Kāvērippākkam, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 25

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00186

Summary: Donation of gold for supplying oil.

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    1[svasti śrī]

    kō-vicaiya-nirupat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikkirama-pa[nmarkku] yāṇṭu Irupatt’ aint-āvatu

    [9*]
    2[3*]m-ākiya Avani-nārāyaṇa-c-cat¿i?⟨u⟩(rvēti-ma)ṅkalattu sabhaiyōm [8*]
    3[3*]āka maṭattu caṭṭa-p-peru-makkaḷukku maṭa⟨t⟩tu [5*] Uḻakk’ eṇṇaikku vēṇṭum [10*]
    4[3*](kar) Āḷvāṉ nicati Uḻakk’ eṇṇaiyu [8*] kal Ivar pakkal poṉ ko(ṇ) [10*]
    5[2* I]vv-āṇṭu cilālekai cey(ti) [6*] Ip-paṇiyāl ivv-āṭṭai [7*]
    6[3*] yati uḻakk’ eṇ(ṇai)yum Ūr Āḷvāṉē Aṭṭuva [5*] cilālēkai ce⟨y⟩tu kuṭuttōm

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1 Twenty-fifth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman. 

    1-6

    Commentary

    VVA notes: "The inscription is damaged in the middle and is built in at the right and left ends."

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 79); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 186); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions. Lost portions supplied compared to VVA’s edition.

    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 34, № 79. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 517, № 186. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1905-1906. Page 25, appendix B/1905, № 397.