Viriñcipuram, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 9

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00072

Summary: Seemingly records the grant of exemptions to merchants (nakarattārs).

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    1śrī

    kōvicaiya-nanti-vik(kirama-paruma)-
    2ṟku yāṇṭu Oṉpatāvatu

    [3* peru-]
    3māṉaṭikaṉ cerut=talai-maṅ[kala-]
    4tu nakarattārkku Uḷḷūr [4*]
    5viṭṭu sarvvaparicālam koṭu[4*]
    6viṭēlviṭuku mammaḷi na[5*]-
    7ṇamum pi[6*]-
    8m maḻit[5*]

    Apparatus

    3 cerut=talai° ◇ ceruvālai° ARIE 1939-1943 5 paricālam • Seems to be a variant of parikāram (Skt. parihāra).

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Fortune!

    1-2 Ninth year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman. 

    2-8 [... peru]māṉaṭikaṉ, for the nakarattārs of Ceruttalaimaṅgala, Uḷḷūr [...] ... (viṭṭu sarvvaparicālam koṭu) [...] Viṭēlviṭuku ... (mammaḷi na) [...] ... (ṇamum pi) [...] ... (m maḻit) [...]

    Bibliography

    Date phrase Edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1, no. 124); fully edited by Krishna Sastri 1925 (SII 5, no. 54); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 72); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

    Primary

    Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian Inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from Stone and Copper-Plate Edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot District, and Other Parts of the Madras Presidency, Chiefly Collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 133, № 124. [siglum EH]
    Krishna Sastri, H. 1925. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume V: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 5. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 518, № 54. [siglum HKS]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 137, № 221. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1939-1943. Page 55, appendix B/1939–1940, № 206. [siglum ARIE 1939-1943]