Piḷḷaippākkam, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 2[.]

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00191

Summary: Donation of land for food offerings.

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    1sva⟨sti⟩ śrī

    nṛpatuṅka-vikkirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu Iru(pa) [3*] (va)tu

    pi(ḷḷai)-p-pā⟨kka⟩ttu-p piḷḷai-p-pākkiḻār [5*] (pi)yārkku-t dharmmam-āka mahādevarkku nāṭ [3*]
    2pōṉakaṅ kāṭṭuvataṟku Ivar tampiyār Ayyakkuṭṭiyār kuṭutta nilam

    puṟampāṭṭilē (Ā)ṟu mā nilam Ittēvarai vaḻipaṭum tiru-p-pācūraṉukkum mutti [3*] Ip-paricu kāṭṭa-k kuṭuttēṉ

    Ip-paricu muṭṭil UnaE taṇṭa(-p-pa)-
    3ṭuvā¡nṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ āka(vum)

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    2 UnaE ◇ VVA • This symbol probably stands for some money value.Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1 Twenty-[...]th year of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman. 

    1-2For presenting food […] to the Mahādeva as a pious donation for (the sake of) Piḷḷaipākkiḻār [Nam?]pi of Piḷḷaippākkam, the land that Ayyakkuṭṭiyār, his younger brother gave.

    2I gave in this matter six mās of land in Puṟampāṭu […] to the honourable Pācūraṉ who worships this god.

    2-3In this matter, if opposing/failing, let he be fined (an amount of) […].

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 80); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 191); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), 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 34, № 80. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 523, № 191. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1929-1930. Page 19, appendix B/1929–30, № 172.