Tiruveḷḷaṟai, praise, time of Nandivarman, year 6

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00119

Summary: Praise of Cellikkōmāṉ.

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    1svasti śrī

    bhāra(dvā)[ja-kula-ti]laka-b(ra/ṟ)hma-kṣatra-kulodbhava-⟨pa⟩-
    2llava-mah(ā)r(ā)j[ādhirāja-pa]rameśvara    ¡n!⟨ṉ⟩-ākiya śrī-dan=ti-na-
    3nti-va(r)ma[ṟku] (y)[āṇṭ’ ā]ṟāvatu

    tiruveḷḷaṟai pa-
    4ri    ṭaiy(ār) bra(h)ma [...] (l)la⟨va⟩-mā-ma(ṟai)-t tōṉṟ[i]
    5vaṉ(i) vēnta(ṉ·) [...] (ḷ·) māṟpiṭuk’ (i)ḷaṅkōvēḷ(ā)-
    6ṉ cāttaṉ(·) ce [...] taṉ māmaṉ paracirāmaṉ
    7ti(ru)-marumāṉ peru-[.](e) [...] (celli)-k-kōmāṉ malla-
    8vā¡(n)!⟨ṉ⟩ toṇ-maṟava(ṉ) [...] ta cūṭi(r)āṭi cūṭi (mā)-ma[ṇ]i
    9vēḷāḷaraiyār taṅ [...] lai nirava yaṉan=-tan=t(i)maṅkai-
    10k kāṉa U(ṟu)tiyāṉ pukaḻ vaḷarka
    11branmatēyattukku (U)ṟutiyān viḻu-p-(pēr-araiyaṉ cā)-
    12ttaṉ maṟṟavaṉ (p)-pukaḻ ni[ṟ]kka

    Itu pāṭi-t tantōn
    13peruṅkāviti caṭaiyaṉ paḷḷi

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1Prosperity! Fortune!

    2-3[Sixth] year of the glorious Danti-Nandivarman↓1 alias the Pallava emperor or the great kings [and] supreme lord, who is the ornament of the lineage of the Bhāradvājas [and] who rose in a lineage of Brahmins and Kṣatriyas.

    3-12

    12-13

    Commentary

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

    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.

    Notes

    ↑1. That is, Nandivarman, son of Dantin, that is, Dantivarman.