Kūram, Śiva temple pillar

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00140

Summary: Regulation by the king Nandivarman pertaining to a land-grant.

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Note the form of bhai (line 6).


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    1svasti śrī

    na⟨n⟩ti-
    2-va(r)mma-mahārāja-
    3¡nn!⟨ṉ⟩ eḻuttu

    Ūṟ-
    4ṟukk(ā)ṭṭu-k kōṭ-
    5ṭattu-k kūrat-
    6tu sabhaiyār
    7kāṇka

    tamm (u/ū)-
    8r akkaḷa(nimma)ṭi-
    9-p-poṟṟi-paṭi
    10Āyiṉa Āṟu pa-
    11ṭṭi nilam(u)m (mu)-
    12(ṉ) p(e)ṟ(ṟā)r(ai) māṟṟi
    13(y)āṇ(ṭu Irupa)-
    14ttu

    [?4*]
    15[?6*]
    16(ma)hādeva [?3*]
    17[?2*] Arccabhoga-
    18[?3*]-k kāḷaṉ Arcci-
    19(tt’ uṇ)pāṉ-āka-k kā-
    20[?3*]ku-p paṇit [?2*]
    21[?2*] taluṭṭāṅ kaṇ-
    22ṭ-aruḷa tirukkōyi-
    23(liṟ) bhaṭārar tiruva(ṭi)-
    24-(k) kiḻai ¿ślā?śīlā-le(kh)ai
    25c(e)ytu kuṭukka Iṟ
    26n¡i!⟨ī⟩kki [?4*]

    Apparatus

    2 -va(r)mma--varmma- KVSA
    7–8 (u/ū) /rur KVSA; ūr IP
    8 akkaḷa(nimma)ṭi • The m look like v.
    26 n¡i!⟨ī⟩kkinikki KVSA; nīkki IP

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1-3 Writ of the Mahārāja Nandivarman. 

    3-7 Let the honourable members of the assembly of Kūram know↓1!

    7-14 Having removed the previous holders of the six paṭṭis of land named (āyiṉa↓2) Akkaḷanimmaṭippoṟṟi in their village, in the twentieth year [...]

    14-26 ...

    Bibliography

    Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 38); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 140); lines 1-11 re-edited, based on photographs, and lines 12-26 encoded, based on previous editions, for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021).

    Primary

    Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch.
    Page 16, № 40. [siglum KVSA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages 413–414, № 140. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1899-1900. Page 50, appendix B/1900, № 38. [siglum ARIE 1899-1900]

    Notes

    ↑1. Literally: “see”.
    ↑2. Literally: “which is”.