Uttiramērūr, donation, time of Kampavarman, year 15

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00216.

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Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya‡-(ka)mpa-va‡⟨r⟩mma⟨r⟩k=ku yāṇṭu pati‡¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ ¡añc!⟨aint⟩-āvatu

‡ kāli‡yūr-kōṭṭa‡ttu taṉ kūṟṟu Ut=taramēru-c-ca⟨2⟩(tu)⟨r⟩vveti-(maṅkala)m Ālum ‡ kaṇatt(ā)‡r-u‡ḷ kumuḻūr caṉa⟨ṟ⟩‡kumāra-c-catu⟨r⟩vveti ‡ Ā(gni)‡cit=ta-sa⟨r⟩vva‡-kratuk=kaḷ br¿a?⟨ā⟩hmaṇi Iḷaiyā(ḷ) ⟨3⟩ (tāḻi)ccāniyēṉ Eḻuttu

‡ ciṟupa[ḻu]‡vūrar{ā} pakka‡l mullai-vā‡yil E‡¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ aṅkamaṇi dravya¡m⟨4⟩m!⟨m⟩ iṭṭu ¿I?⟨e⟩ṉakku Aṅkama‡ṇi-y-ā‡ka vilaikku k‡oṇṭu ta¡ṉ!⟨n⟩ta pā‡ṭakatti‡ṟ teṟk’ aṭai¡ṉ!⟨n⟩ta pāṭakam ⟨5⟩ (O)ṉṟum muṉṉam ‡ Acca‡nā-bhogam-āka-k kuṭutta ‡ [3+] ‡ pāṭakatt [2×] [3+] (tum)⟨6⟩māy Ivv-iraṇṭum ‡ mullai‡(vāyil nāṅ)kaḷ (Eṭu)ppi(tta-t) taḷiyi‡(l) (mahāde)varkku nāḷa-t tiru(Ami)⟨7⟩(tu kā)ṭṭuvippār Ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ār

‡ nilamu‡(m){ṉ}(ya)ṟum Uḷḷa tuṇai‡yum U‡[ttara]m(ē)rūr-c-ca(tu)⟨r⟩vve⟨8⟩ti-maṅkalattu mahāsa‡bhai‡yōmē-y (kaṭai-k) kaṇṭu tiru-(A)m(i)tu ‡ kuṭuppi‡(ppō)m ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ōm

I(v)ai (ciṟṟa)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °va‡⟨r⟩mma⟨r⟩k=ku ⬦ °varmma⟨r⟩k=ku KVSA. — ⟨1⟩ pati‡¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ ¡añc!⟨aint⟩-āvatu ⬦ (pa)ti{ṉ}ṉ-añc-āvatu KVSA. — ⟨1⟩ Ut=taramēru-c-ca⟨2⟩ (tu)⟨r⟩vveti-(maṅkala)m ⬦ Uttara(mēru-c-ca)⟨2⟩(tu)rvveti-maṅka(la)m KVSA.

⟨2⟩ °catu⟨r⟩vveti ⬦ °caturvveti KVSA. — ⟨2⟩ °sa⟨r⟩vva‡-kratuk=kaḷ ⬦ °sarvva‡-kratuk=kaḷ KVSA.

⟨3⟩ (tāḻi)ccāniyēṉ ⬦ tāḻiccāniyēṉ KVSA. — ⟨3⟩ ciṟupa[ḻu]‡vūrar{ā}ciṟupa(ḻu)‡vūrar KVSA.

⟨4⟩ k‡oṇṭu ⬦ k(o)(⌉)ṇṭu KVSA.

⟨5⟩ (O)ṉṟum ⬦ Oṉ(ṟu)m KVSA. — ⟨5⟩ Acca‡nā-bhogam-āka-k ⬦ Acca(nā)-bhogam-āka-k KVSA. — ⟨5⟩ kuṭutta ‡ [3+] ‡ pāṭakatt [2×] [3+] (tum)kuṭutta [4+] pāṭakatti [7+] (tum) KVSA.

⟨6⟩ mullai‡(vāyil)mul(laivā)yi(l) KVSA. — ⟨6⟩ (nāṅ)kaḷ ⬦ (nāṅ)ka(ḷ) KVSA. — ⟨6⟩ (Eṭu)ppi(tta-t)Eṭuppi(t)ta{t} KVSA. — ⟨6⟩ (mahāde)varkku ⬦ mahādevarkku KVSA. — ⟨6⟩ (Ami)⟨7⟩(tu)Ami⟨7⟩tu KVSA.

⟨7⟩ (kā)ṭṭu ⬦ kāṭṭu KVSA. — ⟨7⟩ tuṇai‡yum ⬦ tuṇai(yu)m KVSA. — ⟨7⟩ U‡[ttara]m(ē)rūr-c-ca(tu)⟨r⟩vve⟨8⟩ti° ⬦ Uttaramērūr-c-catu(rvve)⟨8⟩ti° KVSA.

⟨8⟩ (kaṭai-k) kaṇṭu ⬦ kaṭai-k kaṇṭu KVSA. — ⟨8⟩ tiru-(A)m(i)tu ⬦ tiru-A(mi)tu KVSA. — ⟨8⟩ kuṭuppi‡(ppō)m ⬦ kuṭuppi(p)pōm KVSA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Fifteenth year of the victorious king Kampavarman.

(1–3) Writ/Writing of I, Tāḻiccāni, Brahmin lady and younger wife (iḷaiyāḷ) [of] Āgnicitta-sarvakratu, a caṉaṟkumāra-caturvedin of Kumuḻūr, [one] among the governing delegates of Uttaramērucaturvedimaṅgala in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam and the division of the same name.

(3–7) One plot which joins/is south of the plot that [I] gave, having bought [it] as my dowry (aṅkamaṇi), after giving wealth (dravya) from my dowry, [in] Mullaivāyil, from a resident of Ciṟupaḻuvūr; the plot that [I] gave ¿earlier? (muṉṉam) as arcanābhoga has become (āṉār) one who will have (kāṭṭuvippār) daily glorious amṛta (nāḷ-t tiru-amitu) given to the Mahādeva in the temple that we have built [in] Mullaivāyil.

(7–8) As long as the earth and the sun (nilamum ñāyaṟum uḷḷa tuṇaiyum), We, the members of the assembly of Uttarameruccaturvedimaṅgala will, ¿looking favourably/overseeing up to the end? (kaṭai-k kaṇṭu), have the glorioys amṛta given.

(8) These ... ¿Ciṟṟa ...?

(The inscription stops short here.)

Commentary

(8) kaṭai-k kaṇṭu. IP: "under their personal supervision".

(8) i(v)ai (ciṟṟa). This is the mention of the scribe.

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 314); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 216); re-edited and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020) from 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 152, item 314.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 560–561, item 216.

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 17, appendix B/1898, item 31.