Piḷḷaippākkam, imprecation, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 20

Piḷḷaippākkam, imprecation, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 20 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00170

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Imprecation. The inscription is incomplete.

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svasti śrī

nṛrupatouṅ karkku yāṇ ṭu Iru-pat-āva tu

Iv-vūṟ ṟa lattu nelll a ṭṭuvār kaṅkai Iṭai kumari yiṭai-c cey tār ceyta pāvam paṭuvā r

nelll aṭṭi ṉārum aṭṭav uṭaṉ paṭṭāruñ ta

Prosperity! Fortune!

Twentieth year of Nṛpatuṅka.

Those who dump paddy on the premises talam of this village will encur the sin done by those who did sin between the Ganges and Kanniyakumari.

notes: Letters at the end of the inscription have been chiselled away.

Edited in (SII 12, no. 72); text and summary in (IP 170); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

31 72 484-485 170 20 B/1929-1930 175