Ūttukkāṭu, donation, time of Kampavarman, year 25

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00231.

Summary: Transaction concerning a donation of gold and land for the upkeep of three lamps (one being perpetual) and food offerings.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vi(c)ai⟨2⟩ya-kam¿ppa?pa-panma⟨r⟩supplied>kku yāṇ⟨3⟩ṭu Irupatt’ ai¡ñc!⟨nt⟩-āva⟨4⟩tu

Ūṟṟu-k-kāṭṭu-p pūcā(li) ⟨5⟩(ma)ṉaṉukku Ivv-ū(r u)⟨6⟩ḻai-c-cēri-t tiru-nāmakkiḻa⟨7⟩varkaḷōm Oṭṭi-k kuṭu⟨8⟩tta paric-āvatu

nandā vi⟨9⟩ḷakk’ erip=pat-āka Ivar ta⟨10⟩n=ta poṉṉāl nicati Oru ⟨11⟩ nantā viḷakk’ erippōm ⟨12⟩ ākavum

Ivarē-y deva⟨13⟩r pōkañ ceyta Ā(ṉai)⟨14⟩-p-pulat=tu-c ceṟuviṉāl ⟨15⟩ pakal Iraṇṭu viḷakku nā⟨16⟩yaṟu-maṭṭu Oru cāmat=t’ aḷavum ⟨17⟩ (E)rippōm ākavum

I(rā)⟨18⟩(mun)nāḻi Ariciyāṟ ṟiru-va⟨19⟩(mirtu) kāṭṭuvōm ākavum

I-⟨20⟩-(vi)ḷakku m¡u!⟨ū⟩ṉṟun= tiru-v-ami(rt’ o)⟨21⟩¿n?⟨ṉ⟩ṟuñ cantirāti(t=ta)⟨22⟩(r) v-uḷḷavum celut⟨23⟩(tuva)t-ākavum

Itaṟ ṟiṟampi⟨24⟩(l)heśvarar A[C]ai⟨25⟩[…]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ °kam¿ppanma?papanma⟨r⟩supplied>kku ⬦ °kamppanmakku VVA; °kampapanmarkku IP.

⟨20⟩ tiruvami(rt’)tiruvami(t’) VVA; tiruvami(t’) IP.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–4) Twenty-fifth year of the victorious king Kampavarman.

(4–8) The manner in which we the Tirunāmakkiḻavars1 of Uḻaiccēri in this village solemnly guarantee to Pūcālivāmaṉaṉ of Ūṟṟukkāṭu.

(9–12) So as to burn a perpetual lamp, we shall burn one perpetual lamp daily with the gold he has given.

(12–17) We shall [also] burn two day lamps ... for the duration of one cāmam [with the income] from a field in Āṉaippulam, which he made a devabhoga.

(17–19) We shall provide at night glorious food-offerings through three nāḻis of paddy

(19–23) These three lamps and this one glorious food-offerings shall be ... up to the extent of the moon and the sun.

(23–25) If we deviate from this, the Māheśvaras […]

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 108); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 231); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

Primary

[VVA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 51, item 108.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 589–590, item 231.

Secondary

Venkayya, V. 1907. G.O. No. 503, 27th June 1907. Epigraphy. Reviewing the annual progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for -, Southern Circle, for the year 1906-1907. No place. Page 28, appendix B/1906, item 345.

Notes

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