Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00236
Summary: A tax remission transaction apparently.
Hand Description:
Medial u and ū interchangeable.
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[kō-vi]caiya Aparā-
2[jitavarmmaṟku] yāṇṭu m¡u!⟨ū⟩ṉ-
3[ṟāvatu]
[maṇai]yiṟ-kōṭṭattu
4[paḷukūr-nā]ṭṭu nallilma-
5[ṅkala-sabhai]yōm Iṟai-y-ili-
6[yāka 3+] k kai-¡yy!⟨y⟩ eḻuttu
7[yāḷuṅka]ṇattāruḷ Aḷa-
8[5+] makkaḷ nallā¡-I!⟨vi⟩n-
9[4+ ma]kkaḷum marumakkaḷu-
10[m 2+] [sabhai]y(ō)m poṉ ko-
11[ṇṭu 2+ va]san=tayājiyār (ta)-
12[5+] maṭa-[p*]-puṟam Ivv-ūr
13[5+] (va)ri-p paṭi Āṟ’ arai mā-
14[5+] taṭi muṟṟum
15[4+ va]nta Iṟai Eppērp-
16[paṭṭa 2+] nāyaṟu meḷa [2+]-
17[4+ā]ṉōm sabhaiyō-
18[m]
[4+](ḻi)ṭṭu Anyonya-sa-
19[5+]tōm ā¿n?⟨ṉ⟩ōm
Aparā-
20[5+] paṇi⟨t⟩tōm sabhaiyō-
21[m 4+](vā)r viṣṇu-loka(prā)
[unknown number of lines lost or illegible]
3–4 [maṇai]yiṟ-kōṭṭattu / [paḷukūr-nā]ṭṭu ◇ [2+]yiṟ-kōṭṭattu / [5+]ṭṭu VVA • Text restoration based on ARIE/1922-1923/C/1923/61 (ARIE 1922-1923: page 67, appendix C/1923, № 61), which mentions the assembly of Nallilmaṅkalam in the Mēṟpaḷukūrnāṭu of the Maṇaiyiṟkōṭṭam.
1 [Prosperity! Fortune!]
1-3 Third year of the victorious king Aparājitavarman.
3-6 Hand-writing [for ...] tax-free, by we, the members of the assembly of Nallilmaṅkalam in the [Paḷukūr]nātu of the [Maṇai]yiṟkōṭṭam.
7-18 ...
18-19 ...
19-21 ...
[unknown number of lines lost]
Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 notes: "The inscription is a fragment; the portion containing a few letters at the beginnings of lines appear to have been cut away."
Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 84); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 236); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions, with further text restorations, partly based on the suggestions by Mahalingam 1988.