Kīḻūr slab

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00108

Summary: Gift of 15 kaḻañcus of gold to the god (Perumāṉaṭikaḷ) of the Tiruvīraṭṭānam at Tirukkōvalūr by Māṇikkattār [...] Nakkaṉār.

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    1sva(sti) śrī

    kō-vic(ai)ya-tanti-vikkirama-[parumaṟku]
    2(yāṇ)ṭu pati(ṉ E)ḻavatu

    mil(ā)ṭṭu [kuṟuk]-
    3kai-k-kūṟṟattu tiru-¿ke?⟨kkō⟩valūr ti[ruvīraṭṭā]-
    4ṉattu Perumā⟨ṉa⟩ṭi(ka)ḷuk=ku tiru [?5*]
    5O(ru n)¡(a)!⟨o⟩nt¿a?⟨ā⟩ viḷakku māṇikka⟨t⟩tār [?5*]
    6(ṉa)kkaṉār vā(ṇa)-kō-v-a(rai)yar pōkiyār [?5*]-
    7ṉ kāci¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-ōṭ’ urai Oppa(tu) patiṉ aiṅ-kaḻa[ñcu ?3*]-
    8[?1*] ṉāl kaḻañci [?4*] kaḷ [?3*]
    9(kai)-k-koṇṭu (kaṭavē)ṉ-āka [?3*]
    10Ip-poṉṉāl palicai ni [?3*]-
    11 [?2*E]ṇṇai-y aṭṭuvō¡mm!⟨m⟩ ā[ṉōm]

    Apparatus

    5 viḷakkuviḷakku KVSA; viḷakku⟨kku⟩ IP
    7 uraiurai KVSA IP IP’s summary seems to imply the correction of urai to uri.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1-2 Seventeenth year of the victorious king Dantivikrama[varman].

    2-11

    Commentary

    1 The inscriptions stops short. See Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932: page 457, note 1.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 931); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 108); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021) with restoration of text compared to previous editions.

    Primary

    Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch.
    Page 457, № 931. [siglum KVSA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 351, № 108. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1901-1902. Page 18, appendix B/1902, № 302.