Marutāṭu, foundation and renovation, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year 12

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00157

Summary: Construction of a weir and renovation of a sluice.

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    1svasti śrī


    2kō-vicaiya-nṛpa-
    3tuṅkavarmmaṟku yā-
    4ṇṭu pa¡nn!⟨ṉṉ⟩iraṇṭ-āva-
    5tu

    marutāṭṭ’ ēri-k ka-
    6li¿ñc?⟨ṅk⟩u ceyvit-
    7tu-t tūmpu putuk-
    8kuvittār koṅkarai-
    9yar niṉṟaperu-
    10māṉ

    Apparatus

    5–6 ka/li¿ñc?⟨ṅk⟩u ◇ ka/liñcu VVA; ka/li¿ñc?⟨ṅk⟩u IP

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    2-5 Twelfth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavarman. 

    5-10 The Koṅkaraiyar Niṉṟaperumāṉ had a weir (kaliṅku) made [for] the tank at Marutāṭu and had a sluice (tūmpu)renovated.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 65); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 157); 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 27, № 65. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 462, № 157. [siglum IP]