Paṭūr, donation, time of Nandivarman, year 18

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00136

Summary: Donation of sheep for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.

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    1[svasti śrī]

    [kō-vicaiya]-nan-
    2[ti-paruma]ṟku yāṇṭu pati-
    3ṉ eṭṭ-āvatu

    Ām¡u!⟨ū⟩r-kōṭ-
    4ṭattu-k (kō)ṭṭa-maṉṟāṭi-
    5kaḷ paṭuvūr viḻu-p-pe-
    6run-tāya-viṣṇu-grahattu
    7niṉṟ’ a(ruḷu)kiṉṟa perumā-
    8⟨ṉa⟩ṭikaḷukku v¡aiy!⟨ai⟩tta nan-
    9tā viḷakk’ oṉṟukku vai-
    10tta Āṭu cāvā muvā-p pēr-ā-
    11ṭu toṇṇūṟu

    I-dhanmam ra(kṣi)-
    12⟨p⟩pār Aṭi-poṭi Eṉ talai mēla--
    13tu

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 [Prosperity! Fortune!]

    1-3 Eighteenth year of the [victorious] king Nandi[varman].

    3-11 The sheep that the province shepherds of the province of Āmūr gave for one perpetual lamp given to the great Lord who graciously remains in the temple of Viṣṇu (named) Viḻupperuntāya in Paṭuvūr: ninety undying and un-aging great sheep. 

    11-13 The dust on the feet of he who protects this pious act is on my head.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 54); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 136); 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 22, № 54. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages 406–407, № 136. [siglum IP]