Iḷaiyanallūr, donation, time of Nandivikramavarman

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00444.

Summary: Donation of land for providing water and fire in a god’s temple.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-nanti-vi⟨2⟩kk¡ī!⟨i⟩rama-parumaṟku yā⟨3⟩ṇṭu Irupatt’ iraṇ⟨4⟩ṭ-āvatu

cakaḷa-maṉu⟨5⟩mpāṭiyum I(va)ru⟨6⟩varumam v¡ī!⟨i⟩ṇṇ¡ī!⟨i⟩⟨7⟩kkiṭiyār taṉ cē⟨8⟩¿ṇ?⟨ṉ⟩aikku Iṟai Illi ⟨9⟩ Iḷayaṉūr mum⟨10⟩mūlaippaṭṭi taṇ⟨11⟩ṇīrkkum t¡i!⟨ī⟩kkum vai⟨12⟩t(ta)tu

Itu kāttā⟨13⟩ṉ aṭi Eṉ ṟalai ⟨14⟩ mēḻaṉa

Apparatus

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–4) Twenty-second year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

(4–12) The [land named] Mumūlaippaṭi [in] Iḷayaṉūr, [made] tax-free, is that which Viṇṇikkiṭiyar has given for water and fire.

(12–14) The feet of he who protects this [pious act] are on my head.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in No name 1991–2019 (Āvaṇam 5, no. 1); text in Dayalan 2005; re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on photographs (2009).

Primary

[Āvaṇam] No name. 1991–2019. Āvaṇam. 30 vols. Tanjore: Archaeological Society. Volume 5 (July 1994), item 1.

[DD] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1301, item 64.

Secondary

[ARIE] Katti, Madhav N. 1998. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1992-93. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 54, appendixes B/1992-1993, item 324.