Satyavēḍu, donation, time of Aparājitavarman, year 4

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00237.

Summary: Donation of land as arcanābhoga to a temple god.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kō-A⟨pa⟩¿y?jita-paṟmaṟku yāṇ⟨3⟩ṭu nāl-āvatu

paiyyūr-iḷaṅ⟨4⟩kōṭṭattu-t tekkūr-nāṭ⟨5⟩ṭu-t tiru-mataṅkaṉ paḷ⟨6⟩ḷi mahādevaṟku In-nāṭ⟨7⟩ṭut tuṟaiyūr-p (po)ṉṉu⟨8⟩m puravu¡mm!⟨m⟩ aṭaṅka Arcca⟨9⟩-bhogam-āka-k kuṭuttēṉ ⟨10⟩ cera-nāṭ-uṭaiya kumāran⟨11⟩tai kuṟumpar ātitta¡n!⟨ṉ⟩-āki⟨12⟩ya kāṭupaṭṭi-p pērarai⟨13⟩yaṉ-ēṉ

It-taṉma⟨14⟩m rakṣittāṉ aṭi-y eṉ ⟨15⟩ ṟalai m¿a?⟨ē⟩laṉa

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–3) Fourth year of the king Aparājitavarman.

(3–13) I have given to the Mahādeva of the Tirumataṅkaṉ Paḷḷi in the Tekkūrnāṭu in the Paiyyūriḷaṅkōṭṭam as arcanābhoga ... , I, Kāṭupaṭṭi Pēraraiyaṉ alias Kumārantai Kuṟumpar Ātittaṉ, lord of the Cēranāṭu.

(13–15) The feet of he who protects this pious act are on my head.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 86); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 237); 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. Pages 36–37, item 86.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 598–599, item 237.

Secondary

Krishna Sastri, H. 1912. G.O. No. 919, 29th July 1912. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1911-1912. No place. Page 43, appendix C/1912, item 31.