Paḷḷikoṇḍa, foundation, time of Nantipōttaraiyar, year 2

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00114

Summary: Building of a mukhamaṇḍapa.

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    1[śrī]

    nanti-pō-
    2ttarayar⟨k⟩ku yā-
    3ṇṭu Iraṇṭ-āvatu


    4Amaṉi-kaṅkaraiyar
    5makaṉ celva-vā-
    6ṇa-rayaṉ vittū-
    7r āṇṭu ceyvit-
    8ta muka-maṇṭaka-
    9m

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1[Fortune!]

    1-3Second year of Nantipōttaraiyar.

    4-9 [This is] the mukhamaṇḍapa that Celvavāṇarayaṉ, the son [of] Amaṉikaṅkaraiyar had made [when] ruling over Vittūr.

    Commentary

    1On Nandivarman = Nandivarman III Pallava. See SII and IP.

    5On Celva-vāṇa-rayaṉ, son of Amaṉi-kaṅkaraiyar. See SII.

    6On Vittūr = Viccūr. See SII and IP.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 with facsimile (SII 12, no. 45); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 114); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

    Primary

    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 18, № 45. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 362, № 114. [siglum IP]