Māṅkāṭu, regulation, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 17

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00131

Summary: Agreement on the management of a donation.

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    1śrī

    kō-vicaiya nanti-vikkirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉ-eḻ-āvatu

    puli-
    2(yūr)-k-kuṭi-k-kōṭṭattu-k kuṉṟattūr-c ceḻiya-vāṇiyarkaḷō-
    3(m ti)ruvātiraiyun talai-y-uvāvum tiṅkaḷ (ni)laviyuṅ kāṭṭu(vō)-
    4(m ā)ṉōm tiruveḷḷi-k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ-uṭaiya (cavaiyōm) |

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Fortune!

    2 Seventeenth year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman. 

    2-4

    Commentary

    3ceḻiya-vāṇiyarkaḷ. See IP: “Perhaps they were merchants from the Pāṇḍya (Ceḻiya) country.”

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.53); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 131); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) and translated for the first time by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous editions.

    Primary

    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, № 53. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 396, № 131. [siglum IP]