Satyavēḍu, donation, time of Aparājitavarman, year 5

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00240.

Summary: Donation of sheep for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kō-Aparā¿y?jita-paṟmaṟ⟨3⟩ku yāṇṭu ¡Añc!⟨Aint⟩-āvatu

⟨4⟩(ra)-nāṭ-uṭaiya kumārantai kuṟumpar āti⟨5⟩tta¡n!⟨ṉ⟩-ākiya kāṭupaṭṭi-p pēr-araiya⟨6⟩ṉ maṇavāṭṭi poṟṟi naṅkai-y-ēṉ⟨7⟩paiyyūr-iḷaṅ-kōṭṭattu-t tekkū⟨8⟩r-nāṭṭu-t tiru-mataṅkaṉ paḷḷi mā⟨9⟩tēvarkku Oru nantā viḷakk¿u?⟨i⟩ṉuk-⟨10⟩ku vaitta Āṭu nūṟu Ivai cāvā mu⟨11⟩vā-p pēr-āṭ-āka vaittēṉ

Iv⟨12⟩v-āṭu nūṟuṅ koṇṭu nicatam u⟨13⟩ḻakku ney viṭēlviṭukōṭ’ okkum u⟨14⟩ḻakkiṉāl aṭṭuvōm āṉōm tiru⟨15⟩-mataṅkaṉ paḷḷi pū⟨va⟩ṉūr Ūrō⟨16⟩m

Itaṟ ṟiṟampil tiru-v-ā

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Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

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

(3–11) The hundred sheep that I, Poṟṟi naṅkai, spouse of Kāṭupaṭṭi Pēraraiyaṉ alias Kumārantai Kuṟumpar Ātittaṉ, lord of the Cēranāṭu, have given for one perpetual lamp for the Mahādeva of the Tirumataṅkaṉ Paḷḷi in the Tekkūrnāṭu in the Paiyyūriḷaṅkōṭṭam, these, I have given as undying and unaging great sheep.

(11–16) We have become those who ..., we, the village delegates of Pūvaṉūr [within] Tirumataṅkaṉ Paḷḷi.

(16–17) If defaulting ...

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 89); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 240); 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 38–39, item 89.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 604–605, item 240.

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 32.