Tippacamuttiram lake-bund stone, time of Kampavarman, year 17

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00221

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^{A 1}svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-ka-
²mpa-vikkirama-parumaṟku yā-
³ṇṭu patiṉ ēḻ-āvatu

⁴Innāṭṭ-uṭaiya pṛthi¡ya!⟨vī-ka⟩-
⁵ṅkaraiyarum Ivar tē-
⁶viyār Ilāṭa-p-peruntē-
⁷viyārum taṅkaḷ maka(ṉ/ḷ)
⁸Ayyak=kuṭṭi Aṭikaḷukku ^B
9Ivv-iruvarum ceyta
¹⁰¡dhammam!⟨dharmmam⟩ valivalak=ka-maṅka-
¹¹lattu Ērik=kuk= kaṇṭa Ā-
¹²ṟṟu-k=-kāl

Ik-kāl viḻu-
¹³-p-pērararaiya¡n!⟨ṉ⟩

I-¡dha-
¹⁴mmam!⟨dharmmam⟩ Itu Irakṣippā¡ṉ-
¹⁵ṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ aṭi Eṉ muṭi mēl

Apparatus

⁷ maka(ṉ/ḷ) ◇ maka(ḷ) JS
¹⁰ ¡dhammam!⟨dharmmam⟩ ◇ dha(r)mmam JS
¹³ I-¡dhammam!⟨dharmmam⟩ ◇ I-dha(r)mmam JS
¹⁴ Irakṣippāṉ¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ aṭi ◇ Irakṣippāṉ(ṉ a)ṭi JS

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹ Prosperity! Fortune!

^1-3 Seventeenth year of the victorious king Kampavikramavarman (kampavikkiramaparumaṉ)

^4-12 The pious act that Pṛthiyaṅkaraiyar, the lord of this province/region (nāṭu) and his wife Ilāṭapperuntēviyār, both of them, did for their venerable son Ayyakkuṭṭi: a canal (āṟṟu-k-kāl, literally “river-leg”) which feeds (kaṇṭa, literally “which sees”) the lake/tank of Valivalakkamaṅkalam.

^12-13This canal (ik-kāl) is [named after/owned by] Viḻuppērararaiyaṉ.

^13-15This pious act (id-dhammam, that is, id-dharmam), the feet of its protector are above my head.

Commentary

Note on “venerable son Ayyakkuṭṭi”. Could be “venerable daughter”. Cf. EI.

Note on Pṛthiyaṅkaraiyar = Pṛthivīgaṅga. Cf. EI for discussion and identification of people mentioned.

Bibliography

Edited in Sundaram 1959–1960 with facsimile. Edited and summarised in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 221). This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on facsimile published in Sundaram 1959–1960. First English translation?

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