Uttiramērūr, time of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, year 16 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00163

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svasti śrī

nṛpatouṅka-varmmarkkku yāṇṭu patināṟ-āvatu

Ut=tarameru-c-caturvvedi-maṁkalattu tiru-p -pulivalattu mahādevarkkku naṉntā-viḷakkukk' āka Ālappākkattu kōyilāṉ harinandi maṇavāṭṭi paṭā ri-y-ēnṉ kuoṭutta poṉ patiṉ mu-k-kaḻañcu

Ip-poṉṉiṉ poliyālē naṉntā-viḷakk’ erippa t’ āka kuoṭuttēṉ

Itu rakṣippār vāriya-p-perumakkaḷ

Id-dharmaṁ rakṣittār tiruvaṭi En talai mē l āka

Ut=tarameru° U or U?

Prosperity! Fortune!

Sixteenth year of Nṛpatuṅkavarmar.Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavarman.

The gold that I, Paṭāri,Sanskrit Bhaṭāri. wife maṇavāṭṭi of Harinandin, temple-man kōyilāṉ at Ālappākkam, have given for the sake of an unperishable lamp for the Mahādeva of Tiruppulivalam in Uttaramerucaturvedimaṅgala: thirteen kaḻañcus.

This gold, I have given for burning an unperishable lamp with its interest poliyālē.

The great men of the supervision committee vāriyapperumakkaḷ are the protectors of this.

Let the feet of those who will protect this pious act dharma be on my head.

Compare t=ta (line 1) and tta (line 5). Thus first could be encoded as Grantha.

Note rākṣippār, present habitual, and rakṣittār, past. Literally: “of those who have protected.” The honour of taking the feet on the head is placed in the future and, as the reason (the act of protecting) for conferring the honour will take place before conferring of honour, the act of protecting is in past tense.

Reported in (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/63).

Edited in (SII 6.346). Text and summary in (IP 163).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photos (2019).

17 162 471 163 18 B/1898 63