Putuppākkam, donation, time of Aparājitavarman, year (3)

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00236.

Summary: A tax remission transaction apparently.

Hand description:

Medial u and ū interchangeable.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [svasti śrī]

[kō-vi]caiya Aparā⟨2⟩[jitavarmmaṟku] yāṇṭu m¡u!⟨ū⟩⟨3⟩[ṟāvatu]

[maṇai]yiṟ-kōṭṭattu ⟨4⟩ [paḷukūr-nā]ṭṭu nallilma⟨5⟩[ṅkala-sabhai]yōm Iṟai-y-ili⟨6⟩[yāka] [3+] k kai-¡yy!⟨y⟩ eḻuttu

⟨7⟩ [yāḷuṅka]ṇattāruḷ Aḷa⟨8⟩[5+] makkaḷ nallā¡-I!⟨vi⟩n⟨9⟩[4+] [ma]kkaḷum marumakkaḷu⟨10⟩[m] [2+] [sabhai]y(ō)m poṉ ko⟨11⟩[ṇṭu] [2+] [va]san=tayājiyār (ta)⟨12⟩[5+] maṭa-[p*]-puṟam Ivv-ūr ⟨13⟩ [5+] (va)ri-p paṭi Āṟ’ arai mā⟨14⟩[5+] taṭi muṟṟum ⟨15⟩ [4+] [va]nta Iṟai Eppērp⟨16⟩[paṭṭa] [2+] nāyaṟu meḷa[2+]⟨17⟩[4+][ā]ṉōm sabhai⟨18⟩[m]

[4+](ḻi)ṭṭu Anyonya-sa⟨19⟩[5+]tōm ā¿n?⟨ṉ⟩ōm

Aparā⟨20⟩[5+] paṇi⟨t⟩tōm sabhai⟨21⟩[m] [4+](vā)r viṣṇu-loka(prā)

[unknown number of lost or illegible lines]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ [maṇai]yiṟ-kōṭṭattu ⟨4⟩ [paḷukūr-nā]ṭṭu ⬦ [2+]yiṟ-kōṭṭattu ⟨4⟩ [5+]ṭṭu VVA • Text restoration based on ARIE/1922-1923/C/1923/61 (Venkoba Rao 1924, p. 67, appendix C/1923, № 61), which mentions the assembly of Nallilmaṅkalam in the Mēṟpaḷukūrnāṭu of the Maṇaiyiṟkōṭṭam.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Prosperity! Fortune!]

(1–3) Third year of the victorious king Aparājitavarman.

(3–6) Hand-writing [for] […] tax-free, by we, the members of the assembly of Nallilmaṅkalam in the [Paḷukūr]nātu of the [Maṇai]yiṟkōṭṭam.

(7–18) ...

(18–19) ...

(19–21) ...

[unknown number of lost lines]

Commentary

Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 notes: “The inscription is a fragment; the portion containing a few letters at the beginnings of lines appear to have been cut away.”

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 84); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 236); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions, with further text restorations, partly based on the suggestions by Mahalingam 1988.

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 36, item 84.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 596–597, item 236.

Secondary

Venkoba Rao, G. 1924. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1923. Madras: Government Press. Page 67, appendix C/1923, item 62.