Accaravākkam, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year lost

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00192

Summary: Donation of land after purchase for worship offerings (arcanābhoga).

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    1śrī

    nṛpatuṅka-parm(ma)rkku (yāṇṭu) [6*]


    2caṅkaṉ viṟṟu-k-koṇṭu Arccaṉā-pōkañ
    3ceyta nilam viraṉ ceṟuvuṅ kaḻuvaluṅ
    4koṭumāṭiyuṅ kāḻiyu(m)-āka Eṇ-
    5ṇūṟu kuḻiyum Agatti śrī-t-tēvar-
    6k=ku-k= kuṭutta dharmmam· rakṣippār aṭi E-
    7ṉ ṟalai mēlaṉa

    I(vai vilaiyum oṟṟi)-
    8yuñ cellā

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Fortune!

    1 [...] year of Nṛpatuṅgavarman. 

    2-7The land that Caṅkaṉ made, after purchase, as arcanābhoga, [that is,] eight hundred kuḻis [comprising the plots named] Vīraṉ Ceṟuvu, Kaḻuval, Koṭumāṭi and Kāḻi, [that is,] the pious donation given for Akatti Śrītēvar, the feet of he who protects it are on my feet.

    8These cannot go into sale or mortgage.

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

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.83).

    Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 192).

    Encoded and 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 35, № 83. [siglum SII]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 524, № 191. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1933-1934. Page 16, appendix B/1933–34, № 108.