Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00190
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kō-vic¡(a/e)!⟨ai⟩ya-nṛpatuṁka-vikramava-r(·)mmaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattāṟāvatu
kā-
2liyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉ kūṟṟ’ uttaramēru-c-catu(r)vvetimaṁ(ka)lattu sabhaiy[ōm]
3nila-vil¿e?⟨ai⟩ Āvaṇa-k-¡kai-E!⟨kai-y-e⟩ḻuttu
muttar¡a!⟨ai⟩yar-n(ā)ṭṭu mī-kūṟṟu viḷā-nāṭṭu-k kūkūr-k [kū-]
4kūr vic¡a!⟨ai⟩yanalluḷāṉ kāṭavati(y)āṉ-ākiya p(ū)ti-tīraṉukku Emm-ūr-t teṉ-paṭākai-
5p peruṅ-kōṭṭ’ ēri-k kīḻ āṭalam pūṇṭi-t teṟku-k kūṟiṭātē kiṭanta kīḻ-p-pūṇṭiy(u)m
1 °vic¡(a/e)!⟨ai⟩ya° ◇ °vicaya° KVSA — 1 °nṛpatuṁka° ◇ °nṛpatuṁka° KVSA
2 °catu(r)vvetimaṁ(ka)lattu ◇ °caturvvetima(ṅka)lattu KVSA — 2 sabhaiy[ōm] ◇ sabhaiyō(m) KVSA • The kāl of -ō is lost, but not the kompu.
3 °vil¿e?⟨ai⟩ ◇ vila KVSA • Note the special form of ai in lai. See regular ai in kai same line. nile could
as well be considered an unstandard usage for nilai, like vicaya/viceya for vicaiya. — 3 muttar¡a!⟨ai⟩yar-n(ā)ṭṭu ◇ muttarayā nāṭṭu KVSA • This might just be a typo for missing puḷḷi. — 3 kūkūr-k [kū]kūr ◇ kūkūraka (kū)kūr KVSA • These might just be typos for missing puḷḷis.
4 vic¡a!⟨ai⟩yanalluḷāṉ ◇ vicayanalluḻāṉ KVSA — 4 kāṭavati(y)āṉ-ākiya ◇ kāṭavati(yaraya)ṉākiya KVSA — 4 p(ū)ti ◇ pūti KVSA
5 kīḻ āṭalam ◇ kī(ḻ ā)ṭalam KVSA
1 Prosperity! Fortune!
1 Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.
1-2 Hand-written (kai-y-eḻuttu) document (āvaṇam ) for the price of a land (nila-vilai, that is, sale-deed) [by] We, the members of the assembly (sabhaiyōm) of Uttaramērucaturvedimaṅgalam in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam and the division of the same name (taṉ kūṟṟu↓1).
3-5 [In] Kūkūr, in the Viḷānāṭu, in the western division (mīkūṟṟu), in the Muttaraiyarnāṭu, to Pūti Tīraṉ alias Vicaiyanalluḷāṉ Kāṭavati [of] Kūkūr, the whole of Kīlppūṇṭi ↓2, which lies fallow (kiṭanta) without being ... (kūṟiṭātē), in the southern hamlet (paṭākai) of our village, east of the Peruṅkōṭu lake , south of Āṭalam Pūṇṭi
Incomplete/Unfinished inscription.
End of lines 2-3 covered by later construction (stairs’ string wall). Thus encoded as supplied, lost.
What western division? That of KāliyūrK or of Viḷa-ṇāṭu?
Check Subbarayalu, Geography, and add reference and discussion: Viḷānaṭu = mīkūṟu of KāliyūrK.
Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 368); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 190); re-edited and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).