Cīyamaṅkalam, pillar, construction of a sluice, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 4

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00323.

Summary: Construction of a sluice by Aṭavi from Tiruppālaiyūr.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-ta⟨2⟩nti-vikkirama-paru⟨3⟩maṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu nā⟨4⟩l-āvatu

Ūṟṟu-k⟨5⟩-kāṭṭu-k-kōṭṭattu-p ⟨6⟩ perum-p(ā)lai-Ūr⟨7⟩-t tiru-p-pālai-Ūr ⟨8⟩ kiḻava¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ a(ṭa)vi śrī⟨9⟩-kaṅkar¡e!⟨ai⟩yar nērkuṭ⟨10⟩ṭi perumāṉārk=ku vi⟨11⟩ṇṇappañ cey⟨12⟩(t)u ceyvi(tta)tu ⟨13⟩ kumāra-vāy-t tūm⟨14⟩pu

Apparatus

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–4) Fourth year of the victorious king Dantivarman (kō-vicaiya-tanti-vikkiramaparumaṉ).

(4–14) Aṭavi, the lord (kiḻavaṉ) of Tiruppālaiyūr in Perumpālaiyūr in the district (kōṭṭam) of Ūṟṟukkāṭu, after having made request to the glorious Gaṅga king, the lord (perumāṉār) Nērkuṭṭi, the sluice (tūmpu) [named] Kumāṟavāy that he had made.

Bibliography

Reported in Chandra 1957 (ARIE/1956-1957/B/1956-1957/131).

Summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 323).

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2019).

Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 323, page 722.

Secondary

[ARIE] Chandra, B.C. 1957. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1956-57. New Delhi: Manager of Publications (Department of Archaeology). Page 54, appendixes B/1956-1957, item 131.

Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-temples of the Pallavas. Architectural survey of temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 89–94.