Kāvērippākkam, donation, time of Kampavarman, year 17 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00220

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svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-kampavarmmakku yāṇṭu patiṉ ēḻ-āvatu

paṭuvūrkōṭṭattu-k kāvati-p-pāk kam-ākiya Avaṉi-nārāyaṇa-c-caturvveti-maṅkalattu-c ciṟṟampalattu-p peru-makkaḷ kaṭai kāṭci-y-āka-t tiru-vānaṅkamuti tamakkai nampirāṭṭi viruttūṇarkku vaitta poṉ Ēḻu-nūttṟṟu mu-p -patt’ aṟu kaḻañcu

Ip-poṉṉāl vanta viruttiyāl nicati oru viruttūṇar uṇpat-āka vaittāḷ

Itu Ācandrakālamum muṭṭāmai Ūṭṭuvippat-āka-y ip-peru-makkaḷ kaṭai-k kāṇpār āṉār

It-tarmmamuṭṭil keaṅkai-y-i- ṭai-k kumari-y iṭai-c ceytār ceyta pāvam paṭuvār āṉār

Id-dharmmam rakṣittār kāl eṉ muṭi mēlaṉa

In 's edition two symbols are printed, apparently reproducing what is visible on the stone and looking like 100 and 1. notes: This symbol probably stands for the figure 736. As 736 kaḻañcus is a very unusual amount, an alternative reading could be: {symbol=36} Eḻuttu. The word eḻuttu would be preceded by the figure in symbol and by the same figures in letters.

Prosperity! Fortune!

Seventeenth year of the victorious king Kampavarman.

The gold that ... gave ...: seven hundred thirty-six kaḻañcus.

With the interest that came through this gold, she gave ...

This ...

If ...

The feet kālNote the use of the word kāl, instead of the usual word aṭi. of he who protects this pious act are on my head.

Edited in with facsimile (SII 12, no. 104); text and summary in (IP 220); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

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