Tirukkaḻukkuṉṟam, Orukal Maṇḍapa pillar, time of Narasiṁhavarman I

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00042

Summary: Donation of land by Naraciṅkapōttaracar, the conqueror of Vātāpi, to the Perumāṉaṭikaḷ of the mūlasthāna at Tirukkaḵukkuṉṟam.

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Reduplication of at morpheme’s boundary.


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    1śrī{rī}

    tiru-k-kaḻu-k(u)ṉṟa(ttu) pe(rumāṉ)-
    2(ṉ-aṭ)ika¡ḷḷ!⟨ḷ⟩u(k)ku

    kaḷa(ttū)r-kōṭṭa(t)-
    3(tu) [...] (tiru-k-kaḻu-k-ku)ṉṟa-
    4(ttu) śrī-ma(lai) mēl
    5mūla-tāṉattu perumāṉ-
    6n-aṭika¡(ḷ)ḷ!⟨ḷ⟩ukku valipāṭṭu-p (pu)ṟam-(ā)-
    7ka vāt(ā)pi koṇṭa naraciṅka-p-
    8-pōtta⟨ra⟩(car) vay⟨t⟩tatu

    Apparatus

    1 tiru-k-kaḻu-k(u)ṉṟa(ttu)tiru-k-kaḻu-k-⟨kuṉ⟩ṟa(ttu) ARIE
    5 mūla-tāṉattu(mū)la-tāṉattu ARIE ARIE 1932-1933: page 55, note 2 notes that the character seems to be corrected from śrī.
    8 pōtta⟨ra⟩(car) ARIE 1932-1933: page 55, note 3 notes that the final character r looks like the character .

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1Fortune!

    1-2To the glorious Perumāṉaṭikaḷ of Tirukkaḻukkuṉṟam.

    2-8That which Naraciṅkapōttaracar, the conqueror of Vātāpi, gave, as tax-free land (puṟam) for the purpose of worship (vaḻipāṭu), to the Perumāṉaṭikaḷ of the mūlasthāna at Tirukkaḵukkuṉṟam on the glorious hill of Tirukkaḻukkuṉṟam [...] in the Kaḷattūrkōṭṭam.

    Bibliography

    Edited in ARIE 1932-1933 ; text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 42).

    Re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the facsimile published in ARIE 1932-1933.

    Primary

    ARIE 1932-1933. Pages 54–55, plate I. [siglum ARIE]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 144, № 42. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1908-1909. Page 65, appendix C/1909, № 65.
    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 9, № 16.
    Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-Temples of the Pallavas. Architectural Survey of Temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
    103–105.
    Lockwood, Michael, Vishnu Bhat A, Gift Siromoney & Dayanandan P. 2001. Pallava Art. Madras, Tambaram: Tambaram Research Associates.
    272.