Kūram, Śiva temple pillar

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00174

Summary: Regulation by the Kūram assembly pertaining to four kaḻañcus of gold, apparently received in donation.

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¹svasti śrī

nṛpat¡o!⟨u⟩-
²(ṅkarkku) yāṇṭu Iru-
³patt-oṉṟ-āvatu

⁴kūrattu sabhai-
⁵y(ō)m eḻuttu

O-
⁶ymā-n(ā)ṭṭu perā-
⁷yūr-nāṭṭu nallā-
⁸yūr peruñci [?4*]-
⁹[?4*] pakkal nāṟ--
¹⁰kalañcu po[ṉ]

[?2*]
¹¹[?6*] I-
¹²[?2*] cāṉa [?4*] ru-
¹³ṭṭa [?6*]-
¹⁴kaḻit [?7*]-
¹⁵ṇṭa mu-p-patu [?2*]
¹⁶[?10*]
¹⁷[?10*]
¹⁸[?10*]
¹⁹[?10*]
²⁰[?10*]-
²¹ṭṭi-y ūṭṭuvat[-āka ?3*]-
²²ttōm Ūṭṭa [?2*]-
²³vitaṉāl vanta [?3*]
²⁴[?2*] Avvavv-āṭṭai [?4*]
²⁵[?3*] kay-āka-p paṇit-
²⁶(tō)m sabhaiyō(m) [?2*]

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²⁷-p paṇikka-v eḻuti [?3*]
²⁸Ivv-ūr (ma)dhyasthan [?3*]
²⁹ [?2*] vinīta¡(n)!⟨ṉ⟩-ē¡(n)!⟨ṉ⟩ [?3*]-
³⁰ṭṭi-p-pōttaṉ [?4*]

Apparatus

^1–5 sabhai/y(ō)m • Only the kāl in (o) is unclear.
¹⁰ po[ṉ] ◇ po[1*] KVSA
²¹ ūṭṭuvat[-āka ?3*] ◇ ūṭṭuvata [?5*] KVSA

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹ Prosperity! Fortune!

^1-3 Twenty-first year of the Nṛpatuṅga.

^3-30 ...

Commentary

Mahalingam 1988 uncorrectly locates this inscription in the Viṣṇu temple (Ādikeśavaperumāḷ).

Bibliography

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 39); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 174); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021).

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