Māmaṇṭūr, time of Parakesarin, year 15

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-09-06Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSSII0400138

Summary: Donation of goats for the upkeep of permanent lamps.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1svasti śrī

kō-p-parakēcari-pa[nma]kki yāṇṭu
2[10 5]-c-āvatu

cittira-mēka-[taṭāka]ttiṉ k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ na-
3r¡ai!⟨a⟩-ciṅka-maṅkala⟨t⟩tu vālīśvara¡mm!⟨m⟩-uṭaiya m¿ā?⟨a⟩-
4h¿a?⟨ā⟩devarkku vāṇaka-p-pāṭi-p peṇṇai-vaṭa-ka-
5rai-t tiru-v-aṇṇāmalai viyāpāri Āti-pucaṅ-
6ka-c-ceṭṭi makaṉ nāṭṭaṭiyaṉ [v]aitta viḷakku kā-
7lum maṉṟāṭi cātta-kuṭṭi v¡i!⟨ī⟩raṉ vai¡cc!⟨tt⟩a viḷak-
8ku-k kālum āka Arai-viḷakkukkum vai¡cc!⟨tt⟩a cāvā-
9-muvā-p pēr-āṭu nāṟpatt’ aiñc’ arai

Ivai pa-
10ṉmāheśvara-rakṣai |

Ivv-arai-viḷa-
11kkum pakal erippat’ ākavum

Ivv-āṭṭuk-
12ku-t t¡i!⟨ī⟩ṅku niṉaittāṉ keṅkai Iṭai
13kumari-y-iṭai-c ceyta pāvaṅ koḷvā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩

Apparatus

2 [10 5] ◇ SII • The ARIE reads [5].

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1Prosperity! Fortune!

1-215th year of the king Parakesarivarman.

2-9So that there be (āka), for the Mahādeva, Lord of the Vālīśvara [temple] in Naraciṅkamaṇkalam, east of the Cittiramēkam tank,

  • one quarter (kāl) lamp that Nāṭṭaṭiyaṉ, son of Ātipucaṅkaceṭṭi, a merchant [from] Tiruvaṇṇāmalai, [on] the northern bank of the Peṇṇai [river in] the Vāṇakappāṭi, gave (vaitta), and
  • one quarter lamp that the shepherd Cāttakuṭṭi Vīraṉ gave (vaicca),
the great undying and unaging goats given (vaicca) for half a lamp [are] fourty-five and a half↓1.

9-10These [are under] the protection of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

10-11These half lamps should burn in day time.

11-13He who think/does harm/evil (tīṅku) to/about these goats obtains a sin made between the Ganges and Kumari.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887-1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/40).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.138).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923 and on photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2004).

Primary

Krishna Sastri, H. 1923. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume IV: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Countries and Ceylon. South Indian Inscriptions 4. Madras: Government Press.
Page 13, № 138. [siglum SII]

Secondary

ARIE 1887-1888. Page 5, appendix I/1887–1888, № 40.

Notes

↑1. Or "fourty-five for the half lamp"? But, since the lamp is divided into quarters, a goat could as well be divided into halves.