Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00107
Summary: Donation of a golden plate by the Pallava king Dantivarman and of gold by Avanicandra to the god ( bhaṭār) of the Parameśvaraviṣṇugṛha.
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The puḷḷi is used erratically.
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‡ 1dan=tiva(r)mma-mahārājarkku yāṇṭu pati¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ eḻ-āvatu
parameśvara-viṣṇugṛha[ttu] ‡ bhaṭārkku dan=ti ‡ [va](r)mma-mahārājar kuṭutta poṉ-bhājanam ōṉṟiṉāl pati ‡ ¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ āyira-k-kaḻañ ‡ [cu]
[?1+] Avanicandrar ko¡ṉ!⟨ṇ⟩·ṭu va¡ṉ!⟨n⟩tu kuṭut(·)ta m¡u!⟨ū⟩-(v-āy)i(ra-k-kaḻañcu)
poṉṉāl nicati taṅkaḷ [?7+] (kkā) ‡ [...] ‡
2piṭṭaṭiyum covaṟṟampaiy·yar· nāraṇakuṭṭiyum Avani(ca)[ndra] ‡ [rk]ku karaṇam-ākiya ‡ koṟṟampaṭaitta(ṉā)r· ceṭṭutāḻiyum I¡ṉ·-ṉ!⟨n·-n⟩ālvarum ‡ mahā-nagarattā ‡ r-{a-y-}umi(ñi)yi-na⟨l⟩lūr-kiḻavar-{a-y-}um keśava-k-kō(ṭṭ) [...] ‡ [...]
1 bhaṭārkku • There is a space left blank before this word at the beginning of this facet of
the stone. — 1 -[cu ?1+] Avani- • This gap, possibly a punctuation sign, might also be a space left blank.
2 piṭṭaṭiyum ◇ yum HKS IP — 2 covaṟṟampaiy·yar· ◇ covaṟṟam paiyyar HKS; covaṟṟam payyar IP — 2 Avani(ca)[ndra] ‡ [rk]ku • There is possibly one more character lost before [rk]ku at the beginning of this facet of the stone. — 2 koṟṟampaṭaitta(ṉā)r· ◇ koṟṟampa(ṭai)ttadira HKS IP — 2 nagarattā ‡ r-{a-y-}umi(ñi)yi-na⟨l⟩lūr ◇ nagarattār-{a-y-}umi (Ā)yi-nalūr HKS; nagarattār-{a-y-}um{i} (Ā)yi-nalūr IP • HKS notes that there is an -i engraved above the character (Ā), whereas IP understood that this note applies to the preceding character mi. The character read (Ā) could also be read (ñi). The name of the village would then be Miñilinallūr, its m having been absorbed in sandhi with the preceding word.
1 Seventeenth year of the great king Dantivarman.
1 One golden plate [of] ten thousand kaḻañcus, that the great king Dantivarman gave to the god (bhaṭār) of the Parameśvaraviṣṇugṛha.
1 Three thousand kaḻañcus, that Avanicandra brought.
1-2 With this gold, themselves [...] kkāpiṭṭaṭi, Covaṟṟampaiyyar, Nāraṇakuṭṭi, Koṟṟampaṭaittaṉār, the accountant (karaṇam) of Avanicandra, these four persons↓1; the Mahānagarattārs, the lord of Miñiyi-nallūr, Keśava-k-kō↓2 [...]
Krishna Sastri 1923 notes about lines 1 and 2 that: ‘The continuation of this line and of the next, covering more than half of the inscription, has been chiselled off.’
On Avanicandra, see Mahalingam 1988: page 349, note 4.
Edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4, no. 132); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 107); re-edited and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on autopsy, photographs and published visual documentation.
↑1. As suggested by Mahalingam 1988, these four persons seem to be in charge of the donation, to provide daily offerings
to the god.
↑2. As suggested by Mahalingam 1988, these persons seem to be in charge of the supervision of the donation.