Poykainallūr, donation, time of Vajrameghavarman, year 7

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00483.

Summary: Donation for food-offering (amutu) to a god’s temple. Fragment.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svast¿a?⟨i⟩ śrī

śrī-vayira-mēka-varmarkku ⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu 7-vatu

tāmaṟ-kōṭṭattu ⟨3⟩ poykai-nallūr sabhaiyōm ⟨4⟩ tiru-vakattīśva […] ⟨5⟩ […] tiruvamirtu paṇṇa […] ⟨6⟩ […] tiruvamirtukkum āka […]

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Apparatus

⟨1⟩ svast¿a?⟨i⟩svast¿a?⟨i⟩ Āvaṇam • It is possible that a typo crept in the Āvaṇam’s transcription and that svasti is in fact the correct reading.

⟨3⟩ sabhaiyōm ⬦ 4பை4யோம் Āvaṇam • We surmise that our transliterated reading represents the Āvaṇam’s transcription.

⟨4⟩ °vakattīśva° ⬦ °வகத்தீச்4வ° Āvaṇam • We surmise that our transliterated reading represents the Āvaṇam’s transcription. The text might be supplied as °vakattīśvarattu mahādevarkku.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) 7th year of the glorious Vajrameghavarman1.

(2–6) We, the members of the assembly of Poykainallūr in the Tāmaṟkōṭṭam […] [to the Mahādeva of] the Tiruvakattiśvara […] glorious food offering […] so as to be for glorious food offering […]

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Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in No name 1991–2019 (Āvaṇam 17, no. 7.1); 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 7.1.

Notes

  1. 1. Vayiramēkavarmar in the original Tamil text.