SOUTH INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS VOLUME XIV EARLY PANDYAS

⟨SIIv14p1i0001⟩ No. 1.

⟨1⟩ karavandapura nivāsī śrīmātvaidyaḥ śilā

⟨2⟩ gṛham viṣṇōḥ [|*] akṛta kṛtī madhurakavirmma-

⟨3⟩ dhūratarō mā[ra]sūnūridam || [1*||] mamtrī sa ē-

⟨4⟩ va matimānpāṇyasya parā[nta]kābhidhāna-

⟨5⟩ sya [|*] amirddhimagrajēbhyaḥ [prādādi] ma-

⟨6⟩ magrahāramapi ||—[2||*] kalēḥ [sahasratri]-

⟨7⟩ tayēbdagōcarē [ga]tēṣṭaśa-

⟨8⟩ tyāmapi saijasaptatau [|*] kṛtapra-

⟨9⟩ tiṣṭhō bhagaṅāgabhūtkramādihai-

⟨10⟩ ṣa pauṣṇēhani māsikārttikē [||3*] ⟨Page 2⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0002⟩ No. 2.

⟨1⟩ komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku u-

⟨2⟩ ttaramamantri kaḷakkuṭi vai-

⟨3⟩ dyan mūventamaṅkalap-

⟨4⟩ peraraiyaṉ ākiya māṟaṅ-

⟨5⟩ [kā]ri ikkaṟṟaḷi ceytu

⟨6⟩ nīr[tta]ḷiyātey svarggārō-

⟨7⟩ ha[ṇañ]ceyta piṉṉai ava-

⟨8⟩ ṉukku anujan uttara

⟨9⟩ mantrapada meytiṉa pāṇṭi

⟨10⟩ maṅkala vicaiaraiyaṉ

⟨11⟩ ātiya māṟaṉṉei-

⟨12⟩ ṉaṉ mukamaṇṭamañ ce

⟨13⟩ ytu nīrttaḷittāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0003⟩ No. 3. (A.R. No. 37 of 1908.) TIRUPPARANKUṈṞAM, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON ONE OF THE PLLARS IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription dated in the 6th year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ which is engraved in archaic letters, has been attributed to Jaṭila Parāntaka of the Āṉaimalai inscription noted above. It records the construction of the Tirukkōyil (shrine) and of the Śrī-taṭākam (tank) by Śāttaṉ-Gaṇapati, a resident of Karavandapura,1who is called Pāṇḍi-Amṛitamaṅgalavaraiyaṉ, and is stated to have belonged to the Vaidya caste and to have been the mahāsāmanta of the king. The shrines of DurgādēvI and Jyēshṭhādēvi were constructed by Nakkaṉ-Koṟṟi, who is described as the Dharmapain probably of this mahāsāmanta. On account of the interest of this record, the text is reproduced here.

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⟨1⟩ śrīkomāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku

⟨2⟩ rājyavarṣam āṟāvatu cellā-

⟨3⟩ niṟapa maṟṟavaṟku mahā-

⟨4⟩ sāmantaṉākiya karavantapūrādhi-

⟨5⟩ vāsī vaijyan pāṇṭi ami-

⟨6⟩ rtamaṅkalavaraiyaṉāi-

⟨7⟩ ṉa cāttaṅ kaṇapati ti-

⟨8⟩ ruttavittatu tirukkoi-

⟨9⟩ lum śrītaṭākamum itaṉuḷa-

⟨10⟩ ṟa muḷḷatam [|*] maṟṟava-

⟨11⟩ ṟku dharmmapanti ākiya na-

⟨12⟩ kkaṅ koṟṟiyāṟ ceya-

⟨13⟩ ppaṭṭatu durggādēvi kō-

⟨14⟩ iluñ jēṣṭai koilum [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0004⟩ No. 4. (A.R. No. 480 of 1917.) KUTTĀLAM, TENKASI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE NORTH-SIDE OF THE KUṞṞĀLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This incomplete record is dated in the 4th year and 360th day of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and mentions the gift of some donation by Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ, probably a petty chieftain of Pōliyūr, for a lamp in the temple of TirukkuṟRālattu-BhaTAra. This person a so figures in a record3from TiruppattUr in the RAmanāthapuram district, where he is mentioned with the other title of Teṉṉavaṉ Pallavaraiyaṉ. ⟨Page 3⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komā

⟨2⟩ ṟañcaṭaiyarkku yāṇṭu

⟨3⟩ nālu nāḷ muṉṉūṟṟu

⟨4⟩ aṟupatu iññāṉāl

⟨5⟩ teṉavāra nāṭṭu-

⟨6⟩ t tirukkuṟṟa-

⟨7⟩ lattu bhaṭāra[r*]k-

⟨8⟩ kup poḻiyūr

⟨9⟩ [a]raiyaṉāyiṉa

⟨10⟩ māṟaṉāccaṉ

⟨11⟩ iravum paka-

⟨12⟩ lu muṭṭāme ca-

⟨13⟩ ndrādityavaṟ eri-

⟨14⟩ vatāka vaitta

⟨15⟩ tirunontā vi-

⟨16⟩ ḷakku oṉṟu o- 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0005⟩ No. 5. (A.R. No. 90 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE TIRUTTAḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This bilingual inscription consists of a portion in Sanskrit and a portion in Tamil. The Sanskrit portion states that Teṉṉavaṉ-Pallavādhipa alias Māṟaṉ-Āditya born at Pōḻiyūr in Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu made a gift of 40 Kṛishṇa-kācha for burning a lamp in the temple of Śūlapāṇi at Śrīsthalī. The Tamil portion, dated the in the 4th+1st year and 593rd day of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ states that Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ of Pōḻiyūr in Pōḷiyūr-nāḍu gave a donation of 40 kaḻañju to the Sabhā of Maṇaṟkuḍi for a lamp to be burnt in the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Bhaṭāra at Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Mīkuṇḍāṟu in Koluvūr-kūṟṟam and another gift of kaḻañju to the vaṇṇār of the place. This chieftain Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ has figured in another record from Kuttalam in the Tirunelveli District.2

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] pōḻiyūrāvyadēśēsmin pōḻiyūrē prasūtavān [|*] māṟanādityanāmā

⟨2⟩ śrītēnnavan pallaādhipaḥ [||*] dīpannitya pradīptyai sikatakuṭibhava br[ā*]hmaṇēbhyaḥ pradāya

⟨3⟩ catvārimśakpramāṇān śatadhṛti caraṇōtbhū 3 tavarṇṇapradhānaḥ [|*] śrīsthalyām kṛṣakācān taduditabhavi-

⟨4⟩ ṣā 4 vṛddhidēyēna viprai[m*] arddhaprasthēna siddhyaippravihitamakarōtsu[sthi]ta[ś*] śūlapāṇēḥ |||—

⟨5⟩ komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu nāṉku itaṉetirāṇṭu nāḷ aññūṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟu mūṉṟu i-

⟨6⟩ nnāḷālk koḻuvūṟk kūṟṟattu mikuṇṭāṟṟu brahmateyam tirupputtūrt tirukkaṟṟaḷi bhaṭā- raṟkku po-

⟨7⟩ ḻiyūr nāṭṭup poḻiyūrt teṉṉavaṉ pallavaraiyaṉāyiṉa māṟaṉāccaṉ vacca tirunontā viḷakku

⟨8⟩ oṉṟu [|*] itaṉiṟaiy ṉūṟṟirupatiṉ palam [|*] itaṟkku iravum pakalum muṭṭāmal ca[ndr]āditya- val erivatā-

⟨9⟩ ka ittevā paṇṭārattu cūlanāḻiyāl nicati uriy ney aṭṭuva 5 •••••• brahmadē-

⟨10⟩ ya maṇaṟkkuṭic cavaiyār poliyūṭṭākak koṇṭa kaḻañcu 40 nāl••••••• cūla nāṭiyā-

⟨11⟩ l nicatippaṭi muṭṭāmal uriy ney yaṭṭuvatākakkoṭuttāṉ [|*] iva••••••• kat tirupputtūr

⟨12⟩ vaṇṇārkku poliyūṭṭākakkuṭutta ka[ḻa*]ñcu oṉṟu [|*] ivviḷakku••••••• ṭṭa kaṭava sabhaiyā-

⟨13⟩ raiyum rakṣippār śrīpādam eṉ śirassiṉ meliṉa ||| ⟨Page 4⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0006⟩ No. 6. (A.R. No. 364 of 1907.) ĀḌUTURAI, PAPANASAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE ĀPATSAHĀYĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription of Māṟanjaḍaiyaṉ of the year opposite to the year which was itself opposite to the fourth year of the king comes from Āḍuturai. From a record of the Chōḻa king Uttama-Chōḻa it is learnt that this temple was rebuilt during his reign by his pious mother Sembiyaṉ-Mahādēviyār, and so the characters in which this record is engraved are later that the time of Varaguṇa to whom this and the next record can be attributed. This epigraph registers some provision made for the supply of one uri of oil daily to the temple of Mahādēva at Tirukkuraṅgāduturā in Tiraimūr-nāḍu. Kuraṅgāḍutuṟai has been curtailed into the modern name of Āḍutuṟai.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] śrīkomāṟaṉ-

⟨2⟩ caṭaiyaṟkku yāṇṭu nānkāmā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭiṉ etirāmāṇṭiṉ eti-

⟨4⟩ rāmāṇṭu•••••••

⟨5⟩ carāvūrnāṭṭu tuṟaiyūrkku

⟨6⟩ [ṭi] sabhaiyom tiraimurnā-

⟨7⟩ ṭṭu tirukkuraṅkāṭutuṟai mahādē-

⟨8⟩ damaged

⟨9⟩ ttāl cantrātittaval nicatam aṭṭakkaṭava eṇ-

⟨10⟩ ṇai uri [|*] itu paṉmāhēśvara rakṣai ||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0007⟩ No. 7. (A.R. No. 358 of 1907.) ĀḌUTURAI, PAPANASAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE ĀPATSAHĀYĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription also from Āḍutuṟai is peculiarly dated as 4+1+1+1+1st year of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and relates to some provision for the supply of oil to the temple of Tirukkuraṅgāḍutuṟai-Mahādēva by the sabhā of Maruttuvakkuḍi in Tiraimūr-nāḍu. The significance of the regnal year, as cited here, instead of as 4 opposite to the 4th year, is not clear.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī |||— śrīkomāṟaṉ-

⟨2⟩ caṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu nāṉkāmāṇṭi-

⟨3⟩ ṉ etirāmāṇ[ṭiṉ eti]rāmā[ṇṭi]-

⟨4⟩ ṉ etirāmāṇṭiṉ etirāmā[ṇ]-

⟨5⟩ ṭu tiraimurnāṭṭu maruttuva-

⟨6⟩ kkuṭi sabhaiyom innāṭṭu tiruk[kuraṅkā]-

⟨7⟩ ṭutuṟai mahādēvariṭai••

⟨8⟩ •••••••

⟨9⟩ [tā]••••ttāl nicatam aṭṭak kaṭavu eṇṇai uri [|*] itu

⟨10⟩ [pa]ṉmāhēśara rakṣai ||—

1) Annual Report for 1908, Part ii. paragraph 53.

⟨SIIv14p1i0008⟩ No. 8. (A.R. No. 13 of 1908.) KUMBAKŌṆAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE SHRINE OF THE GODDESS IN THE NĀGĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This Tamil record dated in the 4+4th year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ registers a gift of 138 cows and 100 kāśu by the king for the supply of milk and ghee and for maintaining two perpetual lamps in the temple of Bhaṭāra of Tirukkīḻkōṭṭam in Tirukkuḍamūkku, i. e., Kumbakōṇam. The regnal year of this inscription corresponds apparently to the year 4+1+1+1+1, quoted in the Āḍuturai record. (No. 7 above.)

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] komāṟañcaṭaiya-

⟨2⟩ ṟku yāṇṭu nāṉku itaṉeti-

⟨3⟩ r nālāṇṭu cellāniṟkat

⟨4⟩ tirukkuṭamukkiṟ ṟirukkiḻk-

⟨5⟩ koṭṭattu bhaṭārarkkup pālu-

⟨6⟩ neyyumāṭṭak komāṟañca-

⟨7⟩ ṭaiyar kuṭutta pacu nūṟṟu mu-

⟨8⟩ [p]patteṭṭu [|*] iraṇṭu nontā

⟨9⟩ [vi]ḷakkerikkak kuṭutta kācu

⟨10⟩ nūṟu [|*] ippacuviṉāl niyata-

⟨11⟩ m pāl [pattu] nāḻiyun ney

⟨12⟩ ••• me ikkāciṉāl ne 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0009⟩ No. 9. (A.R. No. 136 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A SLAB IN THE FIRST prākāra OF THE TIRUTTAḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ is dated in the 4th year opposite to the 6th, which apparently is a wrong citation for 4+6th year. The Sanskrit ślōka at the beginning states that Paṭṭā, the daughter of Māṟaṉ and the wife of Śaṅkara donated 10 dināra for a lamp to the god Śrīsthalīśa. The Tamil portion records the same fact in greater detail. The brāhmaṇa Mōśi Kaṇḍaṉ Śaṅkaraṉ is stated to be the son fo the kiḻār of Arukandūr and the amount of gift is specified as 10 kāśu. The endowment was left under the protection of Āyiratteḻunūṟṟuvar. What exactly is meant by this name is not clear.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ dīpārttham śrīsthalīśāya

⟨3⟩ dinārāṇām daśādiśat

⟨4⟩ [pa]ṭṭākhya māratanayā śaṅ-

⟨5⟩ karasya priyā satī ||—

⟨6⟩ komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨7⟩ āṟu etir nāṉku ivvā

⟨8⟩ ṇṭu [a]rukantūr kiḻār makaṉ

⟨9⟩ moci kaṇṭañ caṅkaraṉ pi-

⟨10⟩ rāmaṇi māṟam paṭṭattā-

⟨11⟩ ṉ tirupputtūrt tiru[t]-

⟨12⟩ taḷip perumāṉaṭikaḷu-

⟨13⟩ kku nontāviḷak keriya [v]ai-

⟨14⟩ tta kācu pattu [|*] ivai kātto-

⟨15⟩ ppā rāyirat teḻunūṟṟu-

⟨16⟩ varaṭi yeṉa talai mela-

⟨17⟩ [ṉa] 2 ••••• ⟨Page 6⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0010⟩ No. 10. (A.R. No. 414 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHIRĀPPAḶḶI, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON THE WALL OF THE ROCK-CUT CAVE.

This interesting inscription engraved in the Pallava rock-cut cave-temple on the hill at Tiruchchirāppaḷḷi is dated in the 4th year and 2,501st day of the reign of king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ, who is also called Pāṇḍyādhirāja Varaguṇa[varman]. Having destroyed the fort at Vembil (i.e., Vēmbaṟṟūr near Kumbakōṇam), the king was staying at Niyamam at the time of the issue of this record. He is described as an ornament of both the solar and lunar dynasties, probably because of an earlier marital alliance between the Chōḷa (solar) and the Pāṇḍya (lu2nar) ruling families. The king is stated to have made a gift of 125 kaḻañju of gold to the temple of Tirumalai-Bhaṭāra, by which the liṅga in the rock-cut cave is evidently meant. From the fact that provision was made for burningfive lamps in this temple on the day of Ārdrā every month, it is probable that Ārdrā was the natal star of this king.

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(Published in Archaeological Survey Report for 1903-04, pp. 275-76.)

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ka-

⟨2⟩ lpādāya hutāśa dhū-

⟨3⟩ mapaṭala krūram viṣa[m] līla-

⟨4⟩ yā kaṇṭhē yaḥ kalayāmbabhūva [vi]-

⟨5⟩ budhai [r]bibhyatbhira 1 bhya[r]tthitaḥ [|*] ya[stā]-

⟨6⟩ [r]ṇīriva nirddadāha vitatīśśuṣkāḥ purī-

⟨7⟩ rāsurīryyaścākṣijvalanē juhāva

⟨8⟩ madanam pāyādapāyātsavaḥ [||*] komāṟa[ñ]

⟨9⟩ caṭ[ai]yaṟku yāṇṭu nāṉku nāḷ i[rā]- 2

⟨10⟩ yirattainnūṟṟoṉṟu vempil mati[ḷ]-

⟨11⟩ ḻittuppontu niyamattiruntaruḷi [sō]-

⟨12⟩ masūryyānvayadvaya tilakāraṅgārarā 3 yina [pā]

⟨13⟩ ñjyādhirājar varaguṇa dēvar tiruma[lai] bhaṭāra[rk]-

⟨14⟩ kukkuṭutta poṉ pāṭikkallāl 125 nūṟ[ṟi]

⟨15⟩ rupattaiṅkaḻañcum ippoṉ mutaṉiṟka

⟨16⟩ polikoṇṭu muppatiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉiṉ

⟨17⟩ poliyāl oru nontā viḷakkāka nūṟṟiru-

⟨18⟩ patiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉāl nālu non

⟨19⟩ tāviḷakkeriyak kāṇa nāḻiyāl nicati aṭṭakka

⟨20⟩ ṭava ney irunāḻi [|*] niṉṟa aiṅkaḻañcu po-

⟨21⟩ ṉṉālun tiṅkaṭoṟum tiṅkaṭ ṭiruvāti-

⟨22⟩ raināṉ ṟavvirāppularumaḷavum aintu

⟨23⟩ viḷakkeriya aṭṭakkaṭava ney iru nāḻi u-

⟨24⟩ ri [|*] ivvoṭṭiṉa paricu ney aṭṭi itti-

⟨25⟩ ru viḷakkerippāṉ ippoṉ nūṟṟirupattai

⟨26⟩ ṅkaḻañcuṅ koṇṭom ciṟṟampar naka[rat*]

⟨27⟩ tom [|*] ivvoṭṭiṉa paricu ney aṭṭuvip[pa*]

⟨28⟩ taṟku amaintu puṇaippaṭṭom ciṟṟampar [pa*]

⟨29⟩ tiyum pātamulattomum [|*] itu panmāhe-

⟨30⟩ śvararū irakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 7⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0011⟩ No. 11. (A.R. No. 413 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHIRĀPPAḶḶĪ, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE UPPER ROCK-CUT CAVE OF THE HILL.

This record engraved in archaic Tamil characters with puḷḷis marked for basic consonants, is dated in the 9th year opposite to the 4th year of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ, who is referred to also as Pāṇḍyādhipati-Varaguṇa. The king is stated to have given 537 kaḻañju of gold to•••••••••••••••• -nāṭṭu-vēḷāṉ, out of which four gold paṭṭams and a gold flower were made for decorating the God Tirumalai-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ. The astronomical details contained in the record are unfortunately mutilated.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] komāṟañ 1 •••• ṇṭu••

⟨2⟩ ṉkāvati ṉetir ro[ṉ]••••

⟨3⟩ yaṟṟu veḷḷikkiḻa[mai]••••

⟨4⟩ malaip perumāṉaṭikaḷu[kku]••••

⟨5⟩ ṉa pāñjyādhipati varakuṇa••••

⟨6⟩ ṭṭu veḷāṉ kaiyil viṭutan••••

⟨7⟩ ñnūṟu ivai oru kācu[k]••••

⟨8⟩ maiñcāṭi um kuṉṟiyā••••

⟨9⟩ ṉ ainūṟṟu muppatteḻu kaḻai••••

⟨10⟩ ip poṉṉil nānūṟṟu kaḻaiñcu [po]-

⟨11⟩ ṉnūl ce[y*]tu tirumeṉi cāt••••

⟨12⟩ [ṟ]paṭṭa nāṉku nūṟṟumuppat••••

⟨13⟩ carai poṉṉāl ceytu tirum[e]••••

⟨14⟩ tta poṟ[pūvu] oṉṟu ivai••• •

⟨15⟩ yum pātamulamum nakarat••••

⟨16⟩ tu [||] itu panmāhē••• •

⟨SIIv14p1i0012⟩ No. 12. (A.R. No. 84 of 1910.) TIRUVEḶḶAṞAI, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON THE ROCK IN FRONT OF THE JAMBUNĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 9th year opposite to the 4th year of king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ is important in that it contains a few astronomical details of its date, which are capable of verification, namely, Vṛiśchika, Monday, Aśvati. These have been calculated to yield the English equivalent—A.D. 824, November 7, Monday,2thus giving A.D. 811, as the initial date of this Pāṇḍya king. This king is referred to as Pāṇḍi-Mahārāja in line 5 and he has been identified with Varaguṇa I. This inscription registers a gift of 120 kaḻañju of gold by the king, left in the hands of AṇḍanāTTu-vēḷAṉ, for burning two perpetual lamps in the temple of Tiruvāṉaikkaṟ-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ.

The rock-cut cave at Tiruveḷḷaṟai contains a Śiva-liṅga in the main cell, herein called Tiruvāṉaikkaṟ-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ, and an image of Vishṇu in an adjoining cell. The rock-cut cave-temple may date from the time of the late Pallavas, as records of Dantivarmaṉ and Nandivarmaṉ are found engraved on the rock in front of the cave and in the village. ⟨Page 8⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu nālā-

⟨2⟩ vataṟ ketir oṉpatāvatu vṛścika ñāiṟṟu ti-

⟨3⟩ ṅkaṭkiḻamai peṟṟa aśvati mutalāka tevatāṉanti-

⟨4⟩ ruveḷḷaṟait tiruvāṉaikkaṟ perumāṉaṭika-

⟨5⟩ ḷukku pāṇṭi mārācarāiṉa komārañcaṭai

⟨6⟩ yaṉ yiraṇṭu nontāviḷakkiravum paka-

⟨7⟩ lu merikka aṇṭanāṭṭu veḷāṉ kaiy-

⟨8⟩ yil viṭutta poṉ nūṟṟirupatiṉ kaḻa-

⟨9⟩ ñcu ippoṉ mutal keṭāmai poliyāl

⟨10⟩ [nārāca] nāḻiyā lirunāḻi ney erippo-

⟨11⟩ māiṉom mulaparuṭaiyom [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0012A⟩ No. 12A. (A.R. No. 120 of 1928-29.) LĀLGUḌI, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE SAPTAṚISHĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the year opposite to the fourth of some king whose name is not given in it. It registers a gift of money made by the Pallava king Nandippōttaraiyar who fought and won the battle of Teḷḷāṟu, for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruttavattuṟai in Iḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu. The amount was received by the members of the assembly of Nallimaṅgalam who bound themselves to bring to the temple and measure out daily (one) nāḻi of ghee.

As the other record (No. 12-B) engraved close to this and dated in a similar way belongs to Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ alias Varaguṇa-mahārāja, this may be also assigned to the same king.

(Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XX, pp. 46 ff.)

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] yāṇṭu 4- vatiṉ etirāmāṇṭu iṭaiyāṟṟunāṭṭut tiruttavattuṟai māhādē varkku1 teḷḷāṟṟeṟintu veṉṟa nantip pottar[ai]

⟨2⟩ yar kuṭutta paḻaṅkācu 60 ivvaṟupatu kācum iññāṭṭu nallimaṅkalattu sabhaiyom ivvaṟupatu kācuṅ 2 tiruttavattuṟai mahādēvar

⟨3⟩ iṭaikoṇṭu nārāya nāḻiyāl nicati nāḻi ney oru nontāviḷakku cantirātittaval iravum pakalum eriyakkoṇṭu ceṉṟu aḷappomā[no]-

⟨4⟩ m [||*] nallimaṅkalattu sabhaiyom tiruttavattuṟai mahēdēvarkku 1 aḷavomāyil muṭṭil muṭṭiraṭṭiyum mulappaṭṭa panmāhēśvara[rē]

⟨5⟩ sabhaiyākavum tanittākavum nilaikkaḷa muḷḷiṭṭa tāṉ veṇṭu koviṉukku pukka ṉa iruṉūṟṟum patiṉnāṟu kāṇam taṇṭamiṭa [o]-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭinom nallimaṅkalattu sabhaiyom [||*] itu panmāhēśvarar nāṟpatteṇṇāyiravarum īrakṣai 3||—||— ⟨Page 9⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0012B⟩ No. 12B. (A.R. No. 121 of 1928-29.) LĀLGUḌI, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE SAPTAṚISHĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ alias Pāṇḍyakulapati Varaguṇa Mahārāja registers the gift of 120 kāśu by the king for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruttavattuṟai in uḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu. The king is stated to have transmitted the gift through a certain Aṇḍanāṭṭu-Vēḷāṉ and the money was received by the assembly of Iḷamperuṅkāyirukkai in Iḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu who agreed to supply one nāḻi of ghee for burning the lamp.

The inscription is dated in the year 4+9 of the king's reign and the details of date, viz., Dhanus, Śadaiyam (Śatabhishaj), and Tuesday have been equated with 824 A. D. November 29, and the king is identified with Varaguṇa I1

(Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XX, pp. 46 ff.)

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟañcaṭaiyarkku yāṇṭu 4- vatiṉ etir 9 āmāṇṭu dhanu nāyiṟṟu cevvā[y*]kkiḻamai peṟṟa cataya(ma)ttu [nāḷ i]-

⟨2⟩ ṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭu tiruttavattuṟai māhā 2 dēvarkku iravum pakalum cantirātittaval iraṇṭu no[ntāttiruviḷakku]-

⟨3⟩ erippatāka komāṟañcaṭaiyaṉayiṉa 3 pāṇḍyakulapati varakuṇamāhā 2 rāyar aṇṭanāṭṭu veḷāṉ k[ai]yi[lk kuṭutta pa]ḻa[ṅ]-

⟨4⟩ kācu 120 nūṟṟirupatu kācuṅ 4 muta[l] ke[ṭā]maiy poli[yū]ṭṭiṉāl nicati nā•••••••••

⟨5⟩ aḷappomāyinom ippaṭi oṭ[ṭi] ikkācu koṇṭo[m] iṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭu iḷamperuṅkāy irukk[ ai sabhaiyo]

⟨6⟩ m [|*] iññey nicati irunāḻiyum muṭṭil muṭṭiraṭṭiyum mulap[pa]ṭṭa panmāhēśvararē sabhaiyākavum tanittākavum ni•••••••••-

⟨7⟩ ḷḷiṭṭa tāṉ veṇṭu koviṉukku pukka ḷa aññūṟu kāṇam taṇṭamiṭa oṭṭikkuṭuttom tiruttavattuṟai mahādēvarkku [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0013⟩ No. 13. (A.R. No. 105 of 1905.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE ERICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE. (THE SLAB IS NOW IN THE MADRAS MUSEUM.)

This record dated in the 4+12th year of the reign of Varaguṇa-Mahārāja registers the gift of 290 kāśu to the sabhī of Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi in Muḷḷi-nāḍu for worship and offerings to the God Bhaṭāra in the Śrīkōyil of Tiruppōttuḍaiyār. The gift was made when Varaguṇa was stationed at Araiśūr on the bank of the Peṇṇai river in Toṇḍaināḍu.

Text.

(Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. IX, p. 84.)

First side.

⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] śrībhaṭāraranugrahatti[ṉā]-

⟨2⟩ ṟ muḷḷināṭṭiḷaṅkoykkuṭi [ti]-

⟨3⟩ ruppottuṭaiyārśrīkoyil bhaṭāra[r*]kku mutal-

⟨4⟩ [ke]ṭāmai poli koṇṭu nā[ṉ]ku kālamun ti[ruvamu]- ⟨Page 10⟩

⟨5⟩ tu celu[t]tuvatāka varakuṇamah[ā*]rājar toṇṭai nāṭṭu[p]

⟨6⟩ peṇṇaikkarai araicūr vīṟṟiruntu iḷaṅ [koykku]-

⟨7⟩ ṭiccavaiyār kaiyyiṟ kuṭutta kācu irunū [ṟṟutto]-

⟨8⟩ ṇṇūṟu [|*] ivaṟṟāṅ kāciṉvā yirukala māka āṇ[ṭu]-

⟨9⟩ varai cavaiyā raḷakkum polinel ain nūṟṟe[ṇpa] [ti*]-

⟨10⟩ ṉ kalam [|*] ivai koṇṭu bhaṭārar paṇi makkaḷum iḷa[ṅ*]-

⟨11⟩ ko[y*]kkuṭiccavai vāriyarum uṭaṉiṉṟu varaku[ṇa*]-

⟨12⟩ maharājarkku rājyava[r]ṣam nāṉkāva tukku eti[r]-

⟨13⟩ paṉṉiraṇṭā[m*]yāṇṭu tulā ñāyiṟu muta lāka nica[ti*]-

⟨14⟩ yāka nāṉku kālamun tiruvamutu celut tum[pa]-

⟨15⟩ ṭi [|*] oru poḻutaikku veṇṭuvaṉa arici ceṉṉeṟ-

⟨16⟩ ṟiṭṭal nāṉāḻi kummāyattukku payaṟṟu-

⟨17⟩ p paruppuri nivetikka pacuviṉ ṉaṟuneyyu-

⟨18⟩ ḻakkup pacuviṉṟoy tayirurik karuvāḻai-

⟨19⟩ ppaḻa nāṉku carkkarai oru palam kaṟi a[mi]-

⟨20⟩ rtu kāykkaṟi oṉṟu puḷiṅkaṟi iraṇṭu puḻu-

⟨21⟩ kkukkaṟi oṉṟu porikkaṟi oṉṟu eṟṟik kaṟi-

⟨22⟩ aiñciṉukkuṅ kaṟi patiṉpala[m]

⟨23⟩ kaṟi tumikkavum porikkavum pacuviṉaṟune-

⟨24⟩ y āḻākkuk kūṭṭukku pacuviṉ toytayi-

⟨25⟩ rurik kāyam iru ceviṭṭu ilai amirtu

⟨26⟩ veḷḷilai īraṭukku aṭaikkāy pattu-

⟨27⟩ nūṟu oru ceviṭṭu [|*] āka nicati nāṉku

⟨28⟩ poḻutaikku veṇṭuvaṉa arici ce-

⟨29⟩ nneṟṟiṭṭal patiṉaṟu nāḻi

Second side.

⟨30⟩ āka orāṭṭaikku arici cenne•

⟨31⟩ ṟṟiṭṭal aṟupattu nāṟ-

⟨32⟩ kalam [|*] ivai kalavaricikku mukkala-

⟨33⟩ nellāka nūṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟiru kala-

⟨34⟩ m [|*] payaṟṟupparuppiru

⟨35⟩ nāḻi ivai nāḻipparuppu

⟨36⟩ kku munnāḻi nellāka orāṭ-

⟨37⟩ ṭaikku nel irupattu nāṟkalam [|*]

⟨38⟩ pacuviṉ ṉaṟuney nāḻiyuri i-

⟨39⟩ vai nāḻi ne[y*]kku muppati nāḻi ne-

⟨40⟩ llāka orā[ṭ]ṭaikku nel nūṟṟeṇpa-

⟨41⟩ tiṉ kalam [|*] pacuviṉṟoy tayi-

⟨42⟩ r nāṉāḻi ivai nāḻittayirkku-

⟨43⟩ munnāḻi nellāka orāṭṭaikku ne-

⟨44⟩ l nāṟpatteṇkalam [|*] karuvāḻaippa-

⟨45⟩ ḻam patiṉāṟu ivai iraṇṭukku-

⟨46⟩ nāḻi nellāka orāṭṭaikku nel-

⟨47⟩ muppattirukalam [|*] carkkarai nā[ṟppa]-

⟨48⟩ lam itu oru palattukku nāḻi

⟨49⟩ yuri nellāka orāṭṭaikku nela

⟨50⟩ irupattu nāṟ(k)kalam [|*] kaṟi nāṟpa-

⟨51⟩ tiṉ palam ivai paṉpala-

⟨52⟩ ttukku nāḻi nellāka orāṭ-

⟨53⟩ ṭaikku nel pa[ti*]ṉaṟukalam [|*] kāyam

⟨54⟩ āḻākke mucceliṭṭu itu

⟨55⟩ uḻakku kāyattukkaṟunā-

Third side.

⟨56⟩ [ḻi] nellāka orāṭṭai-

⟨57⟩ kku nel pattoṉpa-

⟨58⟩ tiṉ kalaṉe mukku[ṟu*]ṇi [|*]

⟨59⟩ ilai amirtu veḷ-

⟨60⟩ ḷilai iraṇṭu paṟṟu

⟨61⟩ ivai oru paṟṟuk ki-

⟨62⟩ ru nāḻi nellāka orā

⟨63⟩ ṭṭaikku nel pa[ti]

⟨64⟩ ṉāṟukalam aṭaikkā

⟨65⟩ y nāṟpatu ivai i

⟨66⟩ rupataṭaikkāykku mun

⟨67⟩ nāḻiyuri nellāka

⟨68⟩ orāṭṭaikku nelli

⟨69⟩ rupatteṇkalam [|*] nūṟu

⟨70⟩ nāṟceviṭṭu itu

⟨71⟩ nāḻikkiru nāḻiyāka

⟨72⟩ orāṭṭaikku nel

⟨73⟩ panniru ku[ṟu*]ṇi [|*] el-

⟨74⟩ lām eṟṟi orāṭ-

⟨75⟩ ṭaikku veṇ[ṭu*] nel ain

⟨76⟩ nūṟṟeṇpatiṉ kalam [|*]

⟨77⟩ ipparicu niyati

⟨78⟩ ppaṭi muṭṭāmai

⟨79⟩ neṭuṅkālamuñ ce-

⟨80⟩ luttuvatāka vai[t*]tā-

⟨81⟩ r śrī varakuṇa mahārāja[r*] [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0014⟩ No. 14. (A.R. No. 185 of 1926.) TIRUCHCHIṞṞAMBALAM, PATTUKKOTTAI TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE DOOR-JAMB OF THE ARDHAMAṆḌAPA OF THE PURĀTANAVANĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record is very much damaged and only certain portions containing the name of the king, Varaguṇa-Mahārāja and the name of the village Tiruchchiṟṟēmam are preserved. The regnal year of the king namely, the 12th, opposite to the 4th, is also legible. ⟨Page 11⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] vara

⟨2⟩ kuṇa mahārāja-

⟨3⟩ ṟku yāṇṭu nāṉ

⟨4⟩ kāvataṟku etir

⟨5⟩ panni[raṇṭā]mā

⟨6⟩ ṇṭu•••••••••

⟨7-9⟩ damaged

⟨10⟩ āvatu tirucci

⟨11⟩ ṟṟemattu kāṇi u

⟨12⟩ ṭaiyārkku añ

⟨13-16⟩ damaged

⟨SIIv14p1i0015⟩ No. 15. (A.R. No. 137 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTUR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A SLAB IN THE PRĀKĀRA OF THE TIRUTTAḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record belongs to the reign of the Pāṇḍya king Varaguṇa-Mahārāja and is dated in the 4th year and 4635th day of his reign. The puḷḷi is marked in many consonants which fact proves its early date.

The Sanskrit verse at the beginning states that a certain Kaḍambavēḷāṉ donated 15 kāśu and that from its interest a lamp was to be maintained in the temple of Śiva of Nūtanagrāma.

The Tamil portion records that Maṟavaṉ Aṇukkappēraraiyaṉ alias Kaḍambaṉvēḷāṉ of Perumāttūr in Muttūṟṟu-kūṟṟam made a gift of 15 paḻaṅgāśu and a lamp stand for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple and another similar amount for the supply of garlands to the deity. Tirupputtūr (Nūtanagrāma) is said to be a brahmadēya in Koḻuvūr-kūṟṟam.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] śrīnūtanagrāmaśivāya kācānk[ āṭam i |]

⟨2⟩ vēḷāndaśa pañca cādāt [|*] vṛddhyaiva dīpō[jva]-

⟨3⟩ lanāya tēṣ[ā]m śaśvadvijityārimabāhyabāhya-

⟨4⟩ m |||— kovarakuṇamārāyaṟkku 2 yāṇṭu nāṉku nā-

⟨5⟩ ḷ nālā[i]rattaṟunūṟṟu muppattaintu-

⟨6⟩ innāḷāl koḻuvūrk kūṟṟattup piramate

⟨7⟩ yan tirupputtūrt tiruttaḷippaṭārar-

⟨8⟩ kku nantāviḷakkerikka muttūṟṟuk kūṟṟat-

⟨9⟩ tup perumā[t]tūr maṟavaṉaṇukkap perarayaṉā-

⟨10⟩ ina kaṭampaṉ veḷāṉ vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāp-

⟨11⟩ paḻaṅkācu patiṉaintu ikkāciṉ [po]li koṇ-

⟨12⟩ ṭu niyatippaṭi•••• 2 yākat tiru-

⟨13⟩ pputtūrcca••••• ṭippatāka-

⟨14⟩ vaittatu it••••rāiratte

⟨15⟩ • nūṟṟu•••••••••

⟨16⟩ ••••••• [ḷakke]riya vaitta ni-

⟨17⟩ laiviḷakku oṉṟu [|*] śrī immātevark-

⟨18⟩ ku ivaṉey paḷḷittāmattukku

⟨19⟩ mutalāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāp paḻa-

⟨20⟩ ṅkācu patiṉaintu ikkāciṉāṟ pūppo-

⟨21⟩ li kāciṉvāy iruviral akalattu ira-

⟨22⟩ ṇṭiraṇṭu naṟumpū iṭṭut toṭuttaṉa i-

⟨23⟩ rumuḻa nīḷattaṉa orovaṭamāka niyati pati-

⟨24⟩ ṉaintu vaṭam iṭuvatākat tirupputtūr-

⟨25⟩ ccapaiyār kaiyyil vaittaṉa ||—

1 Puḷḷi is marked in many cases.

⟨SIIv14p1i0016⟩ No. 16. (A.R. No. 138 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A SLAB LYING IN THE AṄGĀḶAMMAṈ TEMPLE.

This record also comes from Tiruppattūr and is dated in some year, which was probably [4]1and 4985th day of king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ's reign. It registers that Manōmayaṉ-Māṟaṉ, the kāvadi of Iḷaveṇbaikkalattirukkai, presented 150 sheep for the maintenance of a perpetual lamp to the god Jalaśayaṉattu-BhaTArar at TirupputtUr, a brahmadēya in KoḻuvUr-kUṟṟam. This image must have been one of Vishṇu in his recumbent form, but no traces of it are seen now. The term KAvadi signifies a ‘revenue officer’ and is found applied to even petty officials in the Chōḷa country at this period. As in No. 9 above, the corporate body called the ‘ĀyiratteḻunUṟṟuvar’ were to be in charge of this charity also.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī ||—

⟨2⟩ komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku

⟨3⟩ yā•••• 2 nāḷ nā-

⟨4⟩ lā[ yirattu 985]

⟨5⟩ innāḷaral veṇpai-

⟨6⟩ kkuṭināṭṭiḷave-

⟨7⟩ ṇpaikkalattirukkai-

⟨8⟩ k(kaik)kāva[ti] āyiṉa-

⟨9⟩ maṉomayaṉ māṟaṉ koḻu-

⟨10⟩ vūrk kūṟṟattup pira-

⟨11⟩ mateyam tirupputtū-

⟨12⟩ r jalaśayaṉattup-

⟨13⟩ paṭāra[r*]kkut tirunon-

⟨14⟩ tāviḷak kerippatāka-

⟨15⟩ ccaravā muvāp perāṭā-

⟨16⟩ ka vaitta āṭu 150 [|*]

⟨17⟩ ivvāṭṭāl nicati-

⟨18⟩ ppaṭi tiruviḷak-

⟨19⟩ kiṉukku uriy ne-

⟨20⟩ y yaṭṭuvatāka vai-

⟨21⟩ t[*]taṉa [|*] ivai irakṣi-

⟨22⟩ ppār āyiratte-

⟨23⟩ ḻunūṟṟuvar [|*] ava-

⟨24⟩ [r*]kaḷ śrīpātam eṉ

⟨25⟩ talai melaṉa ||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0016A⟩ No. 16A. (A.R. No. 26 of 1912.) TIRUCHCHENDŪR, TIRUCHCHENDUR TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON TWO SLABS SEUPP IN THE SUBRAHMAṆYASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This inscription of Varaguṇa-Mahārāja registers the gift by the king, of 1,400 kāśu for meeting the various annual requirements of the temple of Subrahmaṇyabhaṭārar. The money was invested by the king's three officers Iruppaikkuḍikiḻavaṉ, Śāttamperumāṉ and Aḷaṟṟūrnāṭṭukkōṉ with the administrative bodies of various villages which were required to pay annually interest in grain to the temple at two kalam per kāśu per year.

The record is dated in the year 13 opposite to a certain year (lost), of the king's reign. The amount of 1,400 kāśu is stated to have been made over on the 5001st day (line 7).

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXI, pp. 101 ff.

Text.

First slab, first face.

⟨1⟩ •••••• śrī ko varakuṇa mārāyaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨2⟩ •••• taṉetir patiṉmuṉṟu ivvāṇṭu tiru-

⟨3⟩ •••••cuppirama(ṇ)ṇiya paṭārar upāsaiyā- ⟨Page 13⟩

⟨4⟩ • ṉa tirumūlattāṉattup paṭārarkku mutal keṭāmaip poli ūṭṭā-

⟨5⟩ ka koṇṭu celuttuvatāka uṭaiyāraṭiyārāiṉa varakuṇamārāyar po-

⟨6⟩ ttara iruppaikkuṭi kiḻavaṉum cāttam perumāṉum aḷaṟṟū[r*] nā-

⟨7⟩ ṭṭukkoṉum aiyāirattoṉṟā nāḷāṟ koṇṭu vanta niṟai kuṟaiyāppa-

⟨8⟩ ḻaṅkācu āirattu nāṉūṟu [||*] ikkāciṟ kuṭanāṭṭuk koṟkai ūrār kaiiṉ

⟨9⟩ mutal keṭāmaip poliūṭṭuk koṇṭu celuttuvatāka vaitta niṟai-

⟨10⟩ kuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkācu toṇṇūṟṟāṟu poṉṉeṭṭu [|*] ikkācāl oru kā-

⟨11⟩ cukku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl irukala nellāka va-

⟨12⟩ nta nellu nūṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟu mukkalaṉey oṉpatiṉ kuṟuṇi [|*] in-

⟨13⟩ nellāl niyatippaṭi iva[r*]kaḷ koṇṭu vantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*] nāḻi-

⟨14⟩ aricikku munnāḻi nellākat tiruvamitiṉukku arici cenneṟṟīṭ-

⟨15⟩ ṭal oru potaikku nāṉāḻiyāka nāṉku potaikku arici cenneṟṟīṭṭa-

⟨16⟩ l patiṉaṟu nāḻi [|*] mārkaḻittiruvātiraiu mācimakamum vaiyyāci-

⟨17⟩ viyākamum paṭi iraṭṭi celuttuvatu [|*] ipparicu celuttātu ku-

⟨18⟩ ttukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey irupattaiñcu kācu taṇṭamum pa-

⟨19⟩ ṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiyuṅ kuṭuppatu [|*] innāṭṭunal-

⟨20⟩ lūr ūrār kaiil meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāp paḻa-

⟨21⟩ ṅkācu nūṟṟaṟupatteṭṭum poṉ [ṉāṟey] kāl [|*] ikkācālāṇṭuvarai poli-

⟨22⟩ nellu niṟaimati nārāyattāl munnūṟṟu muppatteḻukalaṉey mukku-

⟨23⟩ ṟuṇi nāṉāḻi uri [|*] innellāl nikatippaṭi tiruvamitiṉukku iva[r*] [ka]-

⟨24⟩ ḷ koṇṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa nāḻi neyyamitiṉukku irupati-

⟨25⟩ [nā]ḻi nellākat tiruvamitu nivetikkap pacuviṉ ṉaṟuney oru-

⟨26⟩ potaikku uḻakkākavum kaṟitumikkavum porikkavum oru potaikku ā-

⟨27⟩ ḻākkākavum nāṉku potaikku neyyamitu nāḻiuri [|*] nāḻittaira-

⟨28⟩ mitiṉukku irunāḻi nellākat tiruvamitu nivetikkat tairamitu

⟨29⟩ oru potaikku nāḻiyākavum kūṭṭukkut tairamitu oru potaikku u-

⟨30⟩ riyākavum nāṉku potaikkup pacuviṉ ṟoytair aṟunāḻi [|*] oru kācu-

⟨31⟩ kku niṟaimati nārāyattāṟ patiṉkala nellaaHkamāka āiram

⟨32⟩ varaḻaippaḻattiṉukku oru kācākavum [|*] eḻutulāt taṟupattaimpa-

⟨33⟩ lac carkkaraikku oru kācākavum [|*] irupatiṉtulām kaṟi amitiṉukku

⟨34⟩ oru kācākavum [|*] aṟupatiṉāḻi kāyattiṉukku oru kācākavum

⟨35⟩ aḵkamāka [|*] ttiruvamitu nivetikka vāḻaippaḻa amitu o-

⟨36⟩ ru potaikku nāṉkāka nāṉku potaikkuk karuvāḻaippaḻa amitu pa-

⟨37⟩ tiṉāṟu [|*]caṟkkarai amitu oru potaikku oru palamāka nāṉku potai-

⟨38⟩ kkuc caṟkkarai amitu nāṟpalam [|*] kaṟi amitu kāykkaṟi oṉṟu pu-

⟨39⟩ ḷiṅkaṟi oṉṟu puḻukkuk kaṟi oṉṟu porikkaṟi oṉṟu eṟṟi-

⟨40⟩ kkaṟi amitu nāṉkiṉukku oru potaikku patiṉpalamāka nāṉ-

⟨41⟩ ku potaikkuk kaṟi amitu nāṟpatiṉ palam [|*] kāyam miḷa[kamitu]

⟨42⟩ mañcaḷamitu ciraka amitu ciṟukaṭukamitu kottampa[riamitu]

⟨43⟩ eṟṟikkāyam aintu [|*] ivai oru potaikku mucceviṭṭāka nā[ṉku po]-

⟨44⟩ taikkuk kāyam uḻakke iru ceviṭṭu [|*] mārkaḻit tiruvātiraiu māci maka-

⟨45⟩ mum vaiyyāci viyākamum paṭi iraṭṭi celuttuvatu [|*] ippa-

⟨46⟩ ricu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey aimpatu

⟨47⟩ kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅ ku

⟨48⟩ ṭuppatu [|*] in nāṭṭuc cāliyattu ūrār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi

⟨49⟩ poli ūṭṭāka vaitta niṟai kuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkācu irupattu nā-

⟨50⟩ ṉku poṉ aintey mukkāl [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuva-

⟨51⟩ rai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl irukala nellāka vanta nellu ⟨Page 14⟩

Second face.

⟨52⟩ nāṟppattoṉpatiṉ kalaṉey irukuṟuṇi nāḻi

⟨53⟩ uri [|*] innellāl niyatippaṭi tiruvamitiṉukku iva[r*]ka-

⟨54⟩ ḷe koṇṭu vantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*] nāḻipparuppukku nā-

⟨55⟩ ḻi uḻakkup payaṟākavum nāḻippayaṟṟukku irunāḻi nellāka-

⟨56⟩ vum kummāyattiṉukkup payaṟṟupparuppu oru potaikku u-

⟨57⟩ riyāka nāṉku potaikkuc ciṟupayaṟṟupparuppu iru nāḻi [|*]

⟨58⟩ oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāyattāṟ patiṉ kalanel laḵkamā-

⟨59⟩ ka [|*] āirattirunūṟṟirupatu paṟṟu veṟṟilaikku oru kācā-

⟨60⟩ kavum [|*] patiṉāirattorunūṟaṭaikkāyamitiṉukku oru kācākavu-

⟨61⟩ m aḵkamāka [|*] ilai amitu oru potaikku muvaṭukkāka nāṉ-

⟨62⟩ ku potaikku veḷḷilai amitu mūṉṟu paṟṟu [|*] aṭaikkā ya[mi]-

⟨63⟩ tu oru potaikkup patiṉāṉkāka nāṉku potaikku aṭaikkāya-

⟨64⟩ mitu aimpattāṟu [|*] nūṟṟamitu veṇṭuvatiṭuvatu [|*] mā-

⟨65⟩ rke(a)ḻittiruvātiraiu mācimakamum vaiyyāci viyākamu-

⟨66⟩ m paṭi iraṭṭi celuttuvatu [|*] ipparicu celu-

⟨67⟩ ttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil itteva[r*]kkey aintu kācu

⟨68⟩ taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭi-

⟨69⟩ uṅ [kuṭu]p[patu] [||*] vaḻuti vaḷanāṭṭup piramateyam

⟨70⟩ varakuṇa maṅkalattuc cavaiyā[r] kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi po

⟨71⟩ liū[ṭṭāka vai]tta niṟai kuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkācu nuṟṟoru-

⟨72⟩ patu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟaima-

⟨73⟩ ti nārāyattāl [iru kala] nellāka vanta nellu irunū-

⟨74⟩ ṟṟirupatiṉa kalam [|*] innellāl niyatippaṭi iva[r*]-

⟨75⟩ kaḷ koṇṭu vantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*] nāḻi neykku iru-

⟨76⟩ patiṉāḻi nellākattirunantāviḷakku oṉṟiṉukku ni-

⟨77⟩ yati ney uriyākattirunant[ā*] viḷakku aintiṉukkup pa-

⟨78⟩ [cu] viṉṉaṟuney niyati irunāḻi uri [|*] antiyam potu

⟨79⟩ [ti]ruvamitu ceykiṟṟu tīpamālai kāṭṭap pacuviṉ ṉaṟune-

⟨80⟩ y niyati uḻakku [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭi-

⟨81⟩ l ittevarkkey panniraṇṭaraikkācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celu-

⟨82⟩ ttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅkuṭuppatu [|*] innāṭṭu-

⟨83⟩ ttevatāṉap piramateyam tiyampaka maṅkalam iṟa-

⟨84⟩ [ṇa]vāli maṅkalattuc cavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi po-

⟨85⟩ liūṭṭāka vaitta niṟai kuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkācu mu-

⟨86⟩ ppattiraṇṭu ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟai-

⟨87⟩ mati nārāyattāl irukala nellāka vanta nellu aṟupa-

⟨88⟩ ttunāṟkalam [|*] innellāl iva[r]kaḷ niyatippaṭi koṇ-

⟨89⟩ ṭu vantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*] nāḻippālukku irunāḻi ne-

⟨90⟩ llākat tirumañcaṉam āṭi aruḷap pacuviṉ pāl niya-

⟨91⟩ ti nāṉāḻi [|*] nāḻittairukku irunāḻi kellākat ti-

⟨92⟩ rumañcaṉamum āṭi aruḷap pacuviṉ ṟair niyati nā-

⟨93⟩ ṉāḻi [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭi-

⟨94⟩ l ittevarkkey aintu kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc-

⟨95⟩ celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅ kuṭuppatu [|*] ⟨Page 15⟩

Second slab; First face.

⟨96⟩ innāṭṭuk keṅkaimaṅkalattuppaṭum ālampaṭṭattu ū-

⟨97⟩ rār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāppaḻaṅkācu pa-

⟨98⟩ ti[ṉā]ṟu ikkā[cāl] oru kācukku āṇṭu varai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl i-

⟨99⟩ rukala nellāka vanta nellu muppattiru kalam [|*] innellāl iva[r*]kaḷ

⟨100⟩ [niya]tippaṭi [koṇ]ṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa[|*] oriḷani[ru]kku nāḻi nellā-

⟨101⟩ kattirumañcaṉam āṭiaruḷa iḷanir vaḻuvai uṭpaṭa niyati irunāḻi u-

⟨102⟩ ḻakku [|*] nāḻi iḷanirukku nāliḷanirāka niyati iṭum iḷanīr eṭṭu [|*] i-

⟨103⟩ pparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey aintu kācu ta-

⟨104⟩ ṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅkuṭuppatu [|*] innā

⟨105⟩ ṭṭu māṉavirapaṭṭinattu nakarattār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vai-

⟨106⟩ tta niṟaikuṟaiyāppaḻaṅkācu nūṟṟirupatu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācuk-

⟨107⟩ ku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl irukala nellāka vanta ne-

⟨108⟩ llu irunūṟṟu nāṟpatiṉkalam [|*] innellāl iva[r*]kaḷ niyatippa

⟨109⟩ ṭikoṇṭu vantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*] oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāyattāṟ-

⟨110⟩ patiṉkala nellaḵkamāka [|*] nūṟṟaimpati nāḻi naṟumpūviṉukku oru

⟨111⟩ kācāka śrīpaḷḷittāmattiṉukku niyati aḷakkakkaṭava naṟumpūppati-

⟨112⟩ nāḻi [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭiṟ ittevarkkey irupat-

⟨113⟩ taintu kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅkuṭup-

⟨114⟩ patu [|*] cirivallapavaḷanāṭṭup piramateyam kaṭṭāṟaimaṅkalattuc cavaiyā-

⟨115⟩ r kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāppaḻaṅkācu toṇṇūṟṟu

⟨116⟩ nāṉku poṉṉaintu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟaimati nārāyattā-

⟨117⟩ l irukala nellāka vanta nellu nūṟṟeṇpattoṉpatiṉkalam [|*] in [ne]-

⟨118⟩ llāl iva[r*]kaḷ koṇṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*] nāḻicciṟupayaṟṟuppo-

⟨119⟩ rikku nāḻi uḻakkup payaṟākavum [|*] nāḻippayaṟṟukku iru nāḻi nellā-

⟨120⟩ kappori iṭa nicatam ciṟupayaṟṟuppori niyati uriiṉukku aḷakkakkaṭava-

⟨121⟩ ciṟupayaṟu uri āḻākku oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāyattāṟ patiṉkala nel-

⟨122⟩ laḵkamāka [|*] oru kāṇattukkup pati[ṉo]ru nāḻi uḻakku mañcaḷākat tiru-

⟨123⟩ meṉi pūci aruḷa meṟṟol ciṟaitta paṟṟumañcaḷ niyati muḻakku [|*]

⟨124⟩ [o]viyalum pāvāṭaiyum oraṇai oru kācu peṟṟaṉa oru muṟai muttiṅ-

⟨125⟩ kaḷukku nālaṇaiyāka orāṇṭu nāṉku muṟaikku veṇkūṟai patiṉāṟaṇai [|*] i-

⟨126⟩ pparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey irupattaintu

⟨127⟩ kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu liṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅkuṭuppatu [|*]

⟨128⟩ parāntakavaḷanāṭṭup piramateyam [parai]cumaṅkala[ttutte]ṉ kiḻakku ti-

⟨129⟩ ṇṇic cavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāppaḻa-

⟨130⟩ ṅkācu irupattaintu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭu varai poli niṟaimatinā-

⟨131⟩ rāyattāl irukalanellāka vanta nellu aimpatiṉkalam innellā-

⟨132⟩ l iva[r]kaḷ koṇṭu vantu celuttak kaṭavaṉa [|*] nāḻi aricikku munnāḻi nel

⟨133⟩ lākattiruppalikku niyati arici cen[n*]eṟṟīṭṭal oru potaikku nāḻiyāka i-

⟨134⟩ raṇṭu potaikku arici cen[n*]eṟṟīṭṭal iru nāḻi [|*] oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāyattāl

⟨135⟩ patiṉkalanellaḵkamāka [|*] śrīmaṭaippaḷḷikkaṭṭu meṟkaṭṭikkup puṭavai iṇai i-

⟨136⟩ raṇṭaraikkāṇam peṟṟaṉa oru muṟai aṟu tiṅkaḷukku īraṇaiyāka orāṇṭu iraṇṭu muṟaik-

⟨137⟩ kup puṭavai nālaṇai [|*] kalpuṟaikkup puṭavai iṇai iraṇṭu kāṇam peṟṟaṉa oru muṟai muttiṅ-

⟨138⟩ kaḷukku īraṇaiyāka orāṇṭu nāṉku muṟaikkup puṭavai eṭṭaṇai [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kut-

⟨139⟩ tukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey aintukācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa muta-

⟨140⟩ liraṭṭiuṅ kuṭuppatu [|*] innāṭṭup piramateya[m] māṟamaṅkalattu-

⟨141⟩ ccavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāppa- ⟨Page 16⟩

⟨142⟩ ḻaṅkācu nūṟṟaimpattiraṇṭarai [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭu varai

⟨143⟩ poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl irukala nellāka vanta nellu munnūṟ-

⟨144⟩ ṟaiṅkalam [|*] innellāl iva[r*]kaḷ koṇṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*]

⟨145⟩ oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāyattāl patiṉakala nellaḵkamāka [|*] śrī tūpam

⟨146⟩ citāriiṉukku veṇṭum uṟu[ppu] akiluṭpaṭak kaṟpūramum teṉum ni-

⟨147⟩ yati araikkāṇam vilaipeṟa iṭuvatu [|*] śrīkaṟpakkiraakattukkaṭṭu meṟkaṭ-

⟨148⟩ ṭikku veṇkūṟai iṇai eḻaraikkāṇam peṟṟaṉa oru muṟai āṟu tiṅkaḷukku

⟨149⟩ nālaṇaiyāka orāṇṭu iraṇṭu muṟaikku veṇkūṟai eṭṭaṇai [|*] nāḻittairamitiṉuk-

⟨150⟩ ku irunāḻi nellākat tiruppalikkup pacuviṉṟoytair niyati nāḻi [|*]

⟨151⟩ taṭṭaḷi koṭṭikaḷukkuk koṟṟu nellut tiṅkaḷ [nā]ṟkala[ṉe]y patiṉku-

⟨152⟩ ṟuṇi nāḻi uriyāka orāṇṭu paṉṉiraṇṭu tiṅkaḷukku veṇṭum nellu niṟai

⟨153⟩ mati nārāyattāl aimpatteḻu kalam 1

Second slab; Second face.

⟨154⟩ innāṭṭup piramateyam teṉṟakku••••

⟨155⟩ llūrccavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta ni-

⟨156⟩ ṟaikuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkācu aṟupatu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭu-

⟨157⟩ varai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl irukalanellāka vanta nellu

⟨158⟩ nūṟṟirupatiṉ kalam [|*] innellāl iva[r*]kaḷ koṇṭuvantu celutta-

⟨159⟩ kkaṭavaṉa [|*] oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāyattāl patiṉkalanellaḵkamā-

⟨160⟩ ka [|*] śrī uṭaiyāṭai iṇai mūṉṟu kācu peṟṟaṉa oru muṟai muttiṅkaḷukku

⟨161⟩ oraṇaiyāka orāṇṭu nāṉku muṟaikku śrī uṭaiyāṭai nālaṇai [|*] ip-

⟨162⟩ paricu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey panni-

⟨163⟩ raṇṭaraikkācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭi-

⟨164⟩ uṅkuṭuppatu [|*] amitakuṇavaḷa nāṭṭup piramateyam avaṉi-

⟨165⟩ pacekaramaṅkalattuc cavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta

⟨166⟩ niṟaikuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkācu aṟupatu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuva-

⟨167⟩ rai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl irukalanellāka vanta nellu nūṟṟiru-

⟨168⟩ patiṉkalam [|*] innellāl iva[r*]kaḷ koṇṭu vantu celuttakka-

⟨169⟩ ṭavaṉa [|*] oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāyattāṟ patiṉkala nellaḵkamāka [|*] śrī-

⟨170⟩ uṭaiyāṭai iṇai mūṉṟukācu peṟṟaṉa oru muṟai muttiṅkaḷukku oraṇaiyā-

⟨171⟩ ka orāṇṭu nāṉku muṟaikku śrī uṭaiyāṭai nālaṇai [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kut-

⟨172⟩ tukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey panniraṇṭaraikkācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttā-

⟨173⟩ tu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅ kuṭuppatu [|*] kuṭa nāṭṭup piramateyam puḷii-

⟨174⟩ ṭaic cavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāppaḻa-

⟨175⟩ ṅkācu nūṟṟirupatu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟaimati nārāya

⟨176⟩ ttāl irukala nellāka vanta nellu irunūṟṟu nāṟpatiṉkalam inne-

⟨177⟩ llāl iva[r*]kaḷ koṇṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa [|*] oru kācukku niṟaimati nārāya-

⟨178⟩ ttāl patiṉkala nellāka śrī uṭaiyāṭai iṇai mūṉṟu kācu peṟṟaṉa oru-

⟨179⟩ muṟai muttiṅkaḷukku īraṇaiyāka orāṇṭu nāṉku muṟaikku śrī uṭaiyāṭai [e]

⟨180⟩ ṭṭaṇai [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkkey irupat-

⟨181⟩ taintu kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutaliraṭṭi uṅ kuṭuppa-

⟨182⟩ tu [|*] innāṭṭup piramateyam kiraṉūrc cavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poli-

⟨183⟩ ūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkācu irunūṟṟorupattu nāṉku [|*] i-

⟨184⟩ kkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭu varai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāl irukala nellā-

⟨185⟩ ka vanta nellu nānūṟṟirupatteṇkalam [|*] innellāl iva[r*]kaḷ niyati- ⟨Page 17⟩

⟨186⟩ ppaṭi koṇṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa nāḻi neykku irupati nāḻi nellāka

⟨187⟩ tirumañcaṉam āṭi aruḷap pacuviṉ ṉaṟuney niyati nānāḻi [|*] oru kācukku

⟨188⟩ niṟaimati nārāyattāṟ patiṉkala nellaḵkamākat tulāccantaṉattu

⟨189⟩ kku oru kācākat tirumeṉi pūcum cantaṉakkuḻampuc cantaṉam niyati

⟨190⟩ muppalam [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil ittevarkke-

⟨191⟩ y aimpatu kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭṭa mutali-

⟨192⟩ raṭṭiuṅkuṭuppatu [|*] innāṭṭup piramateyam caṭaṅkavikuṟic-

⟨193⟩ ciccavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyāp paḻaṅkā-

⟨194⟩ cu toṇṇūṟu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟaimati nārāyattāḷ

⟨195⟩ irukala nellāka vanta nellu nūṟṟeṇpatiṉ kalam [|*] innellāl niyatip-

⟨196⟩ paṭi iva[r]kaḷ koṇṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavatu [|*] oru kācukku niṟaimatinā[rā],

⟨197⟩ yattāṟ patiṉkala nellaḵkamākap patiṉaiṅkaḻañcu kaṟpūrattukku o[ru]-

⟨198⟩ kācākattirumeṉi pūcun tiruccantaṉattoṭu kūṭṭi araikkum kaṟpū-

⟨199⟩ ram niyati eḻaraikkāṇam [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil

⟨200⟩ ittevarkkey irupattaintu kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātu viṭ-

⟨201⟩ ṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅkuṭuppatu [|*] innāṭṭuppiramateyam kaṭuṅkomaṅ-

⟨202⟩ kalattuccavaiyār kaiiṉ meṟpaṭi poliūṭṭāka vaitta niṟaikuṟaiyā-

⟨203⟩ ppaḻaṅkācu patiṉāṟu [|*] ikkācāl oru kācukku āṇṭuvarai poli niṟaima-

⟨204⟩ ti nārāyattāl irukala nellāka vantanellu muppattirukalam [|*] inne-

⟨205⟩ llāl iva[r]kaḷ niyatippaṭi koṇṭuvantu celuttakkaṭavaṉa īriḷanīrukku

⟨206⟩ nāḻi nellākat tirumañcaṉam āṭi aruḷa iḷanīr vaḻuvai uṭpaṭa niya-

⟨207⟩ ti irunāḻiiṉukku nāḻi iḷanīrukku nāliḷanīrāka niyati iṭum iḷa-

⟨208⟩ nīr eṭṭu [|*] ipparicu celuttātu kuttukkāṟpaṭil ittevark-

⟨209⟩ key aintukācu taṇṭamum paṭṭuc celuttātuviṭṭa mutaliraṭṭiuṅku-

⟨210⟩ ṭuppatu [|*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0017⟩ No. 17. (A.R. No. 10 of 1927). VIJAYANĀRĀYAṆAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MANŌNMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

The subjoined inscription is dated in the 2nd year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and registers that Pañchavaṉ-Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Vēḷ-Śendil of Koṟṟampullaṉkuḍi in Mudukuḍināḍu purchased some lands from the sabhā of Vijayanārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in NAṭṭāṟṟuppōkku and gave them to the temples of RAghava-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ1and MaṉōmayaṉIchchurattu-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ. The names of another god TAṉtōṉṟipperumāṉaḍigaḷ and of a channel Paramēchchuvara-vāykkāl are mentioned while describing the boundaries of the land in question.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu

⟨2⟩ (iraṇṭu) ivvāṇṭu nāṭṭāṟṟuppokkup pi-

⟨3⟩ ramateyam vicaiyanārāyaṇac caruppetimaṅka-

⟨4⟩ lattu maṉomayaṉīccurattup perumāṉaṭika-

⟨5⟩ ḷukku mutukuṭi nāṭṭu koṟṟampullaṉkuṭip pa-

⟨6⟩ ñcavaṉ pallavaraiyaṉāyiṉa veḷ centil vaitta ti-

⟨7⟩ runontāviḷakku oṉṟuñ cantirāticcavar eri- ⟨Page 18⟩

⟨8⟩ vatākac cavaiyāriṭai nāṉ vilaikoṇṭu uṭaiya o

⟨9⟩ ṉṟarai veli nilamāvatu [|*] parameccuvara vāyk[kā]-

⟨10⟩ lukku mekkum tāṉtoṉṟip perumāṉaṭika-

⟨11⟩ ḷ arccaṉāpokattukkut teṟkum ippū-

⟨12⟩ miyi naṭuvey teṟku nokkip poyiṉa kālu-

⟨13⟩ kkuk kiḻakku maṭaiñciliyaṭaiya ivvo-

⟨14⟩ ṉṟarai veli nilamuṅ kaṇikkūṟṟoṭu nir pe-

⟨15⟩ ṟuvatākavum [|*] innilam iṟaiyiliyāvatākavu[m |*]

⟨16⟩ ipparicu vilai uṭai[y*]eṉāyirunta immup-

⟨17⟩ patumā ni[la*]ttilum ci[ri]rākavapperumā-

⟨18⟩ ṉaṭikaḷukku vaitta pattu m[ā ni]-

⟨19⟩ lamu nīkki itaṉuk[ku]p-

⟨20⟩ pattu mā nilamuñ canti[rāti]-

⟨21⟩ ttavaṟ tiruna[n*]tā viḷakku eri[kka]-

⟨22⟩ vaitta 1 pañcavaṉ pallavarai[yaṉāyi]-

⟨23⟩ ṉa veḷ centileṉ maṉoma[yaṉī]-

⟨24⟩ ccurattup peru[māṉaṭikaḷukku] [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0018⟩ No. 18. (A.R. No. 85 of 1927). TIRUNELVĒLI, TIRUNELVELI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE NARASIṀHA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record is dated in the 2nd year of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and registers a gift of cows made by Śāttanammai, for burning a lamp in the temple of Brahmapurittēvar at Tirunelvēli, on behalf of Śāttan-Dēyam, a dēvaraḍiyāḷ of Tirunelvēl in Kīḻ-Vēmba-nāḍu. Eṭṭi-Jātavēdaṉ, a veṭṭikkuḍi agreed to burn the lamp and Māṉanaḍai-Mādēvaṉ, another veṭṭikkuḍi stood security (puṇai) for the former.

It is possible that the temple was originally one of Śiva called Brahmapurittēvar. A record of Rājarāja I dated in the 12th year of his reign also refers to the god by this name only (No. 84 of 1927); and it is only in a record of Jaṭāvarman Kulaśēkhara (No. 83 of 1927) that the Narasimha-Perumāḷ is referred to as Vikrama-Pāṇḍyaviṇṇagar-Āḻvār.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟañcaṭaiyarkku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu iv-

⟨2⟩ vāṇṭu kiḻvempanāṭṭu tirunelvelit tevara-

⟨3⟩ ṭiyāḷ cāttanteyattai cātti cāttanammai ittirunel-

⟨4⟩ veli brahmapurittevarkku vaicca tiruviḷakku oṉṟu i-

⟨5⟩ taṉukkuc cantirātittaval niyatam āḻākku ney a-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭuvatāka vaicca cāvāmuvāp per [pacu*]p paṉṉiraṇṭarai inney

⟨7⟩ muṭṭāmal aṭṭuvatāka ippacuk koṇ[ṭa] veṭṭikkuṭi eṭṭi cā-

⟨8⟩ tavetaṉ [|*] ivaṉukkup puṇai ivvūr veṭṭikkuṭi māṉanaṭai

⟨9⟩ mātevaṉ —| ⟨Page 19⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0019⟩ No. 19. (A.R. No. 128 of 1905). TIRUKKUṞUṄGUḌI, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A STONE BELONGING TO THE NAMBI TEMPLE (NOW IN THE MADRAS MUSEUM).

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ is dated in the 4th year and registers a sale by the mahāsabhaiyār of Vaikuṇṭha-vaḷanāḍu in Nāṭṭāṟṟuppōkku to Pañchavaṉ Brahmādhirājaṉ alias Śēndaṉ-Śāttaṉ of Nellittoḻa in Malai-nāḍu, who made it over to the temple of god Emberumāṉ, who was pleased to be stationed at Tirukkuṟuṅguḍi, for providing offerings, etc., therein. This record may, for palaeographical considerations be assigned to Varaguṇa-Mahārāja I.

There is a shrine of the god Śāstā in the Vishṇu temple at this place. This is peculiar, and its existence has to be accounted for by the vicinity of Tirukkuṟuṅguḍi to Travancore, where worship of Śāstā is popular. Śēndaṉ-Śāttaṉ of Malai-nāḍu was evidently a Malayāḷa brāhmaṇa and he appears to have been a person of some note, as indicated by the title Pañchavaṉ-Brahmādhirājaṉ borne by him, apparently as a Pāṇḍya official.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] komāṟa-

⟨2⟩ ñcaṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨3⟩ nāṉku ivvāṇṭu nāṭ-

⟨4⟩ ṭāṟṟuppokku brahmateya-

⟨5⟩ m vaikuntavaḷanāṭṭu mahā-

⟨6⟩ sabhaiyo[m*] malaināṭṭu nel-

⟨7⟩ littoḻa pañcavaṉ brahm[ā]-

⟨8⟩ irājaṉāyiṉa centañ cāt-

⟨9⟩ taṉukku i[ṟ]aiyiliyāka vi-

⟨10⟩ ṟṟukkuṭutta pūmiyāva-

⟨11⟩ tu [|*] ivvūr vācuteva erik-

⟨12⟩ kiḻ araimāk kūṟṟoṭu nīr-

⟨13⟩ peṟuvatākak kiṭanta cavai[p]-

⟨14⟩ potuk kiḻellai tiruvaṭi-

⟨15⟩ ccomāciyār aṭṭakattuk-

⟨16⟩ ku mekkum teṉ[ṉe*]llai kāṭṭu]-

⟨17⟩ kkuṟi centasvāmi-

⟨18⟩ kkiramavittac comā-

⟨19⟩ ciyār kalluvic-

⟨20⟩ ca aṟakkuḷattuk-

⟨21⟩ karaikku vaṭakku[m]

⟨22⟩ melellai vāmate-

⟨23⟩ vapaṭṭa raṭṭakattu-

⟨24⟩ kkum nammakavāṟṟu

⟨25⟩ [ki]yār aṭṭakattukku-

⟨26⟩ m kiḻakkum vaṭa[vel]-

⟨27⟩ lai kiḻakku niṉṟu mekku

⟨28⟩ nokkip ponta vaḻi-

⟨29⟩ kkut teṟkum iv

⟨30⟩ vicaitta perunāṉkellai-

⟨31⟩ yuḷ naṭuvukiṭaṉta [ni]la-

⟨32⟩ [m] mummāvarai araikk[ā]-

⟨33⟩ [ṇi]yum ikkūṟṟoṭu nir-

⟨34⟩ peṟuva[tā]-

⟨35⟩ ka kiṭanta ni-

⟨36⟩ laṉ po-

⟨37⟩ kki•••••

⟨38⟩ lai nakkaṉe-

⟨39⟩ rikkuḷa-

⟨40⟩ ṅkaraik-

⟨41⟩ ku mekku-

⟨42⟩ nteṉṉe-

⟨43⟩ llai a-

⟨44⟩ raimākkū-

⟨45⟩ ṟṟiṟ

⟨46⟩ kaṇavati

⟨47⟩ nārāya-

⟨48⟩ ṉeṉṟu[ḷ]-

⟨49⟩ ḷac cey-

⟨50⟩ yil vaṭa-

⟨51⟩ varampu-

⟨52⟩ kku vaṭa-

⟨53⟩ kku[m] mele

⟨54⟩ llai vai-

⟨55⟩ kuntavaḷākattukke-

⟨56⟩ y poṉavaḻikku kiḻak-

⟨57⟩ kum vaṭavellai teṉ-

⟨58⟩ vācalil niṉṟu mekku

⟨59⟩ nokki•kiṉaṅ koṟkai poyiṉa

⟨60⟩ vaḻikku teṟkum ivvi-

⟨61⟩ caitta perunāṉ[ke]llaiyil naṭuvu-

⟨62⟩ kiṭanta nilaṉ mākāṇi araikkāṇi-

⟨63⟩ yum ikkūṟṟoṭu nirpeṟu

⟨64⟩ vatākak kiṭanta cavaippotu 1 ⟨Page 20⟩

⟨65⟩ kkiḻellai ivaṉey emperu-

⟨66⟩ māṉu[k]ku tirunontāviḷakkuk-

⟨67⟩ ku koṇṭu vaicca kuḻicceykku-

⟨68⟩ mekkum teṉṉellai kāricuvā-

⟨69⟩ miccomāci[yār] aṭṭaka-

⟨70⟩ [t]tiṉ kūṟiṭṭukku vaṭakku-

⟨71⟩ m melellai nakkaṉerikku-

⟨72⟩ (ṉerikku)ḷaṅkarai[k]ku-

⟨73⟩ k kiḻakkum vaṭavellai mati-

⟨74⟩ [ṭ]puṟamey ponta peruvaḻikku-

⟨75⟩ tteṟkum [i]vvicaitta peru[nā]-

⟨76⟩ ṉkellai[yi]ṉ naṭuvu kiṭanta ni-

⟨77⟩ laṉ kāṇicceyyum eṟṟi

⟨78⟩ iccuṭṭappaṭṭa el-

⟨79⟩ laikaḷil naṭuvukiṭanta nila-

⟨80⟩ ṉ kāle[y] kāṇiyum uṇṇila-

⟨81⟩ m oḻiviṉṟikkey vilai-

⟨82⟩ kkaṟaviṟṟup poruḷaṟak-

⟨83⟩ koṇṭu vilaiyāvaṇa olai eḻu-

⟨84⟩ ti viṟṟu niroṭaṭṭikku-

⟨85⟩ ṭuttom vaiykuntava-

⟨86⟩ ḷanāṭṭu mahāsabhaiom

⟨87⟩ pañcavaṉbrahmādhirājaṉ

⟨88⟩ āyiṉa centañcāttaṉu-

⟨89⟩ kku [||*] ikkāle kāṇicce-

⟨90⟩ yyum viṟṟa vilaippo

⟨91⟩ ru•• 1

⟨92⟩ • ṭa

⟨93⟩ iva•

⟨94⟩ ṉ śrī-

⟨95⟩ kuṟu-

⟨96⟩ ṅku-

⟨97⟩ ṭi[ni]-

⟨98⟩ ṉṟaru-

⟨99⟩ ḷiṉa-

⟨100⟩ em-

⟨101⟩ peru-

⟨102⟩ mā[ṉu]

⟨103⟩ kku ti-

⟨104⟩ ruvamu-

⟨105⟩ tukku

⟨106⟩ vaicca

⟨107⟩ ka[ḻa]ñcu

⟨108⟩ nūṟṟi

⟨109⟩ rupatum

⟨110⟩ cavai[yo]-

⟨111⟩ [m] vilai-

⟨112⟩ pporu-

⟨113⟩ [ḷu]m i-

⟨114⟩ ṟaippo-

⟨115⟩ ruḷumāka-

⟨116⟩ ccārt-

⟨117⟩ tikko-

⟨118⟩ ṇṭu mi-

⟨119⟩ kkem-

⟨120⟩ mili-

⟨121⟩ cainta

⟨122⟩ vilaip-

⟨123⟩ poruḷ

⟨124⟩ elā-

⟨125⟩ m kaiy-

⟨126⟩ yile 2

⟨SIIv14p1i0020⟩ No. 20. (A.R. No. 21 of 1930-31.) TIRUKKŌḌIKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE TIRUKKŌṬĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record is stated to be a copy of an earlier inscription dated in the 4th year of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and relates to the gift of 15 kaḻañju for burning a lamp in the temple of Tirukkōḍikā-Mahādēva, by Araiyaṉ-Kaḷvaṉ of Paṉaiyūr in Peraiyūr-nāḍu. The money was left in the custody of the sabhā of Nāraṇakkachaturvēdimaṅgalam.

The original stray stones on which the record had been engraved having become useless, it is said that they were replaced and the old record re-engraved on the new stones.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ituvum moru paḻaṅkalpaṭi [|*] ko[māṟa]ṉ caṭaiyaṟkku 3 yāṇṭu n[ā*]ṉkāvatu peraiyūr nāṭṭu paṉaiyūr araiyaṉ kaḷvaṉ tirukkoṭikāvil mahādēvaṟkku nontāviḷakkiṉukku kuṭutta cempoṉ patiṉaiṅkaḻañcu [|*] i- ⟨Page 21⟩

⟨2⟩ [ta]ṉ palicaiyāl nā(l)lu uḻakkum piḻai[yā]nāḻikkiḻ vaḻakkiṉnāl 1 nicati uḻakku neyyu mittaḷikke kuṇaṉtu 2 a[r*]ccippārk kaḷantu kuṭuppo[mā]y ippo[ṉ] koṇṭom nāraṇakka caturvētimaṅkalattu sabhaiyom [||*]

⟨3⟩ itu paḻayakalpaṭi inta śrīvimānattilē eṟa veṭṭinamaiyil muṉṉimājagam 3 veṭṭikkiṭanta taṉikkallāl ubhaiyokam 4 illāmaiyāl atu tavi(ṉ)ntatu [|*] itu muṭṭil paṉmāyeśvarare kaṭaikkūṭṭa peṟṟār [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0021⟩ No. 21. (A.R. No. 37 of 1930. 31.) TIRUKKŌḌIKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TIRUKKŌṬĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

The record stated to be a copy of another inscription made during some repairs in the temple states that Varaguṇa-Mahārājar endowed 180 kaḻañju of gold for burning from the interest thereon three perpetual lamps before the images of Śrī Sarasvatī and Gaṇapati in the temple at Tirukkōḍikā alias Kaṇṇamaṅgalam. The existence of an auxiliary shrine for the goddess Sarasvatī at this early period is of interest. The regnal year in this inscription appears to be some numeral, of which the first digit is 1, but there appears to be some mistake in the copy.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī 5[||*] itu[vu] moru paṭi [|*] komāṟaṉ caṭaiyaṟkku yāṇṭu 10••

⟨2⟩ ṟṟūr nāṭṭut tirukkoṭikāvil śrī sarasvatigaṇapatikaḷu[k]ku muṉṟu nontāviḷakkerippataṟkku kuṭutta poṉ varakuṇamahārājar kuṭutta poṉ nūṟṟeṇpatiṉ kaḻa[ñcu] ippoṉṉi[ṉ pa]licaiyāl nicati nā•••••

⟨3⟩ yil aḷantu kuṭuppomāṉom tirukkoṭikāvāṉa kaṇṇamaṅkalattu sabhaiyom [|*] itu paḻaṅkalpaṭi inta śrīvimānattile eṟaveṭṭiṉamaiyil muṉṉivājakam 3 veṭṭikkiṭanta taṉik kallāl ubhaiyokamallāmaiyil 4 ••••

⟨4⟩ itu muṭṭiṟ paṉmāyeśvarar kaṭaikkūṭṭap peṟṟār•[||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0022⟩ No. 22. (A.R. No. 705 of 1905.) AYYAMPĀḶAIYAM, PALANI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ABOVE THE NATURAL CAVE ON THE HILL CALLED AIVARMALAI.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record which couples the 8th regnal year of king Varaguṇa with Śaka 792 and the Āṉaimalai inscription of Jaṭila-Parāntaka which is dated in the Kali era form the two important landmarks in early Pāṇḍya chrenology. The present epigraph yields A.D. 862-3 as the date of accession of Varaguṇa. It registers a gift of 505 kāṇam of gold by Śāntivīrakkuravar of Kāḻam, the disciple of Guṇavīrakkuravaḍigaḷ for offerings to the images of Pāriśva-Bhaṭāra, i.e., Pārśvanātha and of the attendant yakshīs which he had renovated and for the feeding of one ascetic.

The images sculptured on the brow of the cavern on this hill, as well as the references in this record indicate that a Jaina colony flourished on this hill in the 9th century A. D. It may be noted that the hill is called Tiruvayirai, which is the name by which it is referred to in early Tamil literature. ⟨Page 22⟩

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⟨1⟩ cakāyāṇṭu eḻunūṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟiraṇṭu

⟨2⟩ pontaṉa varakuṇaṟku yāṇṭu eṭṭu kuṇavirakku-

⟨3⟩ ravaṭikaḷ māṇākka[r] kāḻattu cāntivirak-

⟨4⟩ kāvar tiruvayirai pāriśva paṭāraraiyu miyak-

⟨5⟩ ki avvaikaḷaiyum putukki iraṇṭukku muṭ-

⟨6⟩ ṭāvaliyu moraṭikaḷukku coṟāka amaittaṉa

⟨7⟩ poṉa ainnūṟṟaintu kāṇam [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0023⟩ No. 23. (A.R. No. 295 of 1916.) ŚIṄGAMPAṬṬI, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A ROCK IN A FIELD AT MĒLAI-ŚIṄGAMPAṬṬI.

This highly damaged Vaṭṭeḷuttu record belongs to the 8th year of the king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ, but nothing more than his name can be traces inscription.

Text.

⟨1⟩ komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu e[ṭ]-

⟨2⟩ ṭu ivvaraṇṭu iḷaṅkoykuṭi te-

⟨3⟩ ca 1 ••• melu—

⟨4⟩ ••• ruyamākaṅ—

⟨5⟩ ••• ḻanta•••

⟨6⟩ ••• mum kalamuccu••

⟨7⟩ rattu•• raṅkoḷeṉ

⟨SIIv14p1i0024⟩ No. 24. (A.R. No. 17 of 1907.) TIRUVIŚALŪR, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE ŚIVAYŌGANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This record which is built in at the right end is dated in the year opposite to the [13]th year of the reign of [Vara]guṇa-mahārāja and appears to refer to some gift, the details of which are not available, to the god Tiruviśalūr of Avaṉinārāyaṇachaturvēdimaṅgalam.

Text.

⟨1⟩ ••kuṇa mahārājaṟku yā 2

⟨2⟩ ••• ṉṟāvatiṉetirāṇṭu va-

⟨3⟩ ••• teyam amaṉinārā[yaṇa*] ca-

⟨4⟩ •••• lattu tirulicallūr

⟨5⟩ ••• ḷukku eccaperumāḷ 3

⟨SIIv14p1i0025⟩ No. 25. (A.R. No. 311 of 1904.) TIRUGŌKARṆAM, ALANGUDI TALUK, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE (NOW TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT). ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE GŌKARṆĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 17th year of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ registers a gift of gold by Varaguṇavadiyaraiyaṉ alias Nakkaṉ-Śeṭṭi of Kalkuṟichchi in Kavirappāl, a village in Valla-nāḍu. The record may be assigned to Varaguṇavarman, as the name Varaguṇa-vadiyaraiyaṉ is borne by the donor in it. The characters in which this inscription is engraved are somewhat peculiar as their top-strokes have tal curves. ⟨Page 23⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟa

⟨2⟩ ñcaṭaiyarkku yā

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu 17 āvatu

⟨4⟩ vallanāṭṭu kavira-

⟨5⟩ ppāl kalkuṟic-

⟨6⟩ ci varakuṇa vati-

⟨7⟩ araiyaṉ āṉa

⟨8⟩ nakkañceṭṭi i-

⟨9⟩ ññāṭṭu tiruve-

⟨10⟩ ḷppūr kokar-

⟨11⟩ ṇattu māte-

⟨12⟩ varkku nontā-

⟨13⟩ viḷa[k*]kiṉukku rāvu-

⟨14⟩ mpakalum non

⟨15⟩ tāviḷakkuṉukku

⟨16⟩ vaitta poṉ

⟨17⟩ 15 patiṉañ[cu]-

⟨18⟩ kaḻañcu [|*] ip-

⟨19⟩ poṉ nāṭṭā[r*] ra

⟨20⟩ kṣaiyāka vai[t*]ta

⟨21⟩ poṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0026⟩ No. 26. (A.R. No. 690 of 1905.) RĀMANĀTHAPURAM, DINDIGAL TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON A ROCK IN THE VILLAGE.

This Tamil inscription which does not quote the regnal year of the king states that Nakkaṉ-Puḷḷaṉ who had the other name of Parāntaka-ppaḷḷivēḷāṉ had accompanied king Mārañjaḍaiyaṉ in his campaign (yāttirai) against Iḍavai in Śōḻa-nāḍu. This Puḷḷaṉ had begun the excavation of an irrigation tank in his name, called it Puḷḷaṉēri, strengthened the banks with stone revetment and fixed the sluice therefor; but he died before the project could be completed. The work is then stated to have been completed by Puḷḷaṉ-Nakkaṉ, evidently his son, with the help of the mason named Vaḍugaṉ-Kūṟṟaṉ and his son; and to the two latter a gift of land in the two kūṟus of Paḷḷi-nāḍu was made.

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⟨1⟩ śrī komāṟañcaṭayaiṉoṭu coḻanāṭṭiṭavaiyāt-

⟨2⟩ tirai ceyta parāntakappaḷḷiveḷāṉāiṉa nak-

⟨3⟩ kampuḷḷaṉ ṟaṉperāṟ puḷḷaṉeri eṉṟu

⟨4⟩ kuḷamākkik kaṟkotik kumuḻi ceyvittuk kuṟai-

⟨5⟩ ppaṇi niṉṟatu muṟṟup peṟuttāṉ puḷḷa na-

⟨6⟩ kkaṉ [|*] ṉatu ceyta taccaṉ vaṭukaṅ kūṟṟaṉ [|*] a-

⟨7⟩ vaṉ makaṉ kuṟaippaṇi muttuvikka puḷḷana-

⟨8⟩ kkaṉ avaṉukkuk kāṇiyāka aṭṭiṉa pūmip paḷ-

⟨9⟩ ḷināṭṭiraṇṭu kūṟṟilum ūrkuḷattukkiḻ

⟨10⟩ talainīr pāṭukāl loro vayal patak-

⟨11⟩ ku nel [|*] 2

⟨SIIv14p1i0027⟩ No. 27. (A.R. No. 89 of 1907.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A SEAB SET UP IN FRONT OF THE TIRUMŪLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This damaged Vaṭṭeḻuttu record of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ is defaced at the place where the regnal year is cited; but it appears probable that only one year and not a double year has been mentioned. The record may perhaps belong to Varaguṇavarman. It ⟨Page 24⟩ registers a gift of money made by Kāvadiyār of Iḷaveṇbaikkaḍattirukkai for two lamps to be burnt in the temple before the images of god Tiruchchālaittuṟai-Tirumūlatāṉattu Bhaṭārar and Perumāṉaḍigaḷ ‘who was pleased to stand at Tiruchchālaituṟai’ in Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi in Muḷḷi-nāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟa

⟨2⟩ ñcaṭaiyaṟku yāṇ

⟨3⟩ ṭu••• ivvāṇṭu maka-

⟨4⟩ ra ñāyiṟ[ṟu] veṇpaikkuṭi-

⟨5⟩ nāṭṭu iḷaveṇpai kaṭatti-

⟨6⟩ rukkaikkāvati[yār] muḷḷi nāṭṭu

⟨7⟩ iḷaṅkoykkuṭi tiruccālait-

⟨8⟩ tuṟai niṉṟaruḷiṉa perumāṉa-

⟨9⟩ ṭikaḷukku nontāviḷakku o-

⟨10⟩ ṉṟiṉukku nicatam ney urikku

⟨11⟩ mutal keṭāmaip poliūṭ

⟨12⟩ ṭukkoṇṭu eṉṟum eṟṟik kā-

⟨13⟩ ṇamuṅ kuttukkāṟpaṭāmaic

⟨14⟩ celuttuvatāka iḷaṅko-

⟨15⟩ ykkuṭic cavaiyār kaiy-

⟨16⟩ yil kuṭutta niṟaikuṟaiyā-

⟨17⟩ taṉ paḻaṅkācu patiṉain-

⟨18⟩ tu tiruccālaittuṟait ti-

⟨19⟩ rumulattāṉattup paṭārar-

⟨20⟩ kku tirunantāviḷakku

⟨21⟩ oṉṟiṉukku niyati ne-

⟨22⟩ y uri āka meṟppaṭi

⟨23⟩ celuttuvatāka meṟpa-

⟨24⟩ ṭi kuṭutta niṟai kuṟaiyā

⟨25⟩ ta[ṉa] paḻaṅkācu patiṉai-

⟨26⟩ ntu eṟṟik kācu muppa-

⟨27⟩ tu ikkāciṉāṟ [poli]-

⟨28⟩ yālt tiṅkaḷ nāḻi ne-

⟨29⟩ yyākak koṇṭu tirunantā-

⟨30⟩ viḷakku iraṇṭiṉuk-

⟨31⟩ kum niyata ney nā-

⟨32⟩ ḻiyāka mutal keṭāmai-

⟨33⟩ p poli ūṭṭukko-

⟨34⟩ ṇṭu•• lkkā[ṇa]muṅ ku-

⟨35⟩ ttukkāṟ paṭāmai ca-

⟨36⟩ vaiyār kaṇkāṇiyākac-

⟨37⟩ celuttuvatāka oṭṭi

⟨38⟩ ikkācu koṇṭom i-

⟨39⟩ ḷaṅkoykkuṭi cavaiyo-

⟨40⟩ m [|*] cavai paṇikka eḻuti-

⟨41⟩ ṉeṉ 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0028⟩ No. 28. (A.R. No. 160 of 1930-31.) TIRUCHCHATTUṞAI, TANJORE TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE ŌDANAVANĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This damaged inscription registers a gift of 300 kāśu by Pāṇḍi-Mārājar Varaguṇa-Mārājar for burning a sacred lamp in the temple of Tiruchchōṟṟuttuṟai-Mahādēva.

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⟨1⟩ •••• 2 tiru-

⟨2⟩ ccoṟṟut tuṟai ma-

⟨3⟩ hādēvaṟku tiru[viḷa]-

⟨4⟩ kkiṉukku pāṇṭi [ mārā] ja-

⟨5⟩ rāyiṉa varakuṇamā[rājar]-

⟨6⟩ kuṭutta kācu 300 ik

⟨7⟩ ••••••

⟨8⟩ ••• āka

⟨9⟩ •••• [pū] vaḻi nel 180

⟨10⟩ ••••• āka āṇṭu va-

⟨11⟩ •••• nellu 300••

⟨12-16⟩ damaged

⟨17⟩ ••• paraiyan eṟicu-

⟨18⟩ ṟṟālai a[ḻi]vu celvatakku

⟨19⟩ meṟppaṭi palicaiyāl

⟨20⟩ vaitta kācu † [||*] ⟨Page 25⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0029⟩ No. 29. (A.R. No. 215 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE ARDHAMAṆḌAPA IN THE TIRUVAḺUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This damaged record, probably of [Māṟañjaḍai]yaṉ, who is apparently the king mentioned in the first line, appears to register a gift of sheep by some one of Ēḻūr, whose name is lost, for a lamp in the temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*]••• 1 yar

⟨2⟩ kku yā••••vāṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu tiruva••• ṭṭu

⟨4⟩ peruṅ••••ruvaḻi-

⟨5⟩ ti īśvarattu āḷvārk-

⟨6⟩ ku va[ḻu]•va•• ṭṭu eḻur-

⟨7⟩ ccemma••• yāṉ mā-

⟨8⟩ yaṉā••• kāmu

⟨9⟩ kamatta••••vaḻu

⟨10⟩ ti īśvarattāḷv[ā*]rkku

⟨11⟩ vaicca coti tirunontā-

⟨12⟩ viḷakku oṉṟu oṉṟi-

⟨13⟩ ṉukkum vaiccacāvāmu-

⟨14⟩ varap perā[ṭu] ai[m*]patu [|*] i-

⟨15⟩ vvāṭu ampatuṅ koṇ-

⟨16⟩ ṭu [ā]ḷvār veṭṭikku-

⟨17⟩ ṭi āyaṉ vacaṇṭi tū-

⟨18⟩ tuvaṉum āyaṉ centi

⟨19⟩ l kiḻavaṉum irāttara- 2

⟨20⟩ aṭṭakkaṭava ney ā-

⟨21⟩ ḻāk kāḻākku āka ney

⟨22⟩ uḻakku caṉ[ti*]rātitta-

⟨23⟩ vaṟ [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0030⟩ No. 30. (A.R. No. 313 of 1904.) KUḌUMIYĀMALAI, KULATTUR TALUK, (PUDUKKOTTAI STATE), TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE MĒLAIKŌYIL TEMPLE.

This record of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ is dated in the 23rd year of his reign. Owing to the damaged condition of the letters, it is not possible to make out the contents of the record. Tirunilakkuṉṟam, the name of the hill and Tirumūlaṭṭāṉam, that of the shrine, are traceable, and the record probably refers to a gift for a lamp to this temple.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] komāṟañcaṭaiyarkku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu irupattu mūṉṟāvatu

⟨3⟩ ivvāṇṭu tirunilakkuṉṟa-

⟨4⟩ ttu tirumulaṭṭāṉattup-

⟨5⟩ •••• tāviḷakku

⟨6⟩ ••••• tta tuḷaip-

⟨7⟩ •••••• ⟨Page 26⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0031⟩ No. 31. (A.R. No. 43 of 1908). KAḺUGUMALAI,1MELUR TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON A SLAB IN THE KOŚAKKUḌI STREET.

This record dated in the 23rd year of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ from Kaḻugumalai is of interest as it mentions an expedition of the Pāṇḍya army against Śaḍaiyaṉ-Karunandaṉ of Malai-nāḍu, in which the fort of Ariviyūr was destroyed. This Śaḍaiyaṉ-Karunandaṉ is identical with the Āy chieftain whose records are found in the northern part of the Travancore State. He may have originally been a Pāṇḍya vassal as indicated by the surname Śaḍaiyaṉ and may have subsequently rebelled against the Pāṇḍya, in conjunction perhaps with the Vēṇāḍu ruler of the period, which action was probably the cause of the expedition referred to in this inscription. Two soldiers of the battalion commanded by the Pāṇḍya subordinate Eṭṭi-Maṇṇaṉ alias Maṅgala-Ēṉādi of Perunechchuṟam, named Viṉaiyantoḻu-Śūraṉ of Pūndaṇmali in Toṇḍai-nāḍu and Śāttaṉakkaṉ of Pēreyiṟkuḍi lost their lives in this skirmish, and in commemoration of their services, some land valued at 20 kaḻañju of gold was given apparently by this Ēṉādi. This endowment may have been in the nature of an udirappaṭṭi, but it is not clearly specified as such.

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⟨1⟩ śrī komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟ-

⟨2⟩ ku yāṇṭu irupattu-

⟨3⟩ mūṉṟu avvāṇṭu ma-

⟨4⟩ laināṭṭu caṭaiyaṅ-

⟨5⟩ ka[ru]na[nta*]ṉār meṟ paṭai [po]-

⟨6⟩ y arivi[ū]r[k]koṭṭai

⟨7⟩ aḻittu naṉṟu cey-

⟨8⟩ tu paṭṭār perunec-

⟨9⟩ cuṟattu eṭṭi maṇ-

⟨10⟩ ṇaṉāyiṉa maṅkala e-

⟨11⟩ ṉāti uḷviṭṭuk koyi-

⟨12⟩ ṟcevakariruvar [|*] avaka-

⟨13⟩ ḷi loruvaṉ ṟoṇṭai-

⟨14⟩ nāṭṭu pūntaṇmali vi-

⟨15⟩ ṉaiyantoḻu cūraṉ oruva-

⟨16⟩ ṉ pereyiṟku[ṭi]c cāt-

⟨17⟩ taṉakkaṉ [|*] ivviruvaraiyu-

⟨18⟩ ñ cārtti irupatiṉ kaḻa-

⟨19⟩ ñcu poṉ peṟum pūmi a-

⟨20⟩ ṭṭikkuṭu[t*]tāṉ kummaṇa-

⟨21⟩ maṅkala[t*]tu capaiyā[r*]kku-

⟨22⟩ •••• 3 kalapaṭṭama-

⟨23⟩ •••• [e]ṉāti [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0032⟩ No. 32. (A.R. No. 430 of 1914). PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE WING-STONE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription dated in the 26th year of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ appears to register a gift of 100 sheep by ŚA[tta]ṉ-Guṇattāṉ of KuṇṇUr in [Karu]nIlakkuḍi-nāḍu for supplying ghee to a deity in the temple of TirukkāTTAmbaḷḷi at Kuṟaṇḍi. From other records it is known that at Kuṟaṇḍi there flourished in the olden days an important Jaina temple named TirukkāTTAmbaḷḷi. This stone may have ⟨Page 27⟩ belonged originally to that temple and removed thence and placed in this temple. Kuṟaṇḍi1may be identified with the village of the same name in the Aruppukkottai taluk. KuṇṇUr where ŚrImāra-ŚrIvallabha fought one of his battles, was situated in KarunIlakkuḍi-nāḍu in the same subdivision.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrīmat komāṟañcaṭaiya•••• 2

⟨2⟩ irupattāṟu ivvāṇṭu veṇ••••

⟨3⟩ kkuṟaṇṭit tirukkāṭṭāmpaḷ[ḷi]•••

⟨4⟩ tiṅkaṭ patiṉāḻi neykku•••

⟨5⟩ nilakkuṭināṭṭuk kuṇṇūrccā••

⟨6⟩ ṅkuṇattāṉ aṭṭiṉa āṭu nūṟu [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0033⟩ No. 33. (A.R. No. 422 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record which is dated in the 26th regnal year of an unspecified king may be assigned to Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ whose inscription3dated in the same regnal year is found in this temple. It is damaged and incomplete, but probably enumerates some of the dēvaraḍiyār of the temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] yāṇṭu 206 ittevarkku āḷavvukkoṉ kā-

⟨2⟩ ḷi peṟṟum eṉ makaḷ appi ciṅkamum 4

⟨SIIv14p1i0034-0035⟩ No. 34-35. (A.R. Nos. 428-A and 428-B of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON STONES IN THE NORTHERN WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

These inscriptions are engraved on slabs now found embedded in the north wall of the maṇḍapa in the Śiva temple. The slabs appear to have originally belonged to the Jaina temple named Tirukkāṭṭāmbaḷḷi at Kuṟaṇḍi nearby, and to have been removed thence along with the wing-stones noted above. They register the usual gifts of sheep for lamps to be burnt in the temple of Tirukkāṭṭāmbaḷḷi-Dēvar at Kuṟaṇḍi in Veṇbu-nāḍu.

Though the king's name is not specified, these records may be attributed to the time of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ.

Text.

A

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] veṇpuṉāṭṭuk kuṟaṇṭi tirukkāṭṭāmpaḷḷit tevarkku tiruno-

⟨2⟩ ntāviḷakkoṉṟiṉukku ivvūrc cāttaṅkāri aṭṭiṉa āṭu ai-

⟨3⟩ ympatu ||—itu ivvūr ūrāruṅ kaṇattārum kāval [||*]

B

⟨1⟩ —ṟaṇṭit tirukkāṭṭāmpaḷḷit tevarkku tirunontā-

⟨2⟩ —ṇam pūvaṇavaṉ aṭutta āṭu eḻupattaiñcu [|*] ivvā-

⟨3⟩ —vaṇavaṉ paṇi kuṟaṇṭik kaṉṉimāṟiṟ kāṭṭāmpaḷḷikku ⟨Page 28⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0036⟩ No. 36. (A.R. No. 298 of 1916.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE DOOR-JAMRS OF THE ERICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE.

This inscription in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters is dated in the 35th year of the reign of a king whose name is not mentioned; but he may be assumed to be identical with the Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ for whom high regnal years have been found. It records the gift of sheep by a certain Pāradāyaṉ Śēnda[ṉāgaṉ] of Pāppār-irukkai in Vēḷā-nāḍu for a lamp to be burnt in the temple of Tiruppōttuḍaiyāḷvār at Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi, a brahmadēya in Muḷḷi-nāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*]

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu mup-

⟨3⟩ pattaiñcu

⟨4⟩ ivvāṇṭu

⟨5⟩ veḷānāṭ-

⟨6⟩ ṭup pāppā-

⟨7⟩ rirukkai-

⟨8⟩ p pāratāyaṉ

⟨9⟩ centa[ṉākaṉ]

⟨10⟩ muḷḷi nā-

⟨11⟩ ṭṭup pi-

⟨12⟩ ramateya-

⟨13⟩ m iḷaṅ-

⟨14⟩ koykku-

⟨15⟩ ṭit tiru[p*]po-

⟨16⟩ ttuṭaiyāḷ-

⟨17⟩ vār akanāḻi-

⟨18⟩ kaiyār munnū-

⟨19⟩ ṟṟuvañcen-

⟨20⟩ taṉumāṉa na-

⟨21⟩ kkañcaka-

⟨22⟩ la civaṉu-

⟨23⟩ m vacam

⟨24⟩ tiruppo-

⟨25⟩ ttuṭaiyā-

⟨26⟩ ḷvārkku

⟨27⟩ vaicca ti-

⟨28⟩ runontā-

⟨29⟩ viḷakku

⟨30⟩ oṉṟukku

⟨31⟩ nicati u-

⟨32⟩ ḻakku ney

⟨33⟩ aṭṭa vaic[ca*]

⟨34⟩ cāvāmuvā[p*] pe-

⟨35⟩ rāṭu aimpatu

⟨36⟩ ivai koṇṭu

⟨37⟩ cantirāti [t*]-

⟨38⟩ tavaṟ coti-

⟨39⟩ viḷakkerip-

⟨40⟩ patu [|*] itu i-

⟨41⟩ ḷaṅkoykkuṭi

⟨42⟩ capai vāriyarum

⟨43⟩ paṉmāyecuva-

⟨44⟩ rarum rakṣai-

⟨45⟩ yāka vaittatu

⟨46⟩ | | | u

⟨SIIv14p1i0037⟩ No. 37. (A.R. No. 423 of 1906.) MĀṈŪR, TIRUNELVELI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON ONE OF THE PILLARS IN THE AMBALAVĀṆA TEMPLE.

This inscription dated in the 35th year and 469th day of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ is of interest as giving the rules and qualifications which governed the admission of members to the assembly of Māṉanilainallūr, a brahmadēya in Kaḷakkuḍi-nāḍu, and the penalty imposed on those who transgressed these regulations. This is the only stone inscription which gives some insight into the administrative life of a Pāṇḍya village. ⟨Page 29⟩

Text.

(Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXII, p. 5.)

First side.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟañca-

⟨2⟩ ṭaiyaṟkku yāṇṭu

⟨3⟩ muppattañcu

⟨4⟩ nāḷ nāṉṉūṟṟaṟu-

⟨5⟩ pattu oṉpatu i-

⟨6⟩ nnāḷāl kaḷak[ku]ṭi-

⟨7⟩ nāṭṭu brahmadēyam māṉa-

⟨8⟩ [ni]laikalūr m(ā)hāsa-

⟨9⟩ bhaiyom peruṅkuṟi kaḻa-

⟨10⟩ ṟṟi śrīgōva[r*]ddhanattukkū-

⟨11⟩ ṭi iruntu ivvūr m(ā)-

⟨12⟩ hāsabhaiyom kuṭi maṉṟā-

⟨13⟩ ṭuvataṉukku ceyta vyavabhai 1

⟨14⟩ yāvatu ivvur 2 paṅkuṭai-

⟨15⟩ yār makkaḷ sabhaiyil maṉ-

⟨16⟩ ṟāṭukiṟatu oru dharma[m*] uṭpa-

⟨17⟩ ṭa mantirabrāhmaṇam vallār su

⟨18⟩ vṛttarāy iruppāre oru paṅ-

⟨19⟩ kiṉukku 3 oruttare sabhaiyil

⟨20⟩ maṉruṭuvatākavum vilaiyum

⟨21⟩ [pratigraha]mum sti 4 dhana[mu muṭai]-

Second side.

⟨22⟩ yār oru dhanmamuppa

⟨23⟩ ṭa mantira brāhmaṇam

⟨24⟩ vallarāy suvṛttarāy

⟨25⟩ iruppāre maṉruṭu-

⟨26⟩ vatākavum itaṉ meṟ-

⟨27⟩ paṭṭatu vilaiyālu-

⟨28⟩ m pratigrahattālum sti- 5

⟨29⟩ dhanattālum śrāvaṇai-

⟨30⟩ pukuvār muḻu cirāva-

⟨31⟩ ṇai ṟi kāl cirāva-

⟨32⟩ ṇaiyum araiccirāvaṇai-

⟨33⟩ yum mukkāl cirāvaṇaiyu-

⟨34⟩ m pukavum paṇikkavu-

⟨35⟩ m peṟātā[rā*]kavum pa-

⟨36⟩ ṅku vilaikku koḷ(va)-

⟨37⟩ v[ā]r oru vēdam ell[ā]

⟨38⟩ iṭamum sapariśiṣṭa-

⟨39⟩ m parīkṣai tantārkke

⟨40⟩ śrāvaṇai paṇippatā-

⟨41⟩ kavum ipparicu aṉ-

⟨42⟩ ṟi śrāvaṇai pukkāraiyum

Third side.

⟨43⟩ piṉṉaiyum ikkac-

⟨44⟩ cattil paṭṭa pari-

⟨45⟩ ce maṉṟāṭuvatāka(va)-

⟨46⟩ vum ippariciṉā-

⟨47⟩ l muḻuccirāvaṇai

⟨48⟩ illātārai evvakai-

⟨49⟩ ppaṭṭa vāriyamu-

⟨50⟩ m eṟṟappeṟātārākavu-

⟨51⟩ m ipparicu ceykiṉ-

⟨52⟩ ṟārum aṟeṉṟu kuttu-

⟨53⟩ kkāl ceyyappeṟātā-

⟨54⟩ rākavum kuttukkāl cey-

⟨55⟩ vāraiyum kuttukkāl ce-

⟨56⟩ yvārkku 6[ upōkam ni]

⟨57⟩ ppāraiyum 7 vevveṟṟu-

⟨58⟩ vakai aiyyañcu kācu taṇ-

⟨59⟩ ṭaṅkoṇṭu piṉṉaiyum

⟨60⟩ ikkacca[t*]til paṭṭapari-

⟨61⟩ ce ceyva(va)tākavum i-

⟨62⟩ pparicu paṇittu vyava-

⟨63⟩ stai 8 ceytom mahāsabhai-

⟨64⟩ yom mahāsabhaiyār bha-

⟨SIIv14p1i0038⟩ No. 38. (A.R. No. 104 of 1905.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A SLAB9IN THE Prākāra OF THE ERICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 39th year of the reign of an unspecified king and may be attributed to king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ, whose record (No. 36) dated in the 35th year has been published above. ⟨Page 30⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] yāṇṭu muppattoṉpatu 1 iyyāṇṭu muḷḷināṭṭup pira-

⟨2⟩ mateyam iḷaṅkoykkuṭi tiruppottuṭaiya bhaṭārarkku innāṭṭu

⟨3⟩ kuḷattūr taviṇirāṉa c[ā]ttaṉ antari vaicca tiruviḷakku oṉṟu teṉkaḷavaḻināṭṭu

⟨4⟩ māṇilai veṇmāṉiṭam iraiyāṉa irai ciṅkam vaicca viḷakku oṉṟu ivaḷ taṅkai i-

⟨5⟩ raiyāṉāc[ciy] vaicca viḷakku oṉṟu āka viḷakku mūṉṟu [|*] immūṉṟu viḷakkiṉukku

⟨6⟩ niyati mū[vu*]ḻakku neyyaṭṭi eri[va*]tāka vaytta cāvāmū[vā*]p perāṭu nūttaiympa[tu] [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0039⟩ No. 39. (A.R. No. 431 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE STONE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 6th year opposite to the 35th year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and refers to the gift of sheep to Tirukkāṭṭāmbaḷḷi at Kuṟaṇḍi in Veṇbunāḍu. The wing stone on which this record is engraved must have been brought from Tirukkāṭṭāmbaḷḷi and inserted in the temple here at some later date, along with the other stone on which No. 32 above is engraved.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrīmat komāṟañ caṭaiyaṟku yāṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭu muppattaiñcu itaṉetir- 2

⟨3⟩ [āṟu] ivvāṇṭu veṇpuṇā-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭuk kuṟaṇṭi tirukkāṭṭāmpa-

⟨5⟩ ḷḷikku aḷḷattu i ṭu olatū-

⟨6⟩ r kīḻ pāmpārūr tiṅkaḷ añ-

⟨7⟩ ñāḻi ney aṭṭa aṭutta āṭu ai-

⟨8⟩ mpatu [|*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0040⟩ No. 40. (A.R. No. 12 of 1929.) DAḶAPATISAMUDRAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A SLAB LYING IN A FIELD IN THE PAṞACHCHĒRI OF THE VILLAGE.

This long inscription in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters is dated in the 6th year opposite to the 35th year of the reign of king Māṟāñjaḍaiyaṉ who appears to be identical with the king figuring in No. 37 above from Māṉūr, dated in the 35th year and 469th day. The record consists of two separate endowments made by a certain Vēḷāṉ of Irambāḍu in Karaikāṉa-nāḍu. One of them was a gift of 50 sheep to maintain a lamp in the resthouse called Rājakka ttaṇṇīr pperumbandal erected by him at Perumbaḻañji in Nāṭṭāṟṟuppōkku while a gift of land and a well were also made for it. The other gift of sheep was for maintaining a lamp in another rest-house named Muṉṉūṟṟuvapperumbandal instituted by him in the same village; and a gift of land for the care-taker who supplied water to this water-shed was also made.

The two rest-houses were apparently erected, one in the name of ‘Rājakkar’ of Tirukkōṭṭāṟu and the other in the name of the Kōyiṟpiḷḷaigaḷ Muṉṉūṟṟuvar whose constitution is not clear. These charities were left under the protection of the Nāyakaṉmār ruling the district. ⟨Page 31⟩

Text.

First face.

⟨1⟩ • stiśrī [||*] komara-

⟨2⟩ ••caṭaiyaṟku yā-

⟨3⟩ ••35 itaṉeti-

⟨4⟩ • 6 ivvāṇṭu karai-

⟨5⟩ kkāṉa nāṭṭu iram-

⟨6⟩ [pāṭṭu] veḷāṉ cāt-

⟨7⟩ taṉ tirukkoṭṭāṟ-

⟨8⟩ ṟu irācakkar perāl

⟨9⟩ [nā]ṭṭāṟṟup pokku-

⟨10⟩ p perumpaḻañci

⟨11⟩ eṭuppitta irācak-

⟨12⟩ [ka]t taṇṇīrp perum-

⟨13⟩ pantalukku vaiytta

⟨14⟩ viḷakku % itaṉukku

⟨15⟩ nicati uḻakku ney

⟨16⟩ muṭṭāma laṭṭi viḷa-

⟨17⟩ kku erivatāka ciṟup-

⟨18⟩ paḻañcic cavaiyār pu-

⟨19⟩ ṇaiyākap paṭaittalaiva-

⟨20⟩ ṉ ku[ṇa]vampalatevaṉ

⟨21⟩ vaḻi aṭutta cāvā muvā-

⟨22⟩ [p]perāṭu 50 aiym[pa]-

⟨23⟩ tu taṇṇipaṭṭuvārkku

⟨24⟩ [vi]rutti perumpaḻa-

⟨25⟩ ñcip peruṅkuḷat-

Second face.

⟨26⟩ tu veḷḷikkumi[ḻi]-

⟨27⟩ [yā]l nirapaṭuvaṉa ka-

⟨28⟩ [ru]mattuṭavai taṭi [u]-

⟨29⟩ [ru]mpettuttuṭav[ai ta]-

⟨30⟩ ṭi 3 ettittaṭi 5 [ni]-

⟨31⟩ laṉ 3 mā mūṉṟu mā[vi]-

⟨32⟩ ṉālum iṟai kaṭaṉu[m]

⟨33⟩ vaḻi iṟai veṭṭi ev-

⟨34⟩ vakaippaṭṭatum peru-

⟨35⟩ mpaḻañcip pāp[pā]r

⟨36⟩ ṉaṟācey kāttū

⟨37⟩ tāka ivvūr ūrā

⟨38⟩ kkal ipparice vi[lai]-

⟨39⟩ kkuk koṇṭu irāca

⟨40⟩ ilakkippat pu-

⟨41⟩ tuk[ku]vippatākavuñ

⟨42⟩ ceytāṉ perumpa-

⟨43⟩ ḻañci ūrār makaṉ ve-

⟨44⟩ ḷāṉ cāttaṉ perum pa-

⟨45⟩ ḻañci iṇaikaḷ ore-

⟨46⟩ ṭuppar puṟaṅkāttu-

⟨47⟩ pputukkuvippatu [|*]

⟨48⟩ ippantalukku a-

⟨49⟩ ṭuppitta kiṇaṟu ku-

⟨50⟩ ḻuvāṇai eṉpatu ||௳

⟨51⟩ śrī cilaccikari ||௳

Third face.

⟨52⟩ ivaṉey perumpa-

⟨53⟩ ḻañci ūrileṭuppi-

⟨54⟩ cca munnūṟṟuvap pe-

⟨55⟩ rumpantalukku vait-

⟨56⟩ taviḷakku % itaṉuk-

⟨57⟩ ku nicati uḻakku ne-

⟨58⟩ y muṭṭāmavaṭṭi vi-

⟨59⟩ ḷakkerivatāka aṭu-

⟨60⟩ tta cāvā muvāp pe-

⟨61⟩ rāṭu 50 aimpatu [|*] [i]-

⟨62⟩ vaiccukku puṇaip

⟨63⟩ perumpaḻañci ū-

⟨64⟩ rāre ivakaḷ pakkal

⟨65⟩ irācakkattaṇṇīr-

⟨66⟩ p perumpantaluk-

⟨67⟩ kut taṇṇīraṭṭuvā-

⟨68⟩ rkku virutti vi-

⟨69⟩ laikkuk koṇṭu [o]ḷi

⟨70⟩ ceyvitāka koṇṭu iṭai-

⟨71⟩ kkuḷattu [mulai]vāy-

⟨72⟩ kkumiḻi[yā]l ni-

⟨73⟩ rpaṭuvaṉa ko•• yat

⟨74⟩ tuṭavai taṭi u nila-

⟨75⟩ ṉ pama taṇṇirttuṭa-

⟨76⟩ vai taṭi % nilaṉ kma

⟨77⟩ eṟṟittaṭi 3 nila-

⟨78⟩ ṉ iraṇṭumā koi-

⟨79⟩ ṟ piḷḷaikaḷ munnūṟṟu-

⟨80⟩ var puṟṟu kāval oreṭu-

⟨81⟩ ppar putukkuvatu [|*] i-

⟨82⟩ nnāṭāḷunāṭṭu nāyaka[ṉa]

⟨83⟩ mār ivviraṇṭu taṇṇī-

⟨84⟩ rppantalum rakṣi-

⟨85⟩ ttār avakaḷ kāl e-

⟨86⟩ ṉ talai melaṉa ||—i ⟨Page 32⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0041⟩ No. 41. (A.R. No. 605 of 1915.) ĒRUVĀḌI, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A BOULDER IN THE IRAṬṬAIPPOTTAI ROCK.

This record dated in the 43rd year of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ comes from Ēruvāḍi. This is the highest regnal year found for Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ for whom records in the 35th and 39th years have been found elsewhere. The rock on which this epigraph is engraved is very much weather-worn and the record is therefore defaced. It appears to register a gift of land by IrambāTTu-vēḷAṉ ŚAttaṉ as paḷḷichchandam to the BhaTAra of Tiruviruttalai-Aruvāḷam in NATTAṟṟuppōkku, and a gift of sheep for a lamp. A Tamil verse at the end of the record, stated to have been composed by the donor himself contains an exhortation to all to offer worship to Aruhan on the hill. The donor IrambāTTu-vēḷAṉ has figured in another record from Daḷapatisamudram dated in the 35+6th regnal year1of this king.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī komāṟañ caṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu 43 ivvāṇṭu nāṭṭāṟṟuppokkut ti-

⟨2⟩ ruviruttalai aruvālattu paṭārakarkkup paḷḷiccantamāka nāṭṭukku-

⟨3⟩ ṟumpiṉ kiḻacceri pāppācāṉṟārey ivvūroṅkaḷ pūmi ciṟṟeyiṟ kā-

⟨4⟩ liṟ pirinta arumaṇṇaṭaik kālāl nir [a]ṭṭu nel liḷaivaṉa iḷamakkaḷ ce-

⟨5⟩ ytaṭin nilam 22 viḷamaperuṅkālāl nir aṭṭu nel viḷaivaṉa kāṉam

⟨6⟩ taṭi 2 kāyalūrk kiḻāṉ taṭi 2 nilaṉ 4 ikkālāl nir [a]ṭṭu nel vilaivaṉa ḻuta-

⟨7⟩ ccermelatu taṭi % nilaṉ 5 vakaiyil vayalil atam peṟṟa•ma•• ye-

⟨8⟩ ṉeṉ[ṟa] kālāl nir aṭṭu nel viḷaivatu kiḻppulac cey taṭi % nilaṉ

⟨9⟩ • eṟṟittaṭi oṉpatu nilaṉ va kāluṅ ka[rai]kkāṉa nāṭṭu i mpāṭṭu-

⟨10⟩ veḷāṉ cāttaṉ pakkal i nilattāl yiṟai vilaipporuḷ koṇṭu i[n]-

⟨11⟩ nilattāl iṟaik kaṭaṉum vaḻi iṟai veṭṭi evvakaippaṭṭatum nāṭ-

⟨12⟩ ṭukkuṟumpiṟ kiḻccerip pāppācāṉaṟome kāttūṭṭuvatākavum [|*] i-

⟨13⟩ ppūmi ipparicey vilaikkuṟa viṟṟup poruḷaṟak koṇṭu vi-

⟨14⟩ laiyāvaṇap poruṭcelavolaiyākac ceytu kuṭuttom pāppācāṉṟāro-

⟨15⟩ m veḷāṉ cāttaṉukku [||*] ipparicu ippūmi kāttūṭṭuva••••innila

⟨16⟩ yil accañcu paḻaṅkācu vevveṟṟuvakai iraṭṭi poruḷumaṟak•••

⟨17⟩ ṇattuttaṇṭamum paṭṭup piṉṉaiyum ippūmi ivva•• muṭṭāmal aṭṭu-

⟨18⟩ ṅkiḻccerip pāppācāṉruron tiruviruttalai aruvāḷattu ivvāṇṭu itte-

⟨19⟩ varkkey ivaṉe vaitta tiruviḷakku oṉṟiṉukku niyati••••muṭṭāmal aṭṭu

⟨20⟩ vitākap perumpaḻañciirukkiṉṟa paṭaittalaivaṉ koṟaikkāṭaṉukku••••••••

⟨21⟩ • ṅkoṉ māṟaṅkuṭi tāṅkiyum puṇaiyāka aṭutta cāvā muvāp perāṭu aimpatu śrī cilaccika-

⟨22⟩ ri || antamil pala kuṇattāti arukantaṉentamiṭar tirkku••••

⟨23⟩ ṉorāta muṉṉeytiruttalai toḻumiṉ ceṉṟu vantaṇa malar••••ṉaiye toḻumiṉ••

⟨24⟩ tevar centiṉamali ṭoḻiṟ colai tikaḻvāṉantaṭavu•• yuḷivantu maṇi yeṉṟo-

⟨25⟩ maṉattu ṇiṉaippil ṉeṉṟo malaruṇṭa makarantam pa••

⟨26⟩ ṉey [|*] ivaiyum veḷāṉa cāttaṉ colliṉa || ivaiyum••• ṇṭu innāṭā-

⟨27⟩ ḷu nāṭṭu nācakaṉmār || 2௳ ⟨Page 33⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0042⟩ No. 42. (A.R. No. 863 of 1917.) KAḺUGUMALAI, KOILPATTI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE ROCK WITHIN THE AYYAṈĀR TEMPLE ON THE HILL.

This record dated in the 7th year opposite to the 35th year of reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ registers a gift of gold by a brāhmaṇa named Māṇi Śaṅkaranārāyaṇaṉ, a nagarattāṉ of Tiruchuriyal for burning a lamp during the three services in the shrine of the Dēvar which he had made. This amount was left in the charge of the Pērūrār of Tirunechchuṟam and the charity was left under the protection of the Tirumalaivīrar and Parāntakavīrar who were evidently the military guardians of the temple, the latter owing their name to the Pāṇḍya king Parāntaka, the second of that name, to whose time the characters of the present inscription can reasonably be attributed.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tirumeṉi komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟkku yāṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭu muppattaintu itaṉetir eḻu ivvāṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu tiruccuriya lirukkiṉṟa brāhmaṇaṉ māṇi ca-

⟨4⟩ ṅkaranārāyaṇaṉāyiṉa nakarattāṉ ceyvitta

⟨5⟩ tevarkku mūṉṟu sandhiyum tiruviḷakku ney-

⟨6⟩ yāka tiruneccuṟattu perurār kaiyyil ku-

⟨7⟩ ṭutta kaḻañciraṇṭiṉā lāṭirupatiṉā lā-

⟨8⟩ ṭṭaivaṭṭam irupatiṉāḻi neyyum pe-

⟨9⟩ rurā raṭṭuvippatu [|*] ipparicu celut-

⟨10⟩ tuvataṉukku tirumalaivirarum parāntaka

⟨11⟩ virarum rakṣai ||௳ ||௳

⟨SIIv14p1i0043⟩ No. 43. (A.R. No. 335 of 1929-30.) ERUKKAṄGUḌI, SATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A ROCK IN A FIELD TO THE SOUTH OF THE TANK IN THE VILLAGE.

This Veṭṭeḻuttu inscription of the 16th regnal year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ states that Iruppaikkuḍi-Kiḻavaṉ dismantled the old bund of the tank, strengthened it with stone and renovated a specified length of the bund. The tank was called Kiḻavaṉēri after the name of the benefactor. A verse at the end of the record is in praise of this Kiḻavaṉ of Iruppaikkuḍi in Iruñjōḻa-nāḍu. This chieftain figures in another record dated in the 18th year of the reign of the same king from this same village. (No. 44 below), and in the Tiruchchendūr inscription of Varaguṇa-Mārāya (No. 16-A above).

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī koccaṭaiyamāṟaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉā-

⟨2⟩ ṟu ivvāṇṭu paḻaṅkarai iḻittu ata-

⟨3⟩ ṉaṭiiṟ kallu nāṭṭi maṉṉumaṭaikku me-

⟨4⟩ kkuk karuṅkuḷattukkuk kiḻakku nila-

⟨5⟩ ttiṭṭu karai ceytu maṭai vaiyppi-

⟨6⟩ ttu iruppaikkuṭi[k*]kiḻavaṉ taṉ

⟨7⟩ periṭṭu eṟuvittatu [|*] ivvellaii-

⟨8⟩ ṟ kiṭanta karai kiḻavaṉeri eṉpatu ||-

⟨9⟩ koṅkār malark kaṭampu cūṭṭātik kol-

⟨10⟩ vaḷaiyai eṅkoṉiruppaikkuṭi[k*]kiḻava-

⟨11⟩ ṉ poṅkārnta toṭṭār karumpiraikku-

⟨12⟩ n toṉṉir vayaliruñcoḻanāṭṭā- 1

⟨13⟩ ṉṟār cūṭṭu tireṉeṉṟu ||— ⟨Page 34⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0044⟩ No. 44. (A.R. No. 334 of 1929-30.) ERUKKAṄGUḌI, SATTUR TALUK RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A SLAB ON THE BUND OF THE TANK IN THE VILLAGE.

This long Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription in Tamil verse is stated to have been engraved in the 18th year of the reign of the Pāṇḍya king Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ who has been called also Śrīvallabhaṉ. It records that this king who had conquered his enemies from Kuṇṇūr to Siṁhaḷam bestowed the title of Iruppaikkuḍi-Kiḻavaṉ on a certain Eṭṭi-Śāttaṉ and that the latter repaired several tanks in Iruñjōḻa-nāḍu and built some temples and ambalams. The tank near which the slab is set up was one of the many water reservoirs which benefitted by this chief's philanthropic projects. He dismantled the old earthen bund, and built in its stead a stone-faced new embankment, so that this tank was now called Kiḻavaṉēri, after his title of ‘Kiḻavaṉ. ’ These activities of this chieftain have been reviewed in the Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy for the year 1929-30, part ii, paragraph 2.

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⟨1⟩ antaratti ṉoṭiyaṅkuñ cantirātittar va-

⟨2⟩ ḻit toṉṟī ṇṭiya perunteyvat tiṟaṟ pāṇṭiyar palar kaḻi-

⟨3⟩ nta piṉṉai maṟṟavar taṅkulam viḷaṅka vantu toṉṟi maṇkāttu-

⟨4⟩ kkuṇṇūr mutal ciṅkaḷam varai kūṭāta vayamaṉṉarai viṇṇūr[p] puka vekuṇṭu veṉ-

⟨5⟩ ṟikaḷey palaviḷaitta teṉṉavarko neṭumāṟaṉ centaṉik koṟ cirivallava ṉiṉṉaruḷāṟ

⟨6⟩ pal ciṟappoṭiruppaikkuṭi[k*] kiḻa[va*]ṉeṉṉun takkacīr naṉṉāmantāṉ peṟṟa eṭṭi cāttaṉṟiru-

⟨7⟩ makaḷuñ cennaṉmālaiyun tikaḻntilaṅku maṇippūṇu maruviya poṉvaraittoḷva ṉirait teṅku-

⟨8⟩ m varaik kamukoṭu karumpuyaruṅ kalikkaḻaṉik katirc cenneṟ kavarikāṭṭu miruñcoḻanāṭṭavar talaivaṉ peruñ-

⟨9⟩ cā[n]tikkula maṉṉavaṉ kūṭaṟkuṭi nakar taṉṉoṭu kuḷattūravar kulakkuricil viḻāmaliyum liyaṉṟeruviṟ ṟu-

⟨10⟩ ḻāyūravar kuṭittoṉṟal poruppait tikaḻ maṇimāḷikai iruppaikkuṭitaṉak katipati kaḷiyaṉṉaṅ kiḷaipayir puṉal ve-

⟨11⟩ ḷiyaṉkuṭi viṟalāṇṭakai ñālaṅkaḷiṟ pukaḻuñ cirālaṅkuṭi ataṟkiṟaivaṉ coṉmāt taṇṭamiḻk kūṭaṟ kaṉmāttiṇ palakai-

⟨12⟩ micai muṉṉeḻutiya kuṭittoṉṟaṉ maṇiyaraṇ malaiccilampa[ṉṉa payatta 1 pu]ṉaṉ malki nāṭṭavarkku vaḷañciṟakkum••••ccā-

⟨13⟩ -ṟivai taṉṉoṭu maṇimaṭantait taṭantuṟaivaṉavaṉe yec camaiyattavar tamakku viyalviṉ kaḷavirota miṉmaiyiṉ mūṉṟeṉṉum payaṉ maṟṟu-

⟨14⟩ ṇ mutalākiya tāmmattai eṉṟataṉ cintaiyiṉāliyaviṅkaṭkitu naṉṟeṉa irukkocai kallimutalū riccuvaraṉ makiḻntuṟaiyun tirukko-

⟨15⟩ yileṭuppittun teṉveḷiyaṉkuṭi nakaruṭ kaṟṟūṇ ceytampalattoṭu kaṟaikaṇṭa ṉuṟai koilu maṟai karumpu viḷaivaṟā aḻakamainta kiḻa-

⟨16⟩ vaṉeriyu māṟaṉūrp peruṅkuḷattiḻit teṟuvitta kiḻavaṉeriyum poruppaṉaiya neṭumāṭam polin tilaṅka mukiṟaṇiyu miruppaikkuṭi vaḷanakaru ḷeṭuppi-

⟨17⟩ tta perumpaḷḷiyum vaṭivamaittāṅ keṭuppitta maṇṭapatto ṭampalamum vaḷḷaikkuḷattiḻit teṟiya veḷḷappuṉaṟ kiḻavaṉeriyu māṅkataṉ kaṇmaṭaitaṉ-

⟨18⟩ ṉoṭu vāṅkamaitta pattaṉ maṭaiyuṅ kaṟpiḷanta kuḷavāyi lamaippitta [iṟ]paṇampu mernūliṭ ṭeṟuvittaṉ cirmevu tirumāleriyu nīriyaṉaṟ pukaḻneṟinaṭai e-

⟨19⟩ ritaṉṉoṭa racaṅkuḷamum vaḻuvāmai iḻitteṟiṉa koḻuvūruṅ kiḻavaṉeriyun tikaḻoli nirppukaḻ maliyeriyoṭu ceṅkuḷamu nāṭiṉer tamakkillā moṭa ṉiyaṅku mā-

⟨20⟩ ṟaṉeriyum neṉmalimānakar taṉṉiṟ coṉmali cirampalamum peruṅkuḷaṅkarai iḻitteṟiya ñeruṅku puṉaṟ kiḻavaṉeriyu maṟṟataṉkaṭ kaṉmaṭaiyu maṇimāṭac ciṟuppu-

⟨21⟩ ttūrp pāḻikkuḷattiḻit teṟiya cūḻolinirk kiḻavaṉeriyuñ cāttaṉūrp peruṅkuḷattu veppamaṭai kaṟpaṭuttum poṉṉāṇmaṭai taṉṉoṭu pūṅkuṟimaṭaiya- ⟨Page 35⟩

⟨22⟩ maittu mālaṅkuṭip peruṅkuḷattu maṭaivaittu mataṉ kuḷavāy nīlapperuṅkaṟpiḷantu cālap puṉal varak kaṇṭu mampalattoṭu kiḻavaṉeriyuṅ kummaṇamaṅ-

⟨23⟩ kalattamaittun teṉṉavarkoṉ ceytaruḷiya cirivallavamaṅkalattuk kāṇatti tāṉāki yatu tirutti vaḷam paṭuttuñ cirmevu vaḷaṅ kaḻaṉit tirunāraṇa eri-

⟨24⟩ yeṉ ṟernūliṭ ṭeṟuvittitaṉ kuḷavāy ceyvittu mittiṟattā lāḷ viṉaika ḷiṉṉiruñ coḻa naṉṉāṭṭu ḷettaṉaiyun tiruttuvitto ṉiruppaikkuṭi kiḻavaṉeṉa

⟨25⟩ nilavit taṉpiyar niṟpac colmikka perum pukaḻoṭu matiyamu ñāyiṟum polap patitoṟum viḷaṅkuka pāriṉ meley ||—itu koccaṭaiyamāṟaṟkup pa-

⟨26⟩ tiṉeṭṭā māṇṭeḻutuvittatu |||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0045⟩ No. 45. (A.R. No. 368 of 1904.) ŚITTAṈṈAVĀŚAL, KULATTUR TALUK, (PUDUKKOTTAI STATE), TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON THE ROCK SOUTH OF THE ROCK-CUT JAINA TEMPLE.

This inscription in Tamil verse, which is engraved in early characters with the puḷḷi marked for the basic consonants refers to the Pāṇḍya king Śrīvalluvaṉ (i.e., Śrīvallabha), who had the title Avaṉipaśēkharan. On his behalf a certain Iḷaṅ-Gautamaṉ who is described as an āśiriyaṉ of Madurai repaired the agamaṇḍapa of the temple at Aṇṇalvāyil and built the mukha-maṇḍapa in front of it. The record being damaged, the details are lost but from the existing portion it is inferred that some gifts of land were also made to the priests of the temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tiruntiya perumpukaḻt taiva taricaṉattaruntava muṉivaṉaip poruṭ cela vaṟaiyaṟa

⟨2⟩ ••kkuḷa nilaimai iḷaṅkautama ṉeṉum vaḷaṅkeḻu tirunakar matirai āciriyaṉ avaṉey pā-

⟨3⟩ r muḻutāṇṭa pañcavar kulamuta lārkeḻu vaivelavaṉipacekaraṉ cirkeḻu ceṅkoṟ cirival-

⟨4⟩ luvaṉuk keṉṟip palavuṅ kuṟikoḷiṉi tavai oṇ[ṭiṟal] nativaṇiyattaraṇpai mutūrk-

⟨5⟩ kaṭivaḷam perukkippaṇṇamar koil pāṅkuṟac ceyvit tāraṇapperum mikkoḻukkavi-

⟨6⟩ kkum pūraṇamālai poliyavoṅki anta•l••• viḷakkiṟ kamaṇaṉ kāṇiyuñ cā-

⟨7⟩ tti vayakkaluṅ kuṇamiku ciṟappiṉ kuṟittu••• meḻukkuppuṟamoru mūṉṟu māvum paḻukkaṟa mu-

⟨8⟩ ṟaiyāl vaḻipaṭuvāṉukkaraikkāṇi•mamai•nokki aṇṇalvāi laṟivar koiṉ

⟨9⟩ muṉṉāḷ maṇṭakaṅ kallāley niṟīikkaṇṭor maruḷuṅ kāmaru viḻucciruḷ-

⟨10⟩ ḷoṭu puṟampā loḷi mikappokki maṟṟu mellāṅ kuṟṟa nikki ātiventar

⟨11⟩ aṟañce vaḻakki••••••• mācaṟa niṟīittiruveṟṟañ ceypāvai ne-

⟨12⟩ ṭutū ṇorupa•••• nakaramaittu niṭoḷi viḷakkineyppuṟamākeṉa

⟨13⟩ ••ṭai vayaloṭeṭ••••kūṟiya vakaiyāṉāṭi naṉṟamaitta vaḻiyaṟavo-

⟨14⟩ ṟku nilamummācce••••aḻiyā vakaiyāṟ kaṇṭaṉaṉe••••kikkoḷ-

⟨15⟩ kaip palkuṇattoṉey |||—tiṇṇi nalaṉ paṟappic••••• ṟṟeṉaka-

⟨16⟩ •••••• maṇṇil•cir matirai āciriyaṉaṇṇa lakamaṇṭaka-

⟨17⟩ m putukki āṅkaṟivarkoil mukamaṇṭaka meṭuttāṉ muṉ |||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0046⟩ No. 46. (A.R. No. 425 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record of the 2nd year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ is slightly damaged in the middle and appears to register a gift of 25 sheep for the maintenance of a lamp in the temple of Sundarapāṇḍya-Īśvara-Dēvar at Tiruchchuriyal, a dēvadāna in Paruttikkuḍi-nāḍu, ⟨Page 36⟩ by a carpenter of Kaliśalmaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Aḷaṟṟu-nāḍu. Vāṉavaṉmādēvi(maṅgalam) a brahmadēya in Veṇbu-nāḍu is also mentioned. This record may be assigned to the reign of Rājasiṁha, who was a contemporary of the Chōḷa king Parāntaka I and who was defeated by him as stated in the Udayēndiram plates.1

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟaṟku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu paruttikkuṭinā-

⟨2⟩ ṭṭut tevatāṉam tiruccuriyal cuntarapāṇṭiya īccuvarattu tevarkku

⟨3⟩ aḷaṟṟu nāṭṭu kalical[ma]ṅkalattut taccaṉ•ṉa ulakaṉeṉ veṇpunāṭṭup pi-

⟨4⟩ rammateyam vāṉavaṉ mātevi ca[vai]kku•m e•••• 2

⟨5⟩ aṭṭiṉamaiyil attāṇikaḷoṭu tirutti vaicca āṭu irupatu•••• 2

⟨6⟩ añcu [|*] caṭaiyaṉappi koṇṭāṉ panniraṇṭarai [|*] nāṭaṉ panniraṇṭarai [|*] [ivvi]-

⟨7⟩ ruvarum oruvarkku oruvar puṇai [|*] attāṇikaḷ vaccatu [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0047⟩ No. 47. (A.R. No. 216 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE ENTRANCE INTO THE Ardhamaṇḍapa OF THE TIRUVAḺUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This damaged record of the 2nd year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ refers to a gift of a perpetual lamp by the son-in-law of Tāyañjāttaṉ, a Veḷḷāḷa of Paḷḷip-Perumbuḷiṅgāvu in Tiṇaikkaḷamaṅgalam, a village in Kuḍa-nāḍu to the god Tiruvaḻudīśvarattu-Āḻvār at Peruṅguḷam in Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷanāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamā-

⟨2⟩ ṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu i-

⟨3⟩ vvāṇṭu tiruvaḻutivaḷa-

⟨4⟩ nāṭṭup peruṅkuḷattu-

⟨5⟩ t tiruvaḻuti īśvarattu

⟨6⟩ āḻvārkku kuṭanāṭṭu-

⟨7⟩ ttiṇaikkaḷa maṅkalattu

⟨8⟩ paḷḷip[pe]rumpuḷi-

⟨9⟩ ṅkāvi lirukkum veḷ-

⟨10⟩ ḷāḷaṉ ṟāyañ cāttaṉ maka-

⟨11⟩ ḷaikkoṇṭa vetiyāṉāyiṉa i••

⟨12⟩ tāyañ cāttaṉ ṉoṭu kalaccuta •

⟨13⟩ ••• ṉṟu kuṇa•• kkoṇṭu••

⟨14⟩ ṭu • śa ••••• kkoṉṟu tā-

⟨15⟩ yañcā••••• cukkuṇa •

⟨16⟩ [tu] ārāyntu•••••••••

⟨17⟩ ceytu koṇṭu va-

⟨18⟩ cca tirunantā viḷakku o

⟨19-20⟩ completely damaged ⟨Page 37⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0048⟩ No. 48. (A.R. No. 503 of 1907.) MADURAI, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON TWO SLABS1IN THE MADANAGŌPĀLASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeluttu inscription was found engraved on two slabs in the compound of the Madanagōpāla temple at Madurai. They apparently belonged to a temple of Śiva named Tirutturutti-Bhaṭāra from where they appear to have been brought to this temple. It is dated in the 2+1st year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ and probably belongs to the time of Rājasiṁha. It registers the usual gift of sheep for a lamp to be maintained in that temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟaṟkku yāṇ•••

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu itaṉetirāṇṭu aṇṭa nāṭ••••

⟨3⟩ • ṉmā•tirutturutti paṭārarkku••

⟨4⟩ • tiruviḷakku niṉṟeriya vaicca nilaiviḷa••

⟨5⟩ • ikkārkāṭu•ṭikaḷ teviyār teya••

⟨6⟩ ••ivviḷakku•• nney nārāyanāḻiyā luri••

⟨7⟩ ••tta vacamaṭutta irupattaiñcu āṭu••

⟨SIIv14p1i0049⟩ No. 49. (A.R. No. 287 of 1923.) TIRUKKŌṬṬIYŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A SLAB IN THE STORE-ROOM OF THE SAUMYANĀRĀYAṆA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record which is let into the wall of the store-room and is kept bottom up, is dated in the 2+1st year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ. The secondary i loop is attached to the top of the respective consonants and not to the side. The record which may be assigned to the time of Rājasimha must have belonged to Śiva temple at the village, though it is now found embedded in the wall of the Vishṇu temple. It registers a gift of a perpetual lamp by a certain Aṇukki2-Sundaravalli of Kaṇṇikuḍi in KIḻ-Iraṇiyamuṭṭam to the god Periya-ŚrIkōyil-BhaTAra of TirukkōTTiyūr.

Above this record is another short one registering a gift of cows and sheep for a lamp by a merchant named Kaṇḍaṉ-Śaṅkaranāraṇaṉ, and belonging to about the same period. The damaged portion consisting of a few Sanskrit verses is not decipherable, and as only a few words are legible here and there, such as Śrīgōshṭhinātha in line 6, no continuous sense can be made out.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟa-

⟨2⟩ ṟku yāṇṭiraṇṭu itaṉ [ṉe]-

⟨3⟩ tirāmāṇṭu tevatāṉan tiru[k]-

⟨4⟩ koṭṭiyūr periya śrīkoyi[l]

⟨5⟩ [pa]ṭāraṟku ciḻiraṇiyamu[ṭṭa]-

⟨6⟩ ttu kaṇṇikuṭic [co]lama••

⟨7⟩ pir[ā]ṭṭiyāṉa aṇukki cu-

⟨8⟩ ntaravalli vaitta tiruno-

⟨9⟩ ntā viḷak koṉṟu||

3) After line 9, a few damaged letters of a Sanskrit portion are seen—

⟨1⟩ yasyāsvadhuramathaḥ karōti vana-

⟨2⟩ cāru•••: vēndrāṅganā-

⟨3⟩ śām•• nāyakara••••vanaḥ••

⟨4⟩ ••sraṣṭōrvadhēsānārāya-

⟨5⟩ •••• vēṣṭhiṣu•• vō••

⟨6⟩ ••• śrīgōṣṭhinātha••

⟨7⟩ • niti••• matikacōḷi•ma•• ⟨Page 38⟩

Above this record is engraved the following:—

⟨1⟩ periya śrī koyil paṭā-

⟨2⟩ raṟku viyāpāri kaṇṭañ

⟨3⟩ caṅkaranāraṇaṉ nicati

⟨4⟩ ppaṭi uriy neyeriva-

⟨5⟩ tāka vacca tirunontā-

⟨6⟩ viḷak koṉṟu pacu [paṉ]-

⟨7⟩ ṉiraṇṭu āṭu aimpatu [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0050⟩ No. 50. (A.R. No. 323 of 1904.) KUḌUMIYĀMALAI, KULATTUR TALUK, (PUDUKKOTTAI STATE), TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE TEMPLE.

This record (same as A.R. No. 238 of 1911), dated in the 2+1+1st year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ registers a gift of gold by Parāntaka-Adaḷaiyūr-nāḍAḷvāṉ alias Kaḍambaṉ-ETTi for burning a lamp in the temple of TirumUlaṭṭAṉattu Mahādēva at Tirunilakkuṉṟam, a dēvadāna in Kuṉṟiyūr-nāḍu. After line 10, there is another inscription which is dated in the 10th year of an unspecified Pāṇḍya king1 and reṅisters another ṅift of ṅold by two persons of ṇeṉmali-nāḍu to the same temple for the expenses of conducting a festival therein.

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⟨1⟩ [svastiśrī] [|*] koccaṭaiya

⟨2⟩ māṟa[ṟ]ku yāṇṭu [u ita]ṉeti-

⟨3⟩ rāṇṭi ṉetirāṇṭu kuṉṟiyū-

⟨4⟩ r nāṭṭut tevatāṉan tirunilak-

⟨5⟩ kuṉṟattu tirumulaṭṭāṉattu mātevar-

⟨6⟩ kku parāntaka ataḷaiyūr nāṭā[ḷ*]vāṉāyiṉa

⟨7⟩ kaṭampa ṉeṭṭi nontā viḷakkoṉṟukku

⟨8⟩ vaitta tuḷaippoṉ 7ki eḻuka[ḻa*]ñca-

⟨9⟩ rai [|*] puḷḷaṅkuṭi yūrum parampaiyūru[rā]rum rakṣai [||*]

⟨10⟩ avaraṭi eṉ talai melaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0051⟩ No. 51. (A.R. No. 604 of 1926.) TĒṈŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR LYING IN A RUINED SITE.

This record of the 2+6th year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ registers a gift of 50 sheep by Vēḷāṉ-araiyaṉ of the village for burning a lamp to god Tirumēṟṟaḷi-Bhaṭāra at Peruntēṉūr in Pāgaṉūr-kūṟṟam. The pillar must have belonged to the ⟨Page 39⟩ temple, ruins of which are found in the site. Though Tirumēṟṟaḷi may signify a temple of Vishṇu, for Vishṇu temples are generally located in the west of the village and are called as such, a neglected liṅga found in the locality indicates that the original temple may have belonged to god Śiva. In some places Śiva temples have also been called ‘Tirumēṟṟaḷi. ’

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⟨1⟩ •••• koccaṭai-

⟨2⟩ yamāṟa[r]kku yāṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu 2 itaṉṉe-

⟨4⟩ tir āṟu iv-

⟨5⟩ vāṇṭu pākaṉūr-

⟨6⟩ kkūṟṟattup pe-

⟨7⟩ runteṉūrt tirume-

⟨8⟩ ṟṟaḷippaṭā[ra*]rk-

⟨9⟩ ku nicati uriy

⟨10⟩ ney tirunontā-

⟨11⟩ viḷakkerivitā-

⟨12⟩ ka ivvūr veḷāṉa-

⟨13⟩ raiyaṉ vaitta pacu

⟨14⟩ aim[patu] [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0052⟩ No. 52. (A.R. No. 447 of 1907.) ŚIṈṈAMAṈŪR, PERIYAKULAM TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE LAKSHMĪNĀRĀYAṆA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 2+7th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ who is identical with Rājasimha, and registers a gift of sheep by a certain NAgaṉ-Vikkiramādittaṉ for a perpetual lamp to the god Tiru•••• śurattēvar of ArikēsarinallUr, a brahmadēya in Aḻa-nāḍu. As ŚiṉṉamaṉUr was known as ArikēsarinallUr, it may have been founded by the early Pāṇḍya king called Arikēsarin. In another record of this king from the same place, the god is called Tirunaḍuvu-BhaTAra, probably because of the location of the temple with reference to the village.1

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] koccaṭaiyamāṟa[r*]kku

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu [2] itaṉeti reḻu ivvāṇṭu a[ḻaṟaṭ]-

⟨3⟩ ṭu brahmateyam arikecarinallūrt tiru

⟨4⟩ śurattevarkkut tirunon-

⟨5⟩ [tā]viḷakkukku nākaṉ vikkiramāticcaṉ vai-

⟨6⟩ [cca] āṭu añpatu cāvāmuvāpperāṭu [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0053⟩ No. 53. (A.R. No. 416 of 1917.) KUTTĀLAM, TENKASI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE EAST VERANDAH OF THE KUTTĀLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record dated in the 2+7th year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ is incomplete and stops with shemention of Tirukkuṟṟālam in Teṉvāra-nāḍu. ⟨Page 40⟩

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⟨1⟩ [svasti]śrī [||*] ko-

⟨2⟩ [ccaṭaiya]māṟa[r*]-

⟨3⟩ [kku] yāṇṭu i-

⟨4⟩ raṇṭu itaṉo

⟨5⟩ tir eḻu i-

⟨6⟩ vvāṇṭu teṉ-

⟨7⟩ vāra nāṭṭut

⟨8⟩ tirukku[ṟ*]ṟā 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0054⟩ No. 54. (A.R. No. 441 of 1907.) ŚIṈṈAMAṈŪR, PERIYAKULAM TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE LAKSHMĪNĀRĀYAṆA TEMPLE.

The stone on which this inscription of the 2+8th year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ had been originally engraved, has been redressed, and the record has suffered damage. It registers a gift of 10 kaḻañju by a brāhmaṇa named Nakkaṉ Duvēḍi (Dvivēdi) of Āvichchaṉūr, a brahmadēya of Āṇmaga-Nāḍu (the Āṇmā-nāḍu of other records), for a perpetual lamp to be burnt in the temple of god Tirunaḍuvupaṭṭāra at Arikēsarinallūr, a brahmadēya in Aḻa-nāḍu. Arikēsarinallūr was the ancient name of Śiṉṉamaṉūr, and Tirunaḍuvu-Bhaṭāra, the god of the ‘central’ temple has as noted above, reference to the location of the temple in the centre of the village. 2

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⟨1⟩ śrīkoccaṭaiyamāṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉetir eṭṭu ivvāṇṭu aḻanāṭṭup pirama-

⟨2⟩ teyam a[ri]kecarinallūr tirunaṭu[vu paṭ]ṭārakku tirunontāviḷak[ko]ṉṟiṉukku ney [u]riy[kku]

⟨3⟩ āṇ[maka]nāṭṭu piramateyam āviccaṉūr kaviciyaṉ nakkan [tuveti] vaicca kaḻaiñcu

⟨4⟩ 10 pattu ௳

⟨SIIv14p1i0055⟩ No. 55. (A.R. No. 605 of 1926.) TĒNŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR LYING IN A RUINED SITE.

This inscription of the 2+8th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ records a gift of sheep by a certain Araiyaṉ-Tiruvaraṅgi for a lamp in the temple of Tirumēṟṟaḷi-Bhaṭāra of Peruntēṉūr in Pāgaṉūr-kūṟṟam.

Text.

⟨1⟩ koccaṭaiyamā-

⟨2⟩ ṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu

⟨3⟩ 2 itaṉ ṉe

⟨4⟩ tir eṭṭu

⟨5⟩ ivvāṇṭu

⟨6⟩ pākaṉūrkkū-

⟨7⟩ ṟṟattup pe

⟨8⟩ runteṉūrt ti-

⟨9⟩ rumeṟṟaḷi pa-

⟨10⟩ ṭāraṟkku

⟨11⟩ ivvūr

⟨12⟩ araiyanti

⟨13⟩ ruvaraṅki

⟨14⟩ [v*]aitta tiruno-

⟨15⟩ ntāviḷa[k*]ku

⟨16⟩ oṉṟu [|*] iv-

⟨17⟩ viḷa[k*]ku[k*]ku

⟨18⟩ vaitta āṭu

⟨19⟩ ai[m]patu [|*] i-

⟨20⟩ vviḷak-

⟨21⟩ kerikka kaṭa

⟨22⟩ • civako 3

⟨23⟩ • ri •

⟨24⟩ vvā•• ⟨Page 41⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0056⟩ No. 56. (A.R. No. 86 of 1907.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE BASE OF A RUINED SHRINE IN THE TIRUMŪLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

The subjoined record of the 2+9th year of king Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ relates to the purchase of a block of waste land lying fallow as puṟṟu and teṟṟi to the west of the village, from the sabhā of Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi, and to its being made fit for cultivation by the provision of irrigation facilities by Pūvaṉ-Paṟaiyaṉ, who is described as one of the ‘Araiyaṉ-aṇukkar’, belonging apparently to the king's bodyguard. The land which was renamed as ‘Paṟaiyaṉ-vaśakkal’ was endowed to the temple as kiḍaippuṟam.

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⟨1⟩ •••• koccaṭaiyamāṟa[r]kku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉetir oṉpatu muḷḷināṭṭu brahma teyam1 iḷaṅkoykkuṭi

⟨2⟩ sabhaiyāriṭai ūriṉ melūr puṟṟu teṟṟiyumāykkiṭanta pāḻ iṟai kāṭṭātitāka vilai koṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu vacakki vayalum kuḷamu mākki ik kuḷattāl nirmikuvatu vaccu nel viḷaiccu aññāḻikkālā-

⟨4⟩ [l] māttāl kalaṉey tūṇi nellu ikkuḷamiṟaikku[m*] ōrāḷuṅ kuṭuppatāka kiṭaippuṟam itu [|*] vikkūṟu vayakkum vāryya-

⟨5⟩ rkkuk kuṭuppatākavum [|*] toral intatu avi•• rkkūṟum vilaikoṇṭu paṟaiyaṉ vacakka leṉṟu periṭṭu kū-

⟨6⟩ ḻpeṟṟacuri yeṉṟu piyariṭṭuk kiṭaippuṟam vaittāṉ araiya ṉaṇukkaril pūvaṉ paṟaiyaṉeṉ [|*] canti-

⟨7⟩ rātittaval niṟpatāka vaittatu [|*] mikku ne uriyyāka kuṭutta pacu oṉṟu kaṉṟum kuṭut te[n*] pū[va*]m paṟaiyaṉe[ṉ*] itu [|*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0057⟩ No. 57. (A.R. No. 417 of 1917.) KUTTĀLAM, TENKASI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE EAST VERANDAH OF THE KUTTĀLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This record, dated in the 2+9th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ, registers a gift of 3 buffaloes by Ayyaṅkūttaṉ, a merchant of Iḍavai in Maṇṇi-nāḍu, for maintaining half a lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tirukkuṟṟālam in Teṉvāra-nāḍu. This Iḍavai is identical with Iḍavai in Śōḻa-nāḍu, in a campaign against which a Pāṇḍya general had accompanied king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ of No. 26 above.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koc-

⟨2⟩ caṭaiyamāṟarkku

⟨3⟩ yāṇṭu iraṇṭu i-

⟨4⟩ [ta]ṉeti roṉpa-

⟨5⟩ tu ivvāṇṭu te-

⟨6⟩ [ṉv]vāra [nā]ṭṭu ti-

⟨7⟩ [rukku]ṟṟālattu mā-

⟨8⟩ tevarkku ma-

⟨9⟩ ṇṇi nāṭṭu i-

⟨10⟩ ṭavai viyāpā-

⟨11⟩ ri ayyaṅ [kū]-

⟨12⟩ ttaṉ vaicca ti-

⟨13⟩ runontāviḷakku-

⟨14⟩ araiyā laṭṭi[ṉa*] cā-

⟨15⟩ vā muvāppe-

⟨16⟩ rerumai mūṉṟu [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0058⟩ No. 58. (A.R. No. 418 of 1917.) KUTTĀLAM, TENKASI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE EAST VERANDAH IN THE KUTTĀLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record of the 2+9th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ also comes from Kuṟṟālam in Teṉvāra-nāḍu, and registers a gift of six buffaloes by Vaṇḍālai Kōṇaṉ of Nallūrpāṇḍikkuḍi in Teṉvāra-nāḍu, for burning a lamp in the temple of Tirukuṟṟāla-Mahādēva. ⟨Page 42⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] koccaṭaiya-

⟨2⟩ māṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu [2]-

⟨3⟩ iraṇṭu ita[ṉ]e-

⟨4⟩ tir oṉpatu-

⟨5⟩ ivvāṇṭu teṉvā-

⟨6⟩ ranāṭṭut tirukku-

⟨7⟩ ṟṟāla mahāte-

⟨8⟩ varkku innāṭ[ṭu]-

⟨9⟩ nallūrpāṇṭik-

⟨10⟩ kuṭikkuṭi va-

⟨11⟩ ṇṭālai koṇaṉ vaicca

⟨12⟩ tirunontāviḷak-

⟨13⟩ ku oṉṟu [|*] oṉṟu-

⟨14⟩ kku maṭutta eru-

⟨15⟩ mai āṟu niyatam u-

⟨16⟩ ḻakku neykku [|*] i

⟨17⟩ v verumai cāvā muvā-

⟨18⟩ ppererumai ||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0059⟩ No. 59. (A.R. No. 220 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḺUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription dated in the 2+9th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ registers a gift of 50 sheep by Kuḍiyaṉ Atulaguṇattaṉ of Nālkūr in Vēṇbu-nāḍu for burning a lamp to god Jaṭāmakuṭap-Perumāḷ of the temple called Tiruvaḻudīśvaram at Peruṅguḷam in Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷanāḍu, on behalf of his mother Śuvaraṉ-Āchchi. The aganāḻigaiyār of the temple agreed to burn the lamp.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamā••••• iraṇṭu itaṉetir oṉpatu ivvāṇṭu tiru vaḻutiva-

⟨2⟩ ḷanāṭṭup peruṅkuḷattu[t tiruvaḻu]tiīśvarattu jaṭāmakuṭap perumāḷukku veṇpu [nā]-

⟨3⟩ ṭṭu nālkūr kuṭiyaṉ atulakuṇatteṉ eṉ tāy cuvaraṉ ācciyaic cārtti ivvāṇṭu

⟨4⟩ dhanu nāyiṟu mutalāka cantirātityaval lerivatāka vaitta tirunontāviḷakku oṉṟu [|*] oṉṟiṉu-

⟨5⟩ kku ittaḷi akanāḻikaiyār vaḻi aṭutta cāvāmuvāp perāṭu aimpatu [|] aimpatuṅ koṇ-

⟨6⟩ ṭu ittevar nārāya uḻakkāl nicata muḻakku neyaṭṭi [i]vviḷakku muṭṭāma lerippomāyi [ṉo]-

⟨7⟩ m ittaḷip paṇiceyyum akanāḻi[kaiyo]m [||*]-

⟨SIIv14p1i0060⟩ No. 60. (A.R. No. 227 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḺUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription dated in the 2+9th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ registers a gift of 13 kāśu by a certain Mūkkaṉ, for burning a lamp in the temple of Tiruvaḻudīśvarattu-Āḻvār at Peruṅguḷam in Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷanāḍu, on behalf of his mother Naraśiṅgam.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟarkku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉetir oṉpatu ivvāṇṭu tiruvaḻuti vaḷanāṭṭu peruṅkuḷattu

⟨2⟩ tiruvaḻutiīśvarattu āḻvārkku ittaḷi kuṭi mūkkaṉen ṉenṟāy naraciṅkattaic cātti vaicca tirununtāviḷakku oṉ-

⟨3⟩ ṟu [|*] oṉṟiṉu[k*]kum vacca kācu patiṉmūṉṟu [|*] ikkācu patiṉmūṉṟuṅ koṇṭu tevar nārāya uḻakkināl uḻakku ney nicata mu-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭāmalaṭṭi iravum pakalumerippatāyiṉom ittaḷi akanāḻikaiyom [|*] ikkācil ittaḷi veṭṭikuṭi cāṇi e-

⟨5⟩ ṭṭi vaḻi kuṭutta kācu āṟu [|*] āṟukoṇṭu nicatam āḻākku ney yaṭṭuvatāyiṉeṉ cāṇi eṭṭi yeṉ [|*] inney muṭṭil-

⟨6⟩ laṭṭi erivippataṉukku iṟaippuṇaip paṭṭom ittaḷi paṇi ceyyu makanāḻikaiyom [||*] ⟨Page 43⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0061⟩ No. 61. (A.R. No. 453 of 1929-30.) ĀTTŪR, TIRUCHCHENDUR TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE DOOR-JAMB OF THE PERUMĀḶ SHRINE IN THE SŌMANĀTHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record dated in some year (of a single digit) opposite to the 2nd year of reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ is damaged at the end. It appears to relate to a gift of land made by a certain Vikkiramakāmuka-Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Dēvaṉ-Śōlai of Kuḷattūr in Aḷaṟṟu-nāḍu, who had purchased some fallow land from the sabhā of Shaḍaṅgavikuṟichchi, a brahmadēya in Kuḍa-nāḍu and had endowed it, after making it fit for cultivation, to the temple of Tirunārāyaṇa-viṇṇagar-Dēvar, situated in the north of the village.

Shaḍaṅgavikuṟichchi is the name of the village which had been granted to brāhmaṇas well-versed in the Shaḍaṅgas or the six components of Vēdic learning. Kuṟichchi is the special name for a hilly village.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koc-

⟨2⟩ caṭaiyamāṟaṟk-

⟨3⟩ ku yāṇṭu [2] i-

⟨4⟩ taṉṉetir i-

⟨5⟩ vvāṇṭu kuṭa-

⟨6⟩ nāṭṭu brahma-

⟨7⟩ teyam caṭaṅ-

⟨8⟩ kavi kuṟic-

⟨9⟩ ci vaṭakkil

⟨10⟩ tirukkoyil

⟨11⟩ tirunārāyaṇa-

⟨12⟩ viṇṇakar te-

⟨13⟩ varkku aḷaṟ-

⟨14⟩ [ṟu] nāṭṭukkuḷa-

⟨15⟩ ttūr vikkiramakā-

⟨16⟩ muka pallavarai-

⟨17⟩ yaṉṉāṉa teva-

⟨18⟩ ñ colaiyeṉ i-

⟨19⟩ ccaṭaṅkavi kuṟi-

⟨20⟩ ccic cavaiyār-

⟨21⟩ pakkal nāṉmutu-

⟨22⟩ nilam vilaikoṇṭu-

⟨23⟩ vacakkiṉa cey i-

⟨24⟩ t tevar ceykaḷu

⟨25⟩ ••tirumāliru-

⟨26⟩ ñ colai 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0062⟩ No. 62. (A.R. No. 219 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḺUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 2+10th regnal year of king Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ registers a gift of a śekaṇḍikai (gong) by the person mentioned in No. 59 above, on behalf of his father Māṟaṉ-Kuḍiyaṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟarkku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉetir [pa]-

⟨2⟩ ttu ivvāṇṭu tiruvaḻuticarattu āḷvārkku veṇ-

⟨3⟩ puṇāṭṭu [nā]lkūr kuṭiyaṉ atulakuṇatteṉ emappaṉ-

⟨4⟩ māṟaṉ kuṭiyaṉai cātti iṭṭa cekaṇṭikai oṉṟu [ni]-

⟨5⟩ ṟai eḻupatu [|*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0063⟩ No. 63. (A.R. No. 299 of 1916.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE LEFT DOOR-LAMB OF THE FRICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE.

This incomplete inscription of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ is dated in the 2 + 11th year of his reign and stops with the mention of Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi in Muḷḷi-nāḍu. ⟨Page 44⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ koccaṭai-

⟨3⟩ yamāṟa[r*]kku-

⟨4⟩ iyāṇṭu-

⟨5⟩ 2 itaṉeti-

⟨6⟩ r [11] i[v*]vā-

⟨7⟩ ṇṭu muḷḷi-

⟨8⟩ nāṭṭu pira-

⟨9⟩ mateyam i-

⟨10⟩ ḷaṅkoykku-

⟨11⟩ ṭi tirup- 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0064⟩ No. 64. (A.R. No. 118 of 1910.) ŚŌḺAVANDĀṈ, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP IN THE PLATFORM OF THE RAILWAY STATION.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record dated in 2+12th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ registers a gift of 25 cows by Vēḷāṉ-Paḍāri, wife of Teṉṉavaṉ Aṇukkappēraraiyaṉ alias Paṇayaṉ Māṇikkaṉ of Perumbāgaṉūr in Pāgaṉūr-kūṟṟam, for a lamp to the temple of Peruntirukkōyil-Dēvar of Tirumāṉam, a brahmadēya in Pāgaṉūr-kūṟṟam. The cows were left in the charge of two priests of the temple (aganāḻigaiyār) named Nāraṇaṉ-Mādēvaṉ and Munnūṟṟuvan-Tiruvārū[ra]ṉ. The slab on which the inscription is engraved must have originally belonged to some Śiva temple in the vicinity and been removed to the station site later on.

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⟨1⟩ koccaṭaiyamā-

⟨2⟩ ṟaṟku yāṇṭu i[ra]-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu itaṉ etir

⟨4⟩ panniraṇṭu iv-

⟨5⟩ vāṇṭu pākaṉūrk-

⟨6⟩ kūṟṟattup pi-

⟨7⟩ ramateyam tirumā-

⟨8⟩ ṉattup peru[n]-

⟨9⟩ tirukkoyil teva-

⟨10⟩ rkku ikkūṟṟattu-

⟨11⟩ pperumpākaṉūr-

⟨12⟩ t teṉṉavaṉ

⟨13⟩ aṇukkap pera-

⟨14⟩ raiyaṉāyiṉa

⟨15⟩ paṇayaṉ māṇik-

⟨16⟩ kaṉ maṇavāṭṭi ve-

⟨17⟩ ḷāṉ paṭāri ti[ru*]no-

⟨18⟩ ntāviḷa[k*]ku oṉṟi-

⟨19⟩ ṉukku akanāḻikai-

⟨20⟩ yāṉ nāraṇaṉ māte-

⟨21⟩ vaṉukku aṭutta pa-

⟨22⟩ cu irupattañcu [|*]

⟨23⟩ i nontāvi[ḷa*]kkut

⟨24⟩ tāṉum pākam eri-

⟨25⟩ kkak kaṭavaṉāy-

⟨26⟩ p puṇaippaṭṭa

⟨27⟩ munnūṟṟuvan

⟨28⟩ tiruvāru[ra]ṉ e-

⟨29⟩ ḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0065⟩ No. 65. (A.R. No. 475 of 1909.) EDIRKŌṬṬAI, SATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A ROCK CLOSE TO THE ŚUṈAI-KAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record is dated in the 14th year opposite to the 2nd year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ; but as it is damaged and incomplete, its purport cannot be made out. It mentions a kūlichchēvagaṉ named Māṟam-Bhaṭṭaṉ and some donation, the nature of which is not clear, to the god Bhaṭāra of Śuṉaikkuḍi, a hamlet of Kūttaṉkuḍi in Veṇbaikkuḍināḍu. ⟨Page 45⟩

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⟨1⟩ śrī koccaṭaiya māṟa[rk*]kuyāṇṭu i-

⟨2⟩ raṇṭu itaṉetir patiṉālu ve-

⟨3⟩ ṇpaikkuṭi nāṭṭuk kūttaṉkuṭi-

⟨4⟩ ppāṟ cuṉaikkuṭip paṭāra[r*]kku kūlic-

⟨5⟩ cevakaṉ māṟampaṭṭaṉ ivvūrp paṭukā-

⟨6⟩ lappaṭṭu iṉṟiviṭa ināṭṭu attāṇi-

⟨7⟩ karai•• maiy mākāṇakkuṭi cevakaṉ e• m māṭu•

⟨8⟩ makkala muṭpaṭa eṟṟik kaḻaiñcu

⟨SIIv14p1i0066⟩ No. 66. (A.R. No. 440 of 1917.) KUTTĀLAM, TENKASI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE prākāra IN THE KUTTĀLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This fragmentary inscription belongs to the 2+15th year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ. It mentions Kuṟṟālam in Teṉvāra-nāḍu and Pāśupatapperumakkaḷ. Owing to the damaged condition of the record, it is not possible to ascertain the functions and constitution of the Pāśupatapperumakkaḷ, who, however, appear to have been managing the affairs of the temple. They may have belonged to the Pāśupata sect.

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⟨1⟩ •••••caṭaiyamāṟarkku yāṇṭu i[raṇṭu itaṉe]tir pati[ṉai*]ñcu ivvāṇṭu teṉ vāra nāṭṭu tirukkuṟṟālam āṉa-

⟨2⟩ ••••••• [ṭṭo]m pācupatapperumakkaḷo••••• iruntu••• • ccu eṅkaḷ tevar pūmi •

⟨SIIv14p1i0067⟩ No. 67. (A.R. No. 11 of 1927.) VIJAYANĀRĀYAṆAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MANŌMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 2+17th year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ is built in at the end and its purport is not therefore clear. It appears to relate to a gift of money made to the god Kaṟṟaḷi-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ of the Maṉōmaya-Īśvaram temple by a certain Tiruvēṅgaḍa Eṟichchi••••• in the name of Pūvaṇavaṉ Tirumāladhikārigaḷ of Vaḷaiñjiya-Kuṟichchi. The Peruṅguṟi-sabhā of the village which met in the temple on a day of the solar eclipse in that year invested this amount in the purchase of land 6 mā in extent. As the month in which the solar eclipse occurred has not been specified, the year cannot be calculated.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟarkku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉe-

⟨2⟩ tir patiṉeḻu ivvāṇṭu nāṭṭāṟṟu[p*]pokku brahma-

⟨3⟩ teyam vicaiyanārāyaṇaccaruppetimaṅkalat-

⟨4⟩ tu maṉomaya īyccuvarattu kaṟṟaḷi perumāṉaṭikaḷu-

⟨5⟩ kku ivvūrk kiḻpaṭākai vaḷaiñciya kuṟicci

⟨6⟩ pūvaṇavaṉ tirumāl atikārikaḷ perāl tiruveṅka-

⟨7⟩ ṭa eṟicci••• tevarkku kuṭukka ivvūr mācapai

⟨8⟩ cūrcciya kirāṇattiṉ nāḷ maṉomaya īycuvarattu pe-

⟨9⟩ ruṅkuṟi kūṭi iruntu itukku kuṭutta nila[m] cena-

1) The record stops here.

⟨10⟩ ttirumāl kiṇaṟṟu vaḷākattukku teṟku nama [pi]tā

⟨11⟩ kuḻi nirkoḷukku meṟku caṅkaraṉ vayakkalukku vaṭa-

⟨12⟩ kku veṭṭaṅ kallaṟai a[ṭu]tta kiṇaṟṟu vaḷākattukku

⟨13⟩ kiḻakku innaṭuvupaṭṭa āṟumā ceyyum iyki 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0068⟩ No. 68. (A.R. No. 122 of 1905.) TIRUPPUḌAIMARUDŪR, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE CHAṆḌĒŚVARA SHRINE IN THE PUṬĀRJUNĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Dated in the 2+18th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ, this Vaṭṭeḻuttu record from Tiruppūḍaimarudūr or Tiruppaḍumarudil as it was called in the old days, mentions a servant of Vīra-Pāṇḍyadēva, who was a native of Malayamādēvipuram in Pāṇḍimāttāṇḍa-vaḷanāḍu and refers to some donation made by him, the details of which are lost. Though this Vīra-Pāṇḍya is not specifically styled a Piḷḷaiyār, to denote his relationship to the reigning king, it is possible that he was identical with Vīra-Pāṇḍya, who figures in inscriptions with the title of ‘Śōḻaṉṟalaikoṇḍa’. As this Vīra-Pāṇḍya's date of accession has been calculated to be about 946 A. D., the Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ of this record may, as otherwise indicated also, be identical with Rājasimha, the contemporary of Parāntaka, and the immediate predecessor of Vīra-Pāṇḍya.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟa[rk*]ku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu 2 itaṉetir patiṉeṭṭu

⟨3⟩ ivvāṇṭu muḷḷi nāṭṭu tirup[pa]-

⟨4⟩ ṭu marutil caṇṭicuvara[r*]kku [pā]-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭimāttāṇṭa vaḷanāṭṭu ma[la]ya-

⟨6⟩ mātevipurattu virapāṇṭiya•••

⟨7⟩ kkattu cevakaṉ veḷāṉ mātevaṉ 2 •••

⟨SIIv14p1i0069⟩ No. 69. (A.R. No. 722 of 1905.) UTTAMAPĀḶAIYAM, PERIYAKULAM TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ABOVE THE IMAGES IN THE KARUPPAṆṆASVĀMIN ROCK.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu record, dated in the 2+18th year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ, is much damaged and refers to some Tīrthappaḷḷi, the Jaina temple, and to Koṟkai in Kuḍa-nāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu ira-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu itaṉetir patiṉeṭṭu kuṭa-

⟨3⟩ nāṭṭu [ko]ṟkaināṭṭu mu•• iṉakā•• [ma]

⟨4⟩ ṉeṉ tirukka••• muṉṟu putta•kaḷ cirit-

⟨5⟩ tirttappaḷḷiil•••• ⟨Page 47⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0070⟩ No. 70. (A.R. No. 550 of 1911.) KŌVILKUḶAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TEṈṈAḺAGAR TEMPLE.

This incomplete inscription dated in the 2+19th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ refers to the temple of god Viṇṇagar-Dēvar of Tiruppodiyil and to some donation, the details of which are not preserved in the inscription, made on behalf of a certain Kāḍaṉ-Śeynōkki.

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⟨1⟩ koccaṭaiyamāṟarkku yāṇṭiraṇṭu itaṉetir [pa]ttoṉpatu ivvāṇṭu tirup-

⟨2⟩ [po]tiyil viṇṇakart tevarkku ivvūr [kā]ṭaṉ ceynok[ki]yaic cārtti

⟨3⟩ ••••••••• 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0071⟩ No. 71. (A.R. No. 421 of 1906.) ŚEVILIPĒRI, TIRUNELVELI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE AḺAGAR TEMPLE.

This inscription dated in the 2+19th year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ registers a gift of 25 sheep for a lamp to be burnt in the temple of Karumāṇikkadēva of Teṉ-Tirumāliruñjōlai in Kīḻkaḷakkūṟṟam, by Appinaṅgai, the wife of Śatrubhayaṅkara-Muttaraiyaṉ of Ālaṅguḍi, a village in Iruñjōḻa-nāḍu. From the fact that the donatrix is styled an araśiyār, her husband Śatrubhayaṅkara-Muttaraiyaṉ was probably a Pāṇḍya feudatory of some note in this region. Aṇukkaṉ is mentioned as the title of Appinaṅgai's father. Probably he belonged to the Aṉukkappaḍai or the king's bodyguard. This title appears to have been used for such personal service to the king, as in Teṉṉavaṉ-Aṇukkappēraraiyaṉ in No. 64 above.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī || koccaṭaiyarmāṟarkku iyāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉetir pattoṉpatu ivvāṇṭu [iriñ] coḻanāṭṭu ālaṅ-

⟨2⟩ kuṭi catturupayaṅkara muttaraiyaṉ araciyār innāṭṭu iḷaviruppai aṇukkaṉ appinaṅkai kiḻkaḷa kūṟṟa-

⟨3⟩ ttu tevatāṉam teṉtirumāliruñcolainiṉṟaruḷiṉa karumāṇikkatevarkku tiruviḷakkukku vaicca āṭu irupattañ-

⟨4⟩ cu ivai cāvā muvā perāṭu ௳

⟨SIIv14p1i0072⟩ No. 72. (A.R. No. 409 of 1906.) SEVILIPĒRI, TIR1UNELVELI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE AḺAGAR TEMPLE.

This record is dated in the 19th year opposite to the 2nd year of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ and registers a gift of 50 sheep made by Kārambichcheṭṭu Paṟpanābhaṉ Tiruvēṅgaḍam residing in Nandivanma-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a village in Uṟaiyūr-kūṟṟam on the southern bank (of the Kāvērī) in Śōṇāḍu, for a perpetual lamp to be burnt in the temple of god Karumāṇikkadēva, who was pleased to be manifest at Teṉ-Tirumāliruñjōlai. which was the ancient name of this temple. Śevilipēri appears to have got this name to distinguish it from Aḻagarkōyil, apparently the Vaḍa-Tirumāliruñjōlai in the Madurai district. ⟨Page 48⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] koccaṭaiyamāṟarkku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉetir patt[o]ṉpatu ivvāṇṭu kiḻkaḷakkūṟṟattu te-

⟨2⟩ ṉtirumāliruñcolai niṉṟaruḷiṉa karumāṇikkat tevarkkuc coṇāṭṭu teṉkaraināṭṭu uṟaiyūrkkū-

⟨3⟩ ṟṟattu nantivaṉmaccaruppetimaṅkalattu kārampiceṭṭu paṟpaṉāpaṉ tiruveṅkaṭam

⟨4⟩ vaicca tirunontāviḷakku oṉṟu oṉṟiṉukku vaicca cāvā muvāp perāṭu ampatu ivvāṭaiym-

⟨5⟩ patukkum veṭṭikkuṭi vempaṉ pullaṉeṉ cantirātittaval nicatam uḻakku ney muṭṭāmal-

⟨6⟩ aṭṭuvatāṉeṉ ikkarumāṇikkatevarkku [|*] itu śrīvaiyiṣṇavar rakṣai ௳

⟨SIIv14p1i0073⟩ No. 73. (A.R. No. 551 of 1911.) KŌVILKUḶAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TEṈṈAḺAGAR TEMPLE.

This mutilated record of the time of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ is dated in the 2+19th year of his reign, and appears to register a gift of sheep made by a certain Aḍigaḷ•••••••••, evidently for burning a lamp in the temple of god Tiruppodiyil-Viṇṇagar-Dēvar in Viṭaṅkanallūr.

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⟨1⟩ ••••• 1 yamāṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉetir pattoṉpatu [muḷḷinā]ṭṭuk kuḷattu ••••

⟨2⟩ •••• tār viṭaṅkanallūrt tiruppotiyil viṇṇaka••••kku aṭikaḷ••••

⟨3⟩ •••• ṉ vaicca āṭu irupattañcu••••ṇakar iṭai••••

⟨SIIv14p1i0074⟩ No. 74. (A.R. No. 228 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḺUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 2+22nd year of the reign of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ and is the highest regnal year so far found for him. It registers a gift of 2 shares of land to Pūdaṅguḍiyaṉ of Nāṭṭāmaṅgalam made by the Śaṭṭapperumakkaḷ, aganāḻigaiyār, patiyār and pañchāchāryas of the temple of Tiruvaḻudīśvaram at Peruṅguḷam in recognition of the service rendered by him in redeeming the lands in Kuraṅguṇi to the temple, and in having secured the remission of taxes on them.

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⟨1⟩ • siśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟaṟku yāṇṭu [2] itaṉetir irupattu i[ra][ṇ]ṭu ivvāṇṭu tiruvaḻutivaḷanāṭṭup peruṅ[kuḷattut ti]ruvaḻuticcarattuc caṭṭa••••ḷu makanā-

⟨2⟩ ḻikaiyārum patiyārum pañcācāryyarum uvaccakaḷum ivvaṉaivomuṅ kūṭi nāṭ[ṭā]maṅkalattu pūtaṅkuṭiyaṉukku vaicca paricāvatu [|*] ivaṉ dēvarkkum teva[r*] paṇice[y] makkaḷukkum-

⟨3⟩ maṭṭikkuṭukka kuraṅkuṇi tiṟappu mī[ṭ]ṭu[m*] maṟṟun tevakāri[ya] muḷḷatuñ ceytu tantamaiil eṅkaḷoṭotta paṅku oṉṟiṉāl vanta bhōgam kuraṅkuṇi[yi*]lum •

⟨4⟩ ••ḷoṭotta••••ṟiṉāl vanta bhōgam ivaṉukkum ivaṉ ma[k]kaḷ makkaḷukkum kaḷa••••makkaḷukku candrādityaval•• niṟpatākap paṇiccukkuṭut[to]•• ruvaḻu-

⟨5⟩ •••••[pe]rumakkaḷum ivvaṉaivom pūtaṅkuṭiyaṉukku [|*] ivai kaṇakka paṇṭāri veḷāṉ kuṇapāla[ṉ] eḻuttu [||*] ⟨Page 49⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0075⟩ No. 75. (A.R. No. 552 of 1911.) KŌVILKUḶAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TEṈṈAḶAGAR TEMPLE.

This undated record from Kōvilkuḷam belongs to the same period, as the donor named Kāḍaṉ and his wife Naṟśeynōkki figure in No. 70 of the 2+19th year of Śaḍaiya Māṟaṉ. A gift of 25 sheep evidently for a lamp to be burnt in the temple is registered in this inscription.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||* •] taṉṉuṭaiya kātali naṟceynokki taṉ viṭṭa vi•ṉ•• pe•ṟa•ka •

⟨2⟩ ṉmai mika āṭirupattaiñcum viḷakkoṉṟumāka kāṭa•ṭuyivar 1 ••••

⟨SIIv14p1i0076⟩ No. 76. (A.R. No. 270 of 1928.) KŌṬṬAI-KARUṄGUḶAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE RĀJASIMHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This damaged inscription in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters belongs to the time of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ and is dated in some year opposite to the 2nd year of his reign. It refers to the stone temple of Rājaśiṅgēchchuvaram at Karuṅguḷam and to the gift of something for a perpetual lamp to be burnt in it. The temple must have been built by Rājasimha, after whom the god appears to have been so named.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||] ko[c*]caṭaiyamāṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu iraṇṭu itaṉ etir 3 •••• ḻavaṉ•••

⟨2⟩ ya•• caṅkaram mutallāka karuṅkuḷattu irāciñkkecuvaramāyiṉa tiru[k*]kaṟṟaḷi[p]pe•••

⟨3⟩ ••• vaitta tirunontāviḷakku•••

⟨SIIv14p1i0077⟩ No. 77. (A.R. No. 301 of 1916.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE EṞICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE.

This incomplete inscription of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ, the date of which is lost, refers to a certain MAṉAbharaṇaṉ-Podiyil-VēḷAṉ, whose wife may have provided perhaps for the burning of a lamp in the temple of Tirupōttuḍaiya-Bhaṭāra at Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi. From the mention of Māṉābharaṇa as the surname of the person, it may be inferred that it was probably a biruda of the king Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ himself. It does not occur, however, in his copper plate grant from ŚiṉṉamaṉUr.4

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⟨1⟩ ••• śrī [||*] koccaṭaiyamāṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu••••

⟨2⟩ • 5 vvāṇṭu muḷḷināṭṭu iḷaṅkoykkuṭi-

⟨3⟩ ••• ttuṭai bhaṭār[k*]ku māṉābharaṇa[ṉ*] potiyil ve

⟨4⟩ ••• ṇavā 6 ⟨Page 50⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0078⟩ No. 78. (A.R. No. 440 of 1907.) ŚIṈṈAMAṈŪR, PERIYAKULAM TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE LAKSHMĪNĀRĀYAṆA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This Tamil inscription is dated in the 46th year of a Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ, whose identity with the other king of the same name is not clear, in the absence of similar records bearing such high regnal years. It differs from the usual run of inscriptions of this period in its registering an order (kaichcham) of the sabhā of Arikēsarinallūr, a brahmadēya in Aḻa-nāḍu, regulating the supply of water from the channel called Śrīkaṇṭha-vāykkāl, apparently to temple lands.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī ||— koccaṭaiyamāṟa[r*]kku yāṇṭu 46 i[v*]vāṇṭu aḻanāṭṭu brahmadēyam arikecari nallū[r*] sabhaiyom nammūr śrīkaṇṭavāy-

⟨2⟩ kkāl kīḻ bhumi munnīṭāy kuṟuvaiy viḷaiynta••• kkaḷ ḷallatuḷaippār māttāl pattu kācu taṇṭamum paṭṭu pinnai

⟨3⟩ yum viḷaikka[p] peṟātitākavum [|*] ivvāykkālk kīḻ••• l veṭṭiṉa kaiccappaṭiye kavar tiṟappatākavum [|*] ipparica[l]latu cey

⟨4⟩ vār daṇṭa[p*] paṭuvatākavum [|*] ipparicu kaiccam ceytom sabhaiyom ||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0079⟩ No. 79. (A.R. No. 420 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record is dated in the 3rd year opposite to the 4th year of the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya ‘who took the head of the Chōḷa’ and registers a gift of sheep by Śoḷāntaka Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Māṟaṉ-Ādichchan of Pōḻiyūr in Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu for burning a lamp in the temple of god Sundara-pāṇḍya-Īśvarattu-Bhaṭāra at Tiruchchuḻiyal a dēvadāna in Paruttikkuḍi-nāḍu. Sundara-Pāṇḍya Īśvaram must have been named after a king or prince of that name. The village is called Paḷḷimaḍai or probably Paḷḷipāḍai, in which latter case, the shrine may have been built in memory of a Sundara-Pāṇḍya.

A certain chieftain of Pōḻiyūr called Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ alias Teṉṉavaṉ-Pallavaraiyaṉ figures in a record dated 4+1st year, 593rd day of a Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ from TirupputtUr1, and he was probably an earlier member of the family to which the Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ of this inscription belonged. Here he bears the title of ChōḷAntaka-Pallava raiyaṉ from the biruda of the king Vīra-Pāṇḍya namely ChōḷAntaka, i.e., ‘god of death to the Chōḷa’ which is equivalent to ‘Śōḻaṉṟalaikoṇḍa’ which is found in all his records. From this fact it is clear that a Chōḷa king had actually been killed by Vīra-Pāṇḍya. From a record of this king from Ambāsamudram 2it has been possible to fix his initial date as A.D. 946.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku yāṇṭu [4] itaṉe[ti]r mūṉṟu ivvāṇṭu parittikku

⟨2⟩ ṭināṭṭut tevatāṉan tiruccuḻiyal paḷḷi[ma]ṭai cuntarapāṇṭiya īśvarattu

⟨3⟩ paṭārarkkup poḻiyūrnāṭṭup poḻiyūrc coḷāntakap pallavaraiyaṉā

⟨4⟩ yiṉa māṟaṉāticcaṉ vaitta tirunontāviḷakku oṉṟu iravum pakalu muṭṭāme ⟨Page 51⟩

⟨5⟩ erivatāka coḷāntaka nārāyattiṉ kīḻ uḻakkiṉāl ney uḻakkāḻākku inne[y*]

⟨6⟩ kku cāvā muvāp perāṭāka aṭutta āṭu eḻupattañcu ivai koṇṭu aṭṭuvāṉāyi-

⟨7⟩ ṉāṉ [teṉpu]lanāṭṭu kiraṉūrkkuṭi paṭaittalaivaṉ cāttaṉ tevaṉ [|*] ivaṉukkup puṇai

⟨8⟩ poḻiyūr nāṭṭup poḻiyūrk 1 kāviti paṭāraṉ colai [|*] iviḷakku rakṣippār tiruccu

⟨9⟩ ḻiyal ayyaṉmār [||*] 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0080⟩ No. 80. (A.R. No. 421 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 4th year opposite to the 4th year of the same king's reign. It registers a gift of sheep by Aruḷāḻi, the headman of a village in Veṇbu-nāḍu, for burning a lamp in the temple of god Sundara-Pāṇḍya-Īśvarattu-Dēvar at Tiruchchuḻiyal, for the merit of his son Kaṇḍaṉ-Dēvaṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku yāṇṭu [4] itaṉetir 4 ivvāṇṭu paruttikkuṭināṭṭu teva[tāṉam tiruccu]ḻiyal paḷḷipaṭaiyc cuntarapāṇṭi īśvara-

⟨2⟩ ttu tevarkku veṇpuṉāṭṭu••••kuṭi kiḻavaṉaruḷāḻi taṉ makaṉ kaṇṭaṉ tevaṉai cārtti vaicca tiru[viḷa]kku oṉṟu [|*] ivviḷakku[kku] vaicca āṭu cāvā muvāp pe-

⟨3⟩ rāṭu irupattaiñcum aṭaikoṇṭa iṭaiyaṉ paruttikkuṭi nāṭṭup peruñcennilakuṭi kuḻuvāṇai pūti••• irupattaiñcu [6 |*] ivaiñciṉāl ney coḻiyanāḻiyāl

⟨4⟩ ney āḻākkum [a]ṭṭuvitāka iṟaippuṇai paṭṭeṉ tiruccuḻi[ya*]l tevar veṭṭikkuṭi iṭaiyaṉ aḻimuṉai caṭai••• kuṭi maṇiyaṉ [||*] 2

⟨SIIv14p1i0081⟩ No. 81. (A.R. No. 87 of 1907.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE BASE OF A RUINED SHRINE IN THE TIRUMŪLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 4th year opposite to the 4th year of the king, records the gift of land in Kīḻūr-kuṇḍukaḻam by a tiṇaikkaḷattāṉ of Nālkūr in Veṇbu-nāḍu, for providing for the expenses of feeding some brāhmaṇas, who chanted some portions of the Vēdas in the presence of god Tiruchchālaittuṟai-niṉṟaruḷiṉa-Emberumāṉ of Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi, a brahmadēya of Muḷḷi-nāḍu. A shrine or hall called Śrīkaraṇatiruchchittirakūtam is also referred to in this record. The astronomical details of the day, namely, Dhanus month and Svāti-nakshatra are of no use in determining the date of the record. ⟨Page 52⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku yāṇṭu nālu i-

⟨2⟩ taṉetir nālu [|*] ivvāṇṭu muḷḷināṭṭup pi[ṟa]mmateyam iḷaṅ-

⟨3⟩ koykkuṭit tiruccālaittuṟai niṉṟaruḷiṉa emperumāṉukku śrī-

⟨4⟩ karaṇa tiruccittirakūṭattiruntu muppattiraṇṭu [ā]c

⟨5⟩ caium aiñcuvāramu moti tāṉam pukkār taṉunāi[ṟ]ṟu co-

⟨6⟩ ti nāḷ melai[k*]kaṭṭuṇpatāka veṇpuṇāṭṭu nālkūrt tiṇaikkaḷattāṉ

⟨7⟩ cāttaṉ vilaikoṇṭu cavaiyāriṟai kāṭṭāti[tāka] vaitta pūmi kiḻurk ku-

⟨8⟩ ṇṭu kaḷam canti[rā]tittaval niṟka nīroṭu aṭṭik kuṭuttatu [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0082⟩ No. 82. (A.R. No. 424 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 5th year opposite to the 4th year of the king's reign relates to the assignment of the sheep belonging to the temple to several shepherds, for the supply of ghee for burning lamps therein.

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⟨1⟩ śrī [|*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyarkku yāṇṭu nāṉku itaṉetir añcu [|*]

⟨2⟩ ivvāṇṭu parittikkuṭināṭṭut tevatāṉan tiruccuḻiyal paḷḷi-

⟨3⟩ maṭai cuntarapāṇṭiya īśvarattu tevarkku tirunontāviḷakkiṉukku āyaṉ nāraṇaṉ na-

⟨4⟩ kkaṉ vaḻi neyaṭṭuvatāka aṭutta [veṭṭi*]kuṭi•••• taṉ koṇṭa āṭu pattu [|*] meṟpaṭi cuttaṉ

⟨5⟩ appikku aṭutta āṭu pattu [|*] meṟpaṭi kovaṉ mātevaṉ koṇṭa āṭu pattu [|*] meṟpaṭi paṭāraṉ kiraṉ

⟨6⟩ koṇṭa āṭu pattu [|*] meṟpaṭi araiyaṉ ṟoṇṭaṉ koṇṭa āṭu pattu [|*] meṟppaṭi nakkañ cāttaṉ koṇṭa āṭu pa-

⟨7⟩ ttu [|*] meṟpaṭi paṭaittalaivaṉ nakkaṉ cāttaṉ koṇṭa āṭu irupattaiñcu [|*] meṟppaṭi paṭait talaivaṉ valiyāṉ cāttaṉ koṇṭa

⟨8⟩ āṭu patiṉañcu eṟṟi cemmari veḷḷāṭu nūṟu [|*] meṟppaṭiyāṉ kāri yātaṉūrāṉ koṇṭa

⟨9⟩ āṭu pattu [|*] meṟpaṭiyāṉ nakkaṉ yalaṉ koṇṭa āṭu pattu [|*] meṟpaṭi ittevar veṭṭi

⟨10⟩ kkuṭi taṉuvāccaṉ appi koṇṭa āṭu pattu [|*] meṟpaṭi toṅkaṉ nilaṉ koṇṭa āṭu 10 [||*]-

1) A section below the tier on which this record is engraved reads as follows and is probably connected with this record:

⟨1⟩ kāviti centaṉ koṇṭa āṭu 10 meṟpaṭiyāṉ cāttaṉ koṇṭa āṭu 15

⟨2⟩ meṟ(ṟa)paṭi cātaṉ neṟkoṭi koṇṭa āṭu 10 meṟppaṭi ayal kuṇamātaṉ koṇṭa ā-

⟨3⟩ ṭu 25 meṟpaṭi paṭṭampullūr koṇṭa āṭu 25 meṟppaṭi iḷaiyāṉ

⟨4⟩ vaittāṉ koṇṭa āṭu 10

⟨SIIv14p1i0083⟩ No. 83. (A.R. No. 429 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE BASE OF THE WEST WALL OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record of Vīra-Pāṇḍya is dated in the 5th year opposite to the 4th year of his reign and is damaged and incomplete. It appears to enumerate the dēvaraḍaiyār who were connected with the temple of Sundara-Pāṇḍya-Īśvaram at Paḷḷipaḍai in Tiruchchuḻiyal, a dēvadāṉa in Paruttikkuḍi-nāḍu. ⟨Page 53⟩

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⟨1⟩ śrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyarkku yāṇṭu nāṉku itaṉe[ti*]rañ[cu]••

⟨2⟩ vāṇṭu paruttikkuṭināṭṭu tevatāṉa(m)n tiruccuḻi[ya*]l pa[ḷḷi]

⟨3⟩ paṭaic cuntarapāṇṭiya īśvarattu tevaraṭiyāḷ tevaṉ karutāccilaikka••••

⟨4⟩ ti makaḷ kāviti kaṇaipeṟṟāḷ makaḷ nanti caṭaiyampaṭāri—

⟨5⟩ meṟppaṭiyūr nitipeṟṟāḷ ivaḷ makaḷ kāvititāṅki•••••

⟨6⟩ makkaḷum meṟpaṭi tevaraṭiyār nakkañ caṭaiyam kulu•••

⟨7⟩ āccaṉ•• kuluṅkāvilai nakkaṉ kuluṅkāvilai taṉṉiccai•••

⟨8⟩ meṟpaṭi kuluṅkāvilai kuṇacilaṉ kaṇṭaṉ vi 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0084-0085⟩ No. 84-85. (A.R. Nos. 625 and 627 of 1926.) KĪḶMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

The inscription is dated in the 5th year opposite to the 4th year of the king's reign. It states that the affairs of the stone temple named Śrikaṇṭhēśvaram erected by Teṉṉavaṉ Kaṇḍaṉ-Śāttaṉ for the god Bhaṭāra at Tirumāttūr, were examined by this officer, and that the wet and dry lands belonging to the temple priests (aganāḻigaiyār) drummers, etc., situated in Birundaiyūr, were also properly checked and regulated.

The fact that the old dēvadāṉa lands were checked in the time of Vīra-Pāṇḍya indicates that the temple had existed from earlier times, probably as a brick structure, and that it was now rebuilt of stone by this chieftain, with the new name of ŚrIkaṇ-Thēśvaram, after his own name of Kaṇḍaṉ, and the flower-garden called ‘ŚōḻAntakaṉ’ was endowed in the name of the king himself. This chieftain is called Teṉṉavaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ in another record.2

No. 85 which is fragmentary, probably belonging to the same record, is engraved on several slabs in the same wall and relates to the apportionment of the taxes to be levied from the lands in Tirumāttūr belonging to the temple, among the aganāḻigaiyār, uvachhar and others.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku yāṇṭu nāṉku itaṉetir añcu ivvāṇṭu tirumāttūr bhaṭārarkku śrīkaṇṭhēśvarameṉṟu tirukkaṟṟaḷi eṭutta teṉ•••

⟨2⟩ ṇṭañcāttaṉ ittevarkku śrīkāryya mārāyā niṉṟu ittevar paḻantevatāṉam piruntai ūrppaṭum nirnilaṉ coḷāntakaṉeṉṟu tāṉ mayakkiṉa nantavāṉam•••

⟨3⟩ [pi]ṉ teṟkuḷḷatu oṉṟey nāṉmā[varai] ittaḷitteva rakanāḻi[kai*]yārkku nālu paṅkiṉāl arccanābhōgamāy niṅku nirnilaṉ araiye iraṇṭumā [ni]•••

⟨4⟩ raiye araikkālālum ittevarkkuriya puṉceyyālum ittaḷi uvaccaṉ śrīpalluvam pūvaṇavaṉ niyatam āṟāḷiṭṭu uvaccappaṇi cey [ma]•••

⟨5⟩ ttevarkkup paṇṭu kācu poliūṭṭiṉāluṅ kāliiṉālum ittevar nārāyanāḻi śrīkaṇṭhaṉāl ney yaṭṭakkaṭava paḻaṅkuṭikaḷai ārāñci••••

⟨6⟩ itteva rakanāḻikaiyār vacam piruntaiyūr śrīdharaṉatirāttiraṉ vacca poliūṭṭuk kāciṉā livar kaḷaṭṭakkaṭava ney yuḻakku ittevar veṭṭikkuṭi iṭaiyaṉ ⟨Page 54⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0085⟩ No. 85. Other fragmentary portions belonging to this record are: (A.R. No. 627 of 1926.)

⟨1⟩ ••• ittevar•ḻanā••••tirumāttūr

⟨2⟩ nilaṉ oṉṟey nāṉmāvaraiyuñ cuṭṭivacca i-

⟨3⟩ ṟaiyum eccoṟum epperppaṭṭitum mūṉṟu kū-

⟨4⟩ ṟākki ācāryya bhōgamākat tāṉ kalli vayakkik-

⟨5⟩ kuṭutta coḷāntaka••• ñ ceyyālum nantavāṉa-

⟨6⟩ m śrīkaṇṭaṉālum nantavāṉam pañcavaṉ mātevaṉ [ni]-

⟨7⟩ [la]m oru kūṟu tevar iṟuppatākavum [|*] akanāḻi-

⟨8⟩ kaiyār taṅkaḷ paṅkāl oru kūṟiṟuppatākavum [|*] uva-

⟨9⟩ ccaṉ taṉ uvaccaviruttiyāl orukūṟiṟuppatāka-

⟨10⟩ vum [|*] iti••• m vi••••

⟨1⟩ • r veṭṭikkuṭi piriti cāttaṉ vaca maṭutta āṭiruvattaiñciṉā liva ṉaṭṭakkaṭa-

⟨2⟩ va ney āḻarakku [|*] ippiriticāttaṉ vacam piruntaiyūrc caṭaiyaṉa tirātti ra ṉaṭu-

⟨3⟩ tta āṭu paṉṉiraṇṭaraiyiṉā livaṉe yaṭṭakkaṭava ney iru ceviṭṭarai [|*] iccaṭaiyaṉa tirātti-

⟨4⟩ raṉ yittevar veṭṭikkuṭi araiyaṉ muṉiyāk kuṭai vacamaṭutta āṭu panniraṇṭaraiyiṉā

⟨5⟩ livaṉaṭṭakkaṭava ney iruceviṭṭarai [|*] ittevar veṭṭikkuṭi veḷāḷañ cevvarai paḻam-

⟨6⟩ paṭi yaṭṭakkaṭava ney iruceviṭṭarai [|*] ittevar veṭṭik kuṭi kāri kāmaṉ paḻampaṭi yaṭṭak

⟨7⟩ kaṭava ney•••••

⟨8⟩ ḻampaṭiyā•••••

⟨9⟩ vārāñcu mu•••••

⟨10⟩ ṟa••• mum•••••

⟨11⟩ lituvaṉa••••

⟨1⟩ ñ cāttaṉ paḻampaṭi aṭṭak kaṭava ney āḻākkut tayiramuturi [|*] ivaṉ vacam paḻañcik koṉ•••••

⟨2⟩ ku ittevar veṭṭikkuṭi cātta••••paṇai paḻampaṭi yaṭṭak kaṭava ney āḻākkut tayirami•••••

⟨3⟩ it tevar veṭṭikkuṭi parānta••• yāḷaṉ paḻampaṭi yaṭṭak kaṭava ney urit tayirami••

⟨4⟩ ittevar kuṭi koyyaṅ kallaṟa•• yaṭṭak kaṭava ney uḻakku tayiramitirunāḻi [|*]••

⟨5⟩ cam aṭutta erumai eḻaraiyiṉā livaṉaṭṭakkaṭava ney uḻakku koṭimaṅkalattu veḷḷāḷaṉ••• •••

⟨6⟩ ṭṭak kaṭava ney uḻakku [|*] ivaṉey••• yeḻaraiyiṉā laṭṭak kaṭava tayiramitu nāḻi paḻañcik koṉ ma•••

⟨SIIv14p1i0086⟩ No. 86. (A.R. No. 624 of 1926.) KĪḺMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of Vīra-Pāṇḍya is dated in the 5th year opposite to the 5th year instead of being dated opposite to the 4th year, as in the earlier records. The stones of this record are disarranged, and some portion of the document is lost. It mentions that some lands in the village called Parāntakanallūr alias Vāmadēvamaṅgalam ⟨Page 55⟩ was situated in the subdivision Māḍakkuḷakkīḻ and which belonged to the temple were examined by some officer apparently the one figuring in another record in the same temple, and the paddy derivable from them were fixed for the requirements of worship and offerings to the god Bhaṭāra at Tiruvāmāttūr.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] coḻaṉṟalai koṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku yāṇ nāṉku itaṉ ṉetir añcu [|*] ivvāṇṭu tirumāttūr bhaṭārarkku śrīkaṇṭuṇṭhaśvarameṉṟu tirukkaṟṟaḷi eṭu••••

⟨2⟩ varkku śrī kāryyamārāyā niṉṟit tevar tevatāṉa māṭakkuḷakkīḻ śrīparāntakanallūrāyiṉa vāmatevamaṅkalaṅ koṉeri uṭpaṭṭa ūrā rittevarkku pāṭakkaṭa•••••••

⟨3⟩ rumuṟṟa••••••• ṭi aḷakka kaṭava nel lannūṟemu[p*]pattaiṅkalattālum ivakaḷe yiṭak kaṭava uruvu poṉ maṉaṟpāri īḻakkācu muppatiṉālum itte•••••

⟨4⟩ ruvamitiṉukkup patteṭṭukkuttal poti ṉāṉāḻi ariciyāka niyatam arici panniru nāḻiyum aṉṉa balikkum meṟpaṭi kuttal niyatam arici munnāḻi mūḻakkum i•••••

⟨5⟩ ṟṟi niyatam patteṭṭuk kuttalarici patiṉeḻu nāḻiyiṉāṟ kuttal vāci eṟṟi arici irupatiṉāḻi mūḻakkiṉā liraṭṭi nel loru nāḷaik keṇkuṟuṇi nāḻiya•••••

⟨6⟩ laṉey mukkuṟuṇiyu mivattukkuk kuṟuvāḷ kūli kalattuvāyk kuṟuṇiyākak kūli nellup patiṉmukkalaṉey nāṟ kuṟuṇi oru nāḻiyum eṟṟit tiruvamitu aṟa nel••••

Further fragmentary portions belonging to this record are:

A

⟨1⟩ hattu tevaramitu ceyyum poḻutuṇṇum brāhmaṇar aivarkku meṟpaṭi kuttalarici eḻu nāḻi uriyiṉāṟ kuttal maratam eṟu marici nāḻi mūḻakke yāḻāk keṟṟic ceralarici oṉpati ṇuḻi uḻak kāḻākkināliraṭṭi nel••••••••••••• varkku nellaṟupattāṟu kalamun tirumeyppūccuc cantaṉa niyatam arai palamāka orāṭṭai nāḷaikkuc cantaṉa nūṟṟeṇpatiṉ palattiṉukku nellu•••••••••••••

⟨2⟩ k kācu orāṭṭai nāḷaikku veṇṭu nellut toṇṇūṟṟuk kalamu mivaṟṟukkuk kuṟuvarai nāli nellaṟu kalamu mivakaḷukku niyata ney yuḻakkiṉukkun tayiriru nāḻi••• māka īḻakkācu panniraṇṭum tiruppukaikkuk kuṅkuliya niyatam oru palavaraiyāka orāṭṭai nāḷaikkuk kuṅkuliyam aññūṟṟu nāṟpatiṉ pala••••••

⟨3⟩ ḻiyāka eṟṟi orāṭṭai nāḷaikkunellu nūṟṟu nāṟpattu nāṟkalamum dēvarkkum brāhmaṇarkkuma dēvar nantavaṉaṅkaḷil dēvar vārattilaiṅkaṟiyamitu koḷvatākavu mivarkaḷukku viṟaku nīrun tāṉey kuṟai••••••••• p patiṉ palamāka īḻakkā coṉṟaraiyum aṭaikkāya mitiṉukku niyatam peṟuṅkāy muppatāka orāṭṭai nāḷaikku peṟuṅkāy patiṉāyirat teṇṇūṟ ṟiṉ••••

⟨4⟩ rivaṉukku niyata nel laṟu nāḻiyāka orāṭṭai nāḷaikkunel lirupatteṇkalaṉey panniru kuṟuṇiyu mivaṉukkup puṭavai mutaluk kāṭṭaivaṭṭa nellu muppatiṉ kalamum eṟṟi nellaim patteṇ kalaṉey panniru ku••• y muvvāyirattaṟu nūṟāka īḻakkācu muṉṟum ilaiya mitukkut teriyilai niyatam mūvaṭukkāka orāṭṭai nāḷaikku veṇṭum ilaiyami tirunūṟ ṟeḻupa••••••••••••

⟨5⟩ riva rāṇṭikaṇmārkku niyata nellu mukkuṟuṇiyāka orāṭṭai nāḷaikku nelleḻupattiru kalamum mivarkaḷiruvarkkum āṭṭai vaṭṭap puṭavai mutalukku nellaṟupatiṉ kalam meṟṟi aṭikaṇmāri•• ••• kut teriyilai toṇṇuṟṟup paṟṟāka īḻakkācu muṉṟum nūṟṟamitiṉukku orāṭṭai nāḷaikku īḻakkācaraiyum eṟṟi nibandham aṭaitta nel••••• leḻunāṭuriyāka orāṭṭai nāḷaikku

⟨6⟩ ttirukalamum śrī koyil meḻuku••••pat taṭikaṇmārkku niyata nellu muppattaṟu kalamum ivarkaḷiruvarkkum āṭṭai vaṭṭap puṭavai mutalukku nel••• nāḻiyum īḻaka kācirupatum nikki niṉṟa nellu aṟupattoru kalaṉe yirutūṇi nāṉāḻiyum īḻakkācu pattum ivai āṭṭai vaṭṭamu••••

B

⟨1⟩ m paṅkuṉi uttirat tiruviḻāvukkukkaṇṭaḻivākavum ipparicu nibandham aṭaittāṉ teṉṉavaṉ ṟamiḻveḷāyiṉakaṇṭañcāttaṉaṉā••••itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

1 No. 84 above.

⟨SIIv14p1i0087⟩ No. 87. (A.R. No. 626 of 1926.) KĪḺMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

The inscription in Tamil poetry is fragmentary; but from the available portion, it can be inferred that it refers to the building of the temple at TirumāttUr by a certain Tamiḻavēḷ in about the 8th year of reign of Vira-Pāṇḍya. This record contains an eulogy of this chieftain. There is a reference to some who was well-versed in Sanskrit and Tamil works, such as the Vēdas, the Purāṇas, PAtañjala mudar-paṉuval, etc. As the name Teṉṉavaṉ is mentioned in another record, that word combined with Tamiḻavēḷ seems to give the full title ‘Teṉṉavaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ’ of the chieftain, who erected the ŚrIkaṇThēśvaram temple in stone. This chief figures in a record dated in the 12th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya at Ambāsamudram in the Tirunelveli district.1

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⟨1⟩ taṇṭamiḻoṭāri 2 yanūl va—

⟨2⟩ lla tamiḻaveḷ vaṇṭamaruñ colai cūḻ māttūriṟ caṇṭapaṭi eṉṟuṅ kuṉṟāmaiy pārttiyaṟ ṟumā••••rāṭi eṉṟum pūmpotavaṟku ||—pūmicai maṭantaiyum puṉai tamiḻp pula••• r•• nāmicai

⟨3⟩ maṭantaiyum naṉakiṉi tirukka mārvu mukamu maṟṟavark kaḷitta tāḷkeḻu taṭantoṭ caturācāraṉa [mai]ccaṉ itto••• varkkuṅ kacci mūtūrk kāmak kiḻavor paṭuvaṇ kirtti marapuḷāṉ vāṭik kūṭi••••mutal van••••

⟨4⟩ takoḷari• malart teṉṉar komāṉ kaṉṉi naṉṉāṭṭup puḷaka vācaṟ p(o)rarum puricaik kaṉaka māḷkaik kaḷan••••malaṉ iṟaivarai makaḷireṟṟiya viḷakkamaṟurai kaṭaṟ pakkattāriruḷ kaṭiyum pu••••ṟai•• yūruṭai•••••

⟨5⟩ ya peruḷāṉ maṟai poruṭṭaricaṉa māṟun tamiḻkaḷ mūṉṟum varicaiyilamainta vaṭanūl vakaiyu nīti nūlaiyu metaku purāṇamum pātañcala mutaṟ paṉuvaṟ payaṉkaḷum meymai yuṇarn•• ṟu•• virapāṇ

⟨SIIv14p1i0088⟩ No. 88. (A.R. No. 423 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

To the same king Vīra-Pāṇḍya belongs this record dated in the 7th year opposite to the 4th year of his reign. It registers a gift of sheep for burning a lamp in the maTha of Mahāvratigaḷ attached to the temple of Sundarapāṇḍya-Īśvaram at Paḷḷipaḍai. The existence of a Mahāvrati-maTha at this place is of interest. The MUvarkōyi inscription3of the KoḍumbāḷUr chieftain BhUti-Vikramakēsarin, who was probably a contemporary of this Pāṇḍya king, because he claims to have come into conflict with him, also refers to the fact that that chief favoured the Śaiva sect and that one of its teachers was a native of Madurai.

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⟨1⟩ śrī coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyarkku yāṇṭu nāṉku itaṉetir ēḻu [|*] ivvā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu parittikkuṭi nāṭṭu tevatāṉam(n) tiruccuḻi[ya*]l paḷḷipaṭai cuntarapāṇṭiya īśvarat-

⟨3⟩ tu śrīmah[ā*]vratikaḷ maṭattiṉukku viḷakku ne[y*]kku aṭutta cāvā muvā perāṭu irupatu [|*] ivaṟṟiṉāl (n)

⟨4⟩ ney coḷāntaka nāḻiyāl munnāḻi [|*] ivvāṭu koṇṭu inney aṭṭuvāṉāyiṉāṉ coḻanāṭṭu ma- ⟨Page 57⟩

⟨5⟩ ṟukkiḻ irukkiṉṟa āyaṉ tiṇṇāṇiyu maruntiyum [ko]ṭaṉ maṉattāṉum ine[y*]kkum iva—

⟨6⟩ kaḷukkum puṇai it•• ruvāṉācakaṉ nāraṇa nakkaṉ [|*] meṟppaṭiyāṉ iññāṭṭu peruñcenilakkuṭi pa-

⟨7⟩ ṭaittalaivaṉ palavaṉukkāka kai[k*]koṇṭa āṭu pattu [|*] coḷāntaka nāḻiyāl tiṅkaḷ nāḻi(n) ney [|*] ivaṉu-

⟨8⟩ kku puṇai tārāṉ koviñcaṉ ||௳

⟨SIIv14p1i0089⟩ No. 89. (A.R. No. 13 of 1927.) VIJAYANĀRĀYAṆAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MANŌNMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record is dated in the 12th year of the king and refers to a gift of sheep for burning a lamp in the temple, whose name is given, namely, Manōmayaṉīśvaram at Vijayanārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. It is not known whose title ‘Maṉōmayaṉ was; but it already occurs in the time of Śaḍiaya-Māṟaṉ. It may be remarked that the regnal year which had been cited as some year opposite to the 4th up till the 11th year is now quoted as only one year, as the 12th in this record. This practice was in vogue up till the 15th year, when with that year as constant, the further years are quoted as 15+4 and 15+5. No. 91 below however cites the year 13+1. The significance of this is not clear.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉ talai koṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyarkku yāṇṭu 12 paṉṉiraṇṭu [|*] ivvāṇṭu nāṭṭāṟṟup pokku 1—

⟨2⟩ caruppetimaṅkalattu maṉomayaṉīśvarattup perumāṉaṭikaḷukku ivvūr••• ñcicci caturaṉ pa—

⟨3⟩ itaṉukku vaitta cāvā mūvāp perāṭu irupattaiñcu [|*] ivai koṇṭu nicata māḻākku ney yaṭṭu—

⟨SIIv14p1i0090⟩ No. 90. (A.R. No. 426 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 13th year of the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya registers a gift of 100 sheep by a certain Araṅgam-Pūdi alias Pōḻiyūrnāṭṭu-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Śuḍuvūr in Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu, for burning a lamp in the temple of Sundara-Pāṇḍya-Īśvaram at Pallimadai. These sheep were left in charge of several individuals, who had to measure ulated quantities of ghee to the temple.

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⟨1⟩ śrī coḻaṉatalai koṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉmūṉṟu [|*] i-

⟨2⟩ vvāṇṭu [pa]rittikkuṭi nāṭṭu tevatāṉam tiruccuḻi[ya*]l paḷḷimaṭai-

⟨3⟩ c cuntarapāṇṭiya īśvarattu tevarkku poḻiyūr nāṭṭu cuṭuvūr poḻiyūr nāṭṭu-

⟨4⟩ mūventa veḷāṉāyiṉa araṅkam pūti [v]aitta tirunontāviḷakku iraṇṭu [|*] ivaṟ ṟiṉukku a-

⟨5⟩ ṭutta āṭu nūṟu [|*] in nūṟ[ṟiṟ] kaḻakaṉ nāraṇaṉ koṇṭa āṭu [2]5 [|*] ney āḻākku [|*] meṟpaṭiyāṉ koṟṟañ cā-

⟨6⟩ ttaṉ koṇṭa āṭu 25 [|*] ney āḻākku [|*] meṟpaṭi kiḻava ṉappi koṇṭa āṭu 12 arai [|*] meṟpaṭi vira-

⟨7⟩ arumāṉi koṇṭa āṭu 12 arai [|*] ney iru ceviṭṭarai 2 ⟨Page 58⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0091⟩ No. 91. (A.R. No. 548 of 1926.) ŚRĪVILLIPUTTŪR, SRIVILLIPUTTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE maṇḍapa IN THE PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This record which belongs to Vīra-Pāṇḍya is dated in the year opposite to the 13th year of his reign, different from the usual method in which the years quoted were opposite to the 4th year. It is stated that the sabhā of Villipputtūr, a brahmadēya in Malli-nāḍu, which had met in the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Mahādēva, sold some lands newly constituted into a hamlet called Agara-dhanma-maṅgalam, to a certain official named Śatrubhayaṅkara-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ alias Vēḷāṉ-Parañjōti of Peruṅguḷam in Tiruvaḷudi-vaḷanāḍu, for instituting some charities in the two temples of Jalaśayanattu-kkiḍandaruḷiṉa-Paramasvāmin and Tirukkaṟṟali-Mahādēvar in the village.

Among the boundaries of the village are mentioned the names of Māṟapputtūr, Irambāḍu, and Śrīkāntamaṅgalam. Śatrubhayaṅkara was evidently a title borne by a Pāṇḍya king, possibly Vira-Pāṇḍya himself.

The penalty to be imposed on those who obstruct this charity is specified, namely, in the case of an individual, it was 50 poṉ but if the Sabhā itself was at fault, the fine was 500 poṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku patiṉmūṉṟu itaṉ ṉeti[rā]ṇṭu tiruvaḻuti nāṭṭup peruṅkuḷattu śatrubhayaṅkara muventaveḷānāyiṉa veḷāṉ parañcotikku mallināṭṭu brahmadēyam

⟨2⟩ villipputtūr mahāsabhaiyoṅ kūṭṭañ cāttik kūṭṭak kuṟaiviṉṟit tirukkaṟṟaḷi mahā dēvar koyiliṟ kūṭi yiruntu ivvūr jalaśayanattuk kiṭantaruḷiṉa paramasvāmikku mivvūrt tirukkaṟṟaḷi īśvarabhaṭṭārakarkku maṟṟu-

⟨3⟩ misthānaṅkaḷiṟ ṟāṉveṇṭun dharmmañceytu koḷḷa ittevarkaḷukkāka iṟaiyili viṟṟuk kuṭutta bhūmiyāvatu [|*] eṅkaḷūrp paṭākai māṟapputtūr irampāṭṭamuṅ koṭiviṭu muppatu varaiyiṟ cuṟṟu muṟṟu muṇṇila moḻi-

⟨4⟩ viṉṟi viṟṟuk kuṭuttom mahāsabhaiyom [|*] itaṉukkuk kiḻellai maṇikūṭattellai yāl melun teṉṉellai śrī kāntamaṅkalattu ellaiyaral vaṭakku melellai śrīkāntamaṅka lattuk kuḷavāykku mi-

⟨5⟩ ttiraniti ellaikkuṅ kiḻakkum vaṭavellai āṟṟāt teṟku mivvicaitta perunāṉ kellaiyi lakappaṭṭa bhūmiyuṅ kiṇaṟukaḷuṅ kuḷamuṅ kuḷattalaiyuṅ kuṭiyirukkaikaḷuṅ kāvuṅ

⟨6⟩ kainnaṭu maramum paṉaiyum puṟṟun teṟṟiyu miṉpaṭu paḷḷamun teṉpaṭu pottuṅ [kū]tamum (kūtamum) maṟṟu muṭumpoṭi yāmaitavaḻnta tepperppaṭṭatum emmilicainta viṟṟu poruḷu-

⟨7⟩ m eṟṟaikku mippūmikku veṇṭu miṟai dravyamuṅ kaiyyile yaṟakkoṇṭu eṉṟu mepperppaṭṭa iṟaiyum eccoṟum veṭṭi vetiṉaiyuṅ koḷḷātitākavu mipparicicaintu viṟṟukkuṭu-

⟨8⟩ ttom villipputtūr mahāsabhaiyom śatrubhayaṅkara muventaveḷānāyiṉa veḷāṉ parañcotikku [|*] ip pariciṉ ṉivviraṇṭu cīkoyilun tāṉ veṇṭun dharmañ ceytu ślālekhai ceytuku-

⟨9⟩ ṭuttā••••ṉilāreṉum [|*] pūmiyuḷḷiṭṭeteṉumuṭaiya meṉṟi[ṉ] vellaikaḷi lakappaṭṭaṉa epperpaṭṭaṉavun taṭuttu anubha vak kuttukkāl varil taṉiccu vigdha m1 paṇṇa yāraip perāl 50poṉ-

⟨10⟩ ṉuñ capaiyomāy paṇṇil 500 aiññūṟṟu poṉṉun tāṅkaḷ veṇṭum koyiley bhaktajanaṅkaḷu tevarkaḷu tānikar mutalāka [ 2m] tāṉ tām veṇṭu ko[vā]lttaṇṭamiṭṭāl iṭṭa taṇṭamum—

⟨11⟩ ccili iṟuttum piṟṟaiyum ippaṭi aṉupavi(pavi)kka kaṭavomāyicaiñcu immā-

⟨12⟩ ṟapputtūr kuḷattiṉ vaṭakaṭai mekku nokki mittiraṉ ṉitikkuḷattukku melai erik [ kuḷa- ⟨Page 59⟩

⟨13⟩ ṅkaraiyu] ••koḷvatākavum kuḷa[t]ti••• aka[p]paṭil putukkavum••• ṭṭukuṭu[p]pa tākavuma

⟨14⟩ icaiñcu akaradhanmamaṅkalameṉṟu periṭṭu iṟaiyilivi[ṟṟu]k kuṭu[t*]tom marcapaiyo-

⟨15⟩ m cattiru payaṅkara mūventa veḷāṉāṉa veḷāṉ parañcotikku ||

⟨SIIv14p1i0092⟩ No. 92. (A.R. No. 233 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḶUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record, dated in the 15th year of the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, registers a gift of cows for maintaining a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruvaḻudīśvaram in Tiruva udi-vaḷanāḍu. by a private person of the same village. The aganāḻigaiyār or the men in charge of the inner precincts of the temple undertook to burn the lamp.

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⟨1⟩ [sva]stiśrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟkku yāṇṭu patiṉaiñcu [|*] i-

⟨2⟩ [v]āṇṭu taṉu nāyiṟu mutalāka tiruvaḻutivaḷanāṭṭu peruṅkuḷattu tiruva- 1

⟨3⟩ [ti]śvarattu caṭṭaṉ perumpaṟṟappuliyūr vāycciyaṉ nārāyaṇa ṉātaṉ ti-

⟨4⟩ [va]ḻutiśvarattu bhaṭāra[r*]kku tirunontāviḷakkiṉukku cāvā muvāp perāvāka

⟨5⟩ [pa]cu irupattaiñcuṅ koṇṭu akaṉāḻikaiyom uḻakku ney nārāya uḻak[ki]-

⟨6⟩ laṭṭuvomā ṉo[m*]ittaḷi akaṉāḻikaiyom [|*] ivvaṉaivvom utāra-

⟨7⟩ •••• 2

⟨SIIv14p1i0093⟩ No. 93. (A.R. No. 238 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḶUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This incomplete inscription is dated in the 15th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya and relates to the gift of buffalœs by the wife of Pāṇḍimārttāṇḍa-Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Śe2ṉṉappi of Kuṟuṅguḍi in Māṉavīra-vaḷanāḍu, a subdivision of Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷanāḍu, to burn a lamp in the temple of Tiruvaḻudīśvarattu-Āḻvār at Peruṅguḷam in Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷanāḍu, for the merit of her husband and herself.

The titles Tiruvaḻudi, Māṉavīra and Pāṇḍimārttāṇḍa are noteworthy. ‘Vaḻudi,’ though it is a general title of Pāṇḍya kings has perhaps special reference to the early Pāṇḍya king Palyāgaśālai Mudukuḍumi-Peruvaḻudi who is referred to in the Vēḷvikkuḍi copper plate grant. ‘Māṉavīra’ must have been a title assumed by a Pāṇḍya king, presumably earlier than Vīra-Pāṇḍya. Pāṇḍimārttāṇḍa-vaḷanāḍu occurs as the name of a district in the time of Rājasimha himself, and as such it must have been probably a title of Rājasimha.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉ(n) talaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyarkku yāṇṭu patiṉañcu tiru[va]ḻuti vaḷanā[ṭ]- 3

⟨2⟩ [ṭu mā]ṉaviravaḷaṉāṭṭu kuṟu kuṭi pāṇṭimāttāṇṭapalla-

⟨3⟩ [va]raiyaṉāyiṉa ceṉṉappi bhā[ryā]veṉa eṉ bharttā ciṉayum eṉṉaiyu-

⟨4⟩ [ñ] cātti tiruvaḻutivaḷaṉāṭṭu peruṅkuḷattu tiruvaḻutiśvarattu āḷvārk- ⟨Page 60⟩

⟨5⟩ ku iṉṉāṭṭu tiruppuḷiṅkuṭi tāṅki pe[rai][ya*]ṉ [v*]aicca tirununtāviḷakku o-

⟨6⟩ ṉṟu oṉṟukkum niyatam uḻakku ney nārāya uḻakkāl aṭṭa aṭutta erumai añcu

⟨7⟩ añcilum ittaḷi veṭṭikkuṭikaḷ avva[ṉā]ñci iraṇṭarai i[v*]aiccāl āḻākku •

⟨8⟩ ney muṭṭāma laṭṭu[ka] [|*]

⟨9⟩ itaṉa••••

⟨10⟩ ṭikku•••••

⟨11⟩ kkipaṭṭāla•••••••

⟨12⟩ raṇṭarai erumai•••••

⟨13⟩ niyatam āḻākku

⟨14⟩ ney muṭṭāma laṭṭu-

⟨15⟩ vatu [|*] iney 2

⟨SIIv14p1i0094⟩ No. 94. (A.R. No. 474 of 1909.) EDIRKŌṬṬAI, SATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A ROCK CLOSE TO THE ŚUṆAIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription of the 15+4th year of the king relates to a gift of sheep by Āchchaṉ, a resident of the cloth merchants' quarters (aṟuvai-vāṇiya-chchēri) for burning a lamp in the temple of Śuṉaikkuḍi-Bhaṭāra.

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⟨1⟩ śrī coḻaṉṟalai koṇṭa virapāṇṭiya[ṟ]-

⟨2⟩ kku yāṇṭu patiṉaiñcu itaṉetir nāṉku [|*]

⟨3⟩ ivvāṇṭu veṇpaikkuṭi nāṭṭu kūt[ta]

⟨4⟩ ṉkuṭi cuṉaikkuṭi paṭāraṟkku tiru[nontāviḷa]

⟨5⟩ kko[ṉṟu]kku ivvūr aṟuvai vāṇiya[cceri]

⟨6⟩ kuṭi āccaṉ aṭṭiṉa āṭu aim[pat]tai[ñ]cu

⟨SIIv14p1i0095⟩ No. 95. (A.R. No. 101 of 1905.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE EṞICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 5th year opposite to the 15th year of the king is the latest record found for him. It confirm a royal order made in the 12th year of the king, which was carried into effect now. It is important as mentioning the occurrence of a solar eclipse in the month of Mithuna in the 12th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya's reign and helps to fix A.D. 946-47 as the date of his accession. It registers a gift of 10 vēli of land by the king for providing worship and offerings to the deities in the temple of Tiruppōttuḍaiya-Mahādēva at Iḷaṅgoykkuḍi, a brahmadēya in Muḷḷi-nāḍu. An officer of the king named Chōḷāntāka-Brahmamārāyar and another named Tamiḻavēḷāṉ figure in the record.

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(Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV, p. 35 ff.)

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalai koṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiya tevaṟku yāṇṭu paṉṉiraṇṭu iv vāṇṭu mithu ṉa ñāyiṟṟusūrya 3 ••••

⟨2⟩ muḷḷināṭṭu brahmateyam iḷaṅkoykkuṭi tiruppottuṭaiya bhaṭāra[r*]kku iññāṭṭu vaḻuti ūr•••••••

1 Lines 5 to 8 are engraved in smaller characters.

⟨3⟩ āṟu pāccal nilaṉ patiṟṟu veli patiṟṟu velium kuṭikaḷitu kārā[ṇ*]maiyākavum tevaritu m•••••••

⟨4⟩ tāṉamāka urupu poṉ maṉṟavāri uṭpaṭa eṅkarumam ārā[y*]cci meleḻuttuc ceykiṉṟa mahā•••• •••••

⟨5⟩ ṟṟattu kāṭantai kuṭippāṭit tamiḻ veḷāṉ āyi[ṉa]•••••••

⟨6⟩ nāṭum maṇalūrkkuḷakkiḻ iraṇaciṅkamaṅkalattup•••••••

⟨7⟩ ṉ araiyaṉ māṉāparaṇaṉ evimutalākavum iṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭu•••••••

⟨8⟩ m olai eḻuttākavum aṇṭa nāṭṭuk kuvalaiyaciṅkanallūr āyiṉa meyūr tiruppattūr•••••

⟨9⟩ ḷāmaṇikiḻavaṉ vā[y]keḻvi ākavum koḻuvūrk kūṟṟattu kīḻ kuṇṭāṟṟu veḷiyāṟṟūr vikkiramapāṇṭiya muventa-

⟨10⟩ [ve]ḷāṉāyiṉa kaṭṭi nakkaṉ iraṇaṉ paṇṭārap pottakamākavum iḷaṅkoykkuṭit tiruppot tuṭaiya [*pa]ramecura paṭārar koyilil iruntu

⟨11⟩ [pa]ṉṉiraṇṭā māṇṭu mituṉa nāyiṟṟu sūryagrahaṇatti [nāṉṟu] ivvāṇṭiṉ etirāṇṭu mutalk kuṭiniṅkāttevatāṉa[m*] āka kuṭuttoma tāṅka-

⟨12⟩ ḷum itu kaṇṭu pāṟ paṭuttukkuṭukka [|*] pullaṅ koṟṟaṉ eḻuttu eṉṟa it tirumukappaṭi koṇṭu atikārañ ceykiṉṟa coḷāntaka [bra]hmamārāyar ippatiṟ-

⟨13⟩ ṟu veliyaiy nivantam aṭaiccapaṭi kalmel eḻuttu veṭṭuka eṉṟu patiṉañcām pāṇṭiṉ etir añcām yāṇṭu śrīkārya[m*] peṟṟa pa-

⟨14⟩ ••māṇaṉukku amaccu ittiruppottuṭaiya dēvarkku śrīkārya[m] ceykiṉṟa tevaṉ kiriṇaṉ colla kalme [l] eḻuttu veṭṭiṉapaṭi [|*] tiru-

⟨15⟩ ppottuṭaiya tevarkku nāṉku potaikku ari[ci*] muppattirunāḻium aṉṉapalikku arici aṟunāḻium kaṟiamitukku ari-

⟨16⟩ ci nāḻium tiruveṅkaṭanilaittevarkku nicati arici nānāḻium tirumūlattāṉattut tevarkku nicati arici nānā-

⟨17⟩ ḻium kaṇavatiyāṟkku arici iru nāḻium eṟṟi nicati ari[*ci] nāṟppattoṉpati nāḻium ākao•• •••••

⟨18⟩ ••••• kku nelk kalaney oṉpatiṉ kuṟuṇi irunāḻiyuri orāṭṭaikku nel a[ṟunū]ṟṟu eṇpatte•••••

⟨19⟩ yeṭṭu mākkāṇiyum ācārcciyaṉ munnūṟṟuvaṉ centaṉukku nilaṉ araiyum [|*] kaṇakka paṇṭārañceykiṉṟa colai viru••••••• periyāṉukku nilaṉ araiyu[m |*] [mā]-

⟨20⟩ ṇ eṭṭiṉukku nilaṉ oṉṟaraiye yiraṇṭu mā[|*] ivaṟṟuḷ munnūṟṟuvaṉ centaṉuṭaiya māṇ muṉṟum munnūṟṟuvaṉ periyāṉ māṇoṉṟum kacaṉāk-

⟨21⟩ kalaṉuṭaiya māṇālum [|*] tevar patuvāram eḻiloṉṟu uvaiccakaḷukkum puṭavai mutalākavum [|*] aṟukūṟum eṭṭu māṇukkum puṭavai mutalākavum [|*] uvaicca-

⟨22⟩ ṉ kaṇavati kumāraṭi mutal pattāḷukku nilamoṉṟekāl [|*] śrīkā[r*]cciyam ārāyvāṉukku niyatamarici nāṉāḻiyiṉāl nilam eḻumā [|*] kucavaṉukku ni-

⟨23⟩ lamiraṇṭu mā [|*] viṟakiṭuvāṉukku nilamiraṇṭumā [|*] tirumeḻukkuppuṟa[m] nila miraṇṭumā [|*] īraṅkollikku nila miraṇṭumā [|*] tiruviḻāppuṟam ni-

⟨24⟩ laṉ veli [|*] putukkuppiṟa[m*] ittirukkaṟṟaḷi ceyca ācāriyaṉ māṉāparaṇaṉ centaṉukku nilaṉ kālumāka nilaṉ patiṟṟu ve-

⟨25⟩ liyum cantirātittavalañ celvatāka vaittār coḷāntakatevar [|*] itu paṉmāhēśvarar rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0096⟩ No. 96. (A.R. No. 12 of 1927.) VIJAYANĀRĀYAṆAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆŌṆMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This damaged record belongs to the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya. The regnal year is list. It relates to a gift of sheep for a lamp to be burnt apparently in the temple of Vijayanāraṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam a brahmadēya in Nāṭṭāṟṟuppōkku by a certain Nārāyaṇapirāṉ-Dēvaṉ of Perumarudūr in Śāḻagrāmam.

1 Read miyāṭciyākavum teva ⟨Page 62⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovīrapāṇ••••••••• yaṇaṉ brahmadēyam cāḷakkirāmattup perumarutūr nārāyaṇa[pi]rāṉ tevaṉ nāṭṭāṟṟup pokku brahmadēyam vi-

⟨2⟩ caiyanāraṇaccaruppetimaṅkalat•••••••• muvā perāṭu 25 [iru]pattaiñcāṭu vanta ney nicatam āḻākku ney erippatāka āṭu koṇṭa kuṭi- 1

⟨3⟩ paṭaittalaivaṉ parameccu 1 •••••••

⟨SIIv14p1i0097⟩ No. 97. (A.R. No. 294 of 1916.) ŚIṄGAMPAṬṬI, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A ROCK IN A FIELD IN MĒLAI-ŚIṄGAMPAṬṬI

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription of eight short lines is engraved in early characters but owing to the damaged condition of the rock, as well as the peculiar nature of the script, its purport cannot be clearly made out. It is not dated in the reign of any Pāṇḍya king known to epigraphy, but appears, however, to refer to the death of some hero probably in one of the frontier skirmishes, which were frequent events in early, Pāṇḍya history.

The writing may be attributed to the 7th century A. D. and may be compared with the label inscription of two lines engraved in the rock-cut cave at Piḷḷaiyārpaṭṭi,2 Ramanathapuram district and another label at Aivarmalai, 3Madurai district.

Text.

⟨1⟩ pāṇṭiya[ṉ] pāṟka

⟨2⟩ [co]ḻaṭuve•koṟṟā

⟨3⟩ yaraica nāṇ-

⟨4⟩ ṭa kālattu tappa-

⟨5⟩ ṭi attaṭiyāra-

⟨6⟩ caraica [ai]yyāra[ṉ]

⟨7⟩ cāttaṉaik kutti pa-

⟨8⟩ ṭṭāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0098⟩ No. 98. (A.R. No. 66 of 1905.) ĀṈAIMALAI, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE maṇḍapa. OF THE CAVE NEAR THE NARAŚIṄGA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This inscription is engarved in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters of the early 9th century A. D. It states that a certain Nambirāṉbhaṭṭa-Sōmāśi-Parivirājakar renovated (pudukkudi) something, which refers evidently to the maṇḍapa, where it is found. Though no king's name is mentioned, the record may be attributed to the early Pāṇḍya times.

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⟨1⟩ śrīrastu [||*] pullāri-

⟨2⟩ vaṭṭakuṟicci nampi-

⟨3⟩ [rā]ṉ paṭṭa comāci pari-

⟨4⟩ virācjakar putukku [||*] ⟨Page 63⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0099⟩ No. 99. (A.R. No. 67 of 1905.)

⟨1⟩ śrī [kaḷa]vaḻi nā-

⟨2⟩ ṭṭu 1 ••••• nā

⟨3⟩ •••• ṭṭi aṇiya-

⟨4⟩ ṉai cātti e[ṉā]-

⟨5⟩ ti nāṭi cey-

⟨6⟩ vicca tiru-

⟨7⟩ meṉi [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0100⟩ No. 100. (A.R. No. 68 of 1905.)

⟨1⟩ śrī tiṇai-

⟨2⟩ kkaḷattār

⟨3⟩ rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0101⟩ No. 101. (A.R. No. 69 of 1905.)

⟨1⟩ śrī poṟko-

⟨2⟩ ṭṭuk karaṇa-

⟨3⟩ tt[ā*]r rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0102⟩ No. 102. (A.R. No. 70 of 1905.)

⟨1⟩ śrī naraciṅkamaṅkalattu

⟨2⟩ sabhaiyār rakṣai [|*] accaṇan-

⟨3⟩ ti ceylitta tirumeṉiyum parivāra-

⟨4⟩ puravu variyār pe[ramu]m [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0103⟩ No. 103. (A.R. No. 71 of 1905.)

⟨1⟩ śrī teṉkaḷavaḻi nāṭṭu]-

⟨2⟩ p peruvem pāṟṟūrcce[ṭu]-

⟨3⟩ ḻiya pāṇṭi ceyvi-

⟨4⟩ cca iyakka[r pa*]tumam [||*] ⟨Page 64⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0104⟩ No. 104. (A.R. No. 72 of 1905.)1

⟨1⟩ śrī veṇpurai nāṭṭu veṇ-

⟨2⟩ purai carataṉ āmpiṟaiyā-

⟨3⟩ ṉāiṉa carataṉ araiyaṉ cey-

⟨4⟩ vitta ti[ru]meṉiya ||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0105⟩ No. 105. (A.R. No. 73 of 1905.2)

⟨1⟩ śrī mallattiru-

⟨2⟩ kkaik ka•• ū-

⟨3⟩ rk koyyaṅ••

⟨4⟩ ••mi ceyvitta

⟨5⟩ tirumeṉi [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0106⟩ No. 106. (A.R. No. 74 of 1905.3)

⟨1⟩ śrī veṇpaikku-

⟨2⟩ ṭināṭṭu veṇ-

⟨3⟩ paikkuṭi veṭ-

⟨4⟩ ṭañceri putumai

⟨5⟩ eviyam pūti

⟨6⟩ ceyvitta ti-

⟨7⟩ rumeṉi [|*] ivai

⟨8⟩ puravuvari-

⟨9⟩ kkaṇattā-

⟨10⟩ r rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0107⟩ No. 107. (A.R. No. 691 of 1905.) Below the second image.

⟨1⟩ śrī vaṭapaḷḷi ā-

⟨2⟩ ram vicci vara-

⟨3⟩ tapāṇi ceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0108⟩ No. 108. (A.R. No. 692 of 1905.) Below the fourth image.

⟨1⟩ śrī accaṇan-

⟨2⟩ ti ceyal [||*] ⟨Page 65⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0109⟩ No. 109.1. (A.R. No. 693 of 1905.) Below the sixth image.

⟨1⟩ rutta māṇākkar

⟨2⟩ ••cceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0110⟩ No. 110. (A.R. No. 694 of 1905.) (Below the seventh image).

⟨1⟩ śrī intiraceṉaṉ

⟨2⟩ ceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0111⟩ No. 111. (A.R. No. 695 of 1905.) Below the eighth image.

⟨1⟩ śrī veṇpuṇāṭṭu nā-

⟨2⟩ lkūr kuṭiyaṉ

⟨3⟩ [mūve]ntaṉ ceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0112⟩ No. 112. (A.R. No. 696 of 1905.) Below the ninth image.

⟨1⟩ tiruvarampattil pa •

⟨2⟩ mulattāṉa āri ceyta

⟨3⟩ ceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0113⟩ No. 113. (A.R. No. 697 of 1905.) Below the tenth image.

⟨1⟩ śrī viraciṅkattup perumaṭai

⟨2⟩ malliceṉap periyā[ṉ]

⟨3⟩ ceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0114⟩ No. 114. (A.R. No. 698 of 1905.) Below the eleventh image.

⟨1⟩ keḻavattu veṇ[pu]••

⟨2⟩ kaviricci nākaṉ ce-

⟨3⟩ yal [|*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0115⟩ No. 115. (A.R. No. 699 of 1905.2) Above the natural cave.

⟨1⟩ śrīkāṭaṉ••

⟨2⟩ ṭaka•••••

⟨SIIv14p1i0116⟩ No. 116.3. (A.R. No. 700 of 1905.) Above the natural cave.

⟨1⟩ •••• eḻunūṟṟut••

⟨2⟩ •••• ṟku yāṇṭe•••

⟨3⟩ •••• kāḻumattu cā•••

⟨4⟩ •••• rśvapaṭāraṟ•••

⟨5⟩ •••• ttiraṇṭā•••

⟨6⟩ •••• vaitta po••• ⟨Page 66⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0117⟩ No. 117. (A.R. No. 701 of 1905.) Above the natural cave.

⟨1⟩ śrī perumpatti-

⟨2⟩ ūr paṭṭitikkura-

⟨3⟩ ttiyār māṇākkiyā-

⟨4⟩ r avvaṇantik-

⟨5⟩ kurattiyār cey-

⟨6⟩ vitta tevar ||

⟨SIIv14p1i0118⟩ No. 118. (A.R. No. 702 of 1905.) Above the natural cave.

⟨1⟩ kuvaṇaccerit taṭṭārc cā-

⟨2⟩ vikitti vaṭṭam vaṭu-

⟨3⟩ ki śrī ayirai [malai dēva-

⟨4⟩ rka kavippuṟa maṭṭi-

⟨5⟩ ṉa poṉṉirukaḻañcu ||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0119⟩ No. 119.1 (A.R. No. 703 of 1905.) Above the natural cave.

⟨1⟩ •••• ṉukkuc cellāni••••run•••

⟨2⟩ •••• ṟalūr vāḻuntiṇai••••cantiru•••

⟨3⟩ •••• ruvayiraikku iraṇṭu kalam peytāṉ•••

⟨4⟩ •••• vikkum oraṭikaḷukkum ||—

⟨SIIv14p1i0120⟩ No. 120. (A.R. No. 723 of 1905.) Below the first image.

⟨1⟩ śrī veṇpai[k*]ku-

⟨2⟩ ṭināṭṭu

⟨3⟩ veṇpaikkarai-

⟨4⟩ • ṭa•kuḻu••

⟨5⟩ ••• taṉ maka-

⟨6⟩ ṉ citta •

⟨7⟩ •••

⟨SIIv14p1i0121⟩ No. 121. (A.R. No. 724 of 1905.) Below the second image.

⟨1⟩ śrī veṇpuṇāṭṭu

⟨2⟩ villi kuṟaṇṭitti-

⟨3⟩ ••ruṭa•• ka•• mava-

⟨4⟩ ••candrapravaṉ

⟨5⟩ •••• kku ⟨Page 67⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0122⟩ No. 122. (A.R. No. 725 of 1905.) Below the third image.

⟨1⟩ śrī aṭṭopavāsi ka[ṉakavi]-

⟨2⟩ ra[r*] māṇākkar ariṭṭa

⟨3⟩ ṉemip periyār cey-

⟨4⟩ ta [tirumeṉi] [||*]

The labels numbered as Nos. 123 and 124 are very much damaged.

⟨SIIv14p1i0125⟩ No. 125. (A.R. No. 728 of 1905.) Below the ninth image.

⟨1⟩ śrī ceṅkuṭi nāṭṭu

⟨2⟩ ••ṭi [pan]ma

⟨SIIv14p1i0126⟩ No. 126. (A.R. No. 729 of 1905.) Below the tenth image.

⟨1⟩ śrī accaṇan-

⟨2⟩ ti ceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0127⟩ No. 127. (A.R. No. 730 of 1905.) Below the eleventh image.

⟨1⟩ śrī [vā]ḻaipaṭṭi

⟨2⟩ ccālai

⟨3⟩ kicciyā-

⟨4⟩ r ceyal [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0128⟩ No. 128.1 (A.R. No. 732 of 1905.) On a boulder near the Karuppaṇṇasvāmi rock.

⟨1⟩ śrī tirukkuṇakirit tevarkkut tiruviḷakku-

⟨2⟩ kku aṉantavira aṭikaḷ aṭṭiṉa [kā]cu[pati]no-

⟨3⟩ ṉṟu ikkā[ci]ṉ polikoṇṭu tevarkku muṭ-

⟨4⟩ ṭāmaic celuttuvārānor ippaḷḷiyuṭai a-

⟨5⟩ ṭikaḷ aṟam veṇṭuvā ritu piḻaiyāmaic ceyta [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0129⟩ No. 129. (A.R. No. 603 of 1915.)

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī accaṇan-

⟨2⟩ ti ceyal [|*] ⟨Page 68⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0130⟩ No. 130. (A.R. No. 604 of 1915.)

⟨1⟩ śrī nā[ṭā]-

⟨2⟩ ṟuppok••••

⟨3⟩ sabhaiyār rakṣai [||*]

CHOLA-PANDYA VICEROYS

⟨SIIv14p1i0131⟩ No. 131. (A.R. No. 213 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ardha-maṇḍapa IN THE TIRUVAḺUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

In the third year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷa-Pāṇḍya in which this inscription is dated, a certain Veḷḷāḷa of Peruṅgulam alias Uttamaśōḻanallūr in Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷa nāḍu made a gift of sheep for burning a lamp in front of the goddess Durgaiyār in the temple of Tiruvaḻudīśvaram.

Text.

⟨1⟩ [sa*]stiśrī [||*] koccaṭaippaṉma-

⟨2⟩ rāṉa śrī cuntaracoḻapā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭiya tevaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨4⟩ muṉṟāvatu irācai-

⟨5⟩ rācappāṇṭi nāṭṭu u-

⟨6⟩ ttamacoḻavaḷanāṭṭu tiru-

⟨7⟩ vaḻutivaḷanāṭṭu peru-

⟨8⟩ ṅkuḷa[m*] āṉa uttamaco-

⟨9⟩ ḻanallūr tiruvaḻutiīśvara-

⟨10⟩ ttu tuṟkaiyārkku iv-

⟨11⟩ vūr veḷḷāḷaṉ ikkaṉ

⟨12⟩ ciṟiyāṉ ittevarkku ti-

⟨13⟩ ruviḷakku oṉṟiṉukku vai-

⟨14⟩ cca cāvā muvāp perāṭu i-

⟨15⟩ rupattaiñcunāl nicatam

⟨16⟩ aṭṭakkaṭava ney āḻākku

⟨17⟩ ivvāṭu irupattaiñcuṅ ko-

⟨18⟩ ṇṭu inney āḻākkum aṭṭu-

⟨19⟩ vatāṉa ittevar veṭṭikku

⟨20⟩ ṭi paṭaittalaivaṉ puli-

⟨21⟩ yaṉ kaṇavati [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0132⟩ No. 132. (A.R. No. 107 of 1905.) MAṈṈĀRKŌYIL, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE GŌPĀLASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record dated in the 4th year of the reign of Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷa-Pāṇḍya states that the assembly having met in a hall of the ambalam, made some decision about the lands and houses granted to the gardeners, drummers, potters, garlandmakers, torch-bearers and dēvaraḍiyār of the temple of Śrī-Rājēndraśōḻa-viṇṇagar-Āḻvār at Rājarāja-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Muḷḷi-nāḍu, a subdivision of Muḍigoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu, a district of Rājarāja-Pāṇḍināḍu. The record is incomplete and so the full details of the transaction are not available.

As stated in another inscription,1from the same temple, the temple of Rājēndraśōḻa-viṇṇagar-Āḷvār was erected by the Chēra king Rājasimha in the name of Rājēndraśōḻadēvar, the Chōla king who was apparently his overlord.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭayapanmarāṉa śrīcuntaracoḻapāṇṭi[ya]tevarkku yāṇṭu nālāvatu irācarācappāṇṭi nāṭṭu muṭikoṇṭacoḻavaḷa-

⟨2⟩ nāṭṭu muḷḷināṭṭu brahmadēyam śrī rājarājaccaturvvētimaṅkalattu mahāsabhaiyom ampalam tu[ṭṭa]ṭakkiyil kūṭṭak kuṟaivaṟak kūṭiiruntu śrīrāje- ⟨Page 69⟩

⟨3⟩ ntracoḻa viṇṇakar āḻvārkku tirunandavāṉaṅkaḷukku nandavāṉakkuṭikaḷ irukkavum uvacca kaḷukkum kucavakaḷukkum tiruviḷakkup piṭiccut tiruppaḷ-

⟨4⟩ ḷittāman toṭukkun tevaraṭiyār peṇṭukaḷukkum (t) tiruviḷakkukku neyyaṭṭum veṭṭikkuṭi kaḷ iṭaiyarkkum maṟṟu nivantaṅkaṭavār eppe-

⟨5⟩ ṟpaṭṭārkkum iṭṭa nantavāṉaṅkaḷum maṉaikaḷumāvaṉa [|*] melaippuṟa maṅkalaviti melai vācalukku vaṭakku cikoyilukkun tirumuṟṟattukkum

⟨6⟩ vaṭakku vaṭameṉmulaikkut teṟkkum matiḷukkuk kiḻakkum matiḷukku mekku kūṟiṭṭukkuk kiḻakku melai vācalukku vaṭakku vaṭamelmulai 1

⟨SIIv14p1i0133⟩ No. 133. (A.R. No. 108 of 1905.) MAṆṆĀRKŌYIL, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE GŌPĀLASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This fragmentary2inscription mentions the 6th year of the reign of a king whose name, which is lost in the missing portion, may be Sundara-Chōḷa-Pāṇḍya. It is noteworthy that a seat in the kūḍam or hall of the palace was called Rājēndraśōḻa-KArāṉai-viḻupparaiyaṉ, evidently after the name of the officer, ‘Tirumandira-ōlaināyakam’ of the same name, who also figures in this record; and that the king was seated on this seat while issuing the order, which in its entirety may have some reference to the gift of the taxes on the lands in a village called Māṉābharaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, which had been endowed as a dēvadāna to the temple of Rājēndraśōḻaviṇṇagar-Dēvar. The revenue officers mentioned here figure in other records of this viceroy.

Text.

⟨1⟩ •••••jēntracoḻa viṇṇakar dēvarkku yāṇṭu āṟāvatu pacāṉa mutal

⟨2⟩ ••••• yiliṉ uḷḷāl kūṭattu rājentracoḻakārāṉai viḻupparaiyaṉil eḻu-

⟨3⟩ ••••• vatu pacāṉamutal tevatāṉamāy imāṉāparaṇac caruppetimaṅkalam kāṇikkaṭaṉ nellu-

⟨4⟩ ••••• havāḷakulakālaṉ eḻuttiṉālum tirumantiravolainācakam rājentracoḻakārāṉai viḻupparaiya-

⟨5⟩ ••••••••• viṭai atikārikaḷ parakecari muventaveḷararum(k)koṭṭaiyūruṭaiyārum evap puravari tiṇaikkaḷa-

⟨6⟩ ••••• raṉum paṭṭolai kaṇavati pūvaṉukkāy paṭṭolai eḻutiṉāṉ kiḻattaravu cāt[tū] [r*] rāmaṉ cūṟṟiyum iruntu

⟨7⟩ •••••• kartevarkku yāṇṭu āṟāvatu pacāṉa mutal tevatāṉamāy imāṉāparaṇaccaruppeti maṅkalam karaṇi

⟨SIIv14p1i0134⟩ No. 134. (A.R. No. 70 of 1907.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TIRUMŪLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This incomplete epigraph dated in the 6th year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷa-Pāṇḍya relates to some gift, the nature of which is not specified, made by Śēndaṉ-Nambi-Naṅgai, for burning a lamp in front of the Tirumūlasthāṉattu-Mahādēva at Tiruchchālaittuṟai in Rājarāja-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Muḷḷi-nāḍu, a subdivision of Muḍikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu, a division of Rājarāja-Pāṇḍināḍu. Śēndaṉ Irugaiyaṉ, a merchant of Kshatriyaśikhāmaṇipuram is stated to be her guardian (Mudugaṇ). ⟨Page 70⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyapaṉ[ma*]rāṉa śrī cuntaracoḻapāṇṭiyatevarkku yāṇṭu āṟāvatu śrī irājairāja[p]pāṇṭināṭṭu muṭikoṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭu muḷḷināṭṭu-

⟨2⟩ brahmateyam śrī rājarāja[c*]catuṟvetimaṅkalattu tiruccālaittuṟai śrī mulastāṉa āḻvār tevaṟku māhāṣastri 1 śikāmaṇipurattu irukkum viyāpāri centa-

⟨3⟩ ṉ irukaiyaṉ mutukaṇṇāka centaṉ nampi naṅkai vaitta viḷa 2

⟨SIIv14p1i0135⟩ No. 135. (A.R. No. 416 of 1929-30.) ĀTTŪR, TIRUCHENDUR TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE SŌMANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This record is dated in the 6th year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷapāṇḍya and registers a gift of two buffaloes by a certain veḷḷāḷa of Āṟṟūr-Śēndamaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Kuḍa-nāḍu for a lamp in the temple of Sōmanāthadēva. These were left in the charge of two Śivabrāhmaṇas of the temple, who had to supply the ghee necessary for the burning of the lamp.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [|*] koc-

⟨2⟩ caṭaiyapaṉmarāyiṉa śrī

⟨3⟩ cuntaracoḻapāṇṭiya-

⟨4⟩ tevaṟkku yāṇṭu 6- ā-

⟨5⟩ vatu rājentira-

⟨6⟩ [co]ḻavaḷanāṭṭuk kuṭa-

⟨7⟩ [nāṭṭu brahma] teyam āṟṟūr ce-

⟨8⟩ nta maṅkalattu śrīso-

⟨9⟩ maṉāta tevarkku ivvū-

⟨10⟩ r veḷḷāḷaṉ tañcaṉ

⟨11⟩ ••vaicca tirununtāviḷa-

⟨12⟩ kku oṉṟukkum nitta[l*]

⟨13⟩ uḻakku ney mutalā-

⟨14⟩ [kka vai]cca aiyyāṇṭu

⟨15⟩ ••mai nāku iraṇṭuṅ

⟨16⟩ koṇṭu cantirātittavaṟ nit-

⟨17⟩ tam uḻakku ney iv eru-

⟨18⟩ maināku iraṇṭum ko-

⟨19⟩ ṇṭu aṭṭuvatāṉom i-

⟨20⟩ vvūr civabrāmaṇaṉ ta-

⟨21⟩ ṇṭi viṉācakaṉum nūṟ-

⟨22⟩ ṟumuppatu pāskaraṉu[m*]

⟨23⟩ ivviruvom [|*] i[n]ney aṭṭuva-

⟨24⟩ taṟku iṟaippuṇaip-

⟨25⟩ paṭṭom viṉācakaṉ taṇṭi-

⟨26⟩ yum••••ṉum pa-

⟨27⟩ •••• me ilā-

⟨28⟩ ••••• inney

⟨29⟩ aṭṭuvatāṉom coma-

⟨30⟩ ṉāta tevarkku [||*]

⟨SIIv14p1i0136⟩ No. 136. (A.R. No. 40 of 1908.) VĪRAŚIKHĀMAṆI, SANKARANAYINARKOIL TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR OF THE ROCK-CUT CAVE TEMPLE.

This record of the 8th year of this viceroy is very much damaged and appears to relate to some gift of land for maintaining a lamp in the temple of Kayilāyattu-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ at Vīravinōda-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Kallaga-nāḍu a subdivision of Muḍigoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ koccaṭaiyavaṉmarā-

⟨3⟩ ya śrī cuntaracoḻapāṇṭiya teva[r]-

⟨4⟩ kku yāṇṭu 8 āvatu i[rācarāca]ppā-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭināṭṭu muṭikoṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭu

⟨6⟩ kallakanāṭṭu brahmadēyam viraci••••[yā]-

⟨7⟩ ṉa viravi notaccaruppetima••

⟨8⟩ śrīkaiyilāyattu perumāṉa••••

⟨9⟩ vvūr irukkum maṇṭai••••co-

⟨10⟩ lai cāttaṉ vacca [nantāviḷakku]•••

3 The record is damaged in several places.

⟨11⟩ eṟu•• vukāṇi oṉ••• mu-

⟨12⟩ ṉṟu sandhiyum i••••

⟨13⟩ ṭu muṭṭāme erikka kaṭavo••

⟨14⟩ ivūr śivabrāhmaṇaṉe•••

⟨15⟩ [ṉe]kaṇaṉum pāttiśvara••

⟨16⟩ ••parattiśvara••••

⟨17⟩ ṇyaṉum•••

⟨SIIv14p1i0137⟩ No. 137. (A.R. No. 615 of 1916.) ŚĒRMĀDĒVI, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE, AMMAINĀTHA TEMPLE.

This incomplete record dated in the [10]th year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷa pāṇḍya registers a gift made by the Śivabrāhmaṇas of the temple of Chōḷēndrasiṁha-Īśvaramuḍaiyār at Nigariliśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in regard to something which was done in the temple of Śrīkayilāyamuḍaiyār in the same village.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ko[ccaṭai]yapaṉ-

⟨2⟩ marāṉa uṭaiyār śrīsuntaraco-

⟨3⟩ ḻapāṇṭiya dēvarkku yāṇṭu [10]-

⟨4⟩ āvatu rājarājappāṇṭināṭṭu uttama-

⟨5⟩ coḻavaḷanāṭṭu muḷḷināṭṭu brahmadēyam

⟨6⟩ nikarilicoḻac caruppetimaṅkalattu co-

⟨7⟩ ḻentiraciṅka īśvaramuṭaiyār koyil

⟨8⟩ •••• 1 śivabrāhmaṇar••

⟨9⟩ ••• vāciṉiyum ampalavaṉ tiruvārur

⟨10⟩ ••• oṟṟiyūr rāmaṉum karumāṇikkaṉ paṭṭa-

⟨11⟩ •••••caṅkaranārāyaṇa[ṉ na]kka pirāṉpaṭṭaṉum

⟨12⟩ ••• ḷiṭṭa śivabrāhmaṇarom i[v*] vūr śrīka-

⟨13⟩ ••• m uṭaiyār koyilil eṭukkiṟa tirut

⟨14⟩ damaged

⟨SIIv14p1i0138⟩ No. 138. (A.R. No. 618-A of 1916.) ŚĒRMĀDĒVI, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE AMMAINĀTHA TEMPLE.

These two disjointed fragments appear to belong to Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷapāṇḍya and refer to separate gifts of money and land made by a few persons for burning a lamp in the temple of Kayilāsamuḍaiyār (?).

The year 10 is mentioned in fragment 1 while fragment 2 refers to year 8(?), Nambirāṭṭiyār and to the ōṇam festival.

Text.

First fragment.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiya••••

⟨2⟩ tevaṟku yāṇṭu pattāvatu•••••

⟨3⟩ caturvēti maṅkalattu mahā•••••

⟨4⟩ yāṟku kuṭutta pūmiyāvatu [|*] śrīku•••

⟨5⟩ ṅkaṇṇāṟṟu śrīkurukūr nampi nārāca•••

⟨6⟩ ṇāṟṟu mutaṟ ceyum patiṉeḻā••••

⟨7⟩ •••• ceyum patto•••••

Second fragment.

⟨1⟩ vaṉmarāṉa uṭaiyār cunta•••••

⟨2⟩ 8- vatu muḷḷināṭṭu brahma••••

⟨3⟩ ṅkalattu māhāsabhaiye•••••

⟨4⟩ ṭu nampirāṭṭiyār iṣabha-•••••

⟨5⟩ bra•ṇyanum candramahēśvara••••

⟨6⟩ ṇattiruviḻā eḻuntaruvi•••••

⟨7⟩ kkuṭutta kuḷamāvatu nam ⟨Page 72⟩

⟨SIIv14p1i0139⟩ No. 139. (A.R. No. 5 of 1927.) VIJAYANĀRĀYAṆAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH AND WEST WALLS OF THE MAṈŌNMANĪSVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the [10]th year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷapāṇḍya out it is incomplete, and does not contain information as to the nature of the transaction it was intended to record. After this is another fragmentary portion dated in the 14th year of a••••••••••••••• Pāṇḍyadēva. Vijayanārāyaṇam is called Jayaṅgoṇḍa śōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and was a brahmadēya in Nāṭṭāṟṟuppōkku in Uttamaśōḻavaḷanāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyapaṉmarā(ā)ṉa śrī cuntaracoḻapāṇṭiyatevar[k]ku yāṇṭu [10]āvatu rājarāja[p*]pāṇṭināṭṭu uttamacoḷavaḷanāṭṭu nāṭṭāṟṟu[p*]pokku brahmadēyam vijaya [n]ārāyaṇamāṉa jayaṅkoṇṭacoḷaccaruppetimaṅkalattu śrīmanomayaṉ īśva-

Below this is the following line engraved on a slab.

⟨1⟩ ••• pparaṇṭiya tevarkku yāṇṭu 14 lāvatu irācarāca

⟨SIIv14p1i0140⟩ No. 140. (A.R. No. 76 of 1907.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE WEST AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE TIRUMŪLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This record, the date of which is lost in the damaged portion but which may have been within 10, belongs to Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷapāṇḍya and registers a gift of 16 kāśu and a lampstand by Bhuvaṉiperuvaḻi alias Śaṅkaranārāyaṇappēraiyaṉ, a Veḷḷāḷa of Rāyaśikhāmaṇi, for maintaining a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mūlasthāṉattu-Paramēśvara at Tiruchchālaittuṟai in Rājarāja-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭaiyapanmarāṉa śrīcu[ntara]coḻapāṇṭiyadēvaṟkku-

⟨2⟩ yā••••••••••• cappāṇṭi [n]āṭṭu muṭiykoṇṭacoḻavaḷa-

⟨3⟩ nāṭṭu••dēyam śrī rā[jarājaccaru]ppetimaṅkalattu tiruccā-

⟨4⟩ laittuṟai śrīmulastāṉattup parame[ śvara] ṟkku ivvūrp paṭākai irāyacikāmaṇi irukkum veḷḷā[ḷa]ṉ pu-

⟨5⟩ vaṉi peruvaḻiyāṉa caṅkaranārāyaṇap peraiyaṉ vaicca tiruṉuntāviḷakku oṉṟu itu nīḷam nāṟccā-