Kāvantaṇṭalam, donation transaction, time of Kampavarman, year 18

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00222.

Summary: Transaction by a Brahman assembly (sabhā) concerning a donation of gold for conducting worship.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kampava(r)mmar⟨k⟩ku yāṇṭu patiṉ eṭṭāvatu

Ūṟṟukkāṭṭukkōṭṭa⟨t⟩tut tamaṉūrnāṭṭu caturvvedimaṅkalattu sabhaiy(ō)m Eḻuttu

Emm¡u!⟨ū⟩r māṉasa¿t?⟨r⟩paviṣṇugr̥hattu Irunta perumāṉaṭikaḷ pakkal yāṅkaḷ koṇṭu (kaṭa)va poṉ Ūrkkaṟ cemmai muppatiṉ kaḻañcu

Ippoṉ kaḻañciṉvāy nālu mañcāṭip pali(cai)yāka Irupatiṉ ka⟨2⟩ḻañcāl nāṟ kaḻañcukkum Āṭ(ṭā)ṇṭutōṟum cittirait tiruvōṇam peruviḻāvāka Eḻu nāḷum nicati nūṟu viḷakkum patiṉāṟāḷ taṭṭaḻikoṭṭikaḷaiyuṅ koṇṭu ceyvittu snapaṉam āṭṭuvittu tiruvamirtu Eḻu nāḷuṅ kuṭuttu ceyvippō⟨m ā⟩kavum

niṉṟa pattup poṉṉāl Iru-kaḻañcukkum nicati Uri Eṇṇai Uṇṇāḻikaippuṟa(m) aṭṭuvō(m āṉ)ōm

Emmūrc caṅ⟨3⟩karappāṭi koṇṭu polippuṭaittākac cevippōm āṉōm sabhaiyōm

Ipparicu sabhaiyāyu(n) taṉiyāyuñ cellāmai kāttārai śraddhāma(nta)dha(r)mmāsa(ṉa)ttu nicatam Irupattu nālu kāṇan taṇṭappaṭuvōm ākavuṅ

gaṅgai-Iṭaik kumari-Iṭaic ceytār ceyta (pāvam pa)ṭavun tirunāraṇam piḻaitta taṇṭappaṭuvōm āṉom catu(r)vvetimaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm

Itu rakṣittār aṭi en talai melaṉa

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Eighteenth year of Kampavarman.

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

(1) ...

(1–2) ...

(2) ...

(2–3) We have become ... we, the members of the assembly.

(3) In that manner ...

(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. 421); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 222); 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 421.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 571–572, item 222.

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 208.