Viriñcipuram, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 47

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00321.

Summary: Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952: “Damaged. Mentions Kalanippā⟨kka⟩m in Mēyāṟu-nāṭu and refers to a [ka]ṉṉāṭu evidently erected in memory of the hero, who is represented in relief near the inscription with a bow and arrow in his hands.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (4be12df).

Edition

⟨1⟩ vicaiya-nanti-vikkirama-parumaṟku ⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu nār-patt’ ēḻ-āvatu … [the rest of the text is not available]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Forty-seventh year of the victorious Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.1

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1887 (ARIE/1886-1887/II/1886-1887/55); reported again in Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1939-1940/207).

Date phrase edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1.125); summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 321).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Hultzsch 1890.

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

Primary

[EH] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Page 133, item 125.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 321, page 720.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1887. G.O. No. 1462, 24th October 1887. Archaeology. Noting with satisfaction the work performed by Dr. Hultzsch, Epigraphist, from 21st November 1886 to 20th September 1887. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 6, appendixes II/1886-1887, item 55.

Krishnamacharlu, C. R. and N. Laksminarayan Rao. 1952. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Delhi: Government of India. Page 55, appendixes B/1939-1940, item 207.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.