Uttiramērūr, sale-deed, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year 26 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00190

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svasti śrī

kō-vicaeaiya-nṛpatuṁka-vikramava-r·mmaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattāṟāvatu

kā liyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉ kūṟṟ’ uttaramēru-c-caturvvetimaṁkalattu sabhaiyōm nila-vileai Āvaṇa-k-kai-Ekai-y-eḻuttu

muttaraaiyar-nāṭṭu mī-kūṟṟu viḷā-nāṭṭu-k kūkūr-k kū kūr vicaaiyanalluḷāṉ kāṭavatiyāṉ-ākiya pūti-tīraṉukku Emm-ūr-t teṉ-paṭākai p peruṅ-kōṭṭ' ēri-k kīḻ āṭalam pūṇṭi-t teṟku-k kūṟiṭātē kiṭanta kīḻ-p-pūṇṭiyum

°vicaeaiya° °vicaya° °nṛpatuṁka° °nṛpatuṁka° °caturvvetimaṁkalattu °caturvvetimaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm sabhaiyōm The kāl of -ō is lost, but not the kompu. °vileai vila Note the special form of ai in lai. See regular ai in kai same line. nile could as well be considered an unstandard usage for nilai, like vicaya/viceya for vicaiya. muttaraaiyar-nāṭṭu muttarayā nāṭṭu This might just be a typo for missing puḷḷi. kūkūr-k kūkūr kūkūraka kūkūr These might just be typos for missing puḷḷis. vicaaiyanalluḷāṉ vicayanalluḻāṉ kāṭavatiyāṉ-ākiya kāṭavatiyarayaṉākiya pūti pūti kīḻ āṭalam kīḻ āṭalam

Prosperity! Fortune!

Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

Hand-written kai-y-eḻuttu document āvaṇam for the price of a land nila-vilai, that is, sale-deed by We, the members of the assembly sabhaiyōm of Uttaramērucaturvedimaṅgalam in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam and the division of the same name taṉ kūṟṟuThat is, literally, "in the division of itself"..

In Kūkūr, in the Viḷānāṭu, in the western division mīkūṟṟu, in the Muttaraiyarnāṭu, to Pūti Tīraṉ alias Vicaiyanalluḷāṉ Kāṭavati of Kūkūr, the whole of Kīlppūṇṭi literally, "the eastern village/hamlet", which lies fallow kiṭanta without being ... kūṟiṭātē, in the southern hamlet paṭākai of our village, east of the Peruṅkōṭu lake, south of Āṭalam Pūṇṭi

Incomplete/Unfinished inscription.

End of lines 2-3 covered by later construction (stairs' string wall). Thus encoded as supplied, lost.

What western division? That of KāliyūrK or of Viḷa-ṇāṭu?

Check Subbarayalu, Geography, and add reference and discussion: Viḷānaṭu = mīkūṟu of KāliyūrK.

Edited in (SII 6, no. 368); text and summary in (IP 190); re-edited and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).

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