Poyyaṉūr, donation, time of Vayiramēkavarman, year 2

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00264

Summary: Donation of gold (?) for food offerings to a god temple.

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Medial i and ī interchangeable.

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    1svasti śrī

    śrī-vayira-(m)ēka-panma⟨r⟩kku
    2yāṇṭu (2-Āvatu)

    tāmaṟ-kōṭṭattu
    3poy(kai)-nallūr sabhaiyō¡(mm)!⟨(m)⟩

    (iv)-vūr
    4tiru-v-akatt¡i!⟨ī⟩śvara[m-uṭaiya mahādevarkku]
    5nitta tiru-v-amirtu paṇ [4*] mayil [7*]
    6[2*] tiru-v-amirtukkum-āka ¡v(ai)yt[ta]!⟨vait[ta]⟩ [4*]

    [unknown number of lines lost or illegible]

    Apparatus

    4 tiru-v-akatt¡i!⟨ī⟩śvara[m-uṭaiya mahādevarkku] ◇ tiru-v-akattiśvara[9*] VVA
    6 ¡v(ai)yt[ta]!⟨vait[ta]⟩ [4*] ◇ v(ai)yta [5*] VVA

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1-2 (Second) year of the glorious Vayiramēkavarman↓1.

    2-3 We, the members of the assembly [of] Poykainallūr in the Tāmaṟkōṭṭam.

    4-6 For the Mahādeva, Lord of the glorious Tiruvakaṭtīśvaram [of] this village [...] permanent food offerings [...] that [...] has given as glorious food offerings [...]

    [unknown number of lines lost or illegible]

    Commentary

    On the identity of Vayiramēkavarman, that is, Sanskrit Vajrameghavarman, see Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943: "The surname Vayiramēkaṉ [fn3] is applied to Dantivarman in the Triplicane inscription [fn4]. As the characters of the present [SII 12, no. 113 = DHARMA_INSPallava00264] and the following inscription [SII 12, no. 114 = DHARMA_INSPallava00265] belong to a later period than Dantivarman, the king figuring in these two records was probably different. A certain chieftain named Vayiramēkaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyar figures in two inscriptions from Tiruvoṟṟiyūr [fn5], with whom Vayiramēkavarman of the present record may be identified."

    See also DHARMA_INSPallava00265, DHARMA_INSPallava00266, DHARMA_INSPallava00350, DHARMA_INSPallava00351.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 113), with a facsimile; text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 264); 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 53, № 113. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 644, № 264. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1915-1916. Page 78, appendix C/1916, № 150.

    Notes

    ↑1. That is, Sanskrit Vajrameghavarman.