Kumāravāṭi, donation, time of Nṛpatuṅkavikramavarman, year 9

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00447

Summary: Donation of gold for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.


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    1kō-vicaiyya{n}-nirupa-t¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikkirama-parumaṟku yāṇṭu Onpat-āvatu

    kaḷattūr-kōṭṭattu vaiyyāvūr-nāṭṭu-k kumārapāṭi Aṉ(ṭu)ṟai Araiyar puttaperumāṉār tēviyār kuṇapperumāṉār tāyār Araicaṭikaḷār ceyyappaṭṭa ceṟuvāṉai Īsvarakaram Itaṟkup pōkam{c} ceṟuvum kīḻaik kōṭṭa-c-ceṟuvum mēṭṭu-c-ceṟuvu¡mm!⟨m⟩ uḷḷiṭṭa nilamum

    nantavāṉattukk’ ellai kīḻpāl ellai
    2mēṭṭu-c-ceṟuvin mēṟkum tenpāl ellai vīrappuliyār tōṭṭattiṉ vaṭakkum mēlpāl ellai vatiyiṉ kiḻakkum vaṭapāl ellai kiḻaik kōṭṭaic ceṟuviṉ teṟkum

    Innāṟpāl Uḷḷiṭṭa nantavāṉamum Ic-colla-p-paṭṭa pūmiyum Itaṟku ce¡yi!⟨y⟩tōm

    Itu rakṣittār tiruvaṭi Em muṭi mēliṉa

    It-taḷiyum pōkamuṅ kāttār paramēspara-prāsitakaḷ āka

    Apparatus

    1 pōkam{c}pōkamac T • Alternatively one could emend to pōkam ākac.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Ninth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅkavikramavarman. 

    1-2 ... the temple of Śiva ... that Araicaṭikaḷār, the spouse of Puttaperumāṉār, king [of] Kumārapāṭi Aṉṭuṟai in the Vaiyyāvūrnāṭu in the Kaḷattūrkōṭṭam had made, to this [temple] a land comprising ... [has been given] as ... (pōkam)

    1-2 The boundaries for the garden [are as follows]:

    • the eastern boundary is ...;
    • the southern boundary is ...;
    • the westernn boundary is ...;
    • the northern boundary is ...;

    2 The garden comprised within these four boundaries ...

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

    2 Let the ... be those who protect the ... (pōkam) [of] this whole temple.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Tirumūrtti 1994 (Āvaṇam 5, no. 2); text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on previous edition(s).

    Primary

    Tirumūrtti, Ji. 1994. “pallava nirupatuṅkavarmaṉiṉ kumāravaṭik kalveṭṭu.” Āvaṇam 5: 2.
    № 2. [siglum T]
    Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer Application in Indian Epigraphy (Pallava Period). New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.
    Volume 3, appendix I, page 1304, № 67. [siglum D]

    Secondary

    ARIE 2001-2002. Pages 4, 46, appendix B/2001–2002, № 196.