Cīyamaṅkalam pillar inscription, time of Nandivarman, year 3

Cīyamaṅkalam pillar inscription, time of Nandivarman, year 3 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00117

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svasti śrī

kō-vicai ya-nanti-vikkirama -parumaṟku yā ṇṭu mūṉṟ-ā vatu

Ūṟṟukkā ṭṭu-k-kōṭṭattu p perum-pālai -Ūr-t tiru-p-pālai y-ūr kiḻavaṉṉṉ aṭa vi śrī-kaṅkaraiyar nērkuṭṭi perumāṉā rkku viṇṇappañ ceytu Aṭavi taṉ ṟāyār naṅkaṉi naṅkaiyārkk-āka-c ce yta muka-maṇṭakam

It’ aḻi-Āmai-k kāttāṉ a ṭi Eṉ muṭi mē l

mēl mēla

Prosperity! Fortune!

Third year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

Aṭavi, the lord kiḻavaṉ of Tiruppālaiyūr in Perumpālaiyūr in the district kōṭṭam of Ūṟṟukkāṭu, after having made request to the glorious king of the Gaṅgas, the mukhamaṇḍapa that Aṭavi made for his own mother Naṅkaṉi Naṅkaiyār.

This pious act, the feet of he who protects it without destroying it are on my head.

perumpālai-ūr. Compare with tiruppālai-y-ūr, line 8.

aḻi-āmai. Here again, there is no sandhi. A more frequent form is aḻi-y-āmai.

Edited in with facsimile and English translation (EI 7, no. 4); text and summary in (IP 117); re-edited and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).

B 320-322 117 365-366 52 B/1900 68 89-94