Oratti, foundation, time of Tantippōttaraiyar, year 14

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00437.

Summary: Foundation of a sluice (tūmpu).

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī

tanti-p-pōttaraiya⟨2⟩rkku-p yāṇṭu patiṉāṉk-ā⟨3⟩vatu

Ītūr-k-kōṭṭattu ne⟨4⟩ṭuṅkal-nāṭṭu Āṟṟūri⟨5⟩I Iruntu vāḻum kōṭṭaṅ⟨6⟩[2+] ntar makaṉ nakkaṉ cey⟨7⟩vitta tūmpu

⟨8⟩ kuvaṇa-taccaṉ[2+]⟨9⟩[1+] ka [2+] ceyantaṉ

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Fortune!

(1–3) Fourteenth year of Tantippōttaraiyar.1

(4–7) [This is] the sluice that Nakkaṉ, son of Kōṭṭaṅ[…]ntar, who lives residing in Āṟṟūr, in the Neṭuṅkalnāṭu, [itself] in the Ītūrkkōṭṭam, had made.

(8–9) Kuvaṇataccaṉ […] Ceyantaṉ.

Bibliography

Reported in Krishnan and Ramesh 1987 (ARIE/1976-1977/B/1976-1977/209).

Edited in Dayalan 2005.

Edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on Dayalan 2005, not sufficiently reliable. The distinction between vowel akṣaras and markers, and between Grantha and Tamil letters, cannot be implemented with full confidence. The present digital edition is thus provisional and should be revised with proper visual documentation.

Primary

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1291, item 56.

Secondary

Krishnan, K. G. and K.V. Ramesh. 1987. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1976-77. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 84, appendixes B/1976-1977, item 320917.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Dantin + Tamil Pōttaraiyar.