Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00203
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kō-vicaiya-kampa-varmma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu Eṭṭāvatu
kaliyūṟ(k)‡kōṭṭattu taṉ kuṟṟ’ uttaramēru-c-ca(t‡u)rvveti-maṅ⟨ka⟩lattu sabhaiyōm eḻuttu
Emm(u/ū)r y¿a?⟨ā⟩ḷuṅ ka(ṇa)tt(ār-uḷ)
2Emm(u/ū)r-t teṉ-piṭākai-p puliyūr mahādevarkku kumuḻūr Agni‡-citta-sa(r)vva-kratukkaḷ kura¡vv!⟨v⟩a-¿śari?⟨śrī⟩-‡(na)raciṅka-catu(r)vvedi-c-cōmāciyār paṅkiṉ vaḻi viṟṟu-k-koṇṭ-uṭ¡a!⟨ai⟩ya Ira-
3ṇṭu pāṭakamum Ivv-agni-citta-sa(r)vva-¿kṛ?⟨kra⟩tukkaḷ pakka⟨l⟩ dravya‡ṅ koṇṭu Iraṇṭu pāṭakat(t)ā‡lum vanta Iṟai Eppēr⟨pa⟩ṭṭatum kāttu kuṭuppōm āṉōm
4sabhaiyōm
sabhaiyār paṇippa Eḻutiṉēṉ śrī-pāṭa[ka-p-perun]-ta‡ccaṉ muḷḷūraṉ-ēṉ |
2 Emm(u/ū)r-t ◇ (E)mmūr-t KVSA — 2 °sa(r)vva-kratukkaḷ ◇ °sarvva-kratukkaḷ KVSA — 2 °catu(r)vvedi° ◇ °caturvvedi° KVSA
3 °sa(r)vva-¿kṛ?⟨kra⟩tukkaḷ ◇ °sarvva-kṛtukkaḷ KVSA
4 śrī-pāṭa[ka-p-perun]-ta‡ccaṉ ◇ śrī-pāṭaka[-p-perun-ta]ccaṉ KVSA
1 Prosperity! Fortune!
1 Eighth year of the victorious king Kampavarman.
1 Writ/Writings of Us, the members of the assembly of Uttaramerucaturvedimaṅgala in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam [and] in the same division.
1-4 The honourable Agnicittasarvakratu [of] Kumuḻūr, [one] among the governing delegates (āluṅ kaṇattar-uḷ) [of] our village, having sold (viṟṟu-k- koṇṭu) two plots owned [by him] (uṭaiya Iraṇṭu pāṭakamum), for the Mahādeva of Puliyūr in the southern ¿hamlet? (piṭākai) in our village, from a share of ¿the glorious master? (kurava-śrī-) and honourable Narasiṁhacaturvediccōmāci, with (koṇṭu) the wealth (dravya) from this honourable Agnicittasarvakratu, we have become those who will give and secure (kāttu) the taxes, of whatsoever kind, that come through these two plots, We, the members of the assembly.
4 As the members of the assembly have ordered, I, Muḷḷūraṉ, the great carpenter of the glorious Pāṭakam, wrote [this].
kuravva-śari, that is, kurava-śrī. IP: Kuravaśrī = placename.
Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6, no. 285); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 203); re-edited and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), from autopsy and photographs (2019).