Kāvērippākkam, donation (?), time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year lost

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00169

Summary: Donation (?). The inscription is incomplete.

Hand Description:

Additional Metadata

Alternative identifier:

Origin:

Classification:

Languages:

    Corresponding Artefact:

    Layout:

    Edition

    1svasti śrī

    nirupa-toṅka-varmma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu pati[ṉ]-[2+-ā-]
    2vatu

    paṭuvūr-k-kōṭṭattu māṅkāṭu-nāṭṭu viṭēlviṭuku [3+]-
    3yamattu sabhaiyōm Ik-kōṭṭattu-k kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki-]
    4ya Amani-nārāyaṇa-c-caturvveti-maṅkalam yāḷu[ṅkaṇat-]
    5tāruḷ Aṅkāṇacca(n){yai} vasan=tayājiyār pa [unknown number of lines lost]

    Apparatus

    1 nirupa° ◇ nirupa° VVA • VVA notes: "The letter pa is engraved below the line." — 1–2 pati[ṉ2+ā-]/vatu ◇ pati[3+]/vatu VVA
    2 viṭēlviṭuku ◇ viṭēlviṭuku VVA • VVA notes: "The letter ṭu is engraved below the line."
    3 sabhaiyōm ◇ sabhaiyōm VVA • IP notes: "The letter m engraved below the line." — 3–4 kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki-]/ya ◇ kāviti-p-pā[kkam āki-]/ya VVA
    4–5 yāḷu[ṅkaṇat-]/tāruḷ ◇ yāḷu[4+]/tāruḷ VVA

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1-2 ... teenth year of Nṛpatuṅkavarman. 

    2-5

    Commentary

    1-2Note on the lost year: between 11th and 19th.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 82); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 169); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), 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 35, № 82. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 483, № 169. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1905-1906. Page 25, appendix B/1905, № 394.