Tiruvallam, donation, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 17

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00132

Summary: Donation of three villages as a newly-named devadāna and regulation thereof. This is an explicit later copy of the original Pallava inscription.

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The word caturvvēti is written entirely in Tamil characters (lines 10 and 21).

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¹svasti śrī

ti(ru-ma)ṇṭapam iḻicci-y e(ṭu)ppa-
²taṟku muṉp-uḷḷa cilālēkai-p-paṭi

³kō-vijaya-nan=ti-vikkirima-panmar(k)ku yā(ṇ)ṭu 10 7-
⁴-Āvatu

paṭu(vūr)-k-(kompu)-kōṭṭattu mīyāṟu-nāṭṭu-t t¿i?⟨ī⟩kk(ā)-
⁵livallam-u(ṭ)aiya parameśvarar(k=ku)
⁶I¡ṉ-ṉ!⟨n-n⟩ā(ṭṭu) Aim(pū)ṇiyum vi-
⁷ḷattūrum It-tēvar tē(va)-
⁸tā(ṉa)m Ama(ru)ṉṟi-maṅka(lamu)-
⁹m viṭēlviṭuku-vikkiramā-
¹⁰titta-c-caturvvēti-maṅ-
¹¹kalam eṉṉum pērā-
¹²l Ēka-k-kirāmam-āka mā-vali-
¹³-vāṇa-rāyaṉ-ā(ṉa) vik(ki)ramā(tit)ta-
¹⁴-vāṇa-rāyaṉ viṇṇappat(t)ālu-
¹⁵m kāṭupa(ṭ)ṭi-t-tamiḻ-p-(p)ēra⟨ra⟩(ya)ṉ
¹⁶Āṇattiyālum Ēka-k-kirāmam ākki (I)v(v-a)-
¹⁷(ma)ruṉṟi-maṅkalamu¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ it-tī⟨k⟩k¿a?⟨ā⟩rālivalla-
¹⁸m-uṭaiya parameśvararkku Iṟuttu va-
¹⁹(ru)kiṉṟa nellu Iraṇṭ’ āyira-k kāṭiyum-
²⁰po¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ irupatiṉ kaḻañcum iv-vi-
²¹ṭēlviṭuku-vikkiramātitta-c-cat¿i?⟨u⟩r-
²²vvēti-maṅkalattu-c cavaiyār
²³Iṟuppār ākavum

i¡ṉ-ṉ!⟨n-n⟩ellil-t (ti)-
²⁴ru-v-amirtukku nellu Aṟu nūṟṟu-
²⁵-k kāṭiyum tiru-v-uṇṇāḻikaiyu¡ḷḷ!⟨ḷ⟩ ār(ā)-
²⁶ti(t)tu-p par¡a!⟨i⟩carikkum śiva-brāhmaṇa-
²⁷rkku nellu Ai¡ñ!⟨n⟩-
²⁸-¡ñ!⟨n⟩ūṟṟu-k kāṭiyum śrī-pa-
²⁹li-koṭṭuvārk=ku nellu
³⁰Ai¡ñ-ñ!⟨n-n⟩ūṟṟu-k= kā(ṭiyu)m
³¹tiru-p-paḷḷittāmam
³²paṟippārkkum tiru-p-
³³-patiyam pāṭuvār uḷḷi-
³⁴ṭṭa pala paṇi ceyvār-
³⁵kku nellu nā-nūṟṟu-
³⁶-k kāṭiyum tiru-¿k?⟨n⟩o(n=t)ā
³⁷viḷakkukkum tiru-mey-p-pūccuk(kum)
³⁸citārik(ku)maṟṟum khaṇḍas¿p?⟨ph⟩uṭita-na(va)ka-
³⁹nm(ā)tikaḷuk=ku¡mm!⟨m⟩ āka-p p(o)ṉ I(rupa)ti-
⁴⁰ṉ kaḻañcum Āka I¡ṉ-(ṉ)!⟨n-n⟩(e)llum
⁴¹Ip-poṉṉu(m) It-tēvaṟk=ku
⁴²cantrātittava¡ll!⟨l⟩ iṟuppārkaḷ ā-
⁴³(ka)vum

Ip-paricu nivan=tam-āka-
⁴⁴-c ceytu kuṭuttō(m)

⁴⁵Id-¿dhmamama?⟨dharmmam⟩ panmāhe-
⁴⁶(śva)ra-rakṣai | |

Apparatus

³ t¿i?⟨ī⟩kk(ā) ◇ EH
²⁶ par¡a!⟨i⟩carikkum ◇ pācarikkum EH
^38–39 khaṇḍas¿p?⟨ph⟩uṭita-na(va)ka /nm(ā)tikkaḷuk=um ◇ khaṇḍaspuṭita-na(va)ka /nm(ā)tikkaḷuk=um EH • EH notes that this has to be read sphuṭita-navakarmādi. On the phrase khaṇḍaspuṭita, see von Hinüber 2013.
³⁹ p(o)ṉ • In o, only the kompu element is unclear.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹ Prosperity! Fortune!

^1-2 [This is a] copy of a stone-inscription^↓1 which existed before the reconstruction (iḻicci-y eṭuppataṟku^↓2) of the glorious pillared hall (tiru-maṇṭapam).

^3-4 17th year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramapanmar^↓3.

^4-23 For the great lord of Tīkkālivallam in the Mīyāṟunāṭu in the Paṭuvūrkompukōṭṭam, in this [same] nāṭu, [in the villages of] Aimpūṇi, Viḷattūr, and Amaruṉṟi-maṅgala, a devadāna of this [same] god ― [now] as a single village, under the name "Viṭēlviṭuku-vikkiramātitta-c-caturvedimaṅgala" ― having become a single village, at the request of Vikkkiramātittavānarāyaṉ^↓4 alias Māvalivāṇarāyaṉ ^↓5 [and] by execution (āṇatti) of Kāṭupaṭṭi-t-tamiḻ-p-pērarayaṉ ― the members of the assembly of this Viṭēlviṭuku-vikkiramātitta-c-caturvedimaṅgala should pay as taxes (iṟuppār ākavum) two thousands kāṭis of paddy and twenty kaḻañcus of gold which used to come (varukiṉṟa^↓6) before (muṉ) [from] this Amaruṉṟi-maṅgala as tax payment (iṟuttu ^↓7) for this great lord of Tīkkālivallam in the Mīyāṟunāṭu.

^23-44 So that there be (āka^↓8) from this paddy

• for sacred food offerings (tiruvamirtukku): six hundred kāṭis of paddy
• for the Śivabrāhmaṇas who offer worship (ārātittu) and assist the priests (paricarikkum^↓9) in the glorious innermost sanctuary (tiru-v-uṇṇāḵikai^↓10): five hundred kāṭis of paddy
• for those who beat (koṭṭuvārkku) [drums at the time] of the glorious pali [offering]^↓11: five hundred kāṭis of paddy
• for those who pick (paṟippārkkum) [flowers to make] the glorious flower-garlands (tiru-p-paḷḷittāmam) and for those who do many services, including those who sing (pāṭuvār) the glorious hymns (tiru-p-patiyam): four hundred kāṭis of paddy

and so that there be (āka^↓12) twenty kaḻañcus of gold

• for glorious perpetual lamps
• for anointing of the idol^↓13
• for incense (citāri^↓14) and for repairing breaks and cracks

this paddy and this gold, they^↓15 should pay [it] as tax (iṟuppārkaḷ ākavum) to this god as long as the moon and the sun. 

^43-44 In this manner, having made a nibandha^↓16, we have given it.

^45-46 This pious donation is [under] the protection of the Panmāheśvaras.

Bibliography

Edited and translated by Hultzsch 1899 (SII 3, no. 43); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 132).

Encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous editions.

Thanks to Dr. N. Marxia Gandhi and Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan for their input for the improved reading in line 26, and to Mani Manivannan for photographic documentation.

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Notes

↑1. Literally: “according to (paṭi) a stone-inscription”.
↑2. Literally: “before constructing [anew] having destroyed [the old structure]".
↑3. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.
↑4. Sanskrit Vikramādityabāṇarāja.
↑5. Sanskrit Mahābalibāṇarāja
↑6. Literally: “which come”.
↑7. Literally: “having paid taxes”.
↑8. In line 39.
↑9. S. Palaniappan pointed out that paricari-ttal means “to assist the priests by carrying out the tasks as ordered by the priests” (see SII 19.62, line 1).
↑10. EH tentatively translated this word by “store-room”.
↑11. Sanskrit bali.
↑12. In line 40.
↑13. Literally: “the anointing of the glorious body”.
↑14. EH translated this word by “bark”.
↑15. That is, the members of the assembly of this Viṭēlviṭuku-vikkiramātitta-c-caturvedimaṅgala.
↑16. That is, an endowment of property for temple-worship.