Piḷḷaippākkam, imprecation, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 20

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00170

Summary: Imprecation. The inscription is incomplete.

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    1svasti śrī


    2nṛ{ru}pa(t)¡(o)!⟨(u)⟩ṅ-
    3ka(r)kku yāṇ-
    4ṭu Iru-pat-āva-
    5tu

    Iv-vūṟ ṟa-
    6(la)ttu (ne)¡ll!⟨l⟩ a-
    7(ṭ)ṭuvār kaṅkai-
    8Iṭai kumari-
    9yiṭai-c cey-
    10tār ceyta
    11pāvam paṭuvā-
    12r

    (ne)¡ll!⟨l⟩ aṭṭi-
    13ṉārum aṭṭav uṭaṉ-
    14paṭṭāruñ [2+]-
    15ta [3+]
    16 [5+ ...]

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    2-5 Twentieth year of Nṛpatuṅka.

    5-12 Those who dump paddy on the premises [talam] of this village will encur the sin done by those who did [sin] between the Ganges and Kanniyakumari.

    12-16

    Commentary

    16IP notes: "Letters at the end of the inscription have been chiselled away."

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 72); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 170); 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 31, № 72. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages 484–485, № 170. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1929-1930. Page 20, appendix B/1929–1930, № 175.