Kāñcīpuram, Mukteśvara, time of Nandivarman, year 28 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00080

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svasti śrī

nan=ti-varmmar·k=ku yāṇṭ’ iru patt’ eṭ·ṭ-āvatu

dharmma -mahādeviīśvara-gṛhattu māṇik=ka-devar·k=ku devatāṉam-āyiṉa nāyivaṭṭi kuḷat tūr·k kaṇ·ṇantai kuṭi-p·-pāṭ·ṭ’ uḷ·pa ṭa ṉilam· pattu-p paṭṭiyumāṇik=kua-tēvark=k’ uṇ·ṇāḻikai-p puṟam-ā ka paṇittu-k= kuṭuttēṉ· dharma-mahādevi-y-ēṉ·

Itu Arccaṉayiai ceyiyt’ uṇpār-āṉār· In·nilat·taāl Ūr· varin=tat’ ellām tattaśivaṉukkum· dharmmakaṇ·ṇaṉuk=kum· Aṉan·taśiva ṉukkum· Ivarkaḷ makkaḷ mak=kaḷ-ē Arccaṉai ceyiyt’ uṇṇa-p paṇittu k kuṭuttēṉ·

It-taḷikkut taṭṭaḻi vuy ivaraik· koṇ·ṭu koṭṭuvāṉ· Amutarayaṉ· nāyaṟṟu-k· kaṇi Ivaṉuk kum· māṭalar makaṉ· māta-śarmmanuk·kum· Iruvark·kumm utaka-pūrvvakam· ceytu Iraṇṭu koṟṟu kuṭut·tōm·

perunaṅ·kai-y i-poṉ·ṉaṭi Atimāṉi mātēvi kumaraṭi māṇikkat·tēvi tikaimaṇi kuṇatuṅ·ki ti kaimaṇi vācat·ti cin·taṭi kumaraṭi naṅ·kā ṭai Aṇiyātitti mūt·ti Av·vaṭi viñ·caṭi pātaṭi ku lakkoṭi Av·vaṭi naṅ·kaṉ· muciyak·kaṉ· śrī-tēvi naṅ·kāmi mā-tēvi nīlī maṇavāṭ·ṭi tēvaṭi mānip·poṟṟi Atimāṇi naṅ·kuṇavi bahuvaḷakāmi maḻalai nocci tāḻi-māṇikkam· cittiraniti neṟippāki viṉa yaṭi Avvaṭi ciṟu-naṅkai kāmaṭi māti tikaimaṇi mantrācāryyar aivar· viḷak=kun= tavaci-kaṇāvar· paṉṉiruvar tavacikaḷ uṇ·ṇa-k kuṭukka taḷiyāḷ·vār ūṭṭārāka paṉṉiruva r kut=tikaḷai pmeyitu kuṭut=tēṉ

mutal mup patiruvarum· Ip-paṉṉiruvarum ēṟṟi nāṟpattu nālvar kam·pa ṉattu kuṭut=tēṉ· taruma-mā-deviyēṉ

It-taḷi-puṟam-āṉa nāyvaṭṭi kuḷattūrum· It=taḷi parivāramum· taḷiyum·

Idharmmam· Aḻiyāmai kāt=tāṉ aṭi Eṉ· muṭi mēl-atu

°varmmar·k=ku The restoration °varmmaṟ·ku is also possible, but see -devar·k=ku in the same line. yāṇṭ’ iru patt’ eṭ·ṭ-āvatu patt’ eṭ·ṭ-āvatu tattaśivaṉukkum· tattaśivanum The final m· looks like ru, but the vertical stroke is too short to be r. vācat·ti sucat·ti Krishna Sastri reads anachronistically a later form of Grantah su. nīlī nili bahuvaḷakāmi bahuvaḷakāmi mantrācāryyar The initial ma looks like pa. kut=tikaḷai pmeyitu kut=tikaḷaimeytu Ip-paṉṉiruvarum ēṟṟi Ip-paṉṉiruvar ēṟṟi

Prosperity! Fortune!

Twenty-eight year of Nandi[varman].

Prospérité! Fortune!

Vingt-huitième année de Nandi[varman].

The king of the regnal year is identified as Nandivarman II, because of the high regnal year (28th).

Edited in (SII 4.827), with a facsimile; text and summary in (IP 80); re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy, photos (2015), and the facsimile published in . Some characters now lost are legible on this facsimile.

285-286 827 IX 259-260 80 4, 13 B/1893 14