Poyyaṉūr, time of Vajrameghavarman, year 2

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of gold (?) for food offerings to a god temple.

Palaeographic description: Medial i and ī interchangeable.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00264.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00264.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī śrī-vayira-(m)ēka-panma⟨r⟩kku
⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu (2-Āvatu) tāmaṟ-kōṭṭattu
⟨3⟩ poy(kai)-nallūr sabhaiyō¡(mm)! (iv)-vūr
⟨4⟩ tiru-v-akatt¡i!śvara[m-uṭaiya mahādevarkku]
⟨5⟩ nitta tiru-v-amirtu paṇ [****] mayil [*******]
⟨6⟩ [**] tiru-v-amirtukkum-āka ¡v(ai)yt[ta]! [****] [unknown number of lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨4⟩ tiru-v-akatt¡i!⟨ī⟩śvara[m-uṭaiya mahādevarkku] ⬦ tiru-v-akattiśvara[9+] SII.

⟨6⟩ ¡v(ai)yt[ta]!⟨vait[ta]⟩ [4+] ⬦ v(ai)yta [5+] SII.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ (Second) year of the glorious Vayiramēkapanmar.¹

⟨2–3⟩ We, the members of the assembly ⟨of⟩ Poykainallūr in the Tāmaṟkōṭṭam.

⟨4–6⟩ For the Mahādeva, Lord of the glorious Tiruvakaṭtīśvaram ⟨of⟩ this village […] permanent food offerings […] that […] has given as glorious food offerings […]

[unknown number of lost lines]

Commentary

On the identity of Vayiramēkavarman (Sanskrit Vajrameghavarman), see Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943: “The surname Vayiramēkaṉ [fn3] is applied to Dantivarman in the Triplicane inscription [fn4]. As the characters of the present ⟨SII 12.113 = DHARMA_INSPallava00264⟩ and the following inscription ⟨SII 12.114 = DHARMA_INSPallava00265⟩ belong to a later period than Dantivarman, the king figuring in these two records was probably different. A certain chieftain named Vayiramēkaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyar figures in two inscriptions from Tiruvoṟṟiyūr [fn5], with whom Vayiramēkavarman of the present record may be identified.”

See also DHARMA_INSPallava00265, DHARMA_INSPallava00266, DHARMA_INSPallava00350, DHARMA_INSPallava00351.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1915–16 (ARIE/1915-1916/C/1916/150).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.113), with visual documentation. Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 264).

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 53, item 113.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 644, item 264.

Secondary

ARIE 1915–16. G.O. No. 99, 29th August 1916. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1915-1916. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1916. Page 78, appendix C/1916, item 150.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Vajrameghavarman.

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