Uttiramērūr, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year unknown

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00195

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    1svasti śrī

    kō-vicaiya-nṛpatuṅ·ka-vik·kirama-vammaṟ·ku yāṇ·ṭu [...]


    2kārāṇai kāṭavati-y-araiyar iṭai-p piramatēyam(·) peṟ(·)ṟa bhār(ā)dvāja [...]
    3Iru-k-kāl-āvatum Ik-kāṭavati-y-ar¡e!⟨ai⟩yaṉ-ākiya pūti tīraṉukku Im-mēṟ-co[llapaṭta ...]

    Apparatus

    1 °vammaṟ·ku ◇ °varmmaṟ·ku KVSA — 1 yāṇ·ṭu [...] ◇ yāṇ·ṭu [7+] KVSA
    2 bhār(ā)dvāja [...] ◇ bhāradvāja [6+] KVSA
    3 tīraṉukku ◇ tiraṉukku KVSA — 3 Im-mēṟ-co[llapaṭta ...] ◇ Im-mēṟ-co [8+] KVSA

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1Prosperity! Fortune!

    1[...] year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

    2(the land named) Kāṟāṇai, ¿from? (iṭai) the Kāṭavati king, the Bhāradvāja (Brahmin) who obtained a brahmadeya [...]

    3two quarters (iru-k-kāl-āvatu), to Pūti Tīran alias this Kāṭavati king, this above-¿mentioned? (im-mēṟ-co[llapaṭta]) [...]

    Commentary

    Incomplete inscription. End of lines covered by later construction (stairs’ string wall).

    Bibliography

    Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 367); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 195); re-edited and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).

    Primary

    Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume VI: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch.
    Page 169, № 367. [siglum KVSA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 528, № 195. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1897-1898. Page 18, appendix B/1898, № 82. [siglum ARIE 1897-1898]