Koṭuṅkalūr, time of Kampavikramavarman, year (3)2

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation after sale by a villagers assembly.

Palaeographic description: Medial u and ū interchangeable. Initial vowel I used instead of yi.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00233.

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Version: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09 (6edbbfa).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-kampa-vi-
⟨3⟩ kkirama-pa¡t!ma⟨ṟ⟩ku yāṇ-
⟨4⟩ ṭu (3) 10 2 Āvatu I-
⟨5⟩ v-vūr-k kāṭantai na-
⟨6⟩ kkaṉ caṭaiyaṉukku-
⟨7⟩ -k kāviṭṭ’ ¡u!rōm Iv(v-ū)-
⟨8⟩ (r) [**] viṭa viṟṟu-k ku-
⟨9⟩ ṭut(tō)m I-dhanmaṅ keṭut-
⟨10⟩ (tāṉ) keṅk(ai)¡I!ṭai-k kumari¡I!-
⟨11⟩ ṭai-c ceytāṉ pāva-
⟨12⟩ […] [ca. 1 lost line]

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–4⟩ (Tirthy)-second year of the victorious king Kampavikkiramapanmaṉ.¹

⟨4–9⟩ To Kāṭantai Nakkaṉ Caṭaiyaṉ of this village, we, the villagers of Kāviṭu we have given after selling […]

⟨9–12⟩ He who destroys this pious act [will incur] the sin of he does that between the Ganges and Kumari.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923–24 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/144).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.111). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 233). Edited in Civāṉantam 2018.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 52, item 111.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 592, item 233.

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2018. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XIII. Tiruvaṇṇāmalai māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti II. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 52. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Item 192/2018, page 23.

Secondary

ARIE 1923–24. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1924. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1925. Page 53, appendix C/1924, item 144.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Kampavikramavarman.

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