Poṟkuṇam, time of Kampapōttairavikramavarman, year 25

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00504.

Summary: Munirathnam 2019 (p. 85): “Damaged and Incomplete. Seems to record the renovation of sluice in the lake named Kalkili-ēri at Poṟkuṉṟam in Manṭaikkuḷa-nāṭu. Further it refers to the village Putaṉaṭpaṭiyūr Pūtiyūr in Kāntalūr-kūṟṟam of Kīḻvēṇāṭu of Palkuṉṟa-Kōṭṭam. In characters of the 10th century A.D.”

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨Face A: Front side⟩ ⟨1⟩ (sva)st(i) śrī

kō-vicaiya⟨2⟩-kampa-pōttaraiya⟨3⟩-vikkirama-parumaṟki yā⟨4⟩(ṭ’ iru)patt’ aint-āvatu

pa⟨5⟩l-kuṉṟa-k-kōṭṭattu-k k¡i!⟨ī⟩⟨6⟩vēṇāṭṭu-k kāntaḷūr-k⟨7⟩-kūṟṟa(t)tu-p putaṉāṭp(pā)⟨8⟩(iyiṟ p)utiyūr-uṭaiya (kōvā)⟨9⟩ṟ ceyyappaṭṭatu ma⟨10⟩ṇṭ¡aiy!⟨ai⟩kuḷa-nāṭṭu-p ⟨11⟩ poṟkuṉṟam piruti-kaṇka⟨12⟩raiyar piritiyi-rāc⟨Face B: Back side⟩⟨13⟩yañ ceytā(ḷa) v-i⟨14⟩p-poṟkuṉṟat⟨15⟩t’ ēri k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ-tūm⟨16⟩piṉ (pāṭēy) put⟨17⟩taṟai tirutti-k kal⟨18⟩-k-kili-y-ēri-c ceṟu⟨19⟩v’ eṉṟu pēriṭṭē ⟨20⟩ (Ivv-ē)rikku-k kuṭutta⟨21⟩r

itu niṟuttiṉāṉ kā⟨Face C: Back side, top portion⟩⟨22⟩l eṉ ṟalai mēli⟨23⟩ṉa

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (sva)st(i)s⟨va⟩sti P.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–4) Twenty-fifth year of the victorious king Kampapōttairavikramavarman.

(4–21) That which Kōvār, landowner [in] Putiyūr [itself] in Putaṉāṭppāṭi in the Kāntalūrkkūṟṟam [itself] in Kīḻvēṇāṭu, [itself] in the Palkuṉṟakkōṭṭam had made: in Poṟkuṉṟam in the Maṇṭaikuḷanāṭu, while Pṛthīvi Kaṅkaraiyar was ruling the earth, he gave ... ...

(21–23) The feet of he who maintains this are on my head.

Bibliography

Reported in Munirathnam 2019 (ARIE/2018-2019/B/2018-2019/370).

Edited in Pālamurukaṉ et al. 2019, with photos (Āvaṇam 30.11).

Encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on Pālamurukaṉ et al. 2019 and photos therein, which however do not cover lines 18-23.

Primary

[P] Pālamurukaṉ, Ca., Vē. Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ and Ta. Ma. Pirakaṣ. 2019. “poṟkuṇam ērikkalveṭṭu.” Āvaṇam 30, pp. 17–18.

Secondary

Munirathnam, K. 2019. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2018-19. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 85, appendixes B/2018-2019, item 370.