Kaḷattūr, tax regulation, time of Nandivarman, year 14

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00127

Summary: Records the paiement of a tax on the income from a lake.

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    1svasti śrī

    nandi-varmma-
    2-{ma}mahārā(jaṟ )ku-p
    3patiṉāl-āvatu

    kaḷat-
    4tūr-k-kōṭṭattu kaḷa-
    5ttūr peru-makkaḷ (paṅ)-
    6(kāṉāṭṭaiyil) [2*]
    7[1*] ttān (E)rippāt-
    8tu kōyil-āka parame-
    9śvaran mu(ṉp-āka) pe-
    10ru-makkaḷum kaṭava m¡u!⟨ū⟩ṉ-
    11ṟil Oṉṟum parame-
    12śvaran sukṛtam

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1-3 Fourteenth year of the great king Nandivarman. 

    3-12

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 51); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 126); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) and translated for the first time by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous editions.

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    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 21, № 51. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 389, № 127. [siglum IP]