Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00215
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kampa-va(r)mmaṟku yāṇṭu pati¡n!⟨ṉ⟩-¡ā!⟨ai⟩ñc-āvatu
Uṭkar sabhaiyōm Eḻuttu-c
caṭaiyaṉ pakkal āyira-k-kāṭi nel koṇ-
2ṭōm
Ivv-āyira-k-kāṭi nellālum palicai A¡y!⟨i⟩n-nūṟṟu-k kāṭi nel āṭṭ-āṇṭu tōṟum ērikk’ aṭṭi Ikuttuvippōm āṉōm sabhai-
3yōm
I(t’) (a)ṉṟ’ eṉṟār kaṅkai Iṭaik= kumari Iṭai ceytār ceyta pāvam paṭuvar āka-p paṇittōm
sam(·)¡b!⟨v⟩atsara-vāriya-p-peru-makkaḷē Aṭṭuvik=ka kaṭavār (|)
2 palicai • Hultzsch 1899 notes: "palicai is another form of policai; see the Index to vol. I. s.v. palicai, and Dr. Gundert’s Malayâḷam Dictionary, s.v. paliśa." — 2 āṉōm • In ṉō, the kāl is marked twice, as a kāl proper and as a curl added to ṉ.
1Hail! Prosperity! In the fifteenth year [of the reign] of Kampavarman. The writing of us, the assembly of Uṭkar. We have received one thousand kāṭis of paddy from Caṭaiyaṉ.
2We, the assembly, shall close [the sluice of] the tank [to collect water for irrigation], and shall cause five hundred kāṭis of paddy to be supplied every year as interest on these one thousand kāṭis of paddy.
3We declare that those who disobey this, shall incur [all] the sins committed between the Gaṅgā and Kumari. The great men↓1 elected↓2 for the year shall cause [thepaddy] to be supplied.
1 Prosperity! Fortune!
1 Fifteenth year of Kampavarman (kampava(r)mmaṉ)
1 Writings (i.e. writ) of We the members of the assembly (sabhai, i.e. Skt. sabhā) of Uṭkal.
1-2 We have got (i.e. received) one thousand kāṭis from Caṭaiyaṉ.
2-3 Having endowed/supplied (aṭṭi) for the tank the interest of five hundred kāṭis every year [which comes] through the paddy of these one thousand kāṭis, We, the members of the assembly (sabhā) are those who will close [it, i.e. the sluice of the tank].
3 Those who say it is not so, let them undergo the sin done by those who do (ceytār) [sin] between the Ganges and Kumari (i.e. Kaṉṉiyākumari). [So] have we ordered/declared (paṇittōm).
3 The great men of the committee for the year are due to/should/have the duty of (kaṭavār) having it [the five hundred kāṭi] flowing/being supplied/endowed.
The same Caṭaiyaṉ is the donor of paddy for the feeding daily two Brahmins at Uṭkal in DHARMA_INSPallava00210 (year 10 of Kampavarman).
Reported in ARIE 1892-1893 (ARIE/1892-1893/B/1893/26).
Edited in Hultzsch 1899, with English translation and facsimile (SII 3.5); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 215).
Re-edited translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on Hultzsch 1899 and published visual documentation.