Tiruvatikai, donation, time of Nantippōttaraiyar, year 10

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00123

Summary: Donation of gold for the upkeep of perpetual lamps.

Hand Description:

ṟai with two aligned kompus (line 10).

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    1svasti śrī


    2tiru-v-iraṭṭāṉ-
    3ttu mahā-de-
    4varkku-t teḷ-
    5ḷāṟṟ’ eṟinta
    6nanti-p-pō-
    7tt-araiyar ti-
    8ru-viḷakkiṉu-
    9kku-k kuṭutta
    10poṉ niṟai
    11nūṟṟu-k ka-
    12ḻañcu

    Itaṉ
    13palic(ai-)y-ā(l)
    14yāṇṭu pa-
    15tt-āvatu mu-
    16tal-āka nāḷ-
    17vāy (nāḻi)
    18ney aḷa-
    19ntu kuṭuttu
    20Iraṇṭu nan-
    21tā-viḷakku Erip-
    22pippēṉ āṉēṉ
    23It-tiru-v-irattāṉa-
    24ttu-k kuṭumpi-y-a-
    25ruḷ kāḷi-¡(śś)!⟨ś⟩(a)ruma(ṉ-ē)-
    26(ṉ)

    Iv-viḷakku
    27[?2*]akarattu pal-mā-
    28[heśvara-rakṣai]

    Apparatus

    27–28 pal-mā /[heśvara-rakṣai] ◇ pal-mā KVS IP • KVS notes that "[t]wo more lines are effaced at the end".

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    2-12

    12-26

    27-28

    Bibliography

    Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1937 (SII 8, no. 309); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 123); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

    Primary

    Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1937. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume VIII: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications).
    Page 168, № 309. [siglum KVS]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages 382–383, № 123. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1902-1903. Page 21, appendix B/1903, № 36.