Uttiramērūr, Vaikuṇṭhaperumāḷ, time of Kampavarman, year 8

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Larger platform, western base.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ (sva)sti śrī kō-vicaiya-kampa-varmma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu Eṭṭāvatu kaliyūṟ(k)‡kōṭṭattu taṉ kuṟṟ’ uttaramēru-c-ca(t‡u)rvveti-maṅ⟨ka⟩lattu sabhaiyōm eḻuttu Emm(u/ū)r y¿a?ḷuṅ ka(ṇa)tt(ār-uḷ)

⟨2⟩ Emm(u/ū)r-t teṉ-piṭākai-p puliyūr mahādevarkku kumuḻūr Agni‡-citta-sa(r)vva-kratukkaḷ kura¡vv!a-¿śari?-‡(na)raciṅka-catu(r)vvedi-c-cōmāciyār paṅkiṉ vaḻi viṟṟu-k-koṇṭ-uṭ¡a!ya Ira-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu pāṭakamum Ivv-agni-citta-sa(r)vva-¿kṛ?tukkaḷ pakka⟨l⟩ dravya‡ṅ koṇṭu Iraṇṭu pāṭakat(t)ā‡lum vanta Iṟai Eppēr⟨pa⟩ṭṭatum kāttu kuṭuppōm āṉōm

⟨4⟩ sabhaiyōm sabhaiyār paṇippa Eḻutiṉēṉ śrī-pāṭa[ka-p-perun]-ta‡ccaṉ muḷḷūraṉ-ēṉ ↝

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ Emm(u/ū)r-t ⬦ (E)mmūr-t SII. — ⟨2⟩ °sa(r)vva-kratukkaḷ ⬦ °sarvva-kratukkaḷ SII. — ⟨2⟩ °catu(r)vvedi° ⬦ °caturvvedi° SII.

⟨3⟩ °sa(r)vva-¿kṛ?⟨kra⟩tukkaḷ ⬦ °sarvva-kṛtukkaḷ SII.

⟨4⟩ śrī-pāṭa[ka-p-perun]-ta‡ccaṉ ⬦ śrī-pāṭaka[-p-perun-ta]ccaṉ SII.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Eighth year of the victorious king Kampavarmar.¹

⟨1⟩ Writ/Writings of Us, the members of the assembly of Uttaramerucaturvedimaṅgala in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam ⟨and⟩ in the same division.

⟨1–4⟩ The honourable Agnicittasarvakratu ⟨of⟩ Kumuḻūr, ⟨one⟩ among the governing delegates (āluṅ kaṇattar-uḷ) ⟨of⟩ our village, having sold (viṟṟu-k- koṇṭu) two plots owned ⟨by him⟩ (uṭaiya Iraṇṭu pāṭakamum), for the Mahādeva of Puliyūr in the southern ¿hamlet? (piṭākai) in our village, from a share of ¿the glorious master? (kurava-śrī-) and honourable Narasiṁhacaturvediccōmāci, with (koṇṭu) the wealth (dravya) from this honourable Agnicittasarvakratu, we have become those who will give and secure (kāttu) the taxes, of whatsoever kind, that come through these two plots, We, the members of the assembly.

⟨4⟩ As the members of the assembly have ordered, I, Muḷḷūraṉ, the great carpenter of the glorious Pāṭakam, wrote ⟨this⟩.

Commentary

kuravva-śari, that is, kurava-śrī. IP: Kuravaśrī = placename.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1897–98 (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/3).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.285). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 203).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, from autopsy and photos (2019).

Primary

[SII] 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: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 144, item 285.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 540, item 203.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1897–98. 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. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1898. Page 16, appendix B/1898, item 3.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Kampavarman.

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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Eighth year of the victorious king Kampavarmar.<note>Sanskrit Kampavarman.</note>

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Writ/Writings of Us, the members of the assembly of Uttaramerucaturvedimaṅgala in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam <supplied reason="subaudible">and</supplied> in the same division.

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