Kāvantaṇṭalam, donation transaction, time of Kampavarman, year 14

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00214.

Summary: Transaction by an assembly concerning a donation for conducting worship.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kampa-va(r)mmar⟨k⟩ku yāṇṭu patiṉāl-āvatu

caturvvedimaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm Eḻuttu

veṅkai-nāṭṭu-k kuḷaṉūr mānasarppaṉ Emm-ūr eṭuppitta śrī-viṣṇu-gṛhatt’ irunta perumaṉaṭikaḷukku A(r)ccana-bhogam-āka Emm-ūr Oṭṭaṅkāṭṭu Ivaṉ viṟṟu-k-ko(ṇ)ṭ-uṭaiya iraṇṭu paṭṭi nilamu⟨m⟩ nant¿u?⟨a⟩-v(ā)⟨2⟩vamu⟨m⟩¡ṉ!asarppaṉ pakkal I-bh(ū)mikku Iṟai-kāval-āka-p poṉ koṇṭu Eppērppaṭṭa Iṟaiyuñ cōṟumāṭṭuṅ kāṭṭa-p-peṟātōm āka Oṭṭi-k kuṭuttōm sabhaiyōm

Itu A(ṉ)ṟ’ eṉṟu tiṟampiṉōṅ kaṅkai-Iṭai-k kumari-Iṭai-c ceytār ceyta pāvattu-p paṭṭu-t tiru-nāraṇam piḻaitta taṇṭam paṭuvat’ āka-v oṭṭiṉōm

itaṟṟi⟨3⟩ṟampil Uṇṭikaiyum paṭṭikaiyuṅ kāṭṭātē-y dharmmāsanattu nicati nāṟ-patt-eṭṭu-k kāṇam

Itu Aṉṟ’ eṉṟārē paṭa Oṭṭi-k kuṭuttōm

muṉpu niṉṟum puḷḷi kuttuvikka-p peṟatōm āṉōm caturvvetimaṇkalattu sabhaiyōm

Itu rakṣittār aṭi e¿n?⟨ṉ⟩ talai melaṉa

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Fourteenth year of Kampavarman.

(1) Writing of we, the members of the assembly of Caturvedimaṅgala.

(1–2) ...

(2) ...

(2–3) ...

(3) ...

(3) We have become ... we, the members of the assembly of Caturvedimaṅgala.

(3) The feet of he who protects this [pious deed] are on my head.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 420); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 214); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on available editions.

Primary

[KVSA] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 265, item 420.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 557–558, item 214.

Secondary

[ARIE] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1901. G.O., etc., Nos. 762-63, 25th July 1901. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1900-1901. Copy to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 22, appendix A/1901, item 207.