Maṭam, donation, time of Kampavikramavarman, year 26

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00232

Summary: Donation of land after purchase, for the upkeeping of village tank.

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    1kō-vicaiya-kampa-vikkirama-parumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩
    2yāṇṭu Irupatt’ āṟ-āvatu

    pa-
    3l-kuṉṟa-k-kōṭṭattu teṉṉāṟṟū-
    4r-nāṭṭu-k kuḷattūr vāṇiyar caya-va-
    5llavaṉ kuḷattūr Ūrār pakkal vi-
    6ṟṟu-k koṇṭu Ēri-⟨p⟩-paṭṭi ceyta caḻai-
    7yāppāṟai-c ceṟuvu Ēri-p-paṭṭi ceytatu


    8Itukku Eṉṟu(m) kuttukkāl kātt’ ū-
    9ṭṭiṉṉā⟨r⟩ Aṭi-y eṉ muṭi mēl

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-2 Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Kampavikramvarman. 

    4-9 The Caḻaiyāppāṟai field that Cayavallavaṉ, a merchant [from] Kuḷattūr in the Teṉṉāṟṟūrnaṭu in the Palkuṉṟakōṭṭam, made as land for the tank, after buying it from the villagers of Kuḷattūr, has been made as land for the tank.

    9-12 The feet of he who ... to this are on my head.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 111); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 233); 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.
    Page 52, № 111. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 590, № 233. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1923-1924. Page 53, appendix C/1924, № 144.