Vēṭal, boulder, time of Nandin, year 14

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00320

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ARIE 1908-1909.
: "Mentions viṭāl and viṭārpaḷḷi (probably), ’the Jaina temple at Viṭāl.’ "

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    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    Commentary

    ARIE 1908-1909 (p. 77, §18) notes:↓1 "No. 82 of 1908 which is engraved on a boulder near a natural cavern called Āṇṭār-maṭam at Veṭāl in the North Arcot district, belongs to the fourteenth year of a certain Nandi and mentions a paḷḷi or Jaina hermitage at Veṭāl. It cannot be stated with certainty who this Nandi was. But as an inscription at Pāñcapāṇḍavamalai written in the same old alphabet is dated in the 50th year of Nantippōttaraicar, who has been identified with the Pallava king Nandivarman and as this latter is also called Nandin in the Utayēntiram plates it may not be far wrong to suppose that Nandi of the Veṭāl inscription is identical with Nandivarman Pallavamalla."

    Bibliography

    Reported in ARIE 1908-1909 (ARIE/1908-1909/B/1908/82).

    Recorded in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 320).

    ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

    Primary

    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    № 320, page 719. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1908-1909. Pages 13, 77 (§18), appendix B/1908, № 82.

    Notes

    ↑1. Quotation updated to DHARMA transliteration scheme.