Piḷḷaippākkam, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year lost

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00193

Summary: Donation of land for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.

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    1svasti śrī

    nṛpanṛpat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅkarkku yāṇṭu [5*]

    (pura)ttu-p pātiri-kiḻār ciṅkaṉ mah¿a?⟨hā⟩devarkku [3*] viCai [3*]-
    2-c ceṟuvu eḻu māvuṅ kuṭuttēṉ

    tiru [6*] can¿t?⟨d⟩rātittavar (tiru)-nandā viḷakku kāṭṭuvōm āṉōm

    Id-dharmam· rakṣippōm Ūrōm

    Itu muṭṭi [6*]

    Apparatus

    2 muṭṭi • The inscription stops here.Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1 [...]th year of Nṛpatuṅga.

    1-2 [I,] Pātirikiḻār Ciṅkaṉ of [...]puram, have given seven mās of field [...]

    2 We have become those who will present a glorious perpetual lamp, as long as the moon and the sun, [to ...].

    2 We, the villagers, will protect this pious act.

    2 This, if opposing/failing, […]↓1

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 81), described there as ARIE/1929-1930/B/1929-30/172-A, that is, ARIE/1929-1930/B/1929-30/172 was wrongly attributed to 2 inscriptions, the other being DHARMA_INSPallava00193 ; text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 193); 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 35, № 81. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 524, № 192. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

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

    Notes

    ↑1. This lacunose sentence appears to state what happens in case of default.