Cīyamaṅkalam pillar inscription, time of Nandivarman, year 3

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00117

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¹svasti śrī

kō-vicai-
²ya-nanti-v(i)kkirama-
³-parumaṟku yā-
⁴ṇṭu mūṉṟ-ā-
⁵vatu

Ūṟṟukkā-
⁶ṭṭu-(k)-kōṭṭa(t)tu-
⁷(p) perum-pālai-
⁸-Ūr-t tiru-p-pālai-
⁹y-ūr kiḻava¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ aṭa-
¹⁰vi śrī-kaṅkaraiyar
¹¹nērkuṭṭi perumāṉā-
¹²rkku viṇṇappañ ceytu
¹³Aṭavi taṉ ṟāyār naṅka(ṉ)i naṅkaiyārkk-āka-c ce-
¹⁴y(ta mu)ka-maṇṭakam

It’ aḻi-Āmai-k kāttāṉ a-
¹⁵ṭi Eṉ (muṭi mē)-
¹⁶l

Apparatus

¹⁵ mēl ◇ mēla EH

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹Prosperity! Fortune!

^1-5Third year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

^5-14Aṭavi, the lord (kiḻavaṉ) of Tiruppālaiyūr in Perumpālaiyūr in the district (kōṭṭam) of Ūṟṟukkāṭu, after having made request to the glorious king of the Gaṅgas, the mukhamaṇḍapa that Aṭavi made for his own mother Naṅkaṉi Naṅkaiyār.

^14-16This [pious act], the feet of he who protects it without destroying it are on my head.

Commentary

⁷ perumpālai-ūr. Compare with tiruppālai-y-ūr, line 8.

¹⁴ aḻi-āmai. Here again, there is no sandhi. A more frequent form is aḻi-y-āmai.

Bibliography

Edited in Hultzsch 1902–1903 with facsimile and English translation (EI 7, no. 4); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 117); re-edited and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).

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