Ālantūr, time of Kampavikramavarman

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: See IAR 2003-04 (p. 367): “Inscribed on the granite slab, used as the step stone at the entrance of Śrī Śivasubrahmaṇya Svāmin temple at Ālantūr, Tambaram Taluk, District Kanchipuram. This slab might have been brought from a dilapidated Jaina paḷḷi at Māṅkāṭu (near Kuṉṟattūr) and laid here when this temple was constructed, probably in the 18th-19th centuries. The inscription contains the information that the daughter of one Amarnilaiyar of Paripandatturai Paricai in Āṟkkāṭṭukkūṟṟam who was a disciple of Anandavirakkuravar gifted paddy for offering at the avi (havis) and a plate for holding the offerings, at the Teruvarantanam at Māṅkāṭu in Māṅkāṭunāṭu in Puliyūkkōṭṭam. 875 AD Pallava Kampavikramavarman”.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00460.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-kō-vicaiya-kampavikkiramava(r)mmaṟku yāṇṭ’ aintāvatiṉ cittirai mutal āka-p puliyūr-k-kōṭṭattu māṅkāṭṭu-nāṭṭu māṅkāṭu tiruvarāntāṉattukku (Ārk)-

⟨2⟩ kāṭṭu-k-kūṟṟattu paripaṇṭattuṟai paricai kiḻār Amarnilaiyār makaḷār Ip-paḷḷi Uṭaiya Ananta vīrakkuravar māṇākkiyār ku [***] Aṭikaḷ tiru-v-amutukku vaitta nell aṟupatiṉ

⟨3⟩ (kāṭi) mu-n-nāḻi nellāl vikkāṭṭuvōm āṉōm Aviccoriyuntāla muppatiṉ palattāliṭṭār Itukku muṭṭāmai-c [***]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ vikkāṭṭuvōm ⬦ aṭṭuvikkavōm C.

Bibliography

Reported in IAR 2003-04, p. 367, № 3.

Edited in Civāṉantam 2017, with visual documentation (p. 284).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis based on Civāṉantam 2017 and online visual documentation. Thanks to Centamiḻ Celvaṉ for pointing out these resources.

Primary

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2017. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti IX. Kāñcipuram māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ: tokuti 5. TNSDA Epigraphical Series; TNSDA publication 48; 286. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 191, item 761/2017.

Secondary

IAR 2003-04. Indian Archaeology 2003-04: A Review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2011.

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