Kunnāṇṭār Kōyil, donation, time of Nantipōttaraiyar, year 3

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00116

Summary: Donation of rice for feeding hundred persons on the day of tiruvātirai.

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    1svasti śrī

    kō-nanti-p-pōtta-
    2raiyarkku yāṇṭu 3-Āvatu

    mī-
    3puḻai-nāṭṭu vaṭuvūr-k kaṇavatimā-
    4¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-āyiṉa pakai-c-cantira-vicai¡-A!⟨ya⟩-
    5raiyaṉ ṟiru-v-ātirai nāṉṟu A-
    6ṭṭ-aḻiya vaitta Arici 200 Iru-
    7nūṟṟu nāḻi nūṟṟuvarkku |

    Apparatus

    2–3 mī/puḻai° ◇ mi/puḻai° VVA • VVA reads however mīpuḻai° in his summary.
    7 | • VVA has 3 daṇḍas followed by an hyphen; YS has a piḷḷaiyār cuḻi.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1Prosperity! Fortune!

    1-2Third year of Nantipōttaraiyar.

    2-7 [There are] 200 [that is,] two hundred, nāḻis of paddy that Pakaiccantiravicai Araiyaṉ, alias Kaṇavatimāṉ, [of] Vaṭuvūr in the Mīpuḷaināṭu, gave to cook and distribute (aṭṭ-aḻiya) at the time/on the day (nāṉṟu) [of] tiruvātirai; [this is for the food] for one hundred persons.

    Commentary

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

    5tiruvātirai. A festival?

    7nūṟṟuvar. A corporate body (“the One Hundred”)? Or one hundred people at random?

    Bibliography

    Edited in Vaidyanatha Aiyar and Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929 (IPS no. 15); translated in Srinivasa Aiyar 1941 (IPS no. 15); reedited by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 with facsimile (SII 12, no. 46); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 116); reedited by Subbarayalu 2015 with facsimile (SII 34, no. 347); re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on photos.

    Primary

    Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. & Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Inscriptions (Texts) of the Pudukkottai State Arranged According to Dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar.
    Page 10, № 15. [siglum IPS]
    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 19, № 46. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 364, № 116. [siglum IP]
    Subbarayalu, Y. 2015. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XXXIV: Inscriptions Collected during the Year 1914. South Indian Inscriptions 34. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General).
    Page 321 , № 347. [siglum YS]

    Secondary

    Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. & Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Chronological List of Inscriptions of the Pudukkóttai State Arranged According to Dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar.
    Pages 18–19, № 15.