Cīyamaṅkalam, pillar, construction of a sluice, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 4

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00323

Summary: Construction of a sluice by Aṭavi from Tiruppālaiyūr.

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    1kō-vicaiya-ta-
    2nti-vikkirama-paru-
    3maṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu nā-
    4l-āvatu

    Ūṟṟu-k-
    5-kāṭṭu-k-kōṭṭattu-p
    6perum-p(ā)lai-Ūr-
    7-t tiru-p-pālai-Ūr
    8kiḻava¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ a(ṭa)vi śrī-
    9-kaṅkar¡e!⟨ai⟩yar nērkuṭ-
    10ṭi perumāṉārk=ku vi-
    11ṇṇappañ cey-
    12(t)u ceyvi(tta) tu
    13kumāra-vāy-t tūm-
    14pu

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-4 Fourth year of the victorious king Dantivarman (kō-vicaiya-tanti-vikkiramaparumaṉ).

    4-14 Aṭavi, the lord (kiḻavaṉ) of Tiruppālaiyūr in Perumpālaiyūr in the district (kōṭṭam) of Ūṟṟukkāṭu, after having made request to the glorious Gaṅga king, the lord (perumāṉār) Nērkuṭṭi, the sluice (tūmpu) [named] Kumāṟavāy that he had made.

    Bibliography

    Reported in ARIE 1956-1957 (ARIE/1956-1957/B/1956-1957/131).

    Summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 323).

    Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2019).

    Primary

    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    № 323, page 722. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1956-1957. Page 54, appendix B/1956–1957, № 131. [siglum ARIE]
    Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-Temples of the Pallavas. Architectural Survey of Temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
    89–94.