Kumaraḍimaṅgala grant, time of Nandivarman, year 10

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00389.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (61a9e6c), last modified (319ba00).

Edition

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⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1v1=1⟩ svasti śrī

I. Mandākrāntā

lokotpatti-sthiti-laya-vidher īśate yasya līlā

a

(yatrāyatya) parama⟨1v2=2⟩-madhuraṃ śarma-lo¡g!⟨k⟩eśvarāś ca

b

du(r)vijñātaś carati mahimā yasya vedho-ha⟨1v3=3⟩ribhyān

c

tad vaḥ pāyād amalam atulan dhāma candrārdha-mauleḥ

d

⟨Page 2r⟩ ⟨2r1=⟩ ⟨Page 2v⟩ ⟨2v1=⟩ ⟨Page 3r⟩ ⟨3r1=⟩ ⟨Page 3v1⟩ ⟨3v1=⟩ ⟨Page 4r⟩ ⟨4r1=⟩ ⟨Page 4v⟩ ⟨4v1=⟩ ⟨Page 5r⟩ ⟨5r1=⟩ ...

VII. Mālinī

sukṛtam idam ajasraṃ ra¡t!⟨k⟩ṣateti ¡t!⟨k⟩ṣitīśās

a

sakala-nṛpati-(ketu)⟨5r6=66⟩s so ’yam āgāmino vaḥ

b

hara-caraṇa-sarojottaṃsa-cihnena m¿ū?⟨u⟩rdhnā

c

mukuḷita-kara-pa¿t?⟨d⟩mo ⟨5r7=67⟩ vandate nandivarmmā ||

d
VIII. uncertain

kāñcīpura-kṛta-janmā s¿t?⟨th⟩apati-patir llikhitavān praśastim

ab

imāM putro vayiraḍi nāmnā{ṃ} ściṟṟaya nāmā jñayā rājñaḥ

c

kaccippēṭṭaImaṉaccēri kāṣṭakāri vayiraṭi ma⟨5r9=69⟩kaṉ ciṟṟayaṉ eḻuttu

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Apparatus

Seal

Plates

⟨1⟩ (yatrāyatya)yatrāya¿tya?⟨ttaṃ⟩ SII.

⟨2⟩ du(r)vijñātaś ⬦ duvijñātaś SII.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1982-1983 (ARIE/1982-1983/A/1982-1983/2), in Francis 2013 (IR 89).

Edited in Ramesan 1976. Text in Dayalan 2005.

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Ramesan 1976 and visual documentation therein.

Primary

[SII] Ramesan, N. 1976. “The Kumaradimangalam plates of the Pallava King Nandivarma III.” In: Sri Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma commemoration volume. Edited by R. Subrahmanyam. Hyderabad: Government of Andhra Pradesh, pp. 193–205.

Secondary

ARIE 1982-1983. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1982-83. Edited by K. V. Ramesh. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2004. Appendix A/1982-1983/2, pp. 3, 12.

Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Page 1276, item 41.

Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Pages 300–301, item IR 89.