Vallam, donation, time of unknown king, unknown year

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00461.

Summary: Donation of sheep for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp in a temple.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

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⟨1⟩hā-de(varku) [non]⟨2⟩tā-viḷak=ku E[ri]⟨3⟩ya śrī-Atik[ā]⟨4⟩ppiyaṉ [v]ai⟨5⟩tta cāvā muv[ā] ⟨6⟩ pēr āṭu to[ṇ]⟨7⟩ṇūṟṟu A⟨8⟩ṟu

Idhamma[m·] ra⟨9⟩kṣippāṉ ⟨10⟩ śrīpātam ⟨11⟩ Eṉ talai ⟨12⟩ m[ē]la(ṉa)

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ E[ri]⟨3⟩ya ⬦ 4 10 IARIAR notes: “The number 40 is mentioned after the word, “nandavilakku” This may denote the weight of the lamp”.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

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(1–8) […] ninety-six undying unaging great sheep that the glorious Atikāppiyaṉ gave, so as to burn a perpetual for the Mahādeva […]

(8–12) The feet of he who protects this pious act are on my head.

Commentary

Bibliography

Summary and facsimile in IAR 2003-04.

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on the published facsimile.

Secondary

[IAR] IAR 2003-04. Indian Archaeology 2003-04: A Review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2011. Page 367, plate 279.