Centalai, donation, time of Nantippōttaraiyar, year 12

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00125

Summary: Donation of land for food-offering and for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.

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The puḷḷi is used.


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    1svasti śrī


    2yāṇṭu 10 2-
    3-Āvatu

    te-
    4ḷḷārṟu
    5Eṟi¡ñc!⟨nt⟩a
    6nanti-p-
    7-pōtta-
    8raiyar
    9niyama-m(ā)-
    10kāḷattu
    11piṭāriy(ā) -
    12rkku
    134 100 pa-
    14ḻaṅ-kā-
    15cu kuṭu-
    16ttu vi-
    17lai ko-
    18ṇṭu ni(ca)-
    19(t)i mu-k-k(u) -
    20ṟuṇi ne-
    21¡l(·)l!⟨l⟩-āka
    22Oru tiru-
    23v-amiti(ṉu)-
    24kkum· O-
    25ru non-
    26tā viḷa-
    27kkiṉu⟨k⟩ku
    28m
    29v¡acca!⟨aitta⟩ (ni)-
    30lam· mā-
    31ḷikai-
    32Uṭaiy(ā)-
    33ṉ vē-
    34li

    Itu
    35kātta-
    36ṉ Aṭi E -
    37ṉ talai
    38mēli-
    39ṉa

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    2-3 12th year.

    3-34

    34-39

    Bibliography

    Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 447); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 125); re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) and translated for the first time by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photographs.

    Primary

    Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume VI: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch.
    Page 185, № 447. [siglum KVS]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages 386–387, № 125. [siglum IP]