Iḷaiyanallūr, donation, time of Nandivikramavarman

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00444

Summary: Donation of land for providing water and fire in a god’s temple.

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Medial i and ī not distinguished and interchangeable.

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    1kō-vicaiya-nanti-vi-
    2kk¡ī!⟨i⟩rama-parumaṟku yā-
    3ṇṭu Irupatt’ iraṇ-
    4ṭ-āvatu

    cakaḷa-maṉu-
    5mpāṭiyum I(va)ru-
    6varumam v¡ī!⟨i⟩ṇṇ¡ī!⟨i⟩-
    7kkiṭiyār taṉ cē-
    8¿ṇ?⟨ṉ⟩aikku Iṟai Illi
    9Iḷayaṉūr mum-
    10mūlaippaṭṭi taṇ-
    11ṇīrkkum t¡i!⟨ī⟩kkum vai-
    12t(ta)tu

    Itu kāttā-
    13ṉ aṭi Eṉ ṟalai
    14mēḻaṉa

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-4 Twenty-second year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

    4-12 The [land named] Mumūlaippaṭi [in] Iḷayaṉūr, [made] tax-free, ... is that which ... Viṇṇikkiṭiyar ... has given for water and fire.

    12-14 The feet of he who protects this [pious act] are on my head.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Āvaṇam 1991–2019 (Āvaṇam 5, no. 1); text in Dayalan 2005; re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on photographs (2009).

    Primary

    Āvaṇam. 1991–2019. Tanjore: Archaeological Society.
    Volume 5 (July 1994), № 1. [siglum Āvaṇam]
    Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer Application in Indian Epigraphy (Pallava Period). New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.
    Volume 3, appendix I, page 1301, № 64. [siglum DD]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1992-1993. Page 54, appendix B/1992–1993, № 324. [siglum ARIE]