SII 12.34: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar NANDIVARMAN II. No. 34. (A.R. No. 109 of 1932-33). PAIYAṈŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A ROCK NEAR THE DILAPIDATED TEMPLE OF EṬṬĪŚVARA. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0034 DHARMAbase

This record is dated in the 37th year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman who, from the palaeography of the inscription and the high regnal year quoted in it, may be identified with Pallavamalla. It registers an agreement made by the gaṇa of Payiṉūr to remove annually the silt from the big tank of the village for the interest on 6,400 kāḍi of paddy received by them by the standard measure poṟ-kāl, from Nāgaṉ, a merchant of Uḻakkuṇi residing at Māmallapuram. The document is signed by Śēṭṭanandi, evidently a member of the gaṇa. The village Paiyaṉūr is very close to Mahābalipuram and the earliest epigraphical reference to ‘Māmallapuram’ is to be found in the present inscription.

It may be pointed out that the epithets ‘Vijaya’ and ‘Vikramavarman’ added to his name by Nandivarman, were invariably adopted by his successors.‘Vijaya’ and ‘Vikrama’ as prefix and suffix of Pallava names occur in earlier records, as in the names like Vijaya-Buddhavarman and Mahēndra-vikramavarman.

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śrī kovicaya nantivikkiramaparumaṟku yāṇṭu mu ppatteḻāvatu payiṉūrk kaṇattem Oṭṭiyatu . māma llapurattiliruntu vāḻum Uḻakkuṇi vāṇikaṉ nākaṉ Emmurp pereri poliyūṭṭiṉāṟ ṟoṇṭuvataṟkuk ku koṭutta nel poṟkālāl Āṟā yirattu nāṉūṟṟukkāṭi Innel yāṅkaḷ koṇṭu Ivveriyi ṉiruṇun nilam Ellā viṟṟiṉmelum viṟkilum OṟṟiIṭilum paṭṭiyāṟ pa tiṉaṟukāṭic ceytu nel paṭṭiyo kaṭaṉāyi Inne llile Irukāṭicceyituṅ koṇṭu payiṉūr Aṉṉu nāma muḷḷa taṉaiyum Āṭṭāṇṭutoṟum Eri toṇṭuvippomāy ttiṉail ke ṭai yeṟṟukkoṇṭem Itaṟku vakri ppātāṉ candrātityarruḷḷataṉaiyum narakatti ṉiṟpāṉākavum Itaṟku nallatu veṇṭiṉār cantirātittiyar Uḷḷanāḷaiyum svarggattile yiruppārākavum Oṭṭiṉem . Ippaṭik kuṟi yiliruntu ceṭṭanantieṉ ṭṭāme celuttiṉār Aṭi Eṉ ṟalai melaṉa .

kuṟi. Cf. the expression peruṅkuṟi occurring in other epigraphs.

Digital edition of SII 12.34 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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