Koḷappākkam, donation, time of Vijaya-Mahārāja, year (8)

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00480.

Summary: Donation of land for mid-day food offerings (amutu) in a god’s temple.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

śrī-vijaya-majaṟku yāṇṭu⟨2⟩(Eṭṭ-ā)vatu

puliyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-p pērūr-nāṭṭu ⟨3⟩ kuḷappākka-kiḻāṉ nātaṉ (tēva)⟨4⟩(ṉ Iv)-vūr-t tiru-vahastisvarattu matēvaṟkku Ā ⟨5⟩ cantira-kālamum nicamum matyāṉatt’ oru tiru-v-amirtuk⟨6⟩ku vaitta pūmi tūmpeṉappaṭṭikku mērki⟨7⟩ṟ kāṭṭu kuḷakkollai Iru-nūṟṟ’ aimpatu ku⟨8⟩ḻi

I-tarmmam rakṣikka kaṭavōm Ūrom {Ūrōm}

itu panmā⟨9⟩hesvarar rakṣai

I-tarmmam rakṣippār pāta⟨10⟩[1 lost or illegible line]⟨11⟩tuḷ Eṉ talai mēḻaṉa

Apparatus

⟨4⟩ tiru-vahastisvarattu ⬦ tiru-vahastisvarattu Āvaṇam • It is possible that the Āvaṇam’s edition transcription represents in fact iru-vahastiśvarattu.

⟨8⟩ Ūrom {Ūrōm}Ūrom Ūrōm Āvaṇam • The duplication of Ūrōm might be a typo in the Āvaṇam’s edition transcription. — ⟨8⟩ panmā⟨9⟩hesvarar ⬦ panmā⟨9⟩hesvarar Āvaṇam • It is possible that the Āvaṇam’s edition transcription represents in fact panmā⟨9⟩heśvarar.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) (Eigh)th year of the glorious and victorious Mahārāja.

(2–8) The land that Nātaṉ (Tēvaṉ), the lord of Kuḷappākkam in the Pērūrnāṭu of the Pūliyūrkkōṭṭam, has given for one mid-day glorious food offering, as long as the moon and the sun, (nicamum), for the Mahādeva of the Tiruvakastīśvara [of] this village: two hundred fifty kuḻīs [in] Kuḷakkollai in the forest west of Tūmpenappaṭṭi.

(8) This pious act, we are bound to protect it, we, the village delagates.

(8–9) This [pious act is under] the protection of the Panmāheśvaras.

(9–11) The feet of he who protects this pious act […] are on my head.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in No name 1991–2019 (Āvaṇam 17, no. 22.1); re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[Āvaṇam] No name. 1991–2019. Āvaṇam. 30 vols. Tanjore: Archaeological Society. Volume 17 (2006), item 22.1.