Maṇalūrpēṭ, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 5

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00325.

Summary: Krishnamacharlu 1942 (p. 53): “Fragment. Registers gift of a village for offerings and lamp, by Mahādēvaṭikaḷ, the daughter of Vāṇakōvaraiyar Siddhavaṭavaṉār (with the permission of her elder brother) . . . . . . yar Vayirimēkaṉār. Another fragment in the same place dated in the 7th year, probably of the same king, registers gift of gold for offerings to the god by Pullāli Cāttaṉ.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (e7f80e1).

Edition

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Commentary

Krishnamacharlu 1942 (p. 87, §23) notes:1 “No. 469 which is an incomplete record dated in the 5th year of Nandivarman, consists of detached stones, and from it it is inferred that a certam Vayiramēkaṉār was the son of Vāṇakōvaraiyar Siddhavaṭaṉār and was ruling in the locality and that at the request of his younger sister Mahādevaṭikaḷ, an endowment was made to the temple at Maṇaḷūr. In two inscriptions at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr (Nos. 158 and 161 of 1912) a certain Vayiramēkaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyaṉ, the son of Perunaṅkai or Cami Akkaṉ is mentioned in the reign of the Pallava king Aparājita, and since in the present inscription a Vāṇakōvaraiyaṉ Vayiramēkaṉ is stated to be the son of Siddhavaṭavaṉ he may be different from the former.”

Bibliography

Reported in Krishnamacharlu 1942 (ARIE/1937-1938/B/1937-1938/469).

Recorder in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 325).

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

Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 325, page 724.

Secondary

Krishnamacharlu, C. R. 1942. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1938. Delhi: Government of India. Pages 53, 86–87 (§23), appendixes B/1937-1938, item 469.

Notes

  1. 1. Quotation updated to DHARMA transliteration scheme.