Vēṭal, time of Nandin, year 14 author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00320

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Boulder inscription. (p. 13): Mentions viṭāl and viṭārpaḷḷi (probably), “the Jaina temple at Viṭāl.”

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yāṇṭu patiṉāl-āvatu

nantikku viṭār paḷḷikku ciṅkaḷaṉ cattimalai cat ṟṟu Ūṟāṟ paṭṭiyam viṭār Iraṇṭu paṭṭiyam kuṭuttāḷ tirunaluṅkoṇṭai mēlaip paḷḷi māmutamaṭikaḷ viḻi p pērāyar putukku

(p. 77, §18):Text standardised according to DHARMA transliteration scheme. No. 82 of 1908 which is engraved on a boulder near a natural cavern called Āṇṭār-maṭam at Veṭāl in the North Arcot district, belongs to the fourteenth year of a certain Nanti and mentions a paḷḷi or Jaina hermitage at Veṭāl. It cannot be stated with certainty who this Nanti was. But as an inscription at Pāñcapāṇḍavamalai written in the same old alphabet is dated in the 50th year of Nantippōttaraicar, who has been identified with the Pallava king Nandivarman and as this latter is also called Nandin in the Utayēntiram plates it may not be far wrong to suppose that Nanti of the Veṭāl inscription is identical with Nandivarman Pallavamalla.

Reported in (ARIE/1908-1909/B/1908/82) and in (IP 320).

Edited in .

This online edition by Emmanuel Francis based on .

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

320 719 273/2018 145 13, 77 (§18) B/1908 82