Tiruvatikai, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year 18 author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis Valérie Gillet DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00167

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Donation of gold for supplying food offerings.

VG: Tiruvīraṭṭāṉeśvara temple, Tiruvatikai, Paṇruṭṭi taluk, Cuddalore district; on a pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine; regnal year 18 of Pallava Nṛpatuṅgavarman; tli sa 619; there are donations by other royal figures on pillars in the same maṇḍapa: sii 8, no. 309 registers a donation of gold by Pallava Nandivarman iii; sii 12, no. 73 records a gift of gold by the queen of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, Vīramahādevi.

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svasti śrī

nṛpatou ṅkapanmaṟku yāṇṭu patinṉ eṭṭāvatu

A tiyaraiya-maṅka lattu tiruviraṭṭā nattu mahādeva rkku pāṇ ṭi-varakuṇa-mahārā jaṉ kuṭutta poṉ Añ-ñAin-nūṟṟ' eḻu-patiṉ ka ḻañcu

Ippoṉ koṇ ṭu kaṭavōm Atiyarai ya-maṅkalattu nakara ttōm

Ip-poṉni l Iru-nūṟṟu-t toṇṇū ṟṟu-k kaḻañcu poṉnā l palicaiyāl nicati munnāḻi Uri kkum meṟṟi patiṟ ṟu nāḻi Ariciyum poḻutukku Uri pacca payaṟṟupparuppu kum māyam uḷḷiṭṭa AñcAintu kā yum poḻutu puḷiṅkaṟi kku Uḻakku tayirum po ḻutu kaṟikku kā yammm iru-c-ceviṭaṭum poḻutu kaṟi tumikka c ceviṭṭu neyum nivētikka naṟune y potu Uḻakk-ā ka nālu poḻutukku m mēṟṟi ney nāḻi nivētikka poḻutu kkuṉ tayir Uri nālu poḻutumē

Hail! Prosperity! This is the 18th regnal year of Nṛpatuṅgavarman. For Mahādeva of Tiruvīraṭṭānam of Atiyaraiyamaṅkalam, Pāṇṭi Varaguṇa Mahārāja gave 570 kaḻañcu of gold; having taken this gold, we, the Nagaram nakarattōm of Atiyaraiyamaṅgalam, will have to do kaṭavōm; in this gold, with the interests of 290 kaḻañcu of this gold, everyday having added ēṟṟi to the 3 nāḻi and one uri of 20 nāḻi of rice for one time poḻukku, five side dishes añcukāy including uḷḷiṭṭa pongal kumāya and one uri of green lentils pacca-payaṟṟuparuppu, one uḻakku of curd for tamarind-vegetable puḷiṅkaṟikku for one time, two ceviṭu small measure of asafoetida kāyam for the vegetables kaṟikku for one time, one ceviṭu of ghee for frying tumikka vegetables for one time, a nāḻi of ghee to which are added ēṟṟi for 4 times as one uḻakku each time pōtu of fragrant ghee in order to offer food to the deity nivētikka, one uri of curd for each time for offering food nivētikka, 4 times.The details regarding the ingredients and their measures are not very clear to me.

Prosperity! Fortune!

Eighteenth year of Nṛpatoṅkapanmaṉ.Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅkavarman.

Reported in (ARIE/1921-1922/B/1921/360).

Edited in (SII 12.71). Text and summary in (IP 167). Text and translation in .

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis and Valérie Gillet, based on .

30-31 71 478-480 167 272-273 27 29 B/1921 360