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 2[.]

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00191.

Summary: Donation of land for food offerings.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (f2f3eaa), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sva⟨sti⟩ śrī

nṛpatuṅka-vikkirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu Iru(pa) [3*] (va)tu

pi(ḷḷai)-p-pā⟨kka⟩ttu-p piḷḷai-p-pākkiḻār [5*] (pi)yārkku-t dharmmam-āka mahādevarkku nāṭ [3*] ⟨2⟩ pōṉakaṅ kāṭṭuvataṟku Ivar tampiyār Ayyakkuṭṭiyār kuṭutta nilam

puṟampāṭṭilē (Ā)ṟu mā nilam Ittēvarai vaḻipaṭum tiru-p-pācūraṉukkum mutti [3*] Ip-paricu kāṭṭa-k kuṭuttēṉ

Ip-paricu muṭṭil UnaE taṇṭa(-p-pa)⟨3⟩ṭuvā¡nṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ āka(vum)

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ UnaE ⬦ VVA • “This symbol probably stands for some money value.” (Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Twenty-[...]th year of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

(1–2) For presenting food […] to the Mahādeva as a pious donation for (the sake of) Piḷḷaipākkiḻār [Nam?]pi of Piḷḷaippākkam, the land that Ayyakkuṭṭiyār, his younger brother gave.

(2) I gave in this matter six s of land in Puṟampāṭu […] to the honourable Pācūraṉ who worships this god.

(2–3) In this matter, if opposing/failing, let he be fined (an amount of) […].

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 80); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 191); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), 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 34, item 80.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 523, item 191.

Secondary

Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1932. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1930. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch. Page 19, appendixes B/1929-30, item 172.