Kāvērippākkam, donation, time of Kampavarman, year 17

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00220

Summary: Donation of gold for a daily food offering.

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    1svasti śrī

    kō-vicaiya-kampa(va)rmma(k)ku yāṇṭu patiṉ ēḻ-(āvatu)

    (paṭuvūrkō)ṭṭattu-k kāvati-p-pāk-
    2kam-ākiya Avaṉi-nārāyaṇa-c-caturvveti-maṅkalattu-c ciṟṟampalattu-p peru-makkaḷ kaṭai-
    3kāṭci-y-āka-t tiru-(vā)naṅkamuti tamakkai nampirāṭṭi viruttū(ṇar)kku vaitta poṉ [2×] Ēḻu-⟨nū⟩¡tt!⟨ṟṟ⟩u mu-p-
    4-pat(t’ aṟu) kaḻañcu

    Ip-poṉṉāl vanta viruttiyāl nicati oru viruttūṇar uṇpat-āka vaittāḷ

    Itu
    5(Ā)candrakālamum muṭṭāmai Ūṭṭuvippat-āka-(y i)p-peru-makka(ḷ ka)ṭai-k kāṇpār āṉār

    It-tarmmamuṭṭil k¿e?⟨a⟩ṅkai-y-i--
    6ṭai-k kumari-y iṭai-c ceytār ceyta pāvam pa(ṭu)vār āṉār

    Id-dharmma⟨m⟩ rakṣi⟨t⟩tār kāl eṉ muṭi mēlaṉa

    Apparatus

    3 [2×] • In VVA’s edition two symbols are printed, apparently reproducing what is visible on the stone and looking like 100 and 1. VVA notes: "This symbol probably stands for the figure 736." As 736 kaḻañcus is a very unusual amount, an alternative reading could be: {symbol=36} Eḻuttu. The word eḻuttu would be preceded by the figure in symbol and by the same figures in letters.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1 Seventeenth year of the victorious king Kampavarman. 

    1-3 The gold that ... gave ...: seven hundred thirty-six kaḻañcus.

    4 With the interest that came through this gold, she gave ...

    4-5 This ...

    5-6 If ...

    6 The feet (kāl↓1) of he who protects this pious act are on my head.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 with facsimile (SII 12, no. 104); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 220); 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.
    Pages 47–48, № 104. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 568, № 220. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1905-1906. Page 25, appendix B/1905, № 391. [siglum ARIE]

    Notes

    ↑1. Note the use of the word kāl, instead of the usual word aṭi.