Uttiramērūr, time of Kampavarman, year 23 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00229

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svasti śrī

yāṇṭu Irupattu muūṉṟ-āvatu

Ayyaṉ kampa-perumāṉārkku

kāliyūr-k-kōṭṭattu taṉ kūṟṟu Uttaramēru-c-catuvvervveti-maṅkalattu sabhaaiyōm Oṭṭik kuṭuttu poṉṉum nellum koṇṭa paric’ āvatu

Ūr-k-kaṟ cempoṉ naṟpatiṉ kaḻāñcum Eṇṇāḻi-k-kāl-āl Āyira-k-kāṭi nellum koṇṭu Itaṉ poli-y-ūṭṭ-iṉ-āl Āvaṇi-t-tiṅkaḷ cōti-ñāṉṟu Āyiram· brāhmaṇarai Ūṭṭuvat’ ākavum

Ūṭṭum paricu

mutirai viravi nālu kaṟiyum meyyāl Āḻākku-c ceytu neyyuḻm tayir viravukiḻāṉ nāḻi-c ceytu Aṭṭi Ūṭṭuvat’ ākavum

Iñ-ñāḷ-āl-ē tiru-p-pulivalattumahādevarkku mahāsnavapaṉam cevyvat’ ākavum

I-mahāsnavapaṉañ ceyyum paricu

nūṟṟ’ irupatt’ aiñ-ñāḻi neyyum nūṟṟ’ irupatt-añ

Unfinished inscription/Stops abruptly here.

Uttaramēru-c-catuvvervveti-maṅkalattu Uttaramēru-c-caturvveti-maṅkalattu cōti-ñāṉṟu cōti-ñāṉṟu ākavum ākavum mutirai mutirai neyyuḻm neyyum neiyyum mahāsnavapaṉam mahāsnapaṉam cevyvat’ cevvat’ ceyyvat’ I-mahāsnavapaṉañ I-mahāsnapaṉañ neyyum neyyum neiyyum

Prosperity! Fortune!

Twenty-third year.

To the Noble ayyaṉ Kampa-perumāṉār.That is, Kampavarman.

This is the manner that We, the members of the assembly of Uttaramērucaturvedimaṅgala in the Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam and the division of the same name taṉ kūṟṟuLiterally: in the division of itself. That is, the just mentioned Kāliyūr., took gold and paddy, and solemnly gave them.

With koṇṭuLiterally: having taken. forty kaḻañcus of fine gold as per the village stone ūr-k-kal, i.e. touch-stone and one thousand kāṭis of paddy as per the eṇṇāḻikkāl standard eṇṇāḻi-k-kāl-āl, let there be feeding of one thousand Brahmins at the time of Cōti Sanskrit Svāti cōti-ñāṉṟu in the lunar month tiṅkaḷ of Āvaṇi āvaṇi with the interest poli-y-ūṭṭ-iṉ-āl of this itaṉ.

The manner of feeding ūṭṭum paricu is as follows.

Let there be feeding, by distributing ceytu aṭṭiLiterally: by doing and pouring. four curries kaṟi made with mixing viravi various plants mutirai, one āḻākku of ghee as per the mey standard me-y-yāl , and one nāḻi of viravukiḻāṉ curd tayir .

Let, on the same day iñ-ñāḷ-āl-ē, make the great bath mahāsnapaṉa, i.e. Sanskrit mahāsnapana of the Mahādeva of Tirupullivalam.

The way of doing this great bath is as follows.

... one hundred twenty-five nāḻi of ghee/oil ney, one hundred twenty ...

Unfinished inscription/Stops abruptly here.

On the unusual dating. Most probably year of Kampavarman, mentioned right after as addressee.

Strange syntax: kaṟiyum, nellum, tayir coordinated, with two insterspersed ceytu. viravi: having mixed

Reported in (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/86).

Edited in (SII 6.371). Text and summary in (IP 229).

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

171 371 586-587 229 18 B/1898 86