Cāttamaṅkalam, time of Kampavarman, year 6

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Rock inscription recording ...

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00198.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00198.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kampa-paṉmaṟku yāṇ-
⟨2⟩ ṭ’ āṟ-āvatu kāṭakati-y-araiyar ma-
⟨3⟩ ṇavāṭṭi mātavi y-it-tiru-k-kō-
⟨4⟩ yil putukki muka-maṇṭakam e-
⟨5⟩ ṭuppittu pāḻi putukki yak-
⟨6⟩ kā-paṭāri tiru-k-kōyi¡ll! eṭu-
⟨7⟩ ppittu Ip-paḷḷikk’ iṭṭa
⟨8⟩ peru-maṇi Oṉṟu Ūṭṭu(vi)ttāḷ

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ kāṭakatiyaraiyar ⬦ N; kāṭaka tīyaṉayar S.

⟨3⟩ mātavi ⬦ N; māntavi S. — ⟨3⟩ yittirukkō⟨4⟩yil ⬦ N; Ittirukkō⟨4⟩yil S.

⟨5⟩ yak⟨6⟩kāpaṭāri ⬦ N; yak⟨6⟩kāpaṭṭārit S.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Sixth year of Kampapaṉmaṉ.¹

⟨2–8⟩ Mātavi, the wife ⟨of⟩ Kāṭakati Araiyar, after renovating this glorious temple, having a front hall erected, renovating the monastery (pāḻi), ⟨and⟩ having a glorious temple ⟨of⟩ Yakṣa Bhaṭṭāri erected, had one big bell fed (ūṭṭuvittāḷThat is, "gave one big bell.") given (iṭṭa) to this paḷḷi.

Commentary

⟨5⟩ The term pāḻi is polysemic. Several of its meanings, according to the MTL could apply here: temple, hermitage; cave, mountain cavern; sleeping place for human beings; small tank; flight of steps leading into a tank. Sampath 1968 notes: “Pāḻi is a term, known in all the Jaina Literature, and means a ‘temple’ or sometimes ‘monastery’.” According to Mahalingam 1988, this means here "cavern."

⟨5⟩ The term paḷḷi appears to be used here in the sense of the entire Jaina cultic place.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1968–69 (ARIE/1968-1969/B/1968-1969/221).

Edited in Sampath 1968, in Nagaswamy 1970. Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 198). Edited in Civāṉantam 2018.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[S] Sampath, M. D. 1968. “Jaina inscriptions of Sattamangalam.” In: SOI. No place. Page 159.

[N] Nagaswamy, R. 1970. “cāttamaṅkalam kalveṭṭukaḷ.” tamiḻikam = Damilica (December 1970), pp. 121–127. Page 125.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 532, item 74.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2018. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XIII. Tiruvaṇṇāmalai māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti II. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 52. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 104, item 247/2018.

Secondary

ARIE 1968–69. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1968-69. Edited by G. S. Gai. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India, 1974. Page 46, appendixes B/1968-1969, item 221.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Kampavarman.

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