SOUTH INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS VOLUME XVII

⟨SIIv17p0i0001⟩ No. 1. (A.R. No. 1 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the right side of the south gōpura of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1539-40 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XVI, No. 118.

⟨SIIv17p0i0002⟩ No. 2. (A.R. No. 2 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the right side of the eastern gōpura of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1538 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 586.

⟨SIIv17p0i0003⟩ No. 3. (A.R. No. 3 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1531 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 534.

⟨SIIv17p0i0004⟩ No. 4. (A.R. No. 4 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1534 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 570.

⟨SIIv17p0i0005⟩ No. 5. (A.R. No. 5 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1536 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 574.

⟨SIIv17p0i0006⟩ No. 6. (A.R. No. 5-A of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1536 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 575. ⟨Page 2⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0007⟩ No. 7. (A.R. No. 6 of 1904). Same as A.R. No. 707 of 1922. HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine in the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1543 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 607.

⟨SIIv17p0i0008⟩ No. 8. (A.R. No. 7 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the western base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1559 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 668.

⟨SIIv17p0i0009⟩ No. 9. (A.R. No. 8 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the west base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1532 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 543.

⟨SIIv17p0i0010⟩ No. 10. (A.R. No. 9 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1533 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 557.

⟨SIIv17p0i0011⟩ No. 11. (A.R. No. 10 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the western base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1534 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 566.

⟨SIIv17p0i0012⟩ No. 12. (A.R. No. 11 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1563 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 678.

⟨SIIv17p0i0013⟩ No. 13. (A.R. No. 12 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the south base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalas a vāmin temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1545 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 616. ⟨Page 3⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0014⟩ No. 14. (A.R. No. 13 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1554 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 653.

⟨SIIv17p0i0015⟩ No. 15. (A.R. No. 14 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1554 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 654.

⟨SIIv17p0i0016⟩ No. 16. (A.R. No. 15 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the deserted shrine to the west of the Viṭṭhalasvāmin temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1561 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol, XVI, No. 251.

⟨SIIv17p0i0017⟩ No. 17. (A.R. No. 16 of 1904). HAMPI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the left side of the north gōpura of the Achyutarāyasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1534 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 564.

⟨SIIv17p0i0018⟩ No. 18. (A.R. No. 17 of 1904). KAMALĀPURAM, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the left side of the north gōpura of the Chikkahuḍe temple near the village.

Achyutarāya. 1539 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XVI, No. 119.

⟨SIIv17p0i0019⟩ No. 19. (A.R. No. 18 of 1904). KAMALĀPURAM, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the maṇḍapa in the field called Papajagalura-Hola near Kamalāpur.

Dēvarāya. 1439 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 447.

⟨SIIv17p0i0020⟩ No. 20. (A.R. No. 19 of 1904). KAMALĀPURAM, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in the field called Muruguḍigadde in the village.

Achyutarāya. 1501 A.D.1 ⟨Page 4⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0021⟩ No. 21. (A.R. No. 20 of 1904). KAMALĀPURAM, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the left side of the east gōpura of Paṭṭābhirāmasvāmin temple.

Achyutarāya. 1539 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XVI, No. 117.

⟨SIIv17p0i0022⟩ No. 22. (A.R. No. 21 of 1904). HOSPET-KAMPILI ROAD, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a rock near the Kalasapura-Āñjanēya temple.

Dēvarāya. 1434 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 445.

⟨SIIv17p0i0023⟩ No. 23. (A.R. No. 22 of 1904). KAMALĀPURAM, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a rock east of the Traveller's Bungalow on the Bellary road.

Achyutarāya. 1531 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 533.

⟨SIIv17p0i0024⟩ No. 24. (A.R. No. 23 of 1904). HOSPET, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On two pillars in a maṇḍapa on the way to the Jambunātha temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1549 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 635.

⟨SIIv17p0i0025⟩ No. 25. (A.R. No. 23-A of 1904). HOSPET, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On two pillars in a maṇḍapa on the way to the Jambunātha temple. This record is undated.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 636.

⟨SIIv17p0i0026⟩ No. 26. (A.R. No. 24 of 1904). NIMBĀPUR, HOSPET, TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a rock near the Kapilāśrama.

Prauḍhadēvarāya. 1450 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 453.

⟨SIIv17p0i0027⟩ No. 27. (A.R. No. 25 of 1904). MALAPAṄGUḌI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab lying in front of the temple.

Dēvarāya. 1412 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 436. ⟨Page 5⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0028⟩ No. 28. (A.R. No. 26 of 1904). MALAPAṄGUḌI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a stone beam over the steps of the well called Sūḷebhāvi. The record is in late characters and is dated in Pārthiva, ba. 5.

It seems to refer to the setting up of an image of Triyaṁbaka. The inscription is much mutilated.

⟨1⟩ pā¨rthiva saṁvabharada [ba] 5 lu triyaṁba-

⟨2⟩ [ka]yyana [biṁ] • • • • •

⟨SIIv17p0i0029⟩ No. 29. (A.R. No. 27 of 1904). KAMPILI, HOSPET TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up to the east of the Pampāpati temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1552 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 648.

⟨SIIv17p0i0030⟩ No. 30. (A.R. No. 28 of 1904). AMBAḶI, KUDLIGI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1103 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 170.

⟨SIIv17p0i0031⟩ No. 31. (A.R. No. 29 of 1904). AMBAḶI, KUDLIGI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On another slab set up in the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1083 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 153.

⟨SIIv17p0i0032⟩ No. 32. (A.R. No. 30 of 1904.) AMBAḶI, KUDLIGI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the maṇḍapa in front of the Kallēśvara temple.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 711.

⟨SIIv17p0i0033⟩ No. 33. (A.R. No. 31 of 1904.) AMBAḶI, KUDLIGI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the Āñjanēya temple.

Jagadēkamalla. 1143 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 242.

⟨SIIv17p0i0034⟩ No. 34. (A.R. No. 32 of 1904). AMBAḶI, KUDLIGI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a hero-stone near a well.

This badly damaged inscription is engraved in characters of about the 10th 11th century. ⟨Page 6⟩

It seems to record the death of a person named Būtuga.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī svasti • • • • • • • • • •

⟨2⟩ ya būtugaṁ su • • • • • [ṟi]dusatta

⟨SIIv17p0i0035⟩ No. 35. (A.R. No. 33 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a pillar in the basti.

Rāmanāthadēva. 1275 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 343.

⟨SIIv17p0i0036⟩ No. 36. (A.R. No. 34 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On another pillar in the basti.

Rāmanāthadēva. 1276 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 347.

⟨SIIv17p0i0037⟩ No. 37. (A.R. No. 35 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in the maṇḍapa in front of the basti. Trailōkyamalla undated

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 130.

⟨SIIv17p0i0038⟩ No. 38. (A.R. No. 36 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up to the east of the maṇḍapa in front of the basti.

Āhavamalla. 992 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 77.

⟨SIIv17p0i0039⟩ No. 39. (A.R. No. 37 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the basti.

Trailōkyamalla. 1055 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 117.

⟨SIIv17p0i0040⟩ No. 40. (A.R. No. 38 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the Kallēśvara temple.

Narasiṁhadēva. 1163 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 317.

⟨SIIv17p0i0041⟩ No. 41. (A.R. No. 39 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the slab set up in front of the Vīrabhadrasvāmin temple.

1531 A.D.

This is dated Śaka 1454, Khara, Jyēshṭha, ba. 10, corresponding to A.D., June 10. The Śaka year was current. ⟨Page 7⟩

It records the gift of the mūlavīsa at the rate of 1 kāsu per hēru, by Mokeya Tippi-Seṭṭi Baseṭṭi of Baḷāri, Mosageya Guruvappa and others of the merchant community for a perpetual lamp for god Vīrabhadra of Kōgaḷi consecrated by Baseṭṭi, son of Tippiseṭṭi of Koṭūru. Virupaya of Ujini is said to have carved the image.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrīmatu kogaḷiya 1

⟨2⟩ vīrabhadradēvaranu ·ujiniya nirupaya

⟨3⟩ nu [mā]ḍidanu 2

⟨4⟩ || 0 || śrīgaṇādhipata·e namaḥ || nama-

⟨5⟩ stuṁbi ṣirastuṁbi caṁdracā-

⟨6⟩ mara cāravē trayilōkya nagarā-

⟨7⟩ rabhaṁ3 mūlastaṁbhāya śaṁbhavē [||]

⟨8⟩ svastiśrī jayābhyudaya śāli-

⟨9⟩ vāhana śakavaruṣa 1454 ne kha-

⟨10⟩ ra saṁvatsarada1 jeṣṭa ba 10 lu śrī-

⟨11⟩ matu kōgaḷiya vīrabhadra dēva-

⟨12⟩ rige koṭūra tipisaṭeya-

⟨13⟩ ra makaḷu baseṭiyaru pratiṣṭeya

⟨14⟩ māḍi[da] vīrabhadradēvarige baḷā-

⟨15⟩ riya mokeya tippiseṭi base[ṭi]

⟨16⟩ mosageya guruvappa vōḍivaliṁ[gi]-

⟨17⟩ seṭi caṁdiya liṁgiseṭi muṁttā-

⟨18⟩ da samastahalaru ·ubhaya nānā-

⟨19⟩ dēśada seṭi paṭaṇa svāmiga-

⟨20⟩ ḷu biṭu koṭa mūrevīsa

⟨21⟩ hēṟu 1 kaṁ kāsu 1 nu dē-

⟨22⟩ vara naṁdādīpake salu-

⟨23⟩ vadu || maṁgaḷa mahā śrī śrī

⟨24⟩ śrī śrī śrī

⟨25⟩ yi kogaḷiya vīrabha-

⟨26⟩ dra

⟨SIIv17p0i0042⟩ No. 42. (A.R. No. 40 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a vīragal set up in front of the temple of Hanumān.

908-09 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 56.

⟨SIIv17p0i0043⟩ No. 43. (A.R. No. 41 of 1904). KŌGAḶI, HADAGALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a vīragal set up near the Chāvaḍi at Kōgaḷi.

Trailōkyamalla. 1047-48 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I. No. 106. ⟨Page 8⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0044⟩ No. 44. (A.R. No. 42 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the central shrine of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1093 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 164.

⟨SIIv17p0i0045⟩ No. 45. (A.R. No. 43 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up near the platform in front of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

1210 A.D.

This is dated Śaka 1132 Pramōda, Jyēshṭha, śu. 3, Thursday regularly corresponding to 1210 A.D., May 27, the month being Nija-Jyēshṭha.

It records gift of lands, house-sites and an oil mill for a perpetual lamp to the god Nāgēśvara by Vinayanidhi Vishṇukaradēva and the five Vargas and others who had formed an assembly. Among others Sunkaveṅgaḍe Nāgarasa is mentioned as one of the donors.

Text.

⟨1⟩ 1 svastiśrī jayābhyudayaśca1 namastuṁga śiraścuṁbi caṁdra cāmara cāra-

⟨2⟩ vē trailōkya nagarāraṁbha mūlastaṁbhāya śaṁbhavē || śrī gārī kucayugma cāru[chara] sa-

⟨3⟩ ṇa vyālipta vakṣasthalī [bhōgaṁ] dēvanadīpayaḥ kaṇalasacchēṣākṣatālaṁkṛtaṁ nāgēṁdrōttama kuṁḍa-

⟨4⟩ lāṁgada kaṭēsūtrōpavītāṁkitaṁ nāgēśaṁ pa[de]dīge koṭṭi [to]ṇiyayduṁ va¨rggadiṭṭā¨rtthamaṁ || śivabhaktaṁ-

⟨5⟩ gatibhaktanappa manujaṁgatyaṁta sadbhaktanappavanaṁ kāṇaloḍaṁ viriṁci harimukhya¨rkāṇa reṁbīśa-

⟨6⟩ niṁduvalaṁ baṁdananutte kaimugiva nissaṁdēhadiṁ naṁbu vutsadiṁ pūjisa bhaktakōṭe gabhavaṁ mā-

⟨7⟩ ḷkiṣṭa saṁsiddhiyaṁ || śivaniṁdaṁ peṟatoṁdu daivamadhikaṁ tānuṁṭe sa¨rvvēśanaṁ bhavanaṁ pūjisi kai-

⟨8⟩ gaḷaṁ mugidu muktiśrīge pakkāgadēke vṛthākeṭṭapirēke cōra narakaṁbōkappi[lōkaṁte?] māna-

⟨9⟩ varē [po]ykana sāṟuguṁ ḍamaruga dhvānaṁ bhavāgāradoḷ || bhagapūṣa¨rddha kṣayagñāva sarado-

⟨10⟩ ḷabhavaṁ yagña bhāgā¨rhanalleṁda gajēśā[va]gñegeyde vaḍadaraṟiyira rudranaṁbaṁdu kāṇiṁ ja-

⟨11⟩ gamellaṁ bhaktiyiṁ kaimugiyimeṟagi mārādhisiṁ vīrabhadrādigaḷiṁ soppāgavē[ḍeṁ] dulivu-

⟨12⟩ dabhava gaṁbhīra bhērīninādaṁ || krūraviṣaṁgaḷaṁ kuḍivaraṁtakanaṁ jaṟiva¨rmmahōgra kāḷōra ganaṁ kaḍaṁgi

⟨13⟩ piḍiva¨rssiḍilaṁ poḍeva ¨rgga[jā]riyaṁ [yā]rige tappa[ri]ḷdu śivadūṣakanaṁjavanokki likkuva ¨rvvī-

⟨14⟩ ragaṇaṁgaḷeṁdoḍidirā¨rpramatha¨rgge jagatrayaṁgaḷoḷ || karakamaḷaṁgaḷaṁ muṟidumāpatigē-

⟨15⟩ ṟisi mīṁṭi kaṁṇgaḷaṁ harana śigrado ḷiṟisi dāṁḍegaruḷgaḷo[ḷa]teyaṁ bhayaṁkara menemāḍi śaṁkara- ⟨Page 9⟩

⟨16⟩ nana¨rccisi paṁdaleyiṁ nivāḷiyaṁ puramathanaṁge koṭṭu maguḷduṁ paḍeva ¨rpramatha¨rka ḷadbhutaṁ || 1

⟨17⟩ 1 svastiśrīmacchakanṛpava¨rṣada 113[2] neya pramōda saṁvatsarada jyēṣṭhaśuddha tadige bṛhaspati

⟨18⟩ vāradaṁdu svasti samadhigata paṁcamahātabda vratajapaniyama hō[mā]gni yuktaruṁ śrīsvāmi

⟨19⟩ kā¨rtikēyadēvatapōvanādhiparuṁ śrīmaddaṁḍāsana sukhāsīnarumappa || vinayanidhi

⟨20⟩ viṣṇukaradēvanu mayduṁva¨rgamuṁ manōmudadiṁdaṁ tanatana geḷkōṭetapōdhanaru masaṁ khyāta bhakta-

⟨21⟩ ruṁ baṇajigaruṁ || mahāsabheyāgi naredi¨rddu || dānakrayaṁgaḷiṁdaṁ śrī nāgēśaṁge baṁda keymanegaḷana-

⟨22⟩ tyānaṁdade barasida raṁbhōnidhi raviśaśigaḷuḷḷinaṁ śāsenadoḷ || śrī nāgēśvaradēva¨rgge dēvaṁboladoḷ

⟨23⟩ [vā]miyakkaṁ koṭṭa bhūmi sava[ṇbo]lada sīmeyiṁ paḍuval matta[r] 7 kaṁ 60 ·adaṟa bhuje teṁka 120

⟨24⟩ ba 131 pa 13 mū 17 || daṭṭavoladoḷdēva¨rggāḍiyiṁ duḷḷa bhūmi kuṟugōḍa dāriyiṁ paḍuva

⟨25⟩ kāṭimageṟeyiṁ baḷiya bāviyiṁ vāyavyadoḷ maḷakaṁ 170 ·adaṟa bhuje mū 14 pa 15

⟨26⟩ teṁkalu [5] ba 65 karuvanamāḷadoḷ vāsudēvaṁdēva¨rgge koṭṭa bhūmi caṁgabbaya banniyiṁ

⟨27⟩ mūḍa ja[ṟi]gavolada dāriyiṁ teṁkal ma 11 kaṁ 67 ·adaṟa bhuje ba 49 teṁ • • pa 5[8]

⟨28⟩ • • • • • • • • • • māḷadoḷu dēyaṇa nāyakaṁ dēva¨rgge koṭṭa bhūmi maṇamōcana

⟨29⟩ • • • • • • • • • • [17] ·ādara bhujepa 30 || mū 33 teṁ 19 ba 19 ·eḷtinarāya

⟨30⟩ • • • • • • • • • • baḍagal bhagavati

On the reverse of the slab.

⟨1⟩ 1 manasaṁtōsaṁ vanasinoḷ suṁkaveggaḍe nāgarasaṁ dēva¨rgge koṭṭa bhūmi seṭṭiya kaṟeya dāriyiṁ

⟨2⟩ mūḍa[lma]ttaraṁṭukaṁ [ma]ttara bhaje ba 29 [teṁ] 28 mū 70 pa 70 ·ajja [kā]ḍi voladoḷ huḷiyama-

⟨3⟩ yyaṁ dēva¨rgge koṭṭabhūmi sū¨ryyadēvara keyyiṁ baḍagal 3 kaṁ 1 dara bhuje mo 19 pa 19 || ba 37 teṁ 3 [7]

⟨4⟩ ·ālaṁboladoḷ bācayyana maga huṇisayyanaṁ dēva¨rgge dhārege saṁda tōṁṭi ·iṭṭageya dāriyiṁ

⟨5⟩ paḍuval traipuruṣadēvara tōṁṭadiṁ2 mattamātaniṁdhāregesaṁdatōṁṭa biḷukuṁṭeya dā-

⟨6⟩ riya teṁka2 brahmacāri mukhyasthāna dayduva¨rgaṁga ḷdēvara naṁdādīvigege biṭṭa gāṇa 11

⟨SIIv17p0i0046⟩ No. 46. (A.R. No. 44 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab built into the floor of the platform of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

Khoṭṭiga 971 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I No. . ⟨Page 10⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0047⟩ No. 47. (A.R. No. 45 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On another slab built into the platform in front of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1099 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 166.

⟨SIIv17p0i0048⟩ No. 48. (A.R. No. 46 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the third slab built into the platform of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

Jagadēkamalla. 1148 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 252.

⟨SIIv17p0i0049⟩ No. 49. (A.R. No. 47 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a fragment of slab built into the platform in front of the Kumārasvāmin temple. Nityavarsha. (India III).

This inscription engraved in early Nāgarī characters consists of three sections (A.B and C) of which the third (C) is engraved in a different hand and does not appear to belong to the first two.

Section A belongs to the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Nityavarshadēva Pṛithvī-vallabha who is stated to have meditated at the feet of Akālavarshadēva. The Śaka year cited at the beginning is lost due to damage and Vikrama, Māgha, śu. Rathasaptamī, Sunday, are the only details of date available (See Introduction)••••

Section B seems to deal with the exploits of a chief called Aiyaṇaiya and refers to a princess of the Sindu (for Sindhu ?) family. The date is lost here also.

Section C mentions Dhōra and describes the achievements of the two chieftains belonging to the Chālukya family, Balavarman and his son, Daśavarman. Kāñchi and the planting of the two teeth of a tusker are mentioned in this connection.

Text.

A

⟨1⟩ •••• ṣvaṅkataḥ saṁva•

⟨2⟩ ••• [pravarddha]mānavikramasaṁvatsarā[nta*]-

⟨3⟩ rgatamāghamāsaśuklara[tha]saptamyāṁ(myām) 1

⟨4⟩ ādityavāre ramāsyāṁ 2 saṁvatsaramāsapa-

⟨5⟩ kṣadivasapūrvvāyāṁ tithau paramabhaṭṭāra-

⟨6⟩ ka mahārājādhirāja paramaśvara śrī-

⟨7⟩ [ma]dakālavarṣadevapādānudhyāta paramabha-

⟨8⟩ ṭṭārakamahārājādhirāja parameśvara śrī-

⟨9⟩ mannityavarṣadevapṛthvīvallabhaśrīva-

⟨10⟩ ••••••••• dopajīvī

⟨11⟩ ••••••••• rendraputr[ā] ⟨Page 11⟩

B

⟨1⟩ ••••• māsa ga••

⟨2⟩ ••••• || papā devī pra••

⟨3⟩ ••••• ṅki sa[rvvā]nadhi ko bhūdi[ndra]••••

⟨4⟩ •••••• dhikobhūdaiyaṇaiyanṛpatirayaṁ [saḥ]••••

⟨5⟩ •••••• durgamagrahītsamare nirjitya ripurājendrān ||•••

⟨6⟩ ••••• ndrendrabhūvalayavallabhapādapadmabhaktibhramadbhramara eṣa tathāpya•••

⟨7⟩ ••••• leṣu dhavalaḥ prabhu[rai]yaṇaiyaḥ [|*] sau(śau)rye harissakalapū[rṇṇa] •••••••

⟨8⟩ ••••• rttasvāmī viśrutakīrttirūrjitaguṇastīrtheṣva•••••

⟨9⟩ ••••• vijṛmbhitena mahatā kenāpi luptodayaḥ soyaṁ śrībharadaṁkakāra •••••

⟨10⟩ ••••• pratiṣṭhāṁ punaḥ | prāyaḥ svāmihitaikavṛttiradhika[śrīmā]•• •••••

⟨11⟩ ••••• ṇaḥ || śrīmatsindu(ndhu)kulānvayaikatilakā•• tyāhi śailābhi[bakā] •••• |

⟨12⟩ ••••• bhidhānanṛpaterlakṣmīrivāṁbhonidheḥ || tasyā [ḥ*] śrīgha[ṭemalla]

⟨13⟩ ••••• raiyaṇaiyaḥ prabhuḥ || svāmī prastutakārttikeyamakaro••• •

⟨14⟩ ••••• sthāyinaṁ(nam) || tha || śakanṛpakālātītasaṁvatsaraśate ••••

C

⟨1⟩ śrīmāṁścālū(lu)[kya]vaṁśe samajani nihatāśeṣaśa[tru]

⟨2⟩ kṣitīśo nyāyāpeta(tāṁ) sa pṛthvī(thvīṁ) caturudadhilatā[veṣṭi]-

⟨3⟩ tāṁ yaḥ prabhūtāt | ākṛṣyādātukāmo nṛpasadasi ta-

⟨4⟩ dā dhoranāmne mahomna(ndro) | 1 dūṣyodvaddaṇḍikāyāṁ sanakṛta bala-

⟨5⟩ varmo(rmā)dhipaḥ paṭṭabandhaṁ(ndhan) || saṁprāmaikarasaḥ parākramadhanaḥ kāṁ[cī]-

⟨6⟩ sa(śa)mugrāhave jitvā so(vo)ragajendradantayugalaṁ saṁsyāpya nāmāṁkitaṁ(tam) [|*] khyā-

⟨7⟩ tālaṁpū(pu)ranāmadheyanagarabrahmeśvarasyāgrataḥ | 1 soyaṁ tasya suto[bhya]-

⟨8⟩ dhāyi daśavarmākhyaḥ pracaṇḍodayaḥ [||*] tasya sūtu[ra]bhavatparākramā[krāntavi]-

⟨9⟩ [śvaripu]bhūpama[ṇḍa]laḥ [|*] anvayaikatila[kaḥ]••

⟨10⟩ iti••••••••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0050⟩ No. 50. (A.R. No. 48 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab built into the platform in front of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

1168 A.D.

This is dated Śaka 1990, Sarvajit, Māgha, śu. 5, Thursday. The details correspond to 1168 A.D., January 18. The tithi ended at ·19 on the previous day. The Śaka year was current.

It records that the son, name lost, of the Gāvuṇḍa of Koṅkaṇagēri raised a shrine for god Ṛiṇamōchanadēva, consecrated the god therein and also made provision for the repairs and upkeep of the shrine. It further records that Habbimayya Sāvidēva made a gift of land to the same god. The record states that during the period Dandāsani Purushōttama-brahmachāri-arasar was ruling over the territorv. ⟨Page 12⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ jayābhyudayaśca || namastuṁga śiraścuṁbi caṁdra cāma[ra]

⟨2⟩ [cāravē trai]ḷōkya nagarāraṁbha mūlastaṁbhāyaśaṁbhavē || jayatyāniṣkṛtaṁviṣṇō-

⟨3⟩ [¨rvvārāhaṁ kṣō]bhitā¨rṇnavaṁ dakṣiṇōnnata daṁṣṭrāgraṁ viśrāṁtabhuvanaṁ vapuḥ [||*]

⟨4⟩ • • • • • ttaharaṁ nārāyaṇapriyaṁ pā¨rdatīśanādaivamēyaṁ [·ṛ]ṇamō-

⟨5⟩ • • • • • ḍita¨rṇiya janāvaḷige māḷkesukhasaṁpadamaṁ || svasti samadhigata [paṁ]-

⟨6⟩ [camahā]śabda vratajapaniyamasaṁyuktaruṁ śrī kā¨rttikēyadēvata[na]

⟨7⟩ • • • [ma]ppa śrīmaddaṁḍāsani puruṣōttama brahmacāriya rasar rā[jaṁ]

⟨8⟩ • • • • • mire || svasti śrīmat [śaka]nṛpava¨rṣada 1190 ttaneya sa¨rva[jit saṁva]

⟨9⟩ [tsatada mā]gha śuddha paṁcami [bṛha]spati vāradaṁdu koṁkaṇagēriya gu-

⟨10⟩ • • • • • ḍana maga māḷa • • • • • ·ṛṇamōcanadēva¨rgge ·ā • • •

⟨11⟩ • • • • • [mā]ḍisi [kaḷasa] pratiṣṭaya samayadoḷṁḍa sphuṭita jī • • • • •

⟨12⟩ • • • • • keyi mudiyagāvuṁḍa voṁdoḷ mattar 4 [kaṁ] 7 • • • • •

⟨13⟩ • • • • • • • • • • || teṁ 19 habbimeyana sāvidēvaṁ dēva¨rgge ba • • • • •

⟨14⟩ • • • • • • • • • • [ṟaṁ] mūḍal daṭṭavoladoḷ mattar 5 ·uda • • • • • • • • • •

⟨15⟩ • • • • • • • • • • kusuvana sēvuyiṁ moḍal ka[ga] • • • • •

⟨16⟩ • • • • • • • • • • diṁ teṁkal sirigāvuṁḍavoladoḷ dē • • • • • • • • • •

⟨17⟩ • • • • • • • • • • baḍagalu¨rjji[ta] vanasimoḷ dē • • • • • • • • • •

⟨18⟩ • • • • • • • • • • basavoladoḷ dēva[¨rgge] • • • • • • • • • •

⟨19⟩ • • • • • • • • • • ta[mā]na • • • • • • • • • •

⟨SIIv17p0i0051⟩ No. 51. (A.R. No. 49 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a fragment of a slab built into the west wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

981 A.D.

This is dated Śaka 903, Vṛisha, Chaitra, śu. 5, Thursday, Pushya nakshatram and Bālava karaṇa. If the tithi śu. 5 is a mistake for śu. 9, the details correspond to 91 A.D., March 17.

The record seems to register some gift of land for the repairs and whitewash to a temple (name lost). It is badly damaged.

Text.

Obverse.

⟨1⟩ svasti ṣakāvanīpābdaṁ vistāra-

⟨2⟩ [dā] navaśatatrayaṁgaḷsalulu

⟨3⟩ [pra]stuta vṛṣava¨rṣada caitrasti-

⟨4⟩ ta nāgabjamitra na[tyō]tsava[de]

⟨5⟩ tanmāsa śuddha pa[ṁ]cami bṛha-

⟨6⟩ spativāravuṁ puṣyanakṣatra-

⟨7⟩ vu bālavaveṁba karaṇavu

⟨8⟩ [śō]bhanaveṁba [nitya]yōga

⟨9⟩ • • • • • • • • • • ra

Reverse.

⟨10⟩ sudhāśīḷā koṣṭiṣṭakaṁ [de]

⟨11⟩ citrakāṁcana lōhādi • • • • •

⟨12⟩ ṇḍa sphuṭitanavaka¨rmma • •

⟨13⟩ turāśrama • gigaḷi • •

⟨14⟩ ¨rtthige hūttagegā[kṣarā] ⟨Page 13⟩

⟨15⟩ [¨rtthi]gā hārakkaṁ • • • • •

⟨16⟩ biṭṭa keyi kōḷūra •

⟨17⟩ baḍaga matta[ṁ] caṁdanako •

⟨18⟩ • haduva baṭṭeyiṁ baḍagaṁ • •

⟨SIIv17p0i0052⟩ No. 52. (A.R. No. 50 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the Vīrabhadra temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1119 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 197.

⟨SIIv17p0i0053⟩ No. 53. (A.R. No. 51 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the pedestal of the Nandi near the shrine of Vīrabhadra.

Achyutarāya. 1532 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 553.

⟨SIIv17p0i0054⟩ No. 54. (A.R. No. 52 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the Bōḷu-Basava temple.

Vīra-Ballāḷa. 1218 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 336.

⟨SIIv17p0i0055⟩ No. 55. (A.R. No. 53 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up at the entrance to the village.

Akālavarsha. 947 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 65.

⟨SIIv17p0i0056⟩ No. 56.

On a slab set up near the Jakkēru-bhāvi.

This is dated Śaka 971, Virōdhi, Phālguṇa śu. 13, corresponding to 1050 A.D., February 7.

It records gifts of lands totalling 129 mattar and 450 kamma to god Sōmēśvaradēva by Jasakabbe. It refers to a Karttikēyadēva-tapōvana.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti samadhigata paṁca mahāśabda vra-

⟨2⟩ tajapaniyama[hō]ma saṁyuktaruṁ • krama

⟨3⟩ śrīsvāmi kā¨rttikēya[dēva]tapōvanādhipa

⟨4⟩ tigaḷeppa śrīma[ddaṇḍāsani] vu • • • • •

⟨5⟩ sthāna • ya • • • • • ·āneya maṭhada

⟨6⟩ dēva • vu • • • • • ke yoḷaṁ pramāṇisi

⟨7⟩ sāsana bareyisida koḷada keyi mānyamattar

⟨8⟩ mūvattu [gaṁga] pannasu matta¨rmmūvattayda teṟiya po- ⟨Page 14⟩

⟨9⟩ lada mānyamattar • ba[yya]volada gāvuṇḍageyya

⟨10⟩ matta[roṁdu] • bala • • • na geyi mattaru mūṟu

⟨11⟩ nere[gaṭṭe] volada • • • • • ya teṟigeyi mattaru

⟨12⟩ ·ippattu [·avasa]volada tōṟu[ga]le kallakeyimattar

⟨13⟩ padineṁṭu ·āpolada • • geyi mattareṁdu ·antu mā-

⟨14⟩ nya mattaru ·eṟyettamūṟu gāvuṇḍageyi matta-

⟨15⟩ rēḷu dēvacola mattaru mūṟu mareteṟugeyi

⟨16⟩ mattaru nālvattāṟu ·antella mattaru nūṟa ·ippa-

⟨17⟩ ttoṁbhattu kammanālnūṟaypattaṁ dēva¨rgge sa¨rvvamānya-

⟨18⟩ māgi naḍevapāṇa mūṟu sakhava¨rṣa 971 ne-

⟨19⟩ ya virōdhi saṁvatsarada phālguṇa sudha trayōda-

⟨20⟩ siyandu ja[sa]kabbe ba¨rmma • ḍivolada pannasu ma-

⟨21⟩ ttarēṟaṁ [sō]mēsvaradēva¨rgge biṭṭaḷ • • • • •

⟨22⟩ 1 • • • • • volada • keyimattarāṟu

⟨SIIv17p0i0057⟩ No. 57. (A.R. No. 55 of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab built into the floor of the Darga.

1120 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 199.

⟨SIIv17p0i0058⟩ No. 58. (A.R. No. 55-A of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT. On a slab set up in front of the Durgēśvarī temple.

Āhavamalla. 976 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 73.

⟨SIIv17p0i0059⟩ No. 59. (A.R. No. 55-B of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a broken pillar lying in the Lakshmīnarasimhasvāmin temple.

It mentions Jakkita, son of Pallava Tāta of Ātrēya-gōtra and Taitirīya-śākhā, who was residing in Pākala-agrahāra in Gudravāṭa-dēśa of Veṅgimaṇḍaḷa when Kakkaladēva was ruling, and seems to refer to some gift (details lost) in Sōmēśvarāsthāna.

First Face.

⟨1⟩ 2 1• • • • •

⟨2⟩ khaṇḍita pratāpāva • • •

⟨3⟩ kakkaladēva pracaṇḍa siṁ[hā]-

⟨4⟩ sanastha bhūmaṇḍaḷa maṇḍanībhū-

⟨5⟩ ta veṁgimaṇḍaḷāntappāti

⟨6⟩ gudravāṭa dēśānta¨rggata

⟨7⟩ [pā]kalāgrahārē taitirīya

⟨8⟩ śākhāḷaṁkṛtaḥ ·ā[trē]ya [gō]-

⟨9⟩ trē dvijakuḷacūḍāmaṇiḥ [pa]

⟨10⟩ llavatātābhidhānōbhavat ||

⟨11⟩ tatputra ssakaḷabhūmaṇḍaḷa

⟨12⟩ [¨rvvi]khyātō jakkitākhyōbhū-

⟨13⟩ t tasmād brahmakaḷpaḥ kaḷpa[pā]-

⟨14⟩ dapādiva pallavaḥ pallavānāṁ ⟨Page 15⟩

Second Face.

⟨1⟩ • • • • • ta vasudhāta

⟨2⟩ prādāddēvakatrāya • • • • •

⟨3⟩ nnadānaphaḷaṁ labdharā • • •

⟨4⟩ pavāsōpyamuktatritīya • •

⟨5⟩ taḥ tatrātmīya parābhaki ni-

⟨6⟩ mityaṁ ni¨rmaḷādri[dō] | tasmi

⟨7⟩ [n] kāḷē mayūramudrāhasta

⟨8⟩ śrī sōmēśvarāsthānē | pramā-

⟨9⟩ ṇyaṁ yadi vēdēṣu brahma viṣṇu

⟨10⟩ mahēśvarē [dē]vakāgratrayasyāpi

⟨11⟩ labdhasyāsti pramāṇatā | śrīka-

⟨12⟩ ¨rmmāra kuḷāhvaya dvijava • grāma

⟨13⟩ sya • • • tō niṣkramya krama

⟨SIIv17p0i0060⟩ No. 60. (A.R. No. 55-C of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a broken slab lying in the maṇḍapa of the Kumārasvāmin temple.

Āhavamalla. 996 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 78.

⟨SIIv17p0i0061⟩ No. 61. (A.R. No. 55-D of 1904). KUḌATINI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up under a margosa tree.

Vīra-Ballāḷa. 1207 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 327.

⟨SIIv17p0i0062⟩ No. 62. (A.R. No. 56 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up to the south of the Basavēśvara temple.

Śaṅkhavarma. 1177 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 297.

⟨SIIv17p0i0063⟩ No. 63. (A.R. No. 57 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a rock to the south of the Basavēśvara temple.

Kṛishṇarāya. 1528 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 524.

⟨SIIv17p0i0064⟩ No. 64. (A.R. No. 58 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the south side of the maṇḍapa in front of the Kallēśvara temple.

Rāyamurāri Sōvidēva. 1176 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 296.

1 The beginning is lost. ⟨Page 16⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0065⟩ No. 65. (A.R. No. 59 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On two faces of a pillar in the bazaar street.

1512 A.D.

This is dated Śaka 1435, Āṅgirasa, Āśvija, śu. 15, lunar eclipse corresponding to 1512 A.D., September 25. The Śaka year was current.

It records that Mallamamma, the wife of Mallapanāyaka of Kuṟagōḍu had the well of the temple of god Śānta-Mallikārjuna repaired and made a gift of land to the god for a flower-garden.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī

⟨2⟩ svastiśrī jayābhyu[da*]ya

⟨3⟩ śālivāhana ṣaka va-

⟨4⟩ ruṣa 1435 neya

⟨5⟩ ·aṁgirasa saṁvatsa-

⟨6⟩ rada ·asvija śu 15

⟨7⟩ sōmōparāga puṁ-

⟨8⟩ ṇyakāladalu kuṟa-

⟨9⟩ gōḍa basavaṇa nā-

⟨10⟩ yakara makaḷu malla-

⟨11⟩ pa nāyakara dha¨rma

⟨12⟩ patniyāda ballaku

⟨13⟩ ṁdi mādhapa nāyaka-

⟨14⟩ ra magaḷāda mallamaṁ-

⟨15⟩ manū kuṟugōḍa grā-

⟨16⟩ make ·iśāṁnyadiki-

⟨17⟩ na pūje [pāḷa] śā-

⟨18⟩ ṁta mallikā¨rjuna dē-

⟨19⟩ vara dēvālaya bā-

⟨20⟩ viyanu jiṁ¨rnnodhāra-

⟨21⟩ va māḍi dēvara hū-

⟨22⟩ vinatōṭaka biṭide

⟨23⟩ dēvasthānake mūḍalu

⟨24⟩ bāviyiṁ ·i baḍa-

⟨25⟩ galāda tōṭastaḷa

⟨26⟩ vōkuḷada holaṁ

⟨27⟩ nu tamage ·iha pa-

⟨28⟩ ragaḷāgabēkeṁ[du]

⟨29⟩ dēvarige sama¨rpista-

⟨30⟩ ru ·i sama¨rpisida dē-

⟨31⟩ vatā ·uśake ·ārobba-

⟨32⟩ ru ·aḷupidavaru

⟨33⟩ vāraṇāsidalu ya

⟨34⟩ lli ·aśaṁkhyāta kapi-

⟨35⟩ le koṁda pāpake

⟨36⟩ yōharu ·idhaṁ-

⟨37⟩ ¨rmava ·udharisi naḍa

⟨38⟩ sidavarige ·asaṁ-

⟨39⟩ khyāta kapilēkoṭa

⟨40⟩ phalavahudu śrī śrī

⟨41⟩ śrī śrī śrī śrī

⟨SIIv17p0i0066⟩ No. 66. (A.R. No. 60 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the Āñjanēya temple on the Hanumanta hill. Hyderalli. 1780 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 706. ⟨Page 17⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0067⟩ No. 67. (A.R. No. 61 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the Katte-Baṇḍe rock north-east of the Hanumanta hill.

Satyāśrāya.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 53.

⟨SIIv17p0i0068⟩ No. 68. (A.R. No. 62 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab lying in the maṇḍapa in front of the Uṇḍāli Saṅgammanaguḍi.

Sadāśivarāya. 1543 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 606.

⟨SIIv17p0i0069⟩ No. 69. (A.R. No. 63 of 1904). KURUGŌḌU, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the ruined temple at Hāḷugōḍe near Kurugōḍu.

Sadāśivarāya. 1545 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 618.

⟨SIIv17p0i0070⟩ No. 70. (A.R. No. 64 of 1904). KALKAMBHA, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the slab set up near the Kallēśvara temple.

1028 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 42.

⟨SIIv17p0i0071⟩ No. 71. (A.R. No. 65 of 1904). KALKAMBHA, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab close to the chāvaḍi.

1080 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 84.

⟨SIIv17p0i0072⟩ No. 72.

On a slab lying near a mound close to the village.

This record, in characters of about the 9th century A.D. mentions Rachaya Gamuṇḍa and Māragaṅga and seems to record a gift. Rukaya, Māraya, Vīraya and others seem to figure as signatories of the record.

⟨1⟩ svasti racaya gamu-

⟨2⟩ ṇḍa māragaṅga[]

⟨3⟩ • baṟuyi da[kke] sa

⟨4⟩ [kke] • rukayanu [kaḍa] • mā-

⟨5⟩ rayanu • • rayanu vī- ⟨Page 18⟩

⟨6⟩ rayanu yida • • •

⟨7⟩ • • • • • • • • • •

⟨8⟩ • • • • • [dē]gulama[na]ṟi

⟨9⟩ • • • da pāpa

⟨SIIv17p0i0073⟩ No. 73. (A.R. No. 67 of 1904). KALKAMBHA, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in the field called Gōpikallu-Hōla.

1049 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 44.

⟨SIIv17p0i0074⟩ No. 74. (A.R. No. 68 of 1904). ORAVĀYI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab lying on the right side of the entrance to the central shrine of the Benakappa temple.

1195 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 322.

⟨SIIv17p0i0075⟩ No. 75. (A.R. No. 68-A of 1904). ORAVĀYI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab lying on the right side to the entrance of the central shrine of the Benakappa temple.

Vīra-Ballāḷa. 1217 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 334.

⟨SIIv17p0i0076⟩ No. 76. (A.R. No. 69 of 1904). CRAVĀYI, BELLARY TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab lying on the left side of the entrance to the Benakappa temple.

Jagadēkamalla (II). 1149 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 253.

⟨SIIv17p0i0077⟩ No. 77. (A.R. No. 70 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the right side of the southern entrance to the central shrine of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla 1079 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 144.

⟨SIIv17p0i0078⟩ No. 78. (A.R. No. 70-A of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the right side of the southern entrance to the central shrine of the Kallēśvara temple.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 710. ⟨Page 19⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0079⟩ No. 79. (A.R. No. 71 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the left side of the entrance to the Kallēśvara temple.

Sadāśivarāya. 1550 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 640.

⟨SIIv17p0i0080⟩ No. 80. (A.R. No. 72 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a pillar in front of the central shrine of the Kallēśvara temple.

Narasiṅgadēva. 1228 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 344.

⟨SIIv17p0i0081⟩ No. 81. (A.R. No. 73 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the west side of a ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple.

Indravallabha.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 59.

⟨SIIv17p0i0082⟩ No. 82. (A.R. No. 74 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On another slab set up on the west side of the ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1113 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 189.

⟨SIIv17p0i0083⟩ No. 83. (A.R. No. 75 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the third slab set up on the west side of the ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple.

Kannaradēva (III) 944-45 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 64.

⟨SIIv17p0i0084⟩ No. 84. (A.R. No. 76 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fourth slab set up on the west side of the ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1122 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 203. ⟨Page 20⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0085⟩ No. 85. (A.R. No. 77 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fifth slab set up on the west side of the ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1115 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 191.

⟨SIIv17p0i0086⟩ No. 86. (A.R. No. 78 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the sixth slab set up on the west side of the ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple. Tribhuvanamalla.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 219.

⟨SIIv17p0i0087⟩ No. 87. (A.R. No. 78-A of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the west side of the ruined shrine close to the maṇḍapa in Kallēśvara temple.

1209 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 712.

⟨SIIv17p0i0088⟩ No. 88. (A.R. No. 79 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the north side of the ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple.

Khoṭṭiga. 972 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 71.

⟨SIIv17p0i0089⟩ No. 89. (A.R. No. 80 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the north side of the ruined shrine close to the Kallēśvara temple.

Trailōkyamalla. 1048-49 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 108.

⟨SIIv17p0i0090⟩ No. 90. (A.R. No. 81 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the third slab set up on the north side of Kallēśvara temple.

Āhavamalla. 987 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 75.

⟨SIIv17p0i0091⟩ No. 91. (A.R. No. 82 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the Narasimhasvāmin shrine in the Kallēśvara temple. ⟨Page 21⟩

This is dated in the cyclic year Nandana, Māgha, śu. 10, Sunday. The record is in characters of about the 11th century.

It registers a gift of land to Purāṇada Vishṇubhaṭṭa by the fifty mahājanas of Bāguḷi which bears the appellation Hariśchandradatti.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti samasta praśasti sahitaṁ śrīmatu hariśca-

⟨2⟩ dra dattiya piriyagrahāraṁ bāguḷiya ·ai-

⟨3⟩ vadiṁbaru naṁdana saṁvacharada māgha su | 10 ·ā-

⟨4⟩ daṁdu purāṇada viṣṇubhaṭṭarige caṁgeyahaḷḷi-

⟨5⟩ yalu manōharadēvara mānyadiṁ teṁka-

⟨6⟩ lu ·erekayi mattaru 2 maṁ hiriya mānyaṁ-

⟨7⟩ gaḷōpādiya naḍasuvaru śrī kalinātha || 10

⟨SIIv17p0i0092⟩ No. 92.

On a pillar in the maṇḍapa in fornt of the Narasiṁhasvāmin shrine in the Kallēśvara temple.

1032 A.D.

This is dated the cyclic year Plava, Māgha, śu. 15, Sunday. Palaeographically the record may be assigned to about the 11th century and the details correspond to 1032, A.D., January 27.

It registers a gift of land to the god Narasiṁhadēva of Vithapura by the fifty mahājanas of the agrahāra Bāguḷi called Hariśchandradatti.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti samasta praśasti sahitaṁ śrīmadu

⟨2⟩ haraścaṁdradattiya piriyagrahāraṁ bā-

⟨3⟩ guḷiya ·aivadiṁbaru plavasaṁvatsarada mā-

⟨4⟩ gha śuda | 15 ·ādivāradaṁdu viṭhapurada

⟨5⟩ narasiṁhadēvarige hiriya mānyaṁgaḷō-

⟨6⟩ pādiyalu koṭṭa tōṭa kaṁba 120 gaḍḍe

⟨7⟩ kaṁba 300 ·ereya kayi mattaru 3 ma-

⟨8⟩ ne 1 śrī kalinātha || 10

⟨SIIv17p0i0093⟩ No. 93. (A.R. No. 82-B of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the Narasimhasvāmin shrine in the Kallēśvara temple.

1031 A.D.

This is dated in the cyclic year Plava, Vaiśākha, ba. 30, Monday. Palaeographically the record may be assigned to about the 11th century. The details correspond to 1031 A.D., May 21, the month being Nija Vaiśākha.

It registers a gift of land for offerings to god Narasiṁhadēva, in the temple, of Kalidēva, by the fifty mahājanas of agrahāra Bāguḷi called by the appellation Hariśchandradatti. ⟨Page 22⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti samasta praśastisahitaṁ śrīmatu haraścaṁ-

⟨2⟩ dra dattiya piriyagrahāraṁ bāgu-

⟨3⟩ ḷiya ·aivadiṁbaru plava saṁvatsarada

⟨4⟩ vayiśākha bahuḷa 30 sōmavā-

⟨5⟩ radaṁdu kalidēvaroḷagaṇa narasiṁ-

⟨6⟩ hvadēvara yamritapaḍige [kaṭṭaḷe] ke-

⟨7⟩ ṟeyakeḷage [koṭa] kaṁba 10 []

⟨8⟩ [ppa]ya dēvarali tōṭa kaṁba • yi

⟨9⟩ [ṣṭa] śrī mānyavāgi salisu-

⟨10⟩ varu || ·ī dha¨rmmava māḍidāta

⟨11⟩ yaṁmma • nāgaṁṇa śrī kali

⟨12⟩ nātha 10

⟨SIIv17p0i0094⟩ No. 94.

On a pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the Narasimhasvāmin shrine in the Kallēśvara temple.

1065 A.D.

This is dated in the cyclic year Viśvāvasu, Puśa, ba. 10, Sunday. On palaeographical grounds the record may be assigned to about the 11th century. The given details correspond to 1065 A.D., December 25.

It registers a gift of lands to god Sadāśivadēva, by Sadāśiva, son of Gōpaṇṇa, Gōmena Viṭṭhaṇṇa, Parimitana Nāchaṇṇa, and Kōḷagada Chavuḍayya, of the village Bāguḷi, a Hariśchandradatti. The gift was made into the hands of the fifty mahājanas of the village.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrīmatu viśvāsu saṁvatsarada puśya

⟨2⟩ ba 10 ·ā | dalu śrīmatu haraścaṁdradattiya

⟨3⟩ bāguḷiya śrīmadaśēśa mahājanaṁgaḷu śrī-

⟨4⟩ matu sadāśivadēvariga yaṁgabhōga raṁgabhō

⟨5⟩ gake biṭṭa dha¨rmma kaḍemaneya gōsaṁṇana maga sadā-

⟨6⟩ siva koṭṭa tōṭa kaṁba 100 gōṁmena viṭhṭhaṁṇa ko-

⟨7⟩ ṭṭatōṭa kaṁba 20 parimitana nācaṁṇa koṭṭa ·e-

⟨8⟩ rekeyi matta 1 kōḷagada ca·uḍayya koṭṭa

⟨9⟩ kayi va tta 2 mane 1 yī dha¨rmmavanu yayvadiṁ-

⟨10⟩ baru pratipālisuvaru maṁgaḷa mahā śrī śrī

⟨SIIv17p0i0095⟩ No. 95. (A.R. No. 84 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the third pillar in front of the Narasimhasvāmin shrine in the Kallēsvara temple.

Kandharadēva. 1250 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 368. ⟨Page 23⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0096⟩ No. 96. (A.R. No. 85 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Sadāśiva. 1551 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX., Part II, No. 641.

⟨SIIv17p0i0097⟩ No. 97. (A.R. No. 86 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On another slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1079 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX., Part I, No. 145.

⟨SIIv17p0i0098⟩ No. 98. (A.R. No. 86-A of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in front of the Narasimhasvāmin shrine in the Kallēśvara temple.

1180 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 274.

⟨SIIv17p0i0099⟩ No. 99. (A.R. No. 87 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the third slab set up in the maṇḍapa in front of the Narasiṁhasvāmin shrine.

Jagadēkamalla (Jayasimha II). 1018 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 80.

⟨SIIv17p0i0100⟩ No. 100. (A.R. No. 88 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fourth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple. Jagadēkamalla.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 258.

⟨SIIv17p0i0101⟩ No. 101. (A.R. No. 89 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fifth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Jagadēkamalla. 1018 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I. No. 81.

⟨SIIv17p0i0102⟩ No. 102. (A.R. No. 89-A of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fifth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Jagadēkamalla II. 1147 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 246. ⟨Page 24⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0103⟩ No. 103. (A.R. No. 90 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the sixth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Vīra-Ballāḷa II. 1193 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 319.

⟨SIIv17p0i0104⟩ No. 104. (A.R. No. 90-A of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the sixth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

1212 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 331.

⟨SIIv17p0i0105⟩ No. 105. (A.R. No. 91 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the seventh slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple. Vijayapāṇḍya.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 292.

⟨SIIv17p0i0106⟩ No. 106. (A.R. No. 92 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the eighth slab set up to the south of the Kallēśvara temple.

Jagadēkamalla II. 1148 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol., IX., Part I, No. 255.

⟨SIIv17p0i0107⟩ No. 107. (A.R. No. 93 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the ninth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Jagadēkamalla-Jayasimha II. 1035 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 89.

⟨SIIv17p0i0108⟩ No. 108. (A.R. No. 94 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the tenth slab set up on the south side of Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1108 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 177.

⟨SIIv17p0i0109⟩ No. 109. (A.R. No. 95 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the eleventh slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1107 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 173. ⟨Page 25⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0110⟩ No. 110. (A.R. No. 95-A of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the eleventh slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 174.

⟨SIIv17p0i0111⟩ No. 111. (A.R. No. 96 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up to the south of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1103 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 168.

⟨SIIv17p0i0112⟩ No. 112. (A.R. No. 97 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the thirteenth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1126 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 211.

⟨SIIv17p0i0113⟩ No. 113. (A.R. No. 98 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fourteenth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1115 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 192.

⟨SIIv17p0i0114⟩ No. 114. (A.R. No. 99 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fifteenth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1122 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 201.

⟨SIIv17p0i0115⟩ No. 115. (A.R. No. 99-A of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the fifteenth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

1188 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 281.

⟨SIIv17p0i0116⟩ No. 116. (A.R. No. 100 of 1904). BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the sixteenth slab set up on the south side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Kannaradēva(Kṛishṇa III). 956 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 66. ⟨Page 26⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0117⟩ No. 117. (A.R. No. 101 of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On the seventeenth slab set up on the north side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Āhavamalla. 991 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 76.

⟨SIIv17p0i0118⟩ No. 118.

On a slab set up in the south-west corner of the Kallēśvara temple.

986 A.D.

This is dated in Śaka 907, Pārthiva, Phālguṇa, Puṇṇame, probably corresponding to 986 A.D., February 27.

It seems to record a gift of income from levies to Bācha by the One-hundred and twenty mahājanas of Sindamuge in appreciation of his heroism in an attack by Kaliga and others. It further records the conferring of the title Irmmaḍi-gadamba to Manneyara Ballaha for having killed Kaliga.

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⟨1⟩ svasti sakava¨rṣa [907] pā¨rttiva saṁvatsaraṁ prava¨rttise tadvariṣābhyantarada [phā]lgu[ṇa]

⟨2⟩ [mā]sada puṇname modalāge sāsi¨rbarū[rāḻdu] cika [bā]saṁgaḷa kaliganeṁba •

⟨3⟩ • ya [bīḍaṁ baṭṭaṇaṁ kiḍisi] sausi¨rbaro[ḷaṁ bāca] kādi koḷutire kaliga[no]-

⟨4⟩ ḷagāge padiṁbara taleyaṁ koṇḍaḍe sāsi¨rbaruṁ mecciyeleya pēṟiṁ-

⟨5⟩ ge nūṟu talevoṟege ·ayvattu ·i[vaṁ] caṁ[drā]dityaṁbara[mava]

⟨6⟩ varaṁ makaḷa makaḷvaraṁ naḍeyisidavarāvarājyamādo[ḍa]

⟨7⟩ mava¨rgge sāsi¨rbba[rū]ḍuvaru ·intappudake sinda[mu]geya ma-

⟨8⟩ [hājanaṁ] nūṟi¨rppadiṁbara ta[ḷavu] cikana bāsana mā-

⟨9⟩ rana makaḷa makaḷvaraṁ tammutta mūvaru muṇbaru sā-

⟨10⟩ si¨rbbaruṁ kadalīyade naḍeyisuvaruṁ maṁgaḷaṁ ||

⟨11⟩ 1 ma[nne]yara ballahaṁ cikabāsa

⟨12⟩ rā[ḷ] kaliganaṁ kondaḍe mecci ·i-

⟨13⟩ ¨rmmaḍi gadaṁba neṁba pesaraṁ ko •

⟨14⟩ • kudureveraḍaṁ sinda • •

⟨15⟩ koṭṭa[ṁ |] maṁgaḷa

⟨SIIv17p0i0119⟩ No. 119. (A.R. No. 103 of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the south-west side of the Kallēśvara temple.

Bhuvanaikamalla. 1068 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 132. ⟨Page 27⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0120⟩ No. 120. (A.R. No. 104 of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up inside the Maḷe-Mallappa temple.

1108 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 178.

⟨SIIv17p0i0121⟩ No. 121. (A.R. No. 104-A of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up inside the Maḷe-Mallappa temple.

Vijayapāṇḍya. 1110 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 182.

⟨SIIv17p0i0122⟩ No. 122. (A.R. No. 105 of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the north side of the Maḷe-Mallappa temple.

Tribhuvanamalla. 1119 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 198.

⟨SIIv17p0i0123⟩ No. 123. (A.R. No. 105-A of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up on the north side of the Maḷe-Mallappa temple.

Vīra-Narasiṁha III. 1292 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 351.

⟨SIIv17p0i0124⟩ No. 124. (A.R. No. 106 of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up at the entrance to the Vīrabhadra temple.

Sadāśiva. 1547 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part II, No. 622.

⟨SIIv17p0i0125⟩ No. 125. (A.R. No. 107 of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine of the Sūryanārāyaṇa temple.

Jagadēkamalla (II). 1160 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 267.

⟨SIIv17p0i0126⟩ No. 126. (A.R. No. 108 of 1904.) BĀGAḶI, HARPANAHALLI TALUK, BELLARY DISTRICT.

On a slab set up in the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine of the Chennakēśava temple.

[Jagadēkamalla II]

Published in S.I.I., Vol. IX, Part I, No. 26. ⟨Page 28⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0127⟩ No. 127. (A.R. No. 109 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHŌPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Maṅgaḷapurīśvara temple.

Sundarapāṇḍya. Year: 13+1.

The details of date given, viz., Vṛiśchika śu 10, Saturday, śōti (svāti) are irregular. Palaeographically this inscription may be assigned to the 13th century.

It records the gift of ten vēlis of wet (nañjai) lands in the village of Tyāgavalli in the Tyāgavalli-ppaṟṟu alias Āṇḍāgaḷūr-ppaṟṟu in the eastern division of Mēṟkā-nāḍu in the Rājādhirāja-vaḷanāḍu by the king for offerings on the occasion of Sundarapāṇḍiyaṉ sandhi instituted after his name besides other services including festivals and repairs The land which is stated to have been formerly a taxable tirunāmattukkāṇi was made free of a number of taxes and levies mentioned in the inscription. Neṭṭūruḍaiyāṉ Iḷaiyāḻvāṉ Kāliṅgarāyaṉ figures as one of the signatories of the document.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrīḥ—

⟨2⟩ śrīmeṟkittikkumel 1

⟨3⟩ tirupuvaṉaccakkaravatti

⟨4⟩ koṉerimelkoṇ-

⟨5⟩ ṭāṉ śrīcuntarapāṇṭiyate-

⟨6⟩ vaṟkku yāṇṭu patiṉmūṉṟāvatiṉ

⟨7⟩ etirāmāṇṭu vṛścika nāyaṟṟu [pū]-

⟨8⟩ rvvapakṣattu daśamiyum śani[k*]kiḻamai

⟨9⟩ yum peṟṟa cotināḷ irājādhi-

⟨10⟩ rājavaḷanāṭṭu meṟkānāṭṭu kiḻva-

⟨11⟩ ḻi tiyākavallippaṟṟāṉa āṇṭākaḷu-

⟨12⟩ rppaṟṟil tiyākavalli uṭaiyār tiruccopu-

⟨13⟩ ramuṭaiyanāyaṉār koyil tāṉattārkku

⟨14⟩ iṉṉāyanārkku nam perāl kaṭṭiṉa cun-

⟨15⟩ tarapāṇṭiyaṉ cantikkum tirunāḷukkum amu-

⟨16⟩ tupaṭi cāttuppaṭi uḷḷiṭṭu veṇṭum nit-

⟨17⟩ tanimantaṅkaḷukkum tiruppaṇikkum uṭalā-

⟨18⟩ ka iṉṉāyaṉār paḻantirunāmattukkāṇiyā-

⟨19⟩ y iṟaiyiṟ kūṭṭiṉa ivvūr naṉcainila-

⟨20⟩ m patiṟṟu veliyum nāṉkellaikkuṭpa-

⟨21⟩ ṭṭa meṭun tiṭarum kāṭum kaḷarilum tirutti-

⟨22⟩ ppayirc ceytukoḷḷalām nilamum pati-

⟨23⟩ ṉmūṉṟāvatiṉ etirāmāṇṭu kāttikaimā-

⟨24⟩ ta mutal mutal aṭaṅka tirunāmattukkā-

⟨25⟩ ṇi iṟaiyiliyākak kuṭuttom iṉṉi-

⟨26⟩ lattu kārum maṟuvum orupūvum kaṭaippūvu-

⟨27⟩ m karumpu ceṅkaḻunīr vāḻai iñci mañca-

⟨28⟩ ḷ teṅku kamuku palāmaram koḻuntu uḷḷi-

⟨29⟩ ṭṭa vāṉpayirum māṉavāri

⟨30⟩ puḻutinellum varaku keḻva-

⟨31⟩ raku eḷḷu vaḻutalai pākal uḷḷi- ⟨Page 29⟩

⟨32⟩ ṭṭa puṉpayirum ceytukoḷvā-

⟨33⟩ rkaḷākavum iṉṉilattāl varu-

⟨34⟩ m neṟkaṭamai kācukaṭamai māvaṭai

⟨35⟩ kuḷavaṭai nirāṇi puṉpayirkkaṭamai-

⟨36⟩ poṉvari antarāyam kāṇikkai kā-

⟨37⟩ ttikaippaccai apiṣeka kaikkāṇi

⟨38⟩ tulāpāravari pañcipili cantivikkirama-

⟨39⟩ peṟu kiṟṟuvari vācalviṉiyokam ciṟaiaccu ilāñ-

⟨40⟩ ciṉaippeṟu āṉaiccālai kutiraippanti āṇṭeḻu-

⟨41⟩ ttu tevai veṭṭi nilai āḷ paṇikkottu pā-

⟨42⟩ ṭikāval•• tevai āḷamañci kūṟṟilakkai

⟨43⟩ kaṭaikkūṭṭilakkai cīkāriyap peṟu nāṭṭuvi-

⟨44⟩ ṉiyokam uḷpaṭṭa aṉaittu upātikaḷum ivvū-

⟨45⟩ r nāṉkellaikkuḷpaṭṭa ceṭṭiṟai taṟiyiṟai aḻuka-

⟨46⟩ lcarakku āyam vālamañcāṭi taṭṭoli taṭṭārappā-

⟨47⟩ ṭṭam kāṭu kāval cirukaṭai yīḻampuṉcai cekkiṟai-

⟨48⟩ maka[m]mai uḷḷiṭṭa aṉaittāyaṅkaḷum upāti uḷpa-

⟨49⟩ ṭa mutala[ṭaṅka iṟaiyi]liyāka variyilum kaḻittom

⟨50⟩ ippaṭikku inta olaiye cātaṉamāka koṇṭu cantirā-

⟨51⟩ yittavaraiyum celvatāka kallilum cempilum veṭ-

⟨52⟩ ṭi[k*]koṇṭu pūcaiyum tiruppaṇiyum tirunāḷum tāḻva-

⟨53⟩ ṟa naṭatti potuka tulyam ivai neṭṭuru ṭaiyāṉ iḷai-

⟨54⟩ yāḻvāṉ kāliṅkarāyaḷ eḻuttu ivai neṭṭuruṭai-

⟨55⟩ yāṉ eḻuttu ivai••••• vallavarāyaṉ eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0128⟩ No. 128. (A.R. No. 110 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHŌPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shine in the Maṅgaḷapurīśvara temple.

Vikramapāṇḍya. Year 7: 1289-90 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti Samasta Bhavanēkavīra, etc., of

Vikramapāṇḍya. The details of date given, viz., Vriśchika, śu. 13, Friday, Uttiram are irregular.

It registers the gift of 30 mā of tax-free land in Veṭchikkāḍu alias Ambalakkūttaviḷāgam lying to the east of Veḷḷāṟu in the Tyāgavalli-ppaṟṟu to the sthānattār of the temple of Tiruchchōpuram Uḍaiyār in Tyāgavalli in the eastern division of Vēśālippāḍi in Rājarāja-vaḻanāḍu by the king (?) for worship and repairs. It mentions a number of taxes and levies.

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⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] samastabhuva[n*]aikavīra-

⟨2⟩ candrakulamaṅgalapradīpa madhu-

⟨3⟩ rāpuri mahēndra kēraḷakulakā-

⟨4⟩ ḷa[kāḷ]āndhakāradivākara śō-

⟨5⟩ ḷa vamśavārirāśibāḍavānala [la*]-

⟨6⟩ ṅkāpatikāḷakūṭakadanakāḷaka[ṇṭha]

⟨7⟩ karṇāṭakarikaḷabhakaṇṭhīrava [k*]ṣē-

⟨8⟩ māsu[ra]vidāraṇa narasiṅha kāṭaka- ⟨Page 30⟩

⟨9⟩ vaṭhaśavaiśvānara jē[ya*]ntamaṅgala-

⟨10⟩ purādhīśvara vīrakaṇṭhagōpālabhu-

⟨11⟩ jaṅga vibhaṅga 1 rāja kāñcīpura viracita-

⟨12⟩ sāmrājyā[bhiṣ]ēka gaṇapatigandhagaja

⟨13⟩ kūṭa pākala bahuvidha vairidurgga

⟨14⟩ bhañjana praṇata rājasthāpanācā-

⟨15⟩ ryya tribhuvanarājadhirāja paramēśva[ra*]

⟨16⟩ śrī vikramapāṇḍayadēva[rkku*] yāṇṭu

⟨17⟩ 7 vṛścika nāyaṟṟu pūrvapa-

⟨18⟩ kṣattu trayōdaśiyum veḷḷikki-

⟨19⟩ ḻamaiyum peṟṟa uttirattu nāḷ

⟨20⟩ irā[ja*]rā[ja*]vaḷanāṭṭu vecālippā-

⟨21⟩ ṭināṭṭuk kīḻvaḻi tiyākavalli-

⟨22⟩ yil uṭaiyār tiruccopuramuṭaiyā-

⟨23⟩ r koyil tāṉattārkku uṭaiyār-

⟨24⟩ tiruccopura muṭaiyārkku pūcaikkum tiru-

⟨25⟩ ppaṇikkum tiyākavallippaṟṟil veḷ-

⟨26⟩ vāṟṟukkuk kiḻakkup paṭṭa nilattil-

⟨27⟩ veṭcikkāṭāṉa ampalak kūttaviḷākat-

⟨28⟩ til āṟāvatu varaiyum aṭaippu nīṅ-

⟨29⟩ kalāṉa taricil taṭiceraviṭṭa nilam 16 mā-

⟨30⟩ vukku ellai āvatu pālpāynta peruṅ-

⟨31⟩ kaḻikku vaṭakkuṅ kiḻakkum tillaṅkāṭṭu-

⟨32⟩ kkut teṟkum kuṉṟukku meṟkum iṉṉāṉke-

⟨33⟩ llaikkuṭpaṭṭa teṉtalai tuṭaṅki mutalatāka

⟨34⟩ ita(ṉ)ṉil kuṇṭu 5 tma itaṉ vaṭak[ku]-

⟨35⟩ ttaṭi kaṉāl 5 itaṉ kiḻakkuttaṭi 1

⟨36⟩ ṉāl 5 ma itaṉ vaṭakkuttaṭi 1 ṉāl kiḻakku

⟨37⟩ [] itaṉ meṟku taṭi 1 ṉāl tma itaṉ-

⟨38⟩ vaṭakku taṭi 2 ṉāl 5 itaṉmeṟku ta-

⟨39⟩ ṭi 1 ṉāl ma itaṉ vaṭakiḻakku

⟨40⟩ taṭi 1 ṉāl 5 itaṉ vaṭakku taṭi 1 ṉāl-

⟨41⟩ 5 itaṉ vaṭakku taṭi 2 ṉāl 5 ita-

⟨42⟩ ṉ vaṭakku taṭi 1 ṉāl 5 itaṉvaṭakku

⟨43⟩ taṭi 1 ṉāl 5 [tma] āka 5 16pa innilam pati-

⟨44⟩ ṉāṟumāvum kāḷikūḷappaṭṭil taṭiceraviṭṭa-

⟨45⟩ 5 patiṉālu māvukku ellai āvatu uṭaiyār-

⟨46⟩ tevatāṉam maṇali vaṭavarampukku vaṭak-

⟨47⟩ ku tillai[kkā]ṭṭukku [teṟ]kku meṟkku tillaṅ-

⟨48⟩ kāṭṭukku kiḻakku innāṉke- 2

⟨49⟩ vaṭakkuttaṭi 2 ṉāl 5 itaṉ vaṭakku ōṭai taṭi 1 ṉāl 5 ma

⟨50⟩ [5] itaṉ kiḻakku taṭi 1 ṉāl 5 ma itaṉ vaṭakkut taṭi 1 ṉāl 5 itaṉ vaṭakku taṭi 1 ṉāl 5 itaṉ vaṭak- 2

⟨51⟩ ṭiṉāl 5 āka 5 16pa m āka 5 30pa innilam muppatumāvum innilaṅkaḷukkuṭ paṭṭa tiṭarum kuḷamum maramum ivvūrkaḷil innila viḻukkāṭṭuppaṭi nattamum ēri nirnilaiyum [a]ṉaittopāti uṭpaṭat tevatāṉa- ⟨Page 31⟩

⟨52⟩ iṟaiiliyākak koṇṭu pacāṉamum naviraiyum kārum cittiraik kārum puṉpayirum puṉ ceyyum kamukum koḻuntum maṟṟum uḷḷiṭṭu veṇṭum payiṟ ceytu kaṭamai kācu kaṭamai kāṇiyāmaippe-

⟨53⟩ ṟu cikāriyappeṟu veṭṭi nilaiyāḷ paṇikkottup pāṭikāval ūṟkaṇakkappeṟu kātti kaippoṉvari māvaṭai kuḷavaṭai āyavaṟakam kūṟṟilakkai kaṭaikkūṭṭilakkai taṇṭal ilakkai viṭaipper mātappaṭi avi-

⟨54⟩ ṣekakkaikkāṇi tulāpāravari uḷḷiṭṭa aṉaittu āyavaṟkamum tevatā[ṉa*] iṟaiili yāka candrādityavarai celvatākak kalliluñ cempilum veṭṭikkoḷka tulyam ivai kuṇamaṅkala muṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu melliraṇiyamuṭṭattu-

⟨55⟩ veri[yū]ruṭaiyāṉ pāṭaṉ untāṇṭāṉāṉa vaḻu[tiya]taraiyaṉ eḻuttu ௳ miḻalaik kūṟṟattu naṭuviṟ kūṟṟattu ciparāntakanallūr irumpāḻi uṭaiyāṉ aḻakiya maṇavāḷaṉ tirumāliruñcolai niṉṟāṉ āṉa villavarāyaṉ eḻuttu ௳ ivai

⟨56⟩ karuñcaṟukkai iruñciṟaiyāṉa intira[sa]māṉanallūr paḷḷiko-

⟨57⟩ ṇṭāṉ aḻakiya maṇavāḷap perumāḷeṉ eḻuttu ௳ ivai vā-

⟨58⟩ ṇātarāyaṉ eḻuttu ௳

⟨SIIv17p0i0129⟩ No. 129. (A.R. No. 111 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHŌPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east base of the central shrine in the Maṅgaḷapurīśvara temple. Rājarājadēva. Year lost.

The regnal year in this inscription is lost. The available details of date, saptami, Thursday, Svāti, are insufficient to calculate the equivalent.

It records the sale of land to the god at Tiruchchōpuram as tirunāmattukkāṇi by the mahāsabhā of Tyāgavalli-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Mēlkānāḍu. Among the boundaries of the land is mentioned the name of a watercourse, pālpāñja peruṅgaḻi.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī 2 tiripuvaṉacakkaravattikaḷ śrīrājarājadēvarkku yāṇṭu•••••• tu saptamiyum cotiyum peṟṟa viyāḻakkiḻamai nāḷ vi[ru]tarāsapayaṅparavaḷanāṭṭu melkānāṭṭu kiḻvaḻi tiyākavallic caturvvētimaṅkalattu mahāsabhai ••• •••••puramuṭaiyār cipaṇṭārattu ciraivomāṉa nellukkum kācukkum eṅkaḷ kāṇiyāṉa•••• muṉ navirai viḷaiyum mutumānti nilam ai(v)ailiyum pāl pāñca peruṅkaḻi viḻunta karuppu [vā]ikā(l)lukku kiḻakku nir [pū]ci nel viḷaiyu••••

⟨2⟩ tirappukku vaṭakku pālkāñca peruṅkaḻikku kiḻakku tiyākavallic catu rvvētimaṅkalattu natta[t*]tukku meṟku c[o*]purappaṭṭukkut teṟku naṭuvupaṭṭa nilam cipaṇṭārattil nāṅkaḷ i[tiru]c[c]opuramuṭaiyā[r] tirunāmattu[k]kāṇiyāka [vilai] kuṭu[tta] nilaṅkaḷ iṉṉāyaṉār nir pūci nel viḷaiyu celkāl nilamu nāppāllellai iṭaipaṭṭa karampum āṟiṭu paṭukaiyu[m*] ittiruccopurattu vira[vāṉa] virivukku teṟku ellaiyāl kuṉṟu[kaḷ] iṉṉāyaṉār tirunā[ma*]ttu[ka*] kāṇiyāka viṟṟu cipaṇṭārattu eṅkaḷ per kaṭamai ner iṭṭu kalveṭ1 ••••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0130⟩ No. 130. (A.R. No. 112 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHŌPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine in the Maṅgaḷapurīśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Vikramapāṇḍya. Year 3: 1403 A.D.

The details of date given, viz., Vṛiśchika, śu 5, Sunday, Tiruvōṇam, correspond to

1403 A.D., November 18, Sunday. ⟨Page 32⟩

This record registers a grant of land as tirunāmattukkāṇi along with specified taxes to god Tiruchchōpuram-uḍaiya nāyaṉār at Tyāgavalli in Mēṟkāl-nāḍu, a subdivision of Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu towards the expenses of providing worship, offerings and unguents in the temple.

Among the boundaries of the land is mentioned Avaṉivichchādiraṉ (vidyādharaṉ) tōppu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koṟcaṭapaṉmarāṉa tirupuvaṉaccakkaravattika 1 ḷ śrīvikkirama[p*]āṇṭiyatevaṟkku yāṇṭu 3 tu vṛściknāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣa[t*]tu pañcamiyum nāyaṟṟukkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa tiruvoṇattu nāḷ

⟨2⟩ virutarāca[payaṅkara] 1 vaḷanāṭṭu mevakāl 2 nāṭṭu kiḻvaḻi tiyākavalli uṭaiyār tiruccopuramuṭaiya nāyaṉār koyil tāṉa[t*]tāṟku aruḷicceyalppaṭi innāyaṉār tirunāmattukkāṇikku ellaiyāvatu teṉpāṟkellai avaṉiviccāti-

⟨3⟩ raṉ tiruttoppukku vaṭakku vaṭapāṟkkellai copurappaṭṭukku[t*] teṟku melpāṟkellai pāl pāynta peruṅkaḻikkuk kiḻakku kiḻpāṟkke[l*]lai kaṭalukku meṟku āka nāṉkellai[k*] kuḷpaṭṭa nattam puṉcai puṉpayir ceṭṭiṟai taṟiyiṟai kaṭaimā- 3

⟨4⟩ yam maravaṭai kuḷavaṭai kāṭukāval taṭṭārpāṭṭam kiḻiṟaippāṭṭam kācāya vaṟkka muḷḷiṭṭa aṉaittāyaṅkaḷum innāyaṉāṟkkut tirupparivaṭṭam tiruviḷakku tirumeṟpūccu tiruccāntuḷ ḷiṭṭa viñcaṉaṅka-

⟨5⟩ [ḷu]kku muṭalāka viṭṭom i[m*]mutal taṇṭikkoṇṭu pūcaiyum tiruppaṇiyum tāḻvu pa[ṭ]āmal celuttic cantirātittavaṟ celvat[ā*]kak kallilum cempilum veṭṭik koḷka [||*] ivai ulakacintā-

⟨6⟩ maṇivaḷanāṭ[ṭu]c ceḻuvaṉūruṭaiyāṉ muvāmutalaṉ tecamākāṉeḻuttu ivai irājarāja tevaṉ eḻuttu ௳ ivai [pa*]ḻanti[ya*]rāyaṉ eḻuttu ௳ ivai periya perumāḷ eḻuttu [௳] ivai ka-

⟨7⟩ ḷappāḷarāyaṉ eḻuttu ௳ ittaṉmam aḻivu ce•••••••• puttirālla

⟨SIIv17p0i0131⟩ No. 131. (A.R. No. 113 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHŌPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On stray stones on the roof of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Maṅgaḷapurīśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya.

The date portion in this inscription is lost. Palaeographically it may be assigned to the 13th century A.D.

This record registers a gift of land to a temple for the expenses of worship and offerings on the new moon and full moon days (uvāppaḍi) by Sāriputra Paṇḍitaṉ Mention is also made of the Saṅgattār of the place.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koccaṭapaṉmar tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīcuntarapāṇṭiyatevarkku yāṇ •••••••

⟨2⟩ ••tar śiṣya ril cāriputtirapaṇṭitaṉeṉ naṭuvil nāṭāṉa irāja 4 rāja4 vaḷanāṭṭu vecālip •••••••

⟨3⟩ ••eṉṉutāy nāṉ aṉupavittu varukiṟa iraṇṭān tākkil melpāṟkellai••••

⟨4⟩ •••• lattukkut teṟkum innāṉkellaiyuḷ naṭuvupaṭṭa mikutikkuṟaivu uṭpaṭṭa 5 1•••••

⟨5⟩ ceytu potukaṟ pūcaikkum iṟṟai nāḷil eḻuntaruḷiyirunta caṅkattārkkut tāṉa•••• ••••••

⟨6⟩ paṭṭa pākāciriya urimaikaḷum akappaṭa ikkoyilukku nāṉ uvāppaṭikkuc 5 ••••• ⟨Page 33⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0132⟩ No. 132. (A.R. No. 114 of 1904.) TIRUCHCHŌPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On both sides of the entrance into the first prākāra of the Maṅgaḷapurīśvara temple.

Palaeographically this record may be assigned to the 16th century A.D. It is in verse and praises the Toṇḍaikāvalaṉ. The Pāṇḍya and the Chōḷa are stated to have been begging for their country and crown respectively.

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⟨1⟩ 2

⟨2⟩ koṭi ve-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭiya ko-

⟨4⟩ ṭal vaḻuti paṭi

⟨5⟩ veṇṭavum

⟨6⟩ poṉṉi nāṭuṭai

⟨7⟩ yā ṉiṭam pā-

⟨8⟩ [r*]ttu niṉṟu mu-

⟨9⟩ ṭi veṇṭavu-

⟨10⟩ m vaḻaṅku to-

⟨11⟩ ṇṭai kāva-

⟨12⟩ laṉ muṉpu ce-

⟨13⟩ ṉṟe u-

⟨SIIv17p0i0133⟩ No. 133. (A.R. No. 114-A of 1904.) TIRUCHCHŌPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On both sides of the entrance into the first prākāra of the Maṅgaḷapurīśvara temple.

This record also may be assigned to the same period as No. 132 above, with which it is closely connected.

It states that the Chōḷa king was crowned by the queen of Toṇḍaimāṉ. It also registers a gift of 12 mā of land in Toṇḍaimāṉ-nallūr for worship and various festivals.

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⟨1⟩ uṭaiyā-

⟨2⟩ [r*] toṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭaimāṉ

⟨4⟩ mātevi-

⟨5⟩ yār coḻa-

⟨6⟩ (ṉ)ṉukku-

⟨7⟩ muṭi cūṭṭi-

⟨8⟩ (ṉ)ṉār tiru-

⟨9⟩ nāḷ tiruk-

⟨10⟩ koṭiye-

⟨11⟩ ṟṟam tiru[ k-

⟨12⟩ kār ceḷḷi]-

⟨13⟩ ttirunāḷum

⟨14⟩ •••••••••••

⟨15⟩ •••••••••••

⟨16⟩ [ḻa]lai paṇi•ra •

⟨17⟩ toṇṭaimā-

⟨18⟩ ṉnallūril

⟨19⟩ koṇṭa nila[t*]ti-

⟨20⟩ le ciṟukā [lai]ca

⟨21⟩ ntikku nilam ā-

⟨22⟩ ṟumāvum tiru[k]koṭi-

⟨23⟩ yeṟṟam tirukkā-

⟨24⟩ yoḷikkum nilam-

⟨25⟩ āṟu māvum patiyā-

⟨26⟩ rkku[m] namakku pi-

⟨27⟩ ṉiyum i[ṉi] nala- 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0134⟩ No. 134. (A.R. No. 115 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Kāḍavarkōṉ.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XII, No. 262. ⟨Page 34⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0135⟩ No. 135. (A.R. No. 116 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west and south walls of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅgachōḷa III. Year 15: 1194 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti Puyalvāyttu etc., of Kulōttuṅga III. The uḷvari is dated in the 271st day of the 15th year of the king. It also mentions that some assessments were made respectively in the 29th and 32nd regual years of Rājēndra I and Rājādhirāja I (Vijaiyarājēndra, who died seated on an elephant).

It records the gift of 50 vēli of land in Kaṇḍigaimēlūr, a hamlet of Jayaṅgoṇḍachaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya of Mēṟkā-nāḍu in Rājarāja-valanāḍu in Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu, as a tax-free dēvadāṉa to the god at the temple of Tiruttiṉainagar. However two kinds of lands in it, wet and garden lands (nīrnilattōpādi-nilam and kollainilattōpādi-nilam) were to pay a levy (iṟaikaṭṭu) respectively at the rate of 35 and 15 kalams per vēli according to the demands of the variyilār and varikkūṟu śeyvār in the uḷvari.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] [pu]ya[l] vāyttu vaḷam p[e]rukap poyyāta nānmaṟ[aiyiṉ] ceyal vāyppa

⟨2⟩ tirumakaḷuñ jayama[ka]ḷuñ ciṟantu vāḻa veṇmatipoṟ koṭai viḷaṅka velventaraṭi vaṇaṅka maṇ[ma]-

⟨3⟩ ṭantai maṉaṅkaḷippa maṉunīti taḻaittoṅkac cakkaramuñ ceṅkolun tikkaṉaittañ ce[lu]-

⟨4⟩ ttak kaṟppakālam [puvi kākka]p poṟpamainta [mu]ṭi puṉaintu vāḻveṅkaiyu maṭamāṉum vanta •••

⟨5⟩ ruṇṇak koḷveṅkaik[koṭi]yuyartti koṟṟavar taṅ koṭai paṇiyac cuṅkamillā••••

⟨6⟩ nā[ṭ]eṅkuñ coṟṟumalai kaṇṭaruḷit teṉṉavan vantaṭi paṇiyac ciṅkaḷavar talai malaiyāṟat teṉṉa•••

⟨7⟩ ṅkoḷka veṉṉat tiraik kaṭalai aṭaikka veṉṉat teṉṉilaṅkaiyarkon talaiyarinta tiruneṭu-

⟨8⟩ mālivaṉeṉṉat teṉṉavaṉait talaiyarintu tecamellām iruḷakaṟṟip poṉṉumuttum pukaḻ maturaiyum pu-

⟨9⟩ kkaṉaittuṅ koṇṭaruḷit tikkāṉai yi[ru]nāṉkuñ jayañceytu koṭi v[ā]ṅkik kaṉṉaṭaruṅ kāliṅkarun teṉ-

⟨10⟩ ṉava[ru]ñ [cera]laruñ ciṅkaḷaru mutalāya maṉṉavarkaḷ tiṟaiku•••• ccevippac cempoṉ virasiṅndāsanattup puvaṉamuḻutuṭaiyāroṭum viṟṟi-

⟨11⟩ runtaru[ḷiya] kopparakecaripaṟ[marā]ṉa••• ṉac cakkaravaṟtikaḷ maturaikoṇṭu pāṇṭi[yaṉ mu]ṭittalaiyuṅ koṇṭaruḷiya ci kulottuṅkacoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨12⟩ patiṉaiñcāvatu tiripuvaṉaccakkaravaṟti koṉeriṉmaikoṇṭāṉ virutarājapaya[ṅka]ravaḷaṉāṭ ṭu ninṟum irājarājavaḷaṉāṭṭu mutalāṉa meṟkāṉāṭṭup-

⟨13⟩ brammad[ē]śam jayaṅkoṇṭaco[ḻac]caruppetimaṅkalattup piṭākai tiruttiṉaina[kar] uṭaiyār tiruttiṉainakaruṭaiyār koyil dēvarkanmikkum śrīmāhē-

⟨14⟩ [śu]vara ka[ṇ]kāṇi ceyvārkaḷukkum sīkāriyañ ceyvāṉukkum ittevaṟku veṇṭum nivanta[ṅ]kaḷukku iṟuppatāka ivvūṟ piṭākai kaṇṭikaime[lū]ril mun iṟai kaṭṭinapaṭi tavir-

⟨15⟩ [t]tu ai[mpati]ṟṟu velinilam patiṉaiñcāvatu pacāṉa mutal d[ēva]tāṉa iṟaiyili āka iṭṭum [in]nila[ttu] nirnilattopāti nilattukku veli oṉṟukku nellu muppattaiyakal

⟨16⟩ muṅ kollai•• ttopāti ni[la]t[tu]kku iv oṉṟukku nellup patiṉakalamāka iṟai kaṭṭiyum variyilārum varikkūṟu ceyvārkaḷum eḻu[tti]ṭṭa uḷvari ta[ra]ccoṉṉom innilam patiṉai[ñ]-

⟨17⟩ cāvatu pacāṉamutal tevatāṉa iṟaiyiliyākak kaikkoṇṭu nivantañ celuttap paṇṇuka eḻutinān tirumantiraolai neṟiyuṭaiccoḻa muventaveḷār eḻuttum ivai kurukula rāyan eḻuttum viḻiññatta- ⟨Page 35⟩

⟨18⟩ raiyan eḻuttum ivai pāṇṭi[ya]rāyaṉ eḻuttum ivai amarakon [eḻut]tum ivai nikarilicoḻappallavaraiyan eḻuttum iṭṭum patiṉaiñcāvatu nāḷ i[ru]nūṟṟu eḻupattu onṟi(n)ṉāl pra-

⟨19⟩ [s*]ādam cetaruḷiṉa tirumukappaṭi yāṇṭu patiṉaiñcāvatu nāḷ [irunūṟṟe]ḻupattoṉ ṟiṉāl tevatāna iṟaiyili iṭṭa uḷvarippaṭi virutarācapuyaṅkara vaḷanāṭṭu niṉṟum irājarājavaḷanā

⟨20⟩ ṭu mutalāna meṟkānāṭṭu brammatecam ceyaṅkoṇṭacoḻac caruppeti[maṅkalat]tup piṭākai tiruttiṉainakar uṭaiyār tiruttiṉainakar uṭaiyāṟku veṇṭu nivantaṅkaḷuk kiṟuppatāka ivvūr

⟨21⟩ iṟai kaṭṭiṉapaṭi taviṟtu yāṇṭu patiṉaiñcāvatu••••••••• iṟaiyili iṭṭa nilam aiy[m*]patiṟṟu•••••••••

⟨22⟩ 13vata 3 māviṉāl payirppaṭi ḷa 13[9] 129 kā•yiṉāl vilaippaṭi ḷa 300• nta•••••••••

⟨23⟩ ḷa•ḷa nta āka ḷa 139 ḷa 42 pū[rva]dēśamuṅ k[e*]ṅkaiyuṅ kaṭāramuṅ koṇ ṭaruḷina irājentiracoḻadēvaṟku 29- vatu niccayitta opāti i 317 ḷ 43ta āṉaimeṟ tuñciyaruḷiya vicaiyarājen-

⟨24⟩ tiratevaṟku 3[3]- vatu iṟai kaṭṭina opāti ḷa204 ḷ nta yāṇṭu patiṉaiñcāvatu pacāna mutal dēvatāna iṟaiyili iṭṭamaikku innilattu nirnilattopāti nilattukku veli oṉṟukku nellu muppattai[ṅ]-

⟨25⟩ kalamuṅ kollai nilattopāti nilattukku veli oṉṟukku ne[li]lu patiṅkalamumāka vanta nellu patiṉaiñcāvatu pacāṉamu[ta*]l iṟaikaṭṭāka koḻvatu puravari cikaraṇan[ā*]yakam perunallūruṭ[ai]•••••••••

⟨26⟩ puravari cikaraṇattu mukaveṭṭi [pā]laiyūr kiḻavaṉ eḻuttu tiypattarayaṉ eḻuttu puravari ci karaṇattu mukaveṭṭi kumāramaṅkalamuṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu nūṟampātarāyaṉ eḻuttu puravari cikaraṇa nāyakam panta•••••••••

⟨27⟩ eḻuttu puravari cikaraṇanāyakam kurukāṭi kiḻāṉ eḻuttu vaṉnāṭuṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu ilāṭat taraiyaṉ eḻuttu puravari cikaraṇanāyakam melūruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu puravari cikaraṇattu muka veṭṭi kuḻalūruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu pura•••••••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0136⟩ No. 136. (A.R. No. 116-A of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west and south walls of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Kōṉēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ. Year 3.

This record is dated in the 98th day of the 3rd year.

It registers the gift of 50 vēli of land similar to No. (136) above, in Pūvālasundaranallūr (renamed as Kulōttuṅgachōḷanallūr), a hamlet of Tiruttiṉainagar in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Mēṟkā-nāḍu in Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svasti ••••••••• maikoṇṭāṉ virutarācapayaṅkaravaḷaṉāṭṭu meṟkāṉāṭṭu jayaṅ koṇṭacoḻac caruppetimaṅkalattu tiruttiṉainakar [ma]kā[dēva*]r koyil [te]vakaṉ mikkum śrīmāhecuvarak kaṇkāṇi ce•••••••••

⟨2⟩ ittevaṟku veṇṭum nivantaṅkaḷuk kiṟuppatāka ivvūrp piṭākai pūvālacuṉtaranallūrile ai[m]patiṟṟuveli nilam muṉṟāvatu mutal dēvatāṉa iṟaiyiliyāka iṭṭu muṉpuṭaiyārum paḻam perum brammatecamāy varukiṟapaṭiyum munniṟai kaṭṭinapaṭiyum•••••••••

⟨3⟩ ttuṅkacoḻanallūreṉṉum perāl [v]eṟu piṟittu variyilārum varik[kū]ṟu ceyvārkaḷum eḻuttiṭṭa uḷvari ta[rac] coṉṉom ippaṭi munṟāvatu mutal kaikkoṇṭu dēvaṟku veṇṭu nivantañ celuttap paṇṇuka kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻak kaḷappāḷarāyaṉ eḻuttu villava••••••••• ⟨Page 36⟩

⟨4⟩ [ṭṭu] yāṇṭu mūṉṟāvatu ṉāḷ toṇṇūṟṟeṭṭiṉāl brasādañceytaruḷiṉa tirumukappaṭi ௳ virutarājapayaṅkaravaḷaṉāṭṭu meṟkāṉāṭṭu brammatecam jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻac caruppeti maṅkalattu uṭaiyār tiruttiṉainakaruṭaiya makādēvaṟku veṇṭum niva•••••••••

⟨5⟩ ivvūrp piṭākai pūvālacuntaranal[lū]ril iṭukiṟa nilattukku ūr(ṟ)kkaṇakkaṉ kaṟpakappiri ṉeḻuttiṭṭa kaṇakkuppaṭi pañcavanmātevivatikkuk kiḻakku vīranārāyaṇavāykkālukku vaṭakku kālaṟutikku teṟkku tiripuvanamātevivatikku kiḻakku ivvākkālu•••••••••

⟨6⟩ tevaṟkku mutaṟkaṇṇāṟum iraṇṭāṅkaṇṇāṟu munṟāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu teṟkaṭaiyavum ūr(ṟ) kiḻyiṟaiyili nikki munpuṭaiyārum paḻamperum brammadējamāy varukiṟapaṭiy munpiṟai kaṭṭinapaṭiyum taviṟttu yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu mutal•••••••••

⟨7⟩ ṟinta kulottuṅka coḻanallūr nilam aimpatiṟṟu veliyiṉāl nilaopāti ḷa 270m tara o[r]pāti i 963m ippaṭi tavira yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu mutal veli oṉṟukku nellu irupatinkalamāka iṟaikaṭṭiṉa nellu••••••••• •••••

⟨8⟩ āyirakkalattukkum puravari cikaraṇattu mukaveṭṭi tañcāvūr kiḻavan eḻuttu mukaveṭṭi teṅkūruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu mukaveṭṭi talainārkiḻān eḻuttu mukaveṭṭi vāṭakai uṭaiyān eḻuttu puravari cikaraṇanāyakam iḷaṅkārikuṭaiyān•••••••••

⟨9⟩ ṉainallūruṭaiyan eḻuttu puravari cikaraṇanāyakam poṉṉuḻān eḻuttu puravari cikaraṇanāyakam vāṇikan eḻuttu vayanāṭṭaraiyaṉ eḻuttu cittarāyaṉ eḻuttu vayirātarājan eḻuttu kaḷap pāḷarāyaṉ eḻuttu: ௳

⟨SIIv17p0i0137⟩ No. 137. (A.R. No. 117 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Kōpperuñjiṅga. Year 9.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XII, No. 156.

⟨SIIv17p0i0138⟩ No. 138. (A.R. No. 118 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III. Year 21: 1198-99 A.D.

The epithet, “Maduraiyum Īḻamum Pāṇḍiyaṉ muḍittalaiyuṅgoṇḍaruḷiya” of Kulōttuṅga III is given in this inscription.

It records the gift of land as tirunundāviḷakkuppuṟam (land granted for burning a perpetual lamp) to the god at Tiruttiṉainagar in Jayaṅgoṇḍachōḷa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu by Kuḍandai Uḍaiyāṉ Tiṉaiyaṉ Nāyaṉ of Pāñchavaṉmādēvipuram.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ maturaiyum īḻamum pāṇṭiyaṉ muṭittalaiyuṅ koṇṭa ruḷiya [śrī] kulot-

⟨2⟩ tuṅkacoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu irupattoṉṟāvatu irā[ja*]rā[ja*]vaḷanāṭṭu mutalāṉa ceyaṅ koṇṭacoḻaccaruppetimaṅka-

⟨3⟩ lattu uṭaiyār tiruttaṉainakaruṭaiyāṟku tirunuṉtāviḷakkuppuṟamāka pa[ñca]vaṉmātevi parattu kuṭantai uṭaiyāṉ tiṉaiyaṉ

⟨4⟩ nāyaṉ i[n]nāyanāṟkuk koṇṭuviṭṭa jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻac catu[r*]veti[ma]ṅka 1 ⟨Page 37⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0139⟩ No. 139. (A.R. No. 119 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Kōpperuñjiṅga. Year 22.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XII, No. 221.

⟨SIIv17p0i0140⟩ No. 140. (A.R. No. 120 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

This incomplete record engraved in Grantha characters gives a number of birudas including Ayyaṅgamalaparāyara Gaṇḍagaṇḍagōpāla-śirah-kantu[for ndu]ka-krīḍāvinōda Pāṇḍya-sthāpanāchārya, apparently of a Hoysala king. Palaographically it may be assigned to the 13-14th century A.D.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrīḥ [||*] tribhuvanakumāravēśyā bhujaṅga arirājavēśyābhujaṅga abhinava bhōja

⟨2⟩ bhujabalarāma bhūpāla vidyādhara raṇaraṅgarākṣasa uddaṇḍa pratā-

⟨3⟩ pa mānamarddana āsavāra rēvanta śarīrasaṅpatyā sakara trirāyasā-

⟨4⟩ rdūla ayyaṅgamalaparāyaragaṇḍa paramēśvara padakamala paramārādha-

⟨5⟩ [ka] gaṇḍagōpāla śiraḥkantukakrīḍāvinōda rāyamīsaragaṇḍa-

⟨6⟩ ••••••••• darapāṇḍyaku[mā]•••••

⟨7⟩ ra pāṇḍyastāpanā 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0141⟩ No. 141. (A.R. No. 121 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Māṟavarmaṉ Vīrapāṇḍya. Year 9.

The details of date given are Paṅguṉi 24 in the 9th year. Palaeographically this record may be assigned to the 13th century A.D.

It records the assignment of tolls on a number of articles to god Tiruttiṉainagar. ḍaiyār of Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, by the sabhā and nāṭṭār of Āṇḍāgaḷūr-paṟṟu towards the worship and other offerings and procession during the festival to be celebrated in the month of Vaikāśi, terminating on the Vaiśākha day, the day of tīrtham on the seashore and for the oil for the lamp, flowers and other worship and offerings during the twelve days of another festival beginning with Tirunāvukkaraśu-tirunāḷ and terminating on Nāchchiyār-tirunāḷ, for the health of the king (for the recovery of the king ?). The rates of tolls are laid down in the inscription. ⟨Page 38⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrīḥ [||*] śrīmaṟkittikku 1 mel komāṟapaṉmar tiripu-

⟨2⟩ vaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīvīrapāṇṭiyatevarkku yāṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu 9- āvatu paṅkuni mātam irupatān(ta)tiyati nāḷ jeya-

⟨4⟩ ṅkoṇṭacoḻac caturvvēdimaṅkalattu uṭaiyār

⟨5⟩ tiruttiṉainaka(r)ruṭaiyār koyil āticaṇṭeśvarateva-

⟨6⟩ kaṉmi kaṇkāṇi karaṇattārkku āṇṭārkaḷūr paṟṟu arumo-

⟨7⟩ ḻi tevaṉ vāykkālukku vaṭakku keṭila vāṟṟukku teṟkku [na]-

⟨8⟩ ṭuvupaṭṭa sabhaiyārum nāṭṭārom vivasthai perumāḷ tirume-

⟨9⟩ ṉikku naṉṟāka ivvāṇṭu mutal tiruvaiykācit tirunāḷ eḻuntaruḷa-

⟨10⟩ vum ittirunāḷ vaikāci vicākatte tirukkaṭalile tīttam prasādikka-

⟨11⟩ vum ittirunāḷukku uṭaṟkoṇṭu koṇṭa tirunāvukkaracutevar tirunā-

⟨12⟩ ḷ mutal nācciyār tirunāḷ aṟutiyāka nāḷ paṉṉiraṇṭukkum amutupa-

⟨13⟩ ṭi cāttupaṭi tiruppaḷḷittāmam tiruviḷakku eṇṇai uḷḷiṭṭavaiyiṟṟu-

⟨14⟩ kku uṭaṟkoḷppaṭikku peṟuvatāka niccayitta nam nāṭṭil vaḻiccāriyai

⟨15⟩ koḷḷum tuṟaikaḷile talaiccumaikkum eruttuppotikkum per

⟨16⟩ oṉṟukku iraṇṭāka vanta kācum talaiccumaikku oṉṟāka vanta kācu peṟa-

⟨17⟩ vum kaṭal karaiyil koyilaṅkāṭiyār vantu koḷḷum paccai miḷa-

⟨18⟩ kum kūṭaikkum oṉṟāka vanta kācu peṟavum karuvāṭṭu talaiccumaikku

⟨19⟩ iraṇṭāka vanta kācu peṟavum karuvāṭṭu eruttu potikku poti oṉṟu-

⟨20⟩ kku nālāka vanta kācu peṟavum ippaṭi peṟumi 2

⟨SIIv17p0i0142⟩ No. 142. (A.R. No. 122 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Māṟavarmaṉ Vīrapāṇḍya. Year 9.

This inscription also seems to belong to the same king in whose reign No. 141 is dated.

It records the śiṟumuṟi (agreement) entered into between the authorities of the temple of Tiruttiṉainagar-uḍaiyār and apparently the local bodies (kaṇkāṇikaraṇattār), regarding the re-assignment of the magaṇmai, previously collected at the toll gates and 20 mā of land formerly given (see No. 144, below) by Tāmandai-tTeṉṉavarāyaṉ of Peruṅgaṉūr, to the west of the madiḷ in Tāṉṟūr in Pañchavaṉ-mādēvipura-paṟṟu, for the daily food offerings from Chittirai of the 9th year and for the festival for the god in the month of Vaikāśi.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrīḥ [||*] śrīmaṟkittikku 1

⟨2⟩ mel komāṟapaṉmar tiri-

⟨3⟩ puvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī

⟨4⟩ vīrapāṇṭiyatevarkku yāṇ-

⟨5⟩ ṭu 9- āvatu uṭaiyār tiruttiṉai

⟨6⟩ naka(r)ruṭaiyār koyil kaṇkāṇi karaṇa-

⟨7⟩ ttārkku ciṟumuṟi [||*] ikkoyilukku oṉpa- ⟨Page 39⟩

⟨8⟩ tāvatu cittirai mātam mutal nittappa-

⟨9⟩ ṭikku nāḷ oṉṟukku oru caṉti amutu

⟨10⟩ ceyyavum āṭṭaittirunāḷ tiruvaikā-

⟨11⟩ ci tirunāḷ eḻuntaruḷavum amutupaṭi cā-

⟨12⟩ ttuppaṭi tiruppa[ḷ*]ḷittāmam uḷḷuṭṭavai-

⟨13⟩ yiṟṟukku uṭaṟkkoḷppaṭikku muṉṉā-

⟨14⟩ ḷ vaḻiccārikaiyil vaittukkuṭutta ma-

⟨15⟩ kaṇmaiyum pañcavaṉmātevipurappaṟṟi-

⟨16⟩ l tāṉṟūril matiḷukku meṟkku peruṅkaṉū-

⟨17⟩ [r] tāmantai[t] teṉṉavarāyaṉ muṉṉāḷ tirunā-

⟨18⟩ mattukkāṇiyāka dharmmadānam paṇṇikkuṭut-

⟨19⟩ ta vilāṭattaraiyaṉ kaṇṭamāṉa karuntaṭaṅ-

⟨20⟩ kaṇṇiviḷākam nilam paṉṉiraṇṭu māvum

⟨21⟩ vaṭakkaṭaiya puṉ(ñ)cey nilam eṭṭumāvu-

⟨22⟩ m āka nilam irupatu [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0143⟩ No. 143. (A.R. No. 123 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

[Jaṭāvarmaṉ] Sundarapāṇḍya I. Year 13+3: 1265 A.D.

This inscription mentions the title Kōdaṇḍarāman of the king, after which the sandhi was named. The details of the date given, viz., 13 + 3rd, year, Mēsha, śu. 9. Pūśam regularly correspond to 1265 A.D., March 27; ·28; ·03. It also mentions the 276th day of the same regnal year at the end. Neṭṭūruḍaiyāṉ Iḷaiyāḻvān Kāliṅgarāyaṉ figures as the signatory of the inscription.

It records a grant by the king of 50 vēli of land in Pūvā[ni]lai Sundaraśōḻanallūr, a hamlet in the Mēṟkā-nāḍu free of taxes such as kaḍamai, kuḍimai, poṉvari, antarāyam, kāṇikkai, kāttigaippachchai, kīṟṟuvari, sanduvigrahappēṟu vāśaḻviniyōgam, ōlai-ēḍu paḍi(?), kūṟṟilakkai, kaḍaikkūṭṭilakkai, pāśippāṭṭam, ērivari, iṉavari, iḍaivari, oḷukkunīrppāṭṭam, vīśuvalaippāṭṭam, ariśikāṇam, āyavargam, taṟi-iṟai, taṭṭārppāṭṭam, śekkāyam, magaṇmai, ilāñchiṉai, āṉaichchālai, kudiraippandi, āṇḍu-eḻuttu-ttēvai, paḻattēvai, veṭṭi, nilaiyāḷ, tachchuttāḻvu, āḷ-amañji and nāṭṭuviṉiyōgam for Kōdaṇḍarāmaṉ sandhi named after himself, festivals and repairs in the temple of god Tiruttiṉainagaruḍaiyār in Jayaṇgoṇḍaśōḻa-chchaṅturvēdimaṅgalam in Mēṟkā-nāḍu in Vaḍakarai Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī—tribhuvaṉaccakkaravatti koṉerimelkoṇṭāṉ śrīsundarapāṇṭiyatevarkku yāṇṭu patiṉmūṉ[ṟā]va-

⟨2⟩ tukku etir mūṉṟāvatu meṣa nāyaṟṟu pūrvva[pa]kṣattu navamiyum veḷḷikkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa pūcattu nāḷ vaṭakarai viruta[rā]ca-

⟨3⟩ payaṅkara vaḷanāṭṭu meṟkā nāṭṭu jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻac caturvvēdimaṅkalattu uṭaiyār tiruttiṉai nakaruṭaiyār koyil-

⟨4⟩ tevakaṉmi śrīmāheśvarak kaṇkāṇi ceyv[ār]kaḷukkut taṅkaḷ nāyaṉār tiruttiṉai nakaruṭaiyārkku nam perāl kaṭṭiṉa koda-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭarāmaṉ cantikkum tirunāḷukkum tiruppaṇikkum mutalaṭaṅka iṟaiyiliyākat taṅkaḷ nāṭṭilp piṭākai pūvā[ni]lai-

⟨6⟩ cuntaracoḻanallūril innāyaṉār paḻantirunāmat[tu]kkāṇiyāṉa pañcavaṉmā[t]evivatikkuk kiḻakku vīranārāyaṇaṉ vāyk-

⟨7⟩ kālukku vaṭakku kālaṟutikkut teṟkut tiripuvaṉamātevi vatikkuk kiḻakku ivvāykkālukkum meṟkum innāṉkellaik- ⟨Page 40⟩

⟨8⟩ kuḷppaṭṭa nilam aimpati[ṟ]ṟu veliyum itukku uḷppaṭṭa nattamum innilattil prāptiyāl uḷḷa erinir prāpti āṟṟukkāl ti-

⟨9⟩ ṭar kaḷar paruvarampu cuṟṟukkulai nīr[ni]lai maranilai uḷḷiṭṭa samasta pāptikaḷum muṉpuṭai yāraiyum paḻaṅkāṇiyāḷaraiyum bra-

⟨10⟩ hmakṣētramāy varukiṟapaṭiyum muṉṉiṟai kaṭṭiṉapaṭiyum tavirttu patiṉmūṉṟāvatiṉ etir mūṉṟāvatu cittiraimātam mutalaṭa-

⟨11⟩ ṅka iṟaiyiliyākak kuṭuttu ittāl varum kaṭamai kuṭimai poṉvari antarāyam kāṇikkai kāttikaippaccai kīṟṟuvari cantuviṟkaṟakam-

⟨12⟩ [p]eṟu vācal vi[ṉi]yokam olaieṭupaṭi kūṟṟikkukai 1 kaṭaikkūṭṭilakkai pācippāṭ[ṭa]m eri vari iṉavari iṭaivari oḻukkunir[p]pā-

⟨13⟩ ṭṭam vīcuvalaippāṭṭam aricikāṇam āyavaṟkam taṟiiṟai taṭṭārppāṭṭam cekkāyam makaṇmai ilāñciṉai āṉaiccālai kutirai-

⟨14⟩ ppanti āṇṭueḻuttuttevai paḻattevai veṭṭi nilaiyāḷ taccuttāḻvu āḷamañci nāṭṭu viṉiyokam uḷḷiṭṭa aṉait-

⟨15⟩ tāyavaṟkaṅkaḷum upātiyum i[ḻa]ntu itukku niccayippāṉa poṉṉum nellum taṅkaḷ nāṭṭukku niccayitta mutalile ci-

⟨16⟩ lavāka nam variyilār kaṇakkilum kaḻikkaccoṉṉom ippaṭikku iv olai piṭipāṭākak koṇṭu taṅkaḷ nāṭṭuk kaṇakki-

⟨17⟩ lum kaḻittuc cantrātittavaṟ celvatākak kallilum cempilum veṭṭikkoṇṭu innilam kārum pacāṉamum cittiraikk[ā]-

⟨18⟩ rum kaṭaippūvum karumpu ceṅkaḻunīr vāḻai uḷḷa koḻuntu iñci mañcaḷ eḷḷup payaṟu uḷḷiṭṭa vāṉpayir puṉpayirum

⟨19⟩ teṅku kamuku palā mā maṟṟum uḷḷiṭṭa taṇ[ṭi]laikaḷum tāṉ v[e]ṇṭum payirc ceytu koṇṭu mutalaṭaṅka iṟaiyiliyāka aṉupa-

⟨20⟩ vikkavu(m) pārkka tulyam ivai neṭṭūruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu yāṇṭu patimūṉṟāvatiṉ etir mūṉṟāvatu nāḷ 2[7]6 ivai neṭ-

⟨21⟩ ṭūruṭaiyāṉ iḷaiyāḻvāṉ kāliṅkarāyaṉ e[ḻu*]ttu [||*] 2

⟨SIIv17p0i0144⟩ No. 144. (A.R. No. 124 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Vikramapāṇḍya. Year 4: 1253 A.D.

The details of date given, viz., Kumbha, śu. 3, Sunday, Uttiram will correspond to A.D. 1253, February 2, Sunday, ·71, ·76, if the nakshatra Uttiram is taken as a mistake for Uttirāḍam.

This inscription registers the gift of 20 mā of land by Tāmandai Vēḷān Tiruvaṇṇāmalai Uḍaiyāṉ Teṉṉavarāyaṉ of Peruṅganūr in Pañchavaṉmādēvipuram, in Kuvaḷaiya-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu to the kaṇkāṇikaraṇattār of the temple of Tiruttiṉainagaruḍaiyār as tirunāmattukkāṇi (See No. 122 above). ⟨Page 41⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] śrīm[e]ṟkittikku mel koṉeri-

⟨2⟩ melkoṇṭāṉ tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ

⟨3⟩ śrīvikkira[ma]pāṇṭiyatevarkku yāṇṭu nā-

⟨4⟩ lāvatu kumpanāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu titiyaiyum

⟨5⟩ n[ā]yaṟṟukkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa uttirattu nāḷ uṭai-

⟨6⟩ yār tiruttiṉainaka(r)ruṭaiyār koyil āticaṇṭeśvara-

⟨7⟩ tevarkaḷ kaṇkāṇi karaṇattārkku irā[ca*]rā[ca*] vaḷanāṭṭu kuvaḷai-

⟨8⟩ yanāṭṭu pañcavaṉmātevipurattu peruṅkaṉūr tāmantai-

⟨9⟩ veḷāṉ tiruvaṇṇāmalai uṭaiyāṉ teṉṉavarāyaṉeṉ taṉma-

⟨10⟩ tāṉamāka udakapūrvvamākak kuṭutta nilattukku ellaiyāvatu pañca-

⟨11⟩ vaṉmātevipurattu teṉkaṭṭaḷai tāṉṟūr tirumañcaṉappe-

⟨12⟩ ruvaḻikku vaṭakku matiḷukku meṟkku uṭaiyār tiruttiṉainaka(r)ru-

⟨13⟩ ṭaiyār tirunāmattukkāṇi tiruttiṉainakar ellaikku kiḻakku

⟨14⟩ ilāṭattaraiyaṉ kaṇṭam uḷpaṭa taṭi palaviṉāl naṉceyum pu-

⟨15⟩ ṉceyum uḷppaṭa kuṭutta perumpaṭi 20 iṉṉilam irupatu-

⟨16⟩ māvum dha[r]mmadāṉamāka udakapūrvvamāka kuṭutteṉ uṭaiyār tirutti-

⟨17⟩ ṉainaka(r)ruṭaiyār koyil āticaṇṭeśvara tevarkaḷ kaṇkāṇi k[āṇa*]-

⟨18⟩ ttārkku peruṅkaṉūr tāmantaiveḷāṉ tiruvaṇṇāmalai uṭai-

⟨19⟩ yāṉ teṉṉavarāyaṉeṉ iṉṉilam irupatu māvum tirunāmattu-

⟨20⟩ kkāṇiyākak kuṭuttamaikku ivai peruṅkaṉūr tāmantaive-

⟨21⟩ ḷāṉ tiruvaṇṇāmalai uṭaiyāṉ teṉṉavarāyaṉeṉ eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0145⟩ No. 145. (A.R. No. 125 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Kṛishṇadēvarāya. Ś. 1439, Īsvara: 1517-18 A.D.

This inscription gives an account of the eastern campaign of the king and inter alias mentions the capture of Tirumalai Rāhuttarāya.

It records that while he was halting at Bhējawāḍai, on the banks of the river Kṛishṇavēṇī, he remitted jōḍi, and araśupēṟu as sarvamānya in favour of a number of Śiva and Vishṇu temples in the Chōḷa country.

It may be mentioned that copies of the inscription were engraved in different temples in the Chōḷa country.**

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⟨1⟩ śubhamastu [||*] śrīgaṇādhipatayē [namaḥ ||*] śrīnamastuṅgaśiraścumbi(ta) candra cāmara cāravē [|*] trailōkyanagarārambhamūlastambhāya śambhavē [||*] śubhamastu [|*] svastiśrī [|*] vijayātbhudaya śālivāhana śakā[bda]m 1439- ṉ mel cellāniṉṟa ī[śva]rasaṅvatsarattu •••••ṟṟa paurṇai nāḷ śrīmaṉ••••••••••••••••• kkuttappuvarāyarakaṇṭa aṣṭa dikkurāyamanōbhayaṅkara muvarāyarakaṇṭa yavanarājyasthāpanācāryya pratāparu[dra]gajapati ⟨Page 42⟩

⟨2⟩ saptāṅgaharaṇa śrīvīrapratāpa śrīvīrakṛṣṇadēvarāyamahārāyar cōḷamaṇḍalattu śivasthānam viṣṇusthānam mutalāṉa tevasthāṉaṅkaḷukku jōṭi aracupeṟu sarvvamānyam ākap pālitta dharmmaśāsanarāyasam [|*] nām vijayanagarap paṭṭaṇatti liruntu pūrvvadikku vijayam••••••••• tirumalai rāhuttarāyaṉaiyum piṭittukkoṇṭu vinikoṇṭai nākārjjunakoṇṭai vellamu koṇṭai koṇṭaivīṭu koṇṭaippalli rāja-

⟨3⟩ mahēṭhadrapuram mutalākiya du[rga]ṅkaḷuṅ kaṭṭikkoṇṭu pratāpa[ru]dra gajapati kumāra vīrabhadragajapati pradhāna[ṉ] bhūpatiprah[lā]taṉ śiraścantran mallūkhānan [u]dadaṇḍakhānan mutalāṉa pātrasāmantarkaḷaiyum jīvagrahaṇam ākap piṭittukkoṇṭu pratāvarudra gajapatiyai•••••••••• jaya- sthambamum sthāpittu cōḷamaṇḍalam dēvasthānam tiruttiṉainakar tiruccirāppaḷ[ḷi] cantalkai tirukkāṭṭuppaḷḷi tiru[nakari] tirunāṅkūr tirumāṇikuḻi

⟨4⟩ tiruvayintirapuram tiruppātirippuliyūr k[o]rukkai tiyākavalli iṟaivāṉaraiyūr centavaṉ maṅkalam tirunāvalūr tiruna[ṟu]ṅkoṇṭai tirukkoṭikā tiṭṭaikuṭi peṇṇākaṭam tirunāraiyūr uṭaiyārkoyil maṉṉārkoyil tiruccoṉṉapuram kāṉāṭṭu muḷḷūr panta ṇallūr āc[cā]puram kuṟicci talaināyakam tiruvakkuṭi tiruntu tevaṉkuṭi cūriyanāyaṉārkoyil kuṟṟālam tirukkuṟaiyalūr tiruppukalūr viṟkuṭi ciṟukuṭi tiruveḻuntūr tiruppaṟiyalūr tevūr akaḷaṅkaṉvaikal tirumuṭṭam cirāmaviṇṇakar

⟨5⟩ tiruveḷḷiyaṅkuṭi talaicceṅkāṭu nallūrāṇṭārkoyil keṅkaikoṇṭacoḻapuram tiru mīyaccūr mutalākiya coḻamaṇṭalattu iraṇṭāṟṟuppaṟṟu puvaṉekavīraṉ paṭṭaṇattuc cīrmai irā[ca]rā[ca]purac cīrmai tañcāvūrpaṭṭaṇam mutalākiya śivasthānam viṣṇusthānam mutalāṉa dēvasthāṉaṅkaḷil [pūrvva] mutalāka araimaṉaikkuk kuṭuttu varu••• makarasaṅkrānti puṇyakālattile kṛṣṇavēṇyādhīrattile bhajavāṭai mallikārjjuna dēvar sannadhiyilum uṇṭaivilli anandaśāyi sannadhiyilum āka dhārāpūrvvamāka sarvvamā-

⟨6⟩ nyam āka viṭṭu dharmmaśāsanarāyasamum pālittom inta rāyasapramāṇattile ellā dēvasthāṉaṅkaḷilum śilāśāsanamum paṇṇi ellā dēvasthāṉaṅkaḷum pūjai punaskāram aṅgaraṅgavaibhōgaṅkaḷ tiruppaṇikaḷum ācaṅdrārkkasthāyi āka sāṅgamāka naṭattikkoṇṭu sukhattile irukkavum inta dharmmaṅkaḷukku yātoruttar••••••••• brāhma[ṇa]raiyum vāraṇāsiyile koṉṟa pāpattile pokak kaṭavarkaḷākavum [|*] svadattāt dviguṇam puṇyam paradattānupālanam [|*] paradattāpahārañca svadattam niṣphalam bhavēt | śrīvirūpākṣa [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0146⟩ No. 146. (A.R. No. 126 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the door post of the gōpura of the first prākāra of the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

The contents of this record are the same as in No. 132 above.

Text.

⟨1⟩ koṭi veṇṭi-

⟨2⟩ ya toṅkal tā-

⟨3⟩ rātateṉ ṉe-

⟨4⟩ ṉṟu [kūva va]ṇ-

⟨5⟩ ṭe aṭiveṇ-

⟨6⟩ ṭi māmel pā-

⟨7⟩ ṟ ceṉṟatara-

⟨8⟩ yaṉ aṭalvaḻi-

⟨9⟩ ti pa[ṭi]veṇṭi-

⟨10⟩ yum poṉ(ṉ)-

⟨11⟩ ṉināṭuṭaiyā-

⟨12⟩ ṉiṭam pāttu-

⟨13⟩ niṉṟu muṭive-

⟨14⟩ ṇṭiyum vaḻa-

⟨15⟩ ṅkum toṇ-

⟨16⟩ [ṭ]ai kāvalaṉ

⟨17⟩ muṉpu ceṉṟe ⟨Page 43⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0147⟩ No. 147. (A.R. No. 127 of 1904.) TĪRTHANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the Vighnēśvara shrine in the Śivāṅkurēśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya I. Year 14: 1264-65 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti, Samasta jagadādhāra etc., of

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya I.

It records the assignment of the proceeds at the rate of one kuṟuṇi per mā from the lands in Vēśālipāḍi-paṟṟu excluding dēvadāna and tiruviḍaiyāṭṭam lands of the temples, for worship and repairs in the temple of God Tiruttiṉainagar-uḍaiyār in their village, by the administrative body (Kūṭṭapperumakkaḷ) of Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻach-chaturvēdimaṅgalam functioning from the month of Kaṟkaṭaka. The temple authorities were authorised to receive these contributions and issue receipts.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī௳ svasti samasta jagadādhāra sōmakulatilaka madhurāpuri mādhava

⟨2⟩ kēra[ḷa]vaṭhaśanirmmūlana laṅkādvīpaluṇṭhana dvītiyarāma cōḷa[ku]la śailaku-

⟨3⟩ liśa ka[r]ṇāṭarājavidrāvaṇa kāṅkaka[rikū]ṭa pākala vividha[ri]pudu[rgga]ma[r]ddana vīragaṇḍagō-

⟨4⟩ pālavipinadāvadahana kādvīpuravarādhīśvara gaṇapatihariṇaśārdūla nēllūrapura viracitavīrābhiṣēka

⟨5⟩ praṇatarājapratiṣṭhāpaka mahārājādhirāja paramēśvara koccaṭapaṉmar tirupuvaṉaccakkaravatti kaḷ śrīcu-

⟨6⟩ ntarapāṇṭiyatevarkku yāṇṭu 14- vatu jayaṅk[o]ṇṭacoḻac caturvvēdimaṅkalat-

⟨7⟩ tu [ka]ṟkaṭaka nāyaṟu mutal grāma kāriyam tiruttukiṟa kūṭṭapperumakkaḷ eḻuttu [|*] nammūr uṭaiyār tirutti-

⟨8⟩ ṉainakar uṭaiyār koyilil tāṉatt[ā]r kaṇṭu innāyaṉārkku pūcai[kkum ti]ruppaṇikkum uṭalāka ivvāṇṭu

⟨9⟩ pac[ā]ṉamutal nammūrilum piṭā[kai] vecālipāṭi[pa]ṟṟukaḷiḷum payi[rc]ce[y]••••••• nilattil pala[ta]ḷi nāyaṉmār t[e]-

⟨10⟩ vatāṉamum tiruviṭaiyāṭṭamum nīkki nīkki niṉṟa nilat••••••••• [yi]rukku māttāl kuṟuṇiyā[ka van]-

⟨11⟩ ta nellu ūrtoṟum koyil tāṉattil ve[ṇṭu]vār taṇṭi koyil taravu kuṭukkavum ippaṭikku

⟨12⟩ nāyaṉār tirukkoyilile kallilum cempilu[m] veṭṭi[kk]oḷḷavum paṇṇuvate ippaṭi candrā-

⟨13⟩ dityavaraiyum celuttikko[ḷḷa]vum paṇ[ṇuva]te ௳ i[ppaṭi]kku ivai nittaviṉota cce-

⟨14⟩ ri tūrppil sarvvādityaṉ eḻuttu ௳ ippaṭikku ivai rājar[ājacc]eri kuravaceri vāmaṉapaṭṭaṉ eḻuttu [௳]

⟨15⟩ ippaṭikku ivai mummuṭicoḻacceri paḻu• sarai••• yanampipaṭṭaṉ eḻuttu [௳] ippa-

⟨16⟩ ṭikku ivai śrīrājarājacceri paśiṇṭi ayalatta•• [na]mpi paṭṭaṉ eḻuttu [௳] ippaṭik-

⟨17⟩ [ku i]vai mummuṭic[oḻacce]ri ma••••••••• ⟨Page 44⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0148⟩ No. 148. (A.R. No. 128 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 44: 1113-14 A.D.

On account of the high regnal year, the king may be identified with Kulōttuṅga I.

This inscription records a gift of 1[1/2] kāśu by Naṅgai Uyyāṉ for a sandhi lamp to God Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva of Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkravat-

⟨2⟩ ti śrīkulottuṅka

⟨3⟩ coḻadēvaṟkku yāṇ-

⟨4⟩ ṭu 40 nālāvatu kaṅkai-

⟨5⟩ koṇṭacoḻavaḷanā-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭu coḻakulavallina-

⟨7⟩ llūr tirukkaṇṇīśva-

⟨8⟩ ramuṭaiya mahādēvaṟk-

⟨9⟩ ku [i]kkoyilil [śi]vabrāhmaṇaṉ-

⟨10⟩ bhāradvāji tirunilakaṇṭaṉ tiru-

⟨11⟩ vekampamuṭaiyānum iva-

⟨12⟩ n tampi kunikkumpirānum naṅkai-

⟨13⟩ uyyāṉ pakkal cantirātittava-

⟨14⟩ rai santi viḷakkonṟu erikka kaṭa-

⟨15⟩ vomāka koṇṭa kācu 1 • itu panmā-

⟨16⟩ hēśvara rakṣai

⟨SIIv17p0i0149⟩ No. 149. (A.R. No. 129 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 44: 1113-14 A.D.

For the same reasons, as stated for the inscription No. 148 above, this inscription also may be assigned to Kulōttuṅga I.

It records the gift of 1(1/2) kāśu by Paḍaiyamuḻāṉ Perumāṉ Kuppai alias Aḻagiyaśōḻan, the Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Vēśālippāḍi and a native of Tiṇaiyambākkam for a sandhi lamp to God Tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuḍaiya Mahādēva of Śoḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkravatti śrīkulot-

⟨2⟩ tuṅkacoḻadēvaṟkku yāṇṭu 40 nā-

⟨3⟩ lāvatu kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻavaḷanā-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭup paṭṭāṉpākkaināṭṭu coḻakula-

⟨5⟩ vallinallūr tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭaiya ma-

⟨6⟩ hādēvaṟkku tiṇaiyampākkattup paṭai-

⟨7⟩ yamuḻān perumān kuppai āna aḻakiyacoḻan ⟨Page 45⟩

⟨8⟩ vecālippāṭi mūventaveḷāna pakkal ikko-

⟨9⟩ yilil śivabrāhmaṇan bhāradvāji tiruni-

⟨10⟩ lakaṇṭan tiruvekampammuṭaiyānum ivan tampi

⟨11⟩ tirukka[ṇ]ṇiśvaramuṭaiyānum ivan ta-

⟨12⟩ mpi kunikkumpirānum ivarpakkal koṇ-

⟨13⟩ ṭa kācu onṟaraiyum aṟakkoṇṭu sa-

⟨14⟩ ntiviḷakku oṉṟum erikkakkaṭavo-

⟨15⟩ m ivvanaivom santrātittavarai-

⟨16⟩ itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0150⟩ No. 150. (A.R. No. 130 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 11: 1128-29 A.D.

This inscription records a gift of a sandhi lamp to God Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva of Śōḻakulavallinallūr•••• in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] vikkiramacoḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 11- āvatu rājarāja vaḷanāṭṭu-

⟨2⟩ ••••• ṭṭuc coḻakulavallinallūrt tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭaiya mahādēvaṟ-

⟨3⟩ •••••• kattu mu[ṉaināyakañ]••••ṉ upaiyamāka vaitta santiviḷakku oṉṟu [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0151⟩ No. 151. (A.R. No. 131 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 44: 1113-14 A.D.

This inscription records an undertaking given by the Śivabrāhmaṇa Tirunīlakaṇṭhaṉ and a number of others to Parā•••• taṉ Nalśuṅga[n*] tavi[r*]ttaśōla-ppal[la*]varaiyaṉ to burn a sandhi lamp, in the temple of Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu for 1(1/2) kāśu received. Śōḻappallavaraiyaṉ is said to have been in the enjoyment of a kāṇi in the temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkravatti śrī kulottu-

⟨2⟩ ṅka coḻadēvaṟkku yāṇṭu 40 nālā-

⟨3⟩ vatu kaṅkai koṇṭac(ku)oḻavaḷanā-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭu paṭṭāṉ pākkai nāṭṭu coḻakula-

⟨5⟩ vallinallūr tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭaiya mahādēvaṟkku i-

⟨6⟩ kkoyil kāṇi uṭaiya parā••••• taṉ[nal] cuṅka[n*]tavi[rt*]ta

⟨7⟩ coḻap pal[la*]varaiyaṉ pakkal ikkoyil śivabrāhmaṇaṉ tiruni-

⟨8⟩ lakaṇṭaṉ tiruvekampa(m)muṭaiyāṉ uḷiṭṭārum-

⟨9⟩ tiruciṟṟampalamuṭaiyā[ṉ ci]vattanum tiruvoṟṟikaṇ-

⟨10⟩ ṭa[ci]vaṉum ārur tiruva[ṇ*]ṇā[ma]lai paṭṭanum ivvaṉai

⟨11⟩ vom santiviḷakku oṉṟu candrātittava[rai] erikkakkaṭavo-

⟨12⟩ māka koṇṭa kācu 15 [||*] ⟨Page 46⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0152⟩ No. 152. (A.R. No. 132 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 44: 1113-14 A.D.

This epigraph records an undertaking similar to the above, given by the śivabrāhmaṇa Bhāradvāji Tirunīlakaṇṭhaṉ Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiyāṉ and his brother Kunikkum Pirāṉ to Uruvāṟu-kiḻāṉ Ēṟaṉ Tiruvālinambi alias Na[ñ*]-chey[ya*]pādappichchaṉ to burn a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu for 1(1/2) kāśu received from him.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkaravatti śrīkulo-

⟨2⟩ ttuṅka coḻadēvaṟkku yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu 40nālāvatu kaṅkai

⟨4⟩ koṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭup paṭ-

⟨5⟩ ṭāṉ pākkaināṭṭu coḻakula-

⟨6⟩ va[l*]linallūr tiru[k]kaṇṇīśvaramu-

⟨7⟩ ṭaiya māhādēvaṟkku uruvāṟu ki-

⟨8⟩ ḻāṉ eṟaṉ tiruvālinampi āṉa na[ñ*]ke-

⟨9⟩ y[ya*]pātappiccaneṉ ikkoyilil

⟨10⟩ śivabra(r)āmmaṇa[ṉ] bhāradvāji tiruni-

⟨11⟩ lakaṇṭaṉ tirukkaṇṇiśvaramuṭai-

⟨12⟩ yā(ṉ)num ivaṉ tampi kunikkumpirānum ivaṉa pakkal kācu 15yum aṟakkoṇṭu [ca]ntr [ā*]ti[tta*]var erikkakkaṭavom iruōm [|*] panmāyēśva[ra*] rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0153⟩ No. 153. (A.R. No. 133 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 14: 1083-84 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti Tirumagaḷ jayamagaḷ etc., of

Rājakēsari Kulōttuṅga (I).

It registers a gift of one mā of land for various offerings to god Dakshiṇāmūrtigaḷ in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruvaḍuvūr, in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Pavitramāṇikkavaḷanāḍu in Rājēndraśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tirumakaḷ cayamaka[ḷ] tiruppuyattiruppa-

⟨2⟩ •••• tiṟaṟ pāṇṭiyan [cu]ra•ttiṟaṅka ma•• ṟaṉ

⟨3⟩ •••• ṉum piyaratu•• ṟṟi••• manna[var*]

⟨4⟩ muṟai muṟai vaṇaṅka vijaiyabhiṣēka-

⟨5⟩ m paṇ[ṇi] vīrasiṁhāsanattu puvana

⟨6⟩ muḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭum vīṟṟiruntaruḷiya kovi

⟨7⟩ rā(ā)jak[ē]caripanmarāna cakkiravatti śrīkul[ō]-

⟨8⟩ ttuṅkacoḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu patinālāvatu rājē-

⟨9⟩ ntraco[ḻa]vaḷanāṭṭup pavittiramāṇikkavaḷanāṭṭuc coḻaṉālavalḷi

⟨10⟩ nallūr tiruvaṭuvūr mahātevar koyilil dēkṣaṇāmūrt-

⟨11⟩ tikaḷukku tiruvamutukku arici iruṉāḻiyum ney amutu tayiramu- ⟨Page 47⟩

⟨12⟩ tum kaṟiyamutum aṭaikkāyamutukkum āka nel kuṟuṇikkum

⟨13⟩ nimanta[ñ*] ceyta nilamāvatu coḻakulavalli vatikku [meṟku]m marutā-

⟨14⟩ ntaka vākkāllukku [va]ṭakku āṟāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu mutalc catirattil

⟨15⟩ kiḻakkaṭainta āṟu[m]āvil kiḻakkaṭainta muṉṟumāvil kiḻakkaṭai

⟨16⟩ ya nilam orumā [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0154⟩ No. 154. (A.R. No. 134 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Rājēndra II. Year 9: 1060-61 A.D.

This record commences with the praśasti Iraṭṭapāḍi ēḻarai ilakkamum, etc., of

Rājēndra II.

It registers a gift of 18 kaḻañju of gold, stated to be equivalent to madhurāntakaṉ māḍai, by Āṇattāṉ Śūṟṟi Sambandaṉ for burning a perpetual lamp to god Tirukkaṇṇiśvaram-uḍaiyār in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Pavitramāṇikka-vaḷanāḍu in Rājēndraśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] iraṭṭapāṭi eḻaraiila[k]-

⟨2⟩ kamuṅkoṇṭu kollāpurattu ja-

⟨3⟩ yastambha[m] nāṭṭip perāṟṟaṅkarai

⟨4⟩ kkoppat tāhavamallaṉai añcuvi[tta]va[ṉāṉai]-

⟨5⟩ yuṅ kutiraiyum peṇṭir paṇṭāramu maṭaṅka koṇ-

⟨6⟩ ṭu vijaya abhiṣēkam paṇṇi virasiṁhāsanattu vi-

⟨7⟩ ṟṟiruntaruḷiya kopparakecarivarmmarāṉa uṭaiyār śrīrā-

⟨8⟩ jēntradēvaṟku yāṇṭu oṉpatāvatu rājentra-

⟨9⟩ coḻavaḷanāṭṭup pavitramāṇikkavaḷan[ā]ṭṭuc-

⟨10⟩ coḻakulavallinallūr ā[ṇa]ttāṉ cūṟṟi campanta-

⟨11⟩ ṉ tirukka[ṇ]ṇiśvaramuṭaiyārkkut tirunantāviḷakkukku i-

⟨12⟩ kkoyil sivabrāhmaṇar vacaṅ kuṭutta maturāntakaṉ

⟨13⟩ māṭaiyo ṭokkum poṉ patiṉeṇkaḻañ-

⟨14⟩ cu ippoṉ patiṉeṇ kaḻañcuṅ koṇṭu ik-

⟨15⟩ koyil śivabrāhmaṇar candrādittavat eri-

⟨16⟩ kkakkaṭava tirunantāviḷakku oṉṟu [|*] itu panmāhēśvara

⟨17⟩ rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0155⟩ No. 155. (A.R. No. 135 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Rājēndra II. Year 9: 1060-61 A.D.

This inscription records in Tamil verse the same gift mentioned in No. 154 above.

Text.

⟨1⟩ cīrār vaṭuvūrc civaṟ-

⟨2⟩ koru nantāviḷak kaṅ kārā-

⟨3⟩ [ta]ṉai ceyvo raṅke-

⟨4⟩ rippap pārotac ce[m]-

⟨5⟩ poṉ patiṉeṇ [ka]-

⟨6⟩ ḻañ caḷittāṉ t[e]-

⟨7⟩ ṉṉālic campanta-

⟨8⟩ ṉāṇattāṉ ṟāṉ [||*] ⟨Page 48⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0156⟩ No. 156. (A.R. No. 136 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 48: 1117-18 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 96 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiyār in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu by Ayi••• ḍaiyāṇ Vīdiviḍaṅgaṉ Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiyāṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kulottuṅka-

⟨2⟩ coḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 48-

⟨3⟩ āvatu kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻa-

⟨4⟩ vaḷa[nāṭṭu paṭ]ṭāṉpākkainā-

⟨5⟩ ṭṭuc co[ḻakula]vallinallūr

⟨6⟩ tirukka[ṇ*]ṇi[ śvaramuṭai] ya mahādē-

⟨7⟩ vaṟku ayi••• ṭaiyāṉ vitiviṭa-

⟨8⟩ ṅkan tirukka[ṇṇi]śvaramuṭaiyāṉ

⟨9⟩ vaitta tiruna[ntā]viḷakku [1] ivaṉe-

⟨10⟩ ••kum pāṭṭamaṉṟāṭi maṇṭai vi-

⟨11⟩ kkiramaṉ pakkal āṭu 7[9] maṇ

⟨12⟩ ṭai vempan pakkal viṭṭa āṭu 17-

⟨13⟩ [m] āka āṭu 96m koṇṭu tirunu-

⟨14⟩ ntāviḷakku cantirātittavarai eri-

⟨15⟩ kka kaṭavomāka sammatittom

⟨16⟩ ivviruvom [|*] itu panmāhēśva-

⟨17⟩ ra rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0157⟩ No. 157. (A.R. No. 137 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 48: 1118-19 A.D.

This inscription records the acceptance by Śivabrāhmaṇa Bhāradvāji Sadāśivan Tirunīlakaṇṭhan Tiruvēkambamuḍaiyān and his brothers, Tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuḍaiyāṉ and Kunikkum Pirān to burn half a sandhi lamp and Ārūr Tiruvaṇṇāmalai Bhaṭṭan to burn another half a sandhi lamp in the temple of Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu for the money received from Nallūr Naṅgai probably related to Arugāmaṅgalaṅgiḻāṉ Ś[ā]mi Ti[ru]varaṅgam-uḍaiyaṉ.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakravatti-

⟨2⟩ kaḷ kulottuṅka c[o]

⟨3⟩ ḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨4⟩ 4[8] āvatu kaṅkai

⟨5⟩ koṇṭacoḻavaḷanā-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭu paṭṭāṉpākkai-

⟨7⟩ nāṭṭu coḻakulavalli-

⟨8⟩ nallūr tirukkaṇṇiśvaramu-

⟨9⟩ ṭaiya mahādēvaṟku aru-

⟨10⟩ kāmaṅkalaṅ kiḻāṉ c[ā]-

⟨11⟩ mi ti[ru]varaṅka muṭaiyā

⟨12⟩ •••• yāṉ nallūr na-

⟨13⟩ ṅkai pakkal ikkoyili-

⟨14⟩ l śivabrāhmaṇaṉ bhāradvā-

⟨15⟩ ji sadāśivan tirunilaka-

⟨16⟩ ṇṭan tiruvekampa muṭaiyānu- ⟨Page 49⟩

⟨17⟩ m ivan [ta*]mpi tirukka[ṇ*]ṇīśvaramu-

⟨18⟩ ṭaiyānum ivan tampi ku-

⟨19⟩ nikkum pirānum koṇṭa

⟨20⟩ [ca]nti viḷakku arai ārur ti-

⟨21⟩ [ru]vaṇṇāmalai bhaṭṭan ko-

⟨22⟩ ṇṭa canti viḷakku arai

⟨23⟩ āka viḷakku onṟum can-

⟨24⟩ tirātittavaṟ erikka ka-

⟨25⟩ ṭavomāka upayamāka ko-

⟨26⟩ ṇṭa kācu nel 1 •••

⟨SIIv17p0i0158⟩ No. 158. (A.R. No. 138 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 46: 1115-16 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 1(1/2) kāśu by Tiruva[ṇ*]ṇāmalai Akkaṉ for a sandhi lamp to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavaḷḷinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu. The money was received by Ārū[r*] Tiruva[ṇ*]ṇāmalai Bhaṭṭaṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kulottuṅka-

⟨2⟩ coḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 46

⟨3⟩ kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭu

⟨4⟩ paṭṭānpākkaināṭṭu coḻakulavaḷ-

⟨5⟩ ḷinallūr tirukka[ ṇṇīśvaravaramuṭai]-

⟨6⟩ ya mahādēvaṟku ārū[r*] tiruva[ṇ*]ṇāma-

⟨7⟩ laipaṭṭanen tiruva[ṇ*]ṇāmalai akka[n]

⟨8⟩ pakkal śanti viḷakku 1 śaṅntrātitta-

⟨9⟩ varai e[ri]kka koṇṭa kācu 15 [|*] itu

⟨10⟩ panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0159⟩ No. 159. (A.R. No. 139 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 49: 1118-19 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 24 sheep for two sandhi lamps by Taṇḍuṟai uḍaiyāṉ Malai Nambaṉ to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulas vallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] [ cakra] vattikaḷ śrīku[l*][o*]ttuṅka-

⟨2⟩ coḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 49 āvatu kaṅkai

⟨3⟩ koṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭu paṭṭāṉpākkai nā-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭu coḻakulavallinallūr tirukkaṇṇīśvara-

⟨5⟩ muṭaiya mahādēvaṟku taṇṭuṟai uṭaiyān

⟨6⟩ malainampan pakkal maṉṟāṭi veṇkāṭan co-

⟨7⟩ ••n kaikkoṇṭa āṭu 24 irupattunāluṅko-

⟨8⟩ ṇṭu śantiviḷakku 2 iraṇṭum santrātittavarai erikka ka-

⟨9⟩ ṭavenāka ca[m*]matitten [|*] itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 50⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0160⟩ No. 160. (A.R. No. 140 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 44: 1113-14 A.D.

This epigraph records the gift of money in the coin in current use (aṉṟāḍunaṟkāśu) by Kumāramuḻāṉ Vēḷāṉ Kākkunāyakaṉ of Dāmanallūr in Tirumuṉaippāḍi, for a sandhi lamp to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Pattāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu. The gift was received by Gautaman Tiruvoṟṟikaṇḍaśiva[ṉ*].

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkaravattikaḷ śrīkulottuṅkacoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨2⟩ 44 āvatu kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭu paṭṭāṉpākkaināṭṭu

⟨3⟩ coḻakulavallinallūr tirukkaṇṇiśvaramuṭaiya mahādēvaṟku tirumuṉaippā-

⟨4⟩ [ṭi] tāmanallūr kumāramuḻān veḷān kākkunāyakan pakkal ikkoyivil ci-

⟨5⟩ vabrāhmaṇan gautaman tiruvoṟṟikaṇṭaciva[ṉ*] santi viḷakku 1 santrā

⟨6⟩ tittavarai erikka kaṭavenāka upaiyaṅkoṇṭa aṉṟāṭu naṟkācu

⟨7⟩ 1i pa oṉṟarai ye orumāvar[ai]yuṅ koṇṭeṉ [|*] itu panmāhē

⟨8⟩ śvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0161⟩ No. 161. (A.R. No. 141 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 44: 1113-14 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 1(1/2) kāśu by Pālamuḻān Kuṭṭēṟan Parañjōti of Ādirāyamaṅgalyapuram, for a sandhi lamp to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu. The śivabrāhmaṇa Ga(g)utaman Tiru[chchi*]ṟṟambalam-uḍaiyān Pūvattaraiyan of the temple received the gift.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkra-

⟨2⟩ vatti śrīkulottu-

⟨3⟩ ṅka coḻadēvaṟku yā-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭu 40 nālāvatu

⟨5⟩ kaṅkai[koṇṭa]

⟨6⟩ coḻavaḷanāṭṭu paṭṭāṉ-

⟨7⟩ pākkaināṭṭu coḻaku-

⟨8⟩ lavallinallūr tiruk-

⟨9⟩ kaṇṇīśva[ra]muṭaiya

⟨10⟩ mahādēvaṟku ikkoyil śivabrā-

⟨11⟩ hmaṇan gagutaman tiru[cci*]ṟṟampala-

⟨12⟩ muṭaiyān pūvattaraiyan ātirāya-

⟨13⟩ maṅka(l)lyapurattu pālamuḻān ku-

⟨14⟩ ṭṭeṟan parañcoti pakkal canti vi-

⟨15⟩ ḷakkonṟu śantrā(ā)tittavarai erikkakka-

⟨16⟩ ṭavennāka koṇṭa kācu 15[—*] itu pa-

⟨17⟩ [nmāhēśva]ra rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0162⟩ No. 162. (A.R. No. 142 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east base of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 49: 1118-19 A.D.

This record registers the gift of 1 kāśu and 6 mā by Śikkal-uḍaiyāṉ Śeyyapādaṅkūttaṉ for a sandhi lamp to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu. The gift was, received by the śivabrāhmaṇa Bhāradvāji Tirunīlakaṇṭaṉ Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiyāṉ, Kunikkum Pirān, Tiruchchiṟṟambalam-uḍaiyāṉ Pūvattaiyan and Śēndaṉ Pichchadēvan. ⟨Page 51⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkaravarttikaḷ śrīkulottuṅkacoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu 49 āvatu kaṅkai koṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭup paṭṭāṉpākkaināṭṭu

⟨2⟩ coḻakulava[l*]li(nali)nallūrt tirukkaṇṇiśvaramuṭaiya mātevaṟku cikkaluṭaiyāṉ ceyyapātaṅ kūttaṉ vaitta santi viḷakku 1 oṉṟukkum ikkoyil

⟨3⟩ śivappirāmaṇaṉ bhārattuvāśi tirunīlakaṇṭaṉ tiru[ kkaṇṇīśvara] muṭaiyāṉuṅ kuni[k*]kum pirānum tirucciṟṟampala muṭaiyāṉ pūvattaiyanum centaṉ piccatevanum

⟨4⟩ koṇṭa kācu oṉṟe āṟumā 1vapa vu[m*]koṇṭu santrātit[ta*]vaṟ erikka kaṭavom [|*] itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0163⟩ No. 163. (A.R. No. 143 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east and north bases of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 29: 1098-99 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 6 kāśu and 12 mā by Kumāramuḻāṉ Arumoḻi Tirumāppēṟan alias Śiṅgaḷānta[ka*]-mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Iḍaiyāṟu for 4 sandhi lamps to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu. The money was distributed among the śivabrāhmaṇas Tirunīlakaṇṭaṉ Tiruvēkambam-uḍaiyāṉ of Bhāradvāja-gōtra, his brothers Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiyāṉ, and Kuṉikkum-Pirāṉ. Tiruoṟṟikaṇḍaśivaṉ and Sundaraṉ Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiyāṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kulottuṅka coḻateva[r*]kku yāṇṭu 29 āvatu kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻa vaḷanāṭṭu paṭṭāṉpākkaināṭṭu coḻakula

⟨2⟩ vallinallūrt tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭaiya mahādēvarkku iṭaiyāṟṟuk kumāramuḻāṉ arumoḻi tirumāppeṟanāna ciṅkaḷānta[ka*]muventa-

⟨3⟩ veḷāṉ ittevarkku upaiyamāka vaitta santi viḷakku 4 i vi[ḷa*]kku nālum erikka upaiyaṅkoṇṭa ikkoyiṟ śivabrāhmaṇaril bhāradvāji tirunilakaṇṭaṉ

⟨4⟩ tiruvekampamuṭaiyāṉum ivaṉ tampi tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭaiyāṉum ivan tampi kuṉikkum pirāṉum koṇṭa kācu nālaraiye muṉṟu māvukku erikka kaṭava

⟨5⟩ santi viḷakku iraṇṭarai tiruoṟṟikaṇṭacivaṉ kācu araiye muṉṟumākkoṇṭu erikkakkaṭava santiviḷakku araiyum cuntaraṉ tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭai-

⟨6⟩ yāṉ koṇṭa kācu oṉṟe āṟumāk koṇṭerikka kaṭava santi viḷakku oṉṟum āka santi viḷakku nālum santrātittavat erikka kaṭavatāka ivaṉatu upaiyaṅ

⟨7⟩ koṇṭu kalveṭṭuvittom ivvaṉaivom [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0164⟩ No. 164. (A.R. No. 144 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 42: 1111-12 A.D.

This record registers the gift of 50 sheep by Kaḷappāḷaṉ Śellaiyaṉ Tōṇṇambi of Eydamendūr, for the merit of his wife Umai Naṅgai, for half a perpetual lamp to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu. ⟨Page 52⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakkaravatti śrīkulottuṅkacoḻadēvarkku yāṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭu nāṟpattu 2 āvatu kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻa vaḷanāṭṭu paṭṭāṉ

⟨3⟩ pākkaināṭ[ṭu] coḻakulavallinallūr tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭaiya

⟨4⟩ mādēvaṟkku [eytaneḷū]rk kaḷappāḷaṉ cellaiyaṉ to-

⟨5⟩ ṇṇampi akamuṭaiyāḷ umainaṅkaikku vaitta tirununtā-

⟨6⟩ viḷakku 5 ivvaraikku pāṭṭamaṉ•••• ṉaiyaṉ periyāṉ

⟨7⟩ pakkal āṭu 25 kiḷiyaṉ te••••āṭu 25 āka ā

⟨8⟩ ṭu 50m ko[ṇ*]ṭu tirunantāviḷakku••• rai erikka kaṭavom

⟨9⟩ ivviruvom iviḷakku vaip••••• ṉamaṅkalappā-

⟨10⟩ ṭi uṭaiyāṉ mātevaṉ••••• panmāyēśvara [ra*]kṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0165⟩ No. 165. (A.R. No. 145 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 11: 1128-29 A.D.

This mutilated inscription records the gift of money in coin currently in use (aṉṟāḍu naṟkāśu) by Kaṇṇamaṅgalamuḍaiyāṉ Śeṉampi•• [kaḷaya] viṭaṅgaṉ of Vēśālippāḍi, for the merit of his mother Naṅgaiyāṇḍi, for a sandhi lamp for god Tirukkaṇṇīśva[ram-uḍaiya Mahādēva] in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu. It mentions the śivabrāhmaṇas, Gautamaṉ Kaṇḍa Śivaṉ Āḷumpirāṉ and Parāśaraṉ Śēndaṉ Vichchadēva Bhaṭṭaṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] vikkiramacoḻatevaṟkku yāṇṭu 11 āvatu rāja-

⟨2⟩ rājavaḷanāṭṭup paṭṭāṉpākkaināṭṭu coḻakulavallinallūr tirukkaṇṇiśva•••• vecālippāṭik kaṇṇamaṅkala muṭaiyāṉ ceṉampi-

⟨3⟩ ••[kaḷaya]viṭaṅkaṉ taṉ mātākkaḷ naṅkaiyāṇṭikkāka ittevaṟku ivaṉ vaitta santi vi•••••• va brāhmaṇar gautamaṉ kaṇṭa civaṉ āḷumpirāṉum parācaraṉ centaṉ

⟨4⟩ viccatevappaṭṭaṉum ivviruvom ivaṉ pakkal upaiyaṅkoṇṭa aṉṟāṭu naṟka••• •••••yuṅ kaikkoṇṭu cantirātittavarai erikka kaṭavom i[v*]viru-

⟨5⟩ vom [|*] itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai || ௳

⟨SIIv17p0i0166⟩ No. 166. (A.R. No. 146 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 12: 1129-30 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of one [a]ṉṟāḍu[naṟkāśu] by Maṅgalaṅkiḻān Ambalaśōḻaṉ alias Śōḻaśikhāmaṇi Mūvēndavēḷān of Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭān [pākkai]-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva of that place. It mentions Tillaināyaka Bhaṭṭan and Parāśaran Śēndaṉ Pichchadēva Bhaṭṭan.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] vikkiramacoḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 12 āvatu rājarājavaḷanāṭṭu paṭṭān [pākkai]-

⟨2⟩ nāṭṭu coḻakulavallina[l*]lūr tirukkaṇṇiśvaramuṭaiya mahādēvaṟku ivvūr maṅkalaṅkiḻān ampalac ⟨Page 53⟩

⟨3⟩ coḻaṉāṉa coḻacikāmaṇi muventaveḷān ittevarkku vaitta canti viḷakku 1 oṉṟuk kum ikkoyi-

⟨4⟩ [l] pirāmaṇan tillaināyakapaṭṭanum parācaran cettaṉ piccateva paṭṭanum ivviruvom ••••••

⟨5⟩ nṟāṭu [naṟkkācu] ikkācu oṉṟuṅkoṇṭu cantirātittavaṟ ce•••••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0167⟩ No. 167. (A.R. No. 147 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 12: 1129-30 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 12 sheep by Aḻiśupākkam-uḍaiyān Appuli Vēmbaḍigaḷ alias Vikramaśōḻa Mūvēndaveḷḷān of Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭānpākkaināḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu, for a sandhi lamp for god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva of that place. The sheep were made over to maṉṟāḍi Śoṭṭai Eḻunāyan of Vēśālippāḍi in the same nāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] vikkiramacoḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 12- āvatu rājarāja vaḷanāṭṭup paṭṭān p[ā*]kkai nāṭṭuc

⟨2⟩ coḻakulavallinallūrt tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭaiya mahādēvaṟku ivvūr aḻicupākka muṭaiyān appuli

⟨3⟩ vempaṭikaḷ āna vikkiramacoḻa muventaveḷḷān vaitta santi viḷakku 1 oṉṟum in nāṭṭu vecālippāṭi manṟā-

⟨4⟩ ṭi coṭṭai eḻunāyaneṉ kaikkoṇṭa āṭu 12 ṭum koṇṭu cantirātittavarai celuttak kaṭaven [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0168⟩ No. 168. (A.R. No. 148 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 38: 1107-08 A.D.

This inscription records an undertaking by Bhāradvāji Tirunīlakaṇṭaṉ Tiruvēkambam-uḍaiyāṉ and his brothers Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram-uḍaiyāṉ and Kuṉikkum Pirāṉ, the śivabrāhmaṇas of the temple of Tirukkaṇṇīśvaram uḍaiya Mahādēva in Śōḻakulavallinallūr in Paṭṭāṉpākkai-nāḍu in Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu to burn two sandhi lamps in the temple of the god, one for 1 kāśu and 6 mā received from Pākkam-uḍaiyāṉ Tillaikkūttaṉ Dēvaṉ and the other for a similar amount received from Taṇḍal-uḍaiyāṉ Panichchai Śāttaṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kulottuṅkacoḻateva[r*]kku yāṇṭu 38 ā-

⟨2⟩ vatu kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻavaḷan[ā*]ṭṭu paṭṭāṉpākkaināṭ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu coḻaku[la*]vallinallūrt tirukka[ṇ*]ṇīśvaramuṭaiya mahādē-

⟨4⟩ varkkup pākkamuṭaiyāṉ tillaikkūttaṉ tevaṉ pakkal ik-

⟨5⟩ koyil śivabra(r)āhmaṇaṉ bh[ā*]r(ā)dvāji tirunilakaṇ-

⟨6⟩ ṭaṉ tiruvekampa muṭaiyā(ṉ)num ivantampi tirukkaṇṇīśva[ra]-

⟨7⟩ muṭaiyā(ṉ)num ivaṉ tampi kuṉikkum pirā(ṉ)num ivvaṉaivom

⟨8⟩ ivaṉ pakkal santi viḷakkoṉṟum upaiya(ṅ)māka koṇṭa kācu oṉ-

⟨9⟩ ṟey āṟumāvum taṇṭaluṭaiyāṉ paniccai cāttaṉ pakkal santi viḷakku

⟨10⟩ oṉṟukku upaiyam koṇṭa kācu oṉṟey aṟumā [||*] ⟨Page 54⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0169⟩ No. 169. (A.R. No. 149 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Kōnēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ. Year 4.

The inscription is dated in the 4th year and 142nd day. Palaeographically it may be assigned to the 13th century.

It records the remission of taxes such as kāropādi, puṟa-uḍal kaḍamai, kāśāyam on dry lands, other kāśāyam such as śeṭṭiṟai, taṟi-iṟai, śekkiṟai etc., on the tirunāmattukkāṇi and dēvadāna lands in favour of the sthānattār of the temple of god Tirukaṇṇīśvaramuḍaiyār, for worship and repairs in the temple. Veḷiyāṟṟūr-uḍaiyāṉ and Kappalūruḍaiyāṉ figure as signatories.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tribhuvanaccakravatti koneriṉmai

⟨2⟩ koṇṭāṉ uṭaiyār tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuṭai-

⟨3⟩ yār koyil tāṉattārkku innāyaṉār tevatāṉa-

⟨4⟩ ttukkum tirunāmattukkāṇikkum kāropātik-

⟨5⟩ kum puṟauṭal kaṭamaikkum uṭpaṭṭa nellu nā-

⟨6⟩ ṉūṟṟukkalamum poṉ mukkālum puṉcai kācā-

⟨7⟩ yam ivvūr ceṭṭiṟai taṟiiṟai cekkiṟai uḷḷiṭṭa kācāya-

⟨8⟩ mum mutalaṭaṅka iṟaiyiliyāka tantom immutaluṅkūṭ-

⟨9⟩ ṭikkoṇṭu pūcaiyum naṭatti tiruppaṇiyuñ ceyvikka-

⟨10⟩ vum ippaṭikku nam olaippaṭiye kallilum ce-

⟨11⟩ mpilum veṭṭikkoḷka 2 ivai veḷiyāṟ-

⟨12⟩ ṟūruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu 2 ivai kappalūruṭai

⟨13⟩ yāṉ eḻuttu 2 yāṇṭu nālāvatu nāḷ

⟨14⟩ 142 ௳ tulyam ௳

⟨SIIv17p0i0170⟩ No. 170. (A.R. No. 150 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

[Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya I]. Year 14: 1264 A.D.

This inscription is dated in the reign of Kōṉēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ, who from the reference to Kōyilpoṉmēyndaperumāḷ and Sundarapāṇḍya in the body of the inscription, may be identical with Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya I. This is dated in the 205th day of the 14th Year.

It records a royal order leasing out 30 vēli of land belonging to Deyvanāyakaṉ temple in Tiruvayindirapuram in Marudāḍu, a hamlet of Śōḻakulavallinallūr and Kīḻaikkēraḷāntakanallūr as kuḍinīṅgāda tiruviḍaiyāṭṭam to the chaturvēdi-bhaṭṭas of Puttuḻāṉ-Brahmadēśam in Tiruvayīndiram by Puttuḻār Tiruvaraṅgachchelvar alias Villavarāyar. The bhaṭṭas were required to measure out annually to the Deyvanāyakan temple, 20 kalam of paddy per vēli, as āyam, upādi and kaḍamai for food and other offerings to the image of god Kōyil-poṉmēynda Perumāḷ, set up by the king ⟨Page 55⟩ in his name and for offerings on the occasion of Sundarapāṇḍyaṉ sandhi for the god Deyvanāyakaṉ. Tachchaneṉmali-uḍaiyāṉ figures as the signatory of the record. The body called Iraṇḍāyiravar was entrusted with the supervision of this arrangement.

This record pertaining to the Deyvanāyakaṉ temple of Tiruvayīndiram (Tiruvēndipuram) was engraved here evidently because some of the lands under reference were situated in Śōḻakulavallinallūr, where Tirukkaṇṭhēśvaram was situated.

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⟨1⟩ tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ koṉeriṉmaikoṇṭāṉ tiruvayintirapurattu puttuḻāṉ pirama tecattu catuṟvetippaṭṭarkaḷukku puttuḻār

⟨2⟩ tiruvaraṅkac celvarāṉa villavarāyar taṅkaḷ akarattukku kāṇiyāka coḻakulavalli nallūrp piṭākai marutāṭṭilum kīḻaikkeraḷānta-

⟨3⟩ kanallūr uḷḷiṭṭa kaṭṭaḷaikaḷilum koṇṭuviṭṭa patiṉ mūṉṟāvatu varaiyum aṭaippu niṅkalāṉa nilam irupattu aṟuveliyum puṉcey nilam patiṟṟu veliyum nāya-

⟨4⟩ ṉār teyvanāyakaṉ tiruttuvātecippaṭi eḻunta[ru*]ḷa ivar kāṇiyāka koṇṭuviṭṭa nilam veliyum ikkoyil ciṅkapperumāḷ tiruuṭaiyāṭṭam nilam veliyum

⟨5⟩ innāyaṉārkku villavarāyar ceyvitta ulakamuṇṭāṉ tirunantavaṉañ ceyyum perkku ivar kāṇiyākak koṇṭu viṭṭa nilam iruveliyum āka nilam muppatiṟṟu 1 veliyum patiṉ muṉṟāvatu

⟨6⟩ varaiyum aṭaippu niṅkalāṉa nilattu patiṉālāvatu mutal payircceytu koḷḷavum innilattu kārum maṟuvum oru pūvum kaṭaippūvum vampum puṉpayirum karumpum ilaikkoṭi-

⟨7⟩ yum kamukum uḷḷiṭṭa tāṉveṇṭum payirc ceytu koṇṭu ettamum iṭāvum iṟaittup payirc ceyta nilam uṭpaṭa payircceyta nilattukku āṇṭoṉṟukku aṉaittāyaṅka-

⟨8⟩ ḷum upātiyum uṭpaṭa veliyoṉṟukku irupatiṉ kalamāka vanta nellum puṉcey nilattukku nāṭṭu mariyātippaṭi kaṭamaiyāl vanta mutalum ikkoyilil namperāl uka-

⟨9⟩ ntaruḷuvitta koyil poṉmeynta perumāḷukku amutupaṭi cāttuppaṭi uḷḷiṭṭaṉavukkum nāyaṉār teyva nāyakaṉukku namperāl kaṭṭiṉa cuntarapāṇṭiyaṉ

⟨10⟩ cantikku amutupaṭi cāttuppaṭi uḷḷiṭṭaṉavukkum uṭalāka ikkoyil paṇṭārattile celavāk kavum ippaṭikku innilam kuṭinīṅkāta tiru uṭaiyāṭṭamākavum

⟨11⟩ coṉṉom ippaṭi cantirātittavaṟc celvatāka kallilum cempilum veṭṭikkoḷka ௳ ivai taccaneṉmali uṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu ௳ yāṇṭu patiṉālāvatu nāḷ

⟨12⟩ 205 ௳ tulyam inta dharmmam iraṇṭāyiravar rakṣai ௳

⟨SIIv17p0i0171⟩ No. 171. (A.R. No. 151 of 1904.) TIRUKAṆṬHĒŚVARAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Naṭanapādēśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya I. Year 14: 1264 A.D.

This inscription records an agreement entered into between the śivabrāhmaṇas on the one hand and the temple authorities, the royal Kaṇkāṇi officers, and the ūr-mudalis of Śōḻakulavallinallūr on the other for conducting a service to god Tirukkaṇṇīśvaramuḍaiya Nāyāṉar on the occasion of tiru-ppaḷḷi-eḻuchchi to be called Paḻiyil-pugaḻāḷaṉ sandhi for which the former received as aḍaippu 3 mā of land from Mēyūr Milaiyaṅ-kiḻāṉ Aḻagiya Tiruchchiṟṟambalamuḍaiyāṉ Maṉṟiṟkuṉikkum Perumāṉ alias Abhimāna tuṅga-ppallavaraiyar of Śōḻakulavallinallūr. The donor made an additional grant of land made tax-free for the same purpose, on finding that the śivabrāhmaṇas could not perform the service regularly with the income from the previous grant.

Among the boundaries of the land originally granted is mentioned a piece of tirunāmattukkāṇi land purchased from a number of persons including Villavaṉ Viḻup paraiyar of Kaṇṇamaṅgalam in the 13th year. ⟨Page 56⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] śrīmatkirtti kku1 mel koccaṭapaṉmarāṉa tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ cuntarapāṇ ṭiyatevarkku yāṇṭu 14vatu uṭaiyār tiru-

⟨2⟩ kkaṇṇicuramuṭaiyār koyil āticaṇṭecuratevarkkum śrīmākecurarkkum irāca kaṇ kāṇikkuk kaṭavārkkum coḻakulavallinallūr

⟨3⟩ ūr mutalikaḷukkum innāyaṉār koyil muppatu vaṭṭattuk kāṇi uṭaiya civappirāmaṇa rom coḻakulavallinallūr meyūr mi-

⟨4⟩ laiyaṅkiḻāṉ aḻakiya tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyāṉ maṉṟiṟ kuṉikkum perumāṉāṉa apimāṉa tuṅkap pallavaraiyar innā-

⟨5⟩ yaṉārkku tiruppaḷḷieḻucciyāṉa paḻiyil pukaḻāḷaṉ cantikku nāṅkaḷ ivar pakkal upaiyaṅkoṇṭa ivar kāṇiyāṉa nilattu innā-

⟨6⟩ yaṉārkku tirunāmattukkāṇi āka viṭṭa nilamāvatu tirukkaṇṇicurak kaṭṭaḷaiyil coḻakulavallivatikku meṟkku maturāntaka vāykkālukku vaṭakku

⟨7⟩ āṟāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu mutaṟ catirattu vaṭakkaṭainta āṟumāvil kiḻakkaṭaiya innāyaṉār paḻantirunāmattukkāṇi āṉa nilam nālu māvukku meṟkkum meṟka-

⟨8⟩ ṭaiya kaṇṇamaṅkalamuṭaiyār villavaṉ viḻupparaiyar uḷḷiṭṭār pakkal patiṉmuṉṟāvatu nāḷil innāyaṉārkkut tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka vilai koṇṭa nilam

⟨9⟩ oru māvukku kiḻakku naṭuvupaṭṭa nilamāy ivar kāṇiyāy tirunāmattukkāṇi ākaviṭṭa nilam oru māvum rājarājavatikku meṟkku maturānta-

⟨10⟩ ka vāykkālukku vaṭakku āṟāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu mutaṟcatirattu teṉkiḻakkaṭaiya innāyaṉār tirunāmattukkāṇi āṉa taḷaruṅkoṭiyār tirunantavaṉa-

⟨11⟩ m nilam iraṇṭu māvukku teṟkku ivar kāṇiyāy viṭṭa nilam iraṇṭu māvum āka nilam muṉṟu māvuṅ koṇṭu inta cantikku nāḷ oṉṟukku niccayitta āṭi aruḷi amutu

⟨12⟩ ceytaruḷa amutupaṭikku arici kuṟuṇiyum kaṟi amutu eṭai irupattunāṟpalamum uppu amutu āḻākkum miḷakamutu irucceviṭum ney amutu iraṇṭaraicceviṭum tayi-

⟨13⟩ r amutu nāḻiyum teṅkāy oṉṟum aṭaikkāyamutu pākku patiṉaiñcum ilai amutu paṟṟu kāle araikkālum muṉpu iṭṭuppotum tiru nantāviḷakkum canti viḷakkum nīṅ-

⟨14⟩ kalāka iccantikku iṭum tiruviḷakku aiñcum iṭavum amutupaṭi arici kuṟuṇiyil iraṇṭām piṟākārattu celvappiḷḷaiyārkku amutupaṭi arici iru nāḻiyum pūcikkum

⟨15⟩ nampimārkku aṭaippākavum nikki uṭaiyārum nācciyārum amutu ceytaruḷum arici aṟu nāḻi[yi*]ṉāl coṟum tayirum inta upaiyattukku muppatu vaṭṭat-

⟨16⟩ til civappirāmaṇarkku aṭaippākavum aṭaikkāyamutu piracātam inta canti kaṭṭiṉa apimāṉatuṅkappallavaraiyarkku aṭaippākavum itu ivar piḷḷaikaḷ pi-

⟨17⟩ ḷḷaikaḷukku aṭaippākavum inta cantikku upaiyaṅ koṇṭa nilam muṉṟu māvilum niṟkkum kamuku teṅku uḷḷiṭṭa maraṅkaḷum kiḻppayirum nilakkūliyum

⟨18⟩ uḷppaṭa uṭal aṭaṅka iṟaiyili ākakkoṇṭu ivāṭṭai puraṭṭāti mātam patiṉ eṭṭāntiyati mutal cantirātittavaraiyum inta ni[c*]cayiṟpiṉpaṭiye tāḻvaṟacce-

⟨19⟩ luttakkaṭavatāka upaiyaṅkoṇṭom muppatu vaṭṭattil kāṇi uṭaiya civappirāma ṇarom [|*] ippaṭikku ivai kācipaṉ uyyakkoṇṭāṉ utayapperumāṉāṉa

⟨20⟩ coḻakulavalli paṭṭaṉ eḻuttu eṉṟum meṟpaṭi kūttaṉāṉa paḻiyil pukaḻāḷapaṭṭaṉ eḻuttu eṉṟum mā•cāṉa nampi miṭṭāṉāṉa tirukkaṇṇicura paṭṭaṉ eḻuttu

⟨21⟩ eṉṟum kevutuvaṉ pollātāṉ oṟṟiyāṉa campanta paṭṭaṉ eḻuttu eṉṟum kavucikaṉ malaiyaṉ kūttaṉāṉa upaiyakulacuttapaṭṭaṉ eḻuttu eṉṟum pārattuvāci••••

⟨22⟩ t teṉṟum meṟpaṭi āṇṭukoṇṭāṉ pollātāṉā[ṉa*] ālālacuntaranampi e ḻutteṉṟum kācipaṉ tirukkuṇṭāṅkuḻi uṭaiyāṉāṉa coḻakulavallipaṭṭa ṉ āṭumaṭikaḷ eḻutteṉṟum meṟpaṭi tiruvalañcuḻi uṭaiyāṉ āṉa nāṟpatteṇṇāyira pa-

⟨23⟩ ṭṭaṉ eḻutteṉṟum ivaṉ tampi aḻakiya tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu eṉṟum iṭṭa tīṭṭiṉpaṭi kalveṭṭu iṟṟai nāḷiṉā(l) linta muppatuvaṭṭattu civappirāmaṇa rinta upaiyam immutalukku eṅkaḷāl naṭatta oṇṇātu eṉṟu co[l*]lukaiyāl inta milaiyaṅ kiḻāṉ

⟨24⟩ apimāṉatuṅka pallavaraiyar eṅkaḷukku eṟṟiviṭṭa nilamāvatu inta irājarājavatikku meṟku iccantikku viṭṭa nilam iraṇṭu māvukku meṟku ivar kāṇiyāṉa nilattu iṉ ṉāyaṉārkku tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka iraṇṭu mā nilam viṭṭu itukku pratikṣētram viṭṭa iṉṉāyaṉār tirumaṭai- ⟨Page 57⟩

⟨25⟩ viḷākattu kiḻaiccaṉṉati teruvil vaṭaciṟakil vāṉiḷattukku vaṭakku vaṭakkil tiruṉiti [yi]l teṉciṟakil vāṉiḷattukku teṟku melai orucciṟakiṉ vāṉiḷa[t]tukku [ki]ḻakku naṭuuṭpaṭṭa nilam oṭaiyum kuḷamum āyattāṅkaḻiyāyk kiṭanta iṭattu neṭu neṭu neṟṟip paṭa tirutti eṅkaḷukku viṭṭa

⟨26⟩ nilam orumā iṉṉilam orumāvum iccantikku muṉpu viṭṭa nilam muṉṟumāvum āka nilam nālumā iṉṉilam nālumāvum ippaṭi iṟaiiliyāka koṇṭu iccanti upaiyam taṭṭupaṭāmal cantirātittavaraiyum celutta kaṭavatāka cammatittu tiṭṭukkuṭuttom muppatu vaṭṭattu civappirāmaṇarom itu māheśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0172⟩ No. 172. (A.R. No. 152 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kulō[ttuṅga] [III ?]. Year lost.

The details of date available in the inscription are ba. 13, Thursday, Aviṭṭam which are insufficient to calculate the equivalent.

It mentions a gift of land to god Tirunāgīśvaramuḍai[ya Nāyaṉār] of Tiruppālaipandal on the southern bank of the river Peṇṇai by Kiḷiyūr Malaiyamāṉ Sūriyadēvaṉ Ni[la]ē[ṟṟa] Perumāḷ Edirigaṇāyaṉ alias Śōḻaṅ[ga]adēvan.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tribhu[va*]nacakravattikaḷ śrīkule••••••••• ••••••••• aparapakṣattu trayōdaśiyum viyāḻakkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa aviṭṭattu nāḷ peṇṇait teṉkaraikkiḻ koṇṭanāṭṭut tiruppālaipantal

⟨2⟩ uṭaiyār tirunāgīśvara muṭai••••••••• kiḷiyūr malaiyamāṉ cūriyatevaṉ ni[la] e[ṟṟa] perumāḷ etirkaṇāyanāṉa coḻaṅkatevaneṉ innāyanāṟku nāṉ paḻante vatāṉa(na)-

⟨3⟩ m añcuveli nikki itan ka•••••••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0173⟩ No. 173. (A.R. No. 153 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west base of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga Year lost.

The portion of this inscription containing the date is damaged. On palæographic grounds it may be assigned to the 12th century A.D. It records the gift of 100 kāśu for a sandhi lamp for god Tiruṉāgīśu[ra*]muḍaiya Nāyanār by Maṇḍaiāḻvān Pottimeṉkō[ṉ] Āṇḍāṉ in expiation of a sin committed by him (details lost).

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] [tri*]bhuvanaccakkaravattikaḷ siri kulottuṅkacoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu•• [va]tu e[ṅ*]kaḷur ko[yi]l cevi[c]-

⟨2⟩ ca maṇṭaiāḻvān pottimeṉko[ṉ] āṇ(ṭa)ṭāṉṉen•kaḷ pe•••• m paṇit tan pāvam tira tiruṉākicu[ra*]muṭaiya ṉāyanā[r]

⟨3⟩ koyi[li*]l vaitta cantiviḷakku onṟukku ikko[yi*][lil] civappir[ā*]maṇar kai[k*] koṇṭa kācu 100[kku]••••ttavarai erikka kaṭavom [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0174⟩ No. 174. (A.R. No. 154 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the central shrine in the Madyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga. Year 11.

The inscription may palæographically be assigned to the 12th century A.D. It records the construction of a gateway, two steps and a door in the ardhamaṇḍapa of the temple of Tirunāgīśuram-uḍaiya Nāyaṉār by Tiruchchiṟṟambala-kōṉ, son of manṟāḍi Kaṟaḍi Ūraṉ. ⟨Page 58⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] [tri*]bhuvanacakka[ra*]vattikaḷ sirikulo[t*]tiṅ[ka*] coḻatevaṟkku yāṇṭu 11 [va*]tu tiruṉākicuramuṭaiya ṉāyaṉā[r*]kku tiruattama[ṇ*]ṭakattil tirunilaikāl

⟨2⟩ lum paṭi iraṇṭum tirukatavum cevi[t*]tān maṉṟāṭi kaṟaṭi uran makan celvaṉāṉa tiruciṟ [ṟa]m[pa*]la koṉ cetam itu itti-

⟨3⟩ ruaṇuk[ka*]n kī[ḻ]vācalāl vattanam aṭaṅ[ka*]lāka caita••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0175⟩ No. 175. (A.R. No. 155 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III. Year 37: 1214-15 A.D.

This inscription of Tribhuvanavīradēva records the tax-free gift of land in Meyyūr, as [sarva]mānya after remitting all taxes to god Tirunāgīśuramuḍaiya Nāyaṉār of Tirup pālaippandal.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tiripuvaṉavīratevaṟku yāṇṭu 30eḻā[va*]tu tiruppālai-

⟨2⟩ ppantal uṭaiyār tiruṉākiśvaramuṭaiya nāyaṉār[k*]ku meyyūrile aṉai-

⟨3⟩ ttāyamu miḻicci [ci]va 1 māniya iṟaiyiliyāka viṭṭa 3ña[|*] itu paṉmākeśvara[ra*]kṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0176⟩ No. 176. (A.R. No. 156 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Rājarāja III. Year 11: 1226-27 A.D.

Poṉparappiṉaperumāḷ, in whose reign the inscription is dated, is probably identical with Rājarāja III (cf., S.I.I., Vol. VIII, No. 80).

It records the construction of a shrine for Taṇḍēśurappiḷḷaiyār and the setting up of the images of Iḷaiya Piḷḷaiyār and his two consorts (Nāchchimār) in the temple of Tirunāgīśuram-uḍaiya Nāyaṉār of Tiruppālaippandal, by Śeṉai Ā[ṭ*]koṇḍār Nāthaṉ Tiruñānasambandaveḷḷāṉ of Māṉamarudu.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] poṉparappiṉaperumāḷukku iyāṇṭu 11- vatu tiruppālaipaṉtal u[ṭai]yā

⟨2⟩ r tirunākicuramuṭaiya nāyaṉā[r*]kku taṇṭecurappiḷḷaiyār koyil ceytā[ṉ] nā[ḷaṉatalla]

⟨3⟩ kuṭi m[ā]ṉamarutuṭaiyāṉ ceṉai ākkoṇṭā[r*] nātaṉ tirunānacampanta ve-

⟨4⟩ ḷḷān taṉmam iḷaiya piḷḷaiyārum nāccimār iruvaraiyum eḻuṉtaruḷivi-

⟨5⟩ ttāṉ [|*] itu paṉmāyecura iraṣkai 2[||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0177⟩ No. 177. (A.R. No. 157 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

This incomplete inscription which is in Tamil verse is in praise of Magadēśaṉ the well-known Bāṇa chief. His natal star is stated to be Uttirāḍam. ⟨Page 59⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tāru muṭiyu muracun tamakkuriya pāru muṭaṉp[e]ṟuvar pārventar virap perum[ā]-

⟨2⟩ ḷ makatecaṉ pereḻutit tattan tirumārpil āḷolai ceytu + vaṉ maturai viṭṭe-

⟨3⟩ kaṭalāṉa māl vaḻuti teṉ maturai viṭṭiṉṟu teṉ kaṭalāṉ naṉnutalāy ma[l]-

⟨4⟩ lār toḷ mākatar komāṉ muṉintāl maṉṉavaruk kellāṅ kaṭalo viṭam [||*]

⟨5⟩ āḻantarukaṭal vaiy[y*]ttara[cu] celuttiya ceṅkolaracellām veḻan[ta]-

⟨6⟩ rukoṭai vāṇativākaraṉ viti muṟai ceyvatu mey kaṇṭīr īḻantiṟaiyiṭum••••

⟨7⟩ k[k]eppaṭi yiṭumiṉ teṉṉa riṭīrākiṟ coḻaṉ tiṟaiyiṭu miyāṉaik kuṅkaḷai iṭu[me]-

⟨8⟩ ṉṟiru mitu coṉṉome |—pāroṅku koṟṟak kuṭaivāṇaṉ palapuravit ter[oṉ]

⟨9⟩ tiru vuttirāṭanāḷ peruvamai kuṉṟeṭāmāli yāṉaik ko ventar viṟṟiruppa ni 1 •••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0178⟩ No. 178. (A.R. No. 158 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Rājarāja III. Year 2: 1217 A.D.

This inscription registers an agreement (ubhayattīṭṭu) given to Vīrāṇam-uḍaiyāṉ Udaiyaṉ Tiruk[ka]ttuṟaiyuḍaiyān alias Alaṅgārappiriyan, the [ū]ṛkaṇakku of Peṇṇāgaḍam by three śivabrāhmaṇas who were in the enjoyment of kāṇi in the temple of god Tirunāgīśvaram-uḍaiya Nāyaṉār of Tiruppālaippandal to supply the necessary articles (specified) for the worship of the god on śivarātri day in the month of Māśi with the interest on the 300 kāśu received from the former in the month of Pūraṭṭādi of the year.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] upayattiṭṭuppaṭi [|*] tribhuvaṉaccakravattikaḷ śrīirājarāja-

⟨2⟩ tevaṟku yāṇṭu 2- vatu tiruppālaippaṉtaluṭaiyār tirunākiśvaramu-

⟨3⟩ ṭaiya nāyaṉār koyil kāṇi uṭaiya civappirāmaṇa[ri]l kāśya[pa]ṉ tillai nāyakaṉ

⟨4⟩ celvaṉāṉa cittirameḻipaṭṭaṉ uḷḷiṭṭāru malaiyaṉ tevaṉāna nitta kaliyā[ṇa]-

⟨5⟩ nampiyuḷḷiṭṭārum āḷavantāṉ viṉaiyai veṉṟāṉāṉa poṟkoil nampi yuḷḷi-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭāru mivaṉaivom peṇṇākaṭattu [ū]ṟkaṇak[ka]n virāṇmuṭaiyāṉ utaiyaṉ tiruk[ka]-

⟨7⟩ tuṟaiyuṭaiyān alaṅkārapiriyanukku nāṅkaḷ upaiyattiṭṭuk kuṭutta paricāva-

⟨8⟩ tu ivaṉ pakkal ivvāṇṭaip puraṭ[ṭ]āti mātattu kaikkoṇṭa kācu muṉṉūṟṟi[ṉā*]l

⟨9⟩ palicaikku celavāka iṉṉāyaṉārkku mācimātañ civarāttiraip paṭikku aḷakku () •-

⟨10⟩ 4 ḷa nta ta 6 kaṟi ayala uppu nta miḷaku nta eḷ teṉ ney gha

⟨11⟩ pāl 5patayir 3 karuppukaṭṭi kalnelli muḷinta ma[ñ]caḷ ula tirumeṟpūccu u[la]

⟨12⟩ pa•mu pākku 40 paṟṟu 1 tiruviḷakku eṇṇai 3pa•• vaḷai tiruvardha ••ttā••

⟨13⟩ makaḷ komaya 4 komuttira 6 ippaṭiyāl vanta••••• [kk]oyil kaṇkāṇi ceyv[ā]rka-

⟨14⟩ ḷuk keṟi aḷaṉtu civarā[t*]tirai pūcai celuttavum i kācu muṉ[ṉūṟ]ṟil po-

⟨15⟩ licaiyāle āṇṭu toṟum ittaṉma[m*] cantirātittavarai celvatākavum i[ppaṭi] ca[m*] matittu

⟨16⟩ upaiyattiṭṭuk kuṭuttom icivappirāmaṇaro menṟu ikkoyiṟ kāṇiyuṭaiya civappirā-

⟨17⟩ maṇa raṉaivarum eḻuttiṭṭu ittāṉattāru meleḻuttiṭṭatu [|*] ittaṉmam panmāhe-

⟨18⟩ śvara rakṣai ௳ ⟨Page 60⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0179⟩ No. 179. (A.R. No. 159 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kampaṇa Uḍaiyar. Ś. 1291, Saumya: 1369 A.D. Kampaṇa Uḍaiyar is stated to be the son of Vīra Bokkaṇa Uḍaiyar. The details of date given, viz., Śaka 1291, Saumya, Tulā śu. 13, Sunday, Uttiraṭṭādi correspond to 1369 A.D., October 14, Sunday, the nakshatra Uttiraṭṭādi having ended at 92, the previous day.

This inscription records the remission of the levy of nāṭṭu-viṉiyōgam on the kāṉi land, Vīrapālaṉēndal in Araivariśaippaṟṟu belonging to Nāyaṉār Peṇṇorubāga-mudaliyār of Maruttūr, by the Nāṭṭār in Vaḍagarai in Magadai-maṇḍalam.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] śrīman mahāmaṇḍalēśvaran harirāja vibhāṭan bhāṣaikkut tappuvarāyā kaṇṭaṉ catuḥ[samu*]-

⟨2⟩ drādhipati śrīvirapokkaṇa uṭaiyar kumārar kampaṇa uṭaiyar pṛthivirājyam paṇṇi aruḷāni-

⟨3⟩ ṉṟa śakābdam 1291 ṉ mel cellā niṉṟa saumya varuṣattu tulānāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu

⟨4⟩ trayōdaśiyum nāyaṟṟukkiḻa[m]aiyum peṟṟa uttiraṭṭāti nāḷ makatai maṇṭalattu vaṭakar[ai] nāṭṭavar

⟨5⟩ kkaṭava maruttūruṭaiyāṉ mutaliy[ā*]r nāyaṉār peṇṇorupāka mutaliyāṟku tammuṭaiya kā-

⟨6⟩ ṇi āṭci yarai varicaippaṟṟu virapālaṉental candrādityavaraiyum nāṭṭu viṉiyoga-

⟨7⟩ m kaḻittu viṭṭa aḷavukku ippaṭikku tiruppālaippantal uṭaiyār tirunāgīśvara muṭaiya nāya[ṉār*]

⟨8⟩ koyilil tirukkaṟṟaḷaiyile kalveṭṭikkoḷḷavum meṟpaṭi nāṭṭār paṇiyāl periyanāṭṭu veḷaṉ

⟨9⟩ eḻuttu ௳

⟨SIIv17p0i0180⟩ No. 180. (A.R. No. 160 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III. Year [20]: 1197-98 A.D.

The donor figuring in this inscription is Puṇṇiyavāṭṭi, the mother of Āṟagaḷūruḍaiya Poṉparappiṉāṉ Rājarājadēvaṉ alias Magadēśaṉ, the well-known Bāṇa chief of Magadai-maṇḍalam.

It records a gift of income from taxes, including āyam, antarāyam, pāḍikāval, taṟi-iṟai, and śekkiṟaippāṭṭam on wet and dry lands in the village of Tiruppālaippandal to god Tirunāgīśuram-uḍaiya Nāyaṉār of the place, by the donor, mentioned above.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tribhu[va*]naccakkaravattikaḷ śrīkulottuṅkacoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu [20] vatu peṇṇait teṉkarai vāṇaka[ppāṭi nā]ṭṭut tiruppālaippantal•• ṭikkaḻi koṇṭanal luṭaiyār tirunākicuramuṭaiya nāyaṉārkku āṟaka[ḷu]ruṭaiya poṉ parappiṉāṉ irājarājatevaṉāṉa makate-

⟨2⟩ (ta)caṉ tāyār puṇṇiyavāṭṭiyeṉ iṉṉāyaṉār tevatāṉam ivū[r*] ṉāṉkellaiyil nañcai puncey uḷpaṭa••••••••• cūriyaruḷḷata[ṉai] varicaiyi[ṇ]ṇum pūmiyum••••••••• m āyam antarāyam pāṭikāval taṟiyiṟai cek[ki*]ṟaippāṭṭam uḷpaṭa viṭṭeṉ itu māṟuvāṉ eḻā

⟨3⟩ narakattukkuk kiḻānarakamāvāṉ caṇṭāḷa[ṉa]ṭiyāṉ itu paṉmākecura ira[kṣai] ⟨Page 61⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0181⟩ No. 181. (A.R. No. 161 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga [III]. Year [20]: [1197-98 A.D.]

This inscription records the construction of a gateway by Dāmanallūr-uḍaiyāṉ Śavuriyāḻvāṉ, who appears to have killed a person at Iḍaiyūr, whose name is lost.

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⟨1⟩ kulottuṅka coḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu [20]vatu iṭaiyūril ciṟṟāmuruṭaiyāṉ kaṇṭa

⟨2⟩ ••••• kkuttikkoṇṭa tāmanallū[ru*]ṭaiyāṉ cavuriyā[ḻ]vāṉ ceta tirunilai

⟨3⟩ kāl 1[||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0182⟩ No. 182. (A.R. No. 162 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyassthanāthēśvara temple.

Vijaiyarājēndrachōḷa1[Rajēndra III]. Year 11: 1256-57 A.D.

This seems to record the gift of land by Aḻagiyaśōḻaṉ alias Piridigaṅgaṉ alias Valandarumperumāḷ for the spring festival in the month of Vaikāśi to god Thirunāgīśuramuḍaiya Nāyaṉār. Taṉiniṉṟuveṉṟa Sēvagapperumāḷ is also mentioned.

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⟨1⟩ ••••• tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīvicaiyarā[j*]entiracoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉṉoṉṟāvatu uṭaiyār tirunākicuramuṭaiyanāyaṉār

⟨2⟩ •••• vaṟku tiruvaikāci vayantaṉ eḻunta[ru]ḷukaikku aḻakiyacoḻaṉāṉa piritikaṅkaṉāṉa valan tarum pe[ru]māḷeṉ taṉiniṉṟuveṉṟa cevakapperumāḷ

⟨3⟩ ppaṭa viṭṭeṉ valantarum perumāḷeṉ

⟨SIIv17p0i0183⟩ No. 183. (A.R. No. 163 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kampaṇa Uḍaiyar. Ś. 1291: 1369 A.D. Kampaṇa Uḍaiyar is referred to as the son of Vīra Bokkaṇa Uḍaiyar. The details of date given viz. Śaka 1291, Saumya, Tulā śu. 11, Friday, corresponds to 1369 A.D. October 12. (See No. 179 above).

This inscription records an agreement by the Nāṭṭavar of Tiruvāyppāḍi in Magadaimaṇḍalam to conduct the 7th day festival for god Tirunāgīśvaram-uḍaiya Nāyaṉār of Tiruppālaippandal. Vaṇḍuvarāpati-samayakkaṇakkan figures as the signatory of the record.

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⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] śrīmanmahāmaṇḍalēśvaran harirājavibhāṭan bhāṣaikkut tappuvarāyarakaṇṭaṉ catussamudrādhipati śrīvīrapokkaṇa uṭaiyār kumārar kampaṇa uṭaiyar

⟨2⟩ pṛthivirājyam paṇṇi aruḷāniṉṟa śakābdam 129[1] ṉ mel cellāniṉṟa saumya varuṣattu tulānāyaṟṟu pū[rvva]pakṣattu ēkādaśiyum veḷḷikkiḻamaiyum pe••••• ⟨Page 62⟩

⟨3⟩ ••••••• pālaippantal uṭaiyār tirunākiśvaramuṭaiya nāyaṉārkku eḻāntirunāḷ makataimaṇṭalattu tiruvāyppāṭi nāṭṭavar upayam naṭattakkaṭavatākavum tiruṉāḷ naṭa•••••

⟨4⟩ ••••• kku tūṇippatakku ney kuṭukka kaṭavatākavum ippaṭikku candrādityavaraiyum cella kal veṭṭik kuṭuttom ivvaṇṭuvarāpati camayakkaṇakkan eḻuttu [|*] itu panmāheśvara rakṣai[௳]

⟨SIIv17p0i0184⟩ No. 184. (A.R. No. 164 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III. Year 11: 1198-1199 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of a gong (śekaṇḍi), weighing 52 palams by Kaḷattūruḍaiyāṉ alias Periyaṉāḷi alias Tiruchchiṟṟambala-vēḷān to god Tirunāgīśu[ra*]muḍaiyār.

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⟨1⟩ tiripuvaṉacakkaravattikaḷ [śrī]kulottuṅkacoḻateva[r*]kku yāṇṭu 21- vatu uṭaiyār tirunāki cu[ra*] muṭaiyāṟ-

⟨2⟩ kkuk kaḷattūruṭaiyāṉān periyaṉāḷiyāṉa tirucciṟṟampalaveḷā niṭṭa cekaṇṭi iṭai 52 la

⟨SIIv17p0i0185⟩ No. 185. (A.R. No. 165 of 1904.) TIRUPPĀLAPPANDAL, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the Kanakāmbikā shrine in the Madhyasthanāthēśvara temple.

Duṉmukhi.

The details of date given are Duṉmukhi, Kāttigai, 25. Palaeographically this inscription may be assigned to the 18th century.

It mentions the desolation of the paṟṟu on account of the death of Rāyar and the measures taken by the mahājaṉas and tāṉattār of the place for the god consecrated by the Mudalis of Āṟagaḷūr. This inscription is unfinished.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śubhamastu [||*] tuṉmuki varuṣam kāttikai mātam 25 [௳]

⟨2⟩ mah[ā*]caṉamum tāṉattārum āka āṟakaḷūr mutalikaḷ

⟨3⟩ eṭutta tevaṟku eṅkaḷ paṟṟu irāya[r] astamanam āṉa

⟨4⟩ pāḻāy iruntu irācciyam pāḻāy iruntu ku[ṭi]-

⟨5⟩ vāḷ eṭutta teva[t]āṉaṅkaḷai ūr ūr t[o] 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0186⟩ No. 186. (A.R. No. 166 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājēndrachōḷa I. Year 8 and 10: 1020 and 1022 A.D.

This record commences with the well-known praśasti, Tirumaṉṉi vaḷara etc., of Rājēndra Chōḷa I.

This records the gift of a plate of bell-metal to god Mūlasthānam-uḍaiya Mahādēvar in Tiruvakkarai in Tirubhuvanamahādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam, and gifts of sheep for two perpetual lamps, one to the god Tiruvuttīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Vaḻudavūr, a hamlet of Tiruvakkarai and ⟨Page 63⟩ the other to god Tiruva[ga]stīśvaram-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Oḻugaṟai, another hamlet of Tiruvakkarai, by Kumāri Kuṭṭi alias Abhimāṉamēru-chchōḻamuttaraiyaṉ, a resident of Āṟṟuppākkam, a northern hamlet of Tiruvakkarai.

The same donor made another endowment of sheep for a perpetual lamp in the 10th year of the king.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tirumaṉṉi vaḷara irunilamaṭantaiyum poṟceyaṟpāvaiyum cir-

⟨2⟩ ttaniccelviyun taṉperuntēvi[ya*]rāki iṉ[pu*]ṟa neṭutuyiluḻiyuḷiṭai tuṟai nāṭuntu-

⟨3⟩ ṭarvaṉavelip paṭar vaṉavāciyuñ cuḷḷiccūḻmatiḷk koḷḷippākkaiyum naṇṇa-

⟨4⟩ ṟ karumaraṇ 1 maṇṇaikkaṭakkamum porukaṭaliḻattaraicartamuṭiyum āṅkavar teviya roṅkeḻil mu-

⟨5⟩ ṭiyum muṉṉavaṉ pakkal te[ṉ*]ṉavaṉ vaitta cuntaramuṭiyum intiraṉāramun teṇṭiṟai īḻamaṇ

⟨6⟩ ṭalamuḻuvatum eṟipaṭaikkeraḷaṉ muṟaimaiyilc cūṭuṅ kulataṉamākiya palar pukaḻ muṭiyu-

⟨7⟩ m ceṅkatir mālaiyum caṅkatirvelait tolpaḻantivum ceruviṟcciṉavil irupattoru kā(l)

⟨8⟩ laraicukaḷai kaṭṭa paracurāmaṉ maivarum cā ntinaṟṟivaraṇ2 karuti iruttiya cempoṟṟiruttaku mu-

⟨9⟩ ṭiyu māpporu taṇṭāṟ koṇṭa kopparakecaripanmarāna śrīrājentira coḻadēvaṟkku

⟨10⟩ [yā]ṇṭu eṭṭāvatu vaṭakarai jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻa maṇṭalattu brahmadēyam śrīti-

⟨11⟩ [ribhuvana] mahādēvi [ca]turvvētimaṅkalattu tiruvakkarai śrīmulasthānamuṭaiya ma[hā] dēvaṟkku

⟨12⟩ [vaṭapiṭā]kai āṟṟuppākkattirukkum kumāri kuṭṭiyāṉa abhimāṉameruc co[ḻa]mut[ta]raiyan

⟨13⟩ iṭṭa veṇkalattaḷikai oṉṟiṉāl niṟai aṟupattu nāṟpalam vaṭapiṭākai va-

⟨14⟩ ḻutavūr tiruvuttiśvaramuṭaiya mahādēvaṟkku vaitta tirunantāviḷakku oṉṟu mivu-

⟨15⟩ rirukku maṉṟāṭi kāṭṭu[ra]ṉ araciliyum kāṭṭuraṉ kuppaiyum pāṭṭañceya[k*]kaṭavār ivarkaḷ vaca-

⟨16⟩ ttāṭu toṇṇuṟ ṟaiñcu kiḻpiṭākai oḻukaṟai tiruva[kasti]śvaramuṭaiya,

⟨17⟩ mahā[dē]vaṟkku vaitta tirunantāviḷakku oṉṟinukku āṭu toṇṇūṟṟaiñcu ivai

⟨18⟩ kaikkoṇṭu pāṭṭañ ceya[k*]kaṭavāṉ vaḻutavū rirukku maṉṟāṭi pūmi nakkaṉ ivai cāvā muvā-

⟨19⟩ p perāṭu cantrādittavaṟ niṟka meṟ[pa]ṭiyāṉ yāṇṭu 10 āvatu tiruvakkarai śrīmūlasthā na(m)mu-

⟨20⟩ ṭaiya mahādēvaṟku vaitta tirunantāviḷakkoṉṟiṉukku āṭu toṇṇūṟuṅ kai-

⟨21⟩ kkoṇṭu pāṭṭañceyya kkaṭava maṉṟāṭi tribhuvaṉamahādēviccaturvvētimaṅkalattu maṉṟā 3

⟨SIIv17p0i0187⟩ No. 187. (A.R. No. 166-A of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Sadāśivarāya. Ś. 1461 (wrong for Ś. 1465: 1543 A.D.)

This is dated Śaka 1461, Śōbhakṛit. The Śaka year cited appears to be a mistake for 1465. The epigraph stops after citing the above date.

It mentions Sadāśiva-mahārāya as the son of Vīrapratāpa Raṅgayadēva who was pleased to witness the [elephant]-hunt.

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⟨1⟩ ••••••••• [cci]ma uttara catusamudrātipati [keca]-

⟨2⟩ veṭṭai kaṇṭaruḷiya śrī vīrapratāparaṅgayadēva kumāra sadāśiva dēvamahārāyar piṟutivi

⟨3⟩ [rā]jyam paṇṇi aruḷāniṉṟa cakābdam 1461 mel cellāniṉṟa śōbhakṛt saṅvatsa 4 ⟨Page 64⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0188⟩ No. 188. (A.R. No. 167 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 12: 1129-30 A.D.

This refers to a skirmish at Māmbākkam in which Karuṇākara-chchōḻamuttaraiyan alias Śūṟṟiyadēvaṉ, younger brother of Moḻakkan Paḷḷikoṇḍāṉ alias Vikramaśōḻa Nīlagaṅgaraiyan died. In order to expiate this sin Ayyāṟan Śāttaṉ alias Rājarāja Śeṅgāṭṭu Moḻakkan is stated to have made a gift of cows for a perpetual lamp to Mūlasthānamuḍaiyār in Tribhuvanamādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Vīrāvatāra-vaḷanāḍu in Rāja rāja-vaḷanāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī vikkiramacoḻatevarkku yāṇṭu 12

⟨2⟩ panniraṇṭāvatu rājarāja vaḷanāṭṭu vīravatāra vaḷanāṭṭu śrītripuvanamātevi catu[r]-

⟨3⟩ ppetimaṅkalattu śrīmulastāṉan tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiyār koyilile ayyāṟa[n]

⟨4⟩ cāttaṉāna rājarāja ceṅkāṭṭu moḻakkanen moḻakkan paḷḷikoṇṭān vikkiramacoḻa

⟨5⟩ nīlakaṅkaraiyan tampi cūṟṟiyatevaṉāna karuṇākaraccoḻa muttaraiyan māmpākkattil pū-

⟨6⟩ calile paṭṭamaiyil ivanāl vanta pakai tirunta vaitta tirununtāviḷakku onṟu iv-

⟨7⟩ vonṟukku viṭṭa pacu muppattiraṇṭu [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0189⟩ No. 189. (A.R. No. 168 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the wall to the right side of the southern entrance into the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājakēsarivarman. Year 26.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIII, No. 317.

⟨SIIv17p0i0190⟩ No. 190. (A.R. No. 169 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the wall to the left side of the southern entrance into the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājakēsarivarman. Year 19.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIII, No. 285.

⟨SIIv17p0i0191⟩ No. 191. (A.R. No. 170 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

At the northern entrance of the first prākāra in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Parakēsarivarman. Year 10.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX, No. 240

⟨SIIv17p0i0192⟩ No. 192. (A.R. No. 171 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājēndra I. Year 11: 1022-23 A.D.

Commences with the praśasti, Tirumaṉṉi vaḷara, etc., of the king and stops aftermentioning the above date. ⟨Page 65⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] [tiru]maṉ[ṉi] vaḷara [iru]ṉila[ maṭant] aiyum po[r]ccayappāvai[yum]

⟨2⟩ cirttaṉiccelviyu[m*] taṉ peruntēviy(ā)rāki iṉpuṟa neṭi[ti]yalūḻiyu ḷiṭatu-

⟨3⟩ ṟai nāṭu ntuṭarvaṉavelip paṭarvaṉavāciyum cuḷḷi cūḻ matiṭ koḷḷippākkai-

⟨4⟩ yu[m] naṇṇakkarumuraṇ maṇṇaikkaṭakkamum porukaṭal yiḻa[t]taracar taramuṭi[yu]-

⟨5⟩ māṅkavar teviya roṅkeḻil muṭiyu muṉṉavar [pa]kkal teṉṉavaṉ vaitta cu-

⟨6⟩ ntaramuṭiyu mintira nāramum teṇṭirai īḻamaṇṭala muḻuvatu meṟipaṭaik keraḷaṉ muṟaimaiyil

⟨7⟩ cūṭum kulatanamākiya palar pukaḻ muṭiyum ceṅkatir mālaiyum caṅkatir velait tolperuṅ kāva-

⟨8⟩ ṟ pala paḻantivum ceruviṟ ciṉavi[l*] irupattorukā laraicu kaḷai kaṭṭa paracurāmaṉ mevaruñ cānti mattivaraṇ karuti iru-

⟨9⟩ [tti]ya cempoṟ ṟiruttaku muḻiyum 1 payaṅkoṭu paḻimika muyaṅkiyil mutukiṭṭoḷitta jaya ciṅka ṉa[ḷapp]eru[m*]

⟨10⟩ [puka]ḻoṭu [piṭi]yal iraṭṭapāṭi eḻaraiyilakkamum navaṉa[ti] kulapperumalaikaḷu māpporu taṇṭālk koṇ-

⟨11⟩ [ṭa] kopparakecaripanmarāṉa śrī rājentracoḷadēvaṟkku yāṇṭu 11 āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭa 2

⟨SIIv17p0i0193⟩ No. 193. (A.R. No. 172 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 5: 1122-23 A.D.

This record commences with Pūmādu puṇara, etc., the praśasti of the king.

It mentions Arumbākkiḻān Araiyan of Maṇavil in Maṇavil-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅ goṇḍachōḻa-maṇḍalam.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] pūmātu puṇarap puvimātu vaḷara nām[ātu] makuḻa 3 ceyamātu peruka tantiruppatu 4 malar manna-

⟨2⟩ var cūṭa manniya urimaiyil maṇimuṭicūṭic ceṅkol ceṉṟu ticaitoṟum vaḷaṟppa veṅkali

⟨3⟩ niṅka meyyaṟan taḻaippak kaliṅka miriyakkaṭar 5 malai naṭātti valaṅkoḷḷāḻi varaiyā-

⟨4⟩ tu naṭappa 6 irucuṭaraḷavu morukuṭainiḻaṟkiḻ 7 virasiṁhāsanattu mukkokkiḻānaṭikaḷo-

⟨5⟩ ṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya kopparakecaripanmarāṉa tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī vikkiramacoḻadēvaṟku

⟨6⟩ yāṇṭu aiñcāvatu jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattu maṇavil koṭṭattu maṇavil arum-

⟨7⟩ pākkiḻān araiyan•••••••••

⟨8⟩ tu māttu 8 •••••••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0194⟩ No. 194. (A.R. No. 173 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājēndra I. Year 19: 1030-31 A.D.

This inscription commences with Tirumaṉṉi vaḷara, the praśasti of the king. It is incomplete and damaged. ⟨Page 66⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tirumaṉ[ni]vaḷara 1 i[ru]nilamaṭantaiyum porceyappāvaiyum cir[t*]tanicelviyum taṉpe-

⟨2⟩ ru teviyarākiya i[ṉ]puṟa neṭutuya[lu]ḻ uḷ i[ṭa]tur[ai] nāṭṭum tuṭarvaṉa ve[l]li paṭarvaṉa

⟨3⟩ vāciyum cuḷḷicūḻmati[ḷ] koḷḷi[p]pākaiyum naṇṇalkarumuraṇ maṇṇai kaṭakka(m) [mum] poruka[ṭa]l iḻat[ta*]

⟨4⟩ [ra]ca taṉmuṭiyum āṅkavaṉ dēviyar oṅkeḻil muṭiyum muṉnavar pakkal teṉnavan vaitta [cu]ntaraṉ

⟨5⟩ muṭiyu [min]tiran ārammum [teṉticai] iḻḻa maṇṭalam muḻuvatum eṟipaṭai ker(ā)ḷḷaṉ muṟai-

⟨6⟩ maiyil cuṭuṅkulataṉam[ā*]kiya palar pukaḻ muṭiyum ce[ṅ]katirmālai caṅ[ka]tir ve[lai t]ol peruṅ-

⟨7⟩ kāval palapaḻantivvum ceruvi[l] ciṉavil irupa[t*]torukāl araicu kaḷai kaṭṭa paracir[ā]mmaṉ mel

⟨8⟩ varum cāntima[ṟ*]ṟiva(ma)raṇ karuti[rutti]ya cempo[ṟ*]ṟi[rut*]taku mu[ṭi]yum payaṅkoṭu paḻimika mucaṅciyil [mutukiṭṭo]-

⟨9⟩ ḷi[tta j]e[ya*]ciṅkaṉ aḷapperum pukaḻ ōṭum piṭiyi ilaṭṭapāṭi eḻḻarai ilakkammum ava netikula perumalaikaḷḷū-

⟨10⟩ m vikkirama vīrar ca[k*]kara koṭṭammum muturai[pa]ṭaval maturai maṇṭalamuṅ kāmiṭaivaḷai nāmaṇai koṇṇai-

⟨11⟩ yum veṅciṉavirar paṅca pa[ḷ*]ḷiyum pācuṭai paḻana m[ā*]cuṇi tecamum ayar[vil] vaṇkitti ātinakaravaiyiṟ cantiraṉ to-

⟨12⟩ l kulattin[ti]ratilataṉai viḷai[ya]markkaḷattuk kiḷaiyoṭum piṭittu palataṉat[t]oṭu niṟaikulataṉakkuvaiyum kiṭ-

⟨13⟩ ṭa[ru]ñceṟimuḷai oṭṭa viṣayamu pū[cu]ra ceynalkkocalain[ā*]ṭum tanmapālaṉai [ve]m[mu]ṉai aḻittu vaṇṭuṟai colai

⟨14⟩ taṇṭaputtiyum i[ra*]ṇa[cū]raṉai muraṇukat[t]ākki tikkaṉai kirtti takkaṇa il[ā*]ṭamuṅ kovitaca[n]ta māvaḻint[o]-

⟨15⟩ ṭa vaṅkāracāral kaṅk[āḷa]teyamum toṭukaḻaṟcaṅ[kai] [oṭṭa mahi]pālaṉai veñcamaviḷākat tañcuvittaruḷi oṇṭiṟa-

⟨16⟩ [l] yāṉai[yu]m peṇṭir paṇṭāramum nittiraneṭuṅkaṭal lutti[ra]lāṭamum veṟi malarttir[t]ta(tu) teṟi[pu]naṟ kaṅkaiyu[m]

⟨17⟩ alaikaṭal naṭuvu[m pa]lakala[ñ*]celu[t*]tiya caṅkir[ā*](m)mavicaiyatuṅkapaṉmaṉnākiya kiṭārat[taraya]ṉai v[ā]kai[ya]-

⟨18⟩ m porukaṭal kumpakariyoṭum akapaṭa piṭitturimaiyil piṟaki peruneti piṟakkamum āttavar nakar nakaporttoḻil v[ākaṉaṇ piranaṟapaṉai-]

⟨19⟩ llil vij[ya]tara torāṇammum [p]orttoḷi[r pa]ṉmaṇipputa[va]mu[m] kaṉmaṇikkatava mum niṟail vijaiyamutuṟai kāval villilaṅka•••••••••

⟨20⟩ [pa]ṅ[kamu] viḷaippantūṟuṭai vaḷaippa[n]tūṟum kalaittakkor pukaḻ talaittakkolamum titamāvalliṉai [māt(ā)maliṅkamum kalāmuṟi••••• [li]lāmuritecamum teṉakka[va]r poḻil m[āna]kkavāramum toṭukaṭaṟkāval kaṭumuraṭ kaṭāramum māpp[o*]ruta-

⟨21⟩ ṇṭāṟkoṇṭa kopparake[ca]ripanmarāṉa uṭaiyār śrīḷarājēntraco(ḻ)ḻatevarkku yāṇṭu 19 āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭa c[oḻamaṇṭa]lattu•••••••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0195⟩ No. 195. (A.R. No. 174 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājarāja I. Year 29: 1013-14 A.D.

This record commences with Tirumagaḷ pōla, etc., the praśasti of the king.

It records the gift of sheep for a perpetual lamp to God Śrī Mūlasthānam-uḍaiya Mahādēva in Tiruvakkarai, in Tribhuvanamahādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam by Vēḷāḷaṉ Māmbākkam-uḍaiyāṉ Śāttaṉ Alai, a resident of Pandamaṅgalam, the northern hamlet of Tiruvakkarai. ⟨Page 67⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tirumakaḷpolap perunilacce[l]viyun taṉakke urimai pūṇṭamai maṉak koḷḷa-

⟨2⟩ kkāntaḷūrccālai kalamaṟuttaruḷi veṅkai[ñ]āṭum kaṅkapāṭiyum nuḷam[pp]āṭiyum taṭikaiyāṭi-

⟨3⟩ yum kuṭamalai[nāṭu]m kollamum kaliṅkamum eṇṭicai pukaḻtara īḻamaṇṭalamum ila-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭa pāṭi eḻarai ilakkamum tiṇṭiṟal veṉṟittaṇṭāl koṇṭa taṉṉeḻil vaḷar ūḻiyūḷ-

⟨5⟩ ḷellāyāṇṭum toḻutakai viḷaṅkum yāṇṭe(y)e ceḻiyarait te[cu]koḷ śrīkovi rājarāja-

⟨6⟩ kesaripaṉmarāṉa śrī rājarājadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 29 āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇ-

⟨7⟩ ṭalattu brahmadēyam śrī tiribhuvaṉamahādēvicaturvētimaṅkalattu tiruvakkarai śrīmūla sthāna-

⟨8⟩ muṭaiya mahādēva[ṟ*]ku ivvūr vaṭapiṭākaip pantamaṅkalattirukkum veḷḷāḷaṉ māmpākka muṭaiyāṉ

⟨9⟩ [cā]ttaṉ ālai vaitta tirunantāviḷakku oṉṟiṉāl āṭu toṇṇūṟum cāvāmuvāppe-

⟨10⟩ rāṭu ivā[ṭu] toṇṇūṟum meyttu ney āṭṭak kaṭavāṉ ippantamaṅkalattirukku maṉ-

⟨11⟩ ṟāṭi pāppaṉ mātevaṉ eccilum mātevaṉ nallānum ivviruvarum idhanmam cantirāti-

⟨12⟩ ttaṉvū ṉiṟpatu idha[nma]m rakṣittāṉ śrīpātam eṉ [ta]lai melaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0196⟩ No. 196. (A.R. No. 175 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 45: 1114-15 A.D.

This inscription commences with Pugaḻmādu viḷaṅga, etc., the praśasti of the king.

It records a gift of land in Neṉmali in the western hamlet of Oḻugarai alias Kulōttuṅgāśōḻanallūr of Māttūr-nāḍu by Nādan Tulaiyādaśelvan alias Rājarājappallavaraiyaṉ the headman of Vēḷūr in Kīḻvēḷūr in Aḷa-nāḍu, in Gēyamāṇikka-vaḷanāḍu, for burning a perpetual lamp to the god at Tiruvakkarai in Māttūr-nāḍu in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻamaṇḍalam for the merit of his father, Peruntirukkōyil Nādanār.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] pukaḻmātu viḷaṅka jayamātu virumpa nilamakaḷ nilava malarmakaḷ puṇara urimai-

⟨2⟩ yiṟ ciṟanta maṇimuṭicūṭi miṉavar nilaikeṭa villavar kulaitara eṉai maṉṉava ririyaḷuṟṟuḻi-

⟨3⟩ tarat tikkaṉaittu ntan cakkara naṭātti virasiṁhāsaṉattuulakuṭaiya ḷoṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya

⟨4⟩ korājakecaripanmarāṉa cakravattikaḷ śrīkulottuṅkacoḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 45 āvatu:— coḻamaṇṭa-

⟨5⟩ lattuk keyamāṇikka vaḷanāṭṭu aḷanāṭṭuk kiḻveḷur veḷur kiḻavaṉ nātan tulaiyātacelva nāṉa

⟨6⟩ rājarājap pallavaraiyaneṉ eṅkaḷ [pi]tākkaḷ peruntirukkoyil nātanārkku nanṟāka jayaṅkoṇṭaco-

⟨7⟩ ḻamaṇṭalattu māttūr nāṭṭut tiruvakkarait tirukkaṟṟaḷi śrī mulastāṉamuṭaiya mahādēvaṟku o-

⟨8⟩ ru tirununtāviḷakkukku nāṉ viṭṭa nilamāvatu innāṭṭu oḻukaṟaiyāṉa kulottuṅkacoḻa nal[lū]-

⟨9⟩ r melpiṭākaiyil eṉ kāṇiyāṉa neṉmaliyil tenpāṟkellai veḷurkkiḻavaṉ nātantulaiyā-

⟨10⟩ ta celvanāṉa rājarājappallavaraiya nilattukku vaṭakkum melpāṟkellai meṟpaṭiyā[r] nilattukku 1 ⟨Page 68⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0197⟩ No. 197. (A.R. No. 176 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājēndra I. Year 7: 1018-19 A.D.

This inscription commences with Tirumaṉṉi-vaḷara, etc., the praśasti of Rājēndra I.

It records a gift of sheep to the god at Tiruvakkarai in Tribhuvanamahādēvichaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam, for burning a perpetual lamp by Veḷḷāḷaṉ Nandi Ēṟan, a resident of Śiraiyūr, a northern hamletof Tribhuvanamahādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tirumaṉṉivaḷara irunilamaṭantaiyum poṟcayap pāvaiyu[m] cirtta[ni]-

⟨2⟩ ccelviyun taṉ perunteviyarā[ki] iṉpuṟa neṭutuyil [iṭai]turai nāṭun tu[ṭar]vanave-

⟨3⟩ lip paṭar vanavāci[yu*]ñ cuḷḷiccūḻmatiḷ koḷḷippākkaiyu naṇṇarkkarumuraṇ ma-

⟨4⟩ ṇṇaikkaṭakkamum porukaṭa liḻattaraiyar tammuṭiyu māṅkavar teviya ro-

⟨5⟩ ṅkeḻil muṭiyu muṉṉavar pakkal tenṉavar vaitta cuntara muṭiyum i-

⟨6⟩ ntiraṉāramu[m] teṇṭirai īḻamaṇṭala muḻuvatum eṟipaṭaikkera[ḷa]-

⟨7⟩ ṉ muṟaimaiyiṟ cūṭuṅ kulataṉamākiya palar pukaḻ muṭiyum ce-

⟨8⟩ ṅkatir mālaiyum caṅkatirvelait tolp[p]eruṅkāval pala pa[ḻa]-

⟨9⟩ ntivum ceruvil ciṉavil irupattorukā laraicukaḷai kaṭṭa paracurāmaṉ

⟨10⟩ mel varuñ cāntimaṟṟi[va]raṇ karuti iruttiya cempoṟṟiruttaku muṭi[yum]

⟨11⟩ māppor taṇṭāṟ koṇṭa kopparakesaripanmarāna śrīrājentracoḻa-

⟨12⟩ tevaṟku yāṇṭu 7 āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻa maṇṭalattu brahmadēyam śrītribhuva-

⟨13⟩ ṉamah[ā*]dēviccaturvvētimaṅkalattu tiruvakkarai śrīmulasthāna muṭaiya m(ā)hadēvaṟku ivūr vaṭa-

⟨14⟩ piṭākai[ci]raiyūr irukkum veḷḷāḷa ṉanti eṟan vaitta tirununtāviḷakku oṉṟu 1 kkum vaitta ā-

⟨15⟩ ṭu to[ṇṇūṟum mey a][ṟa*]k kaikkoṇṭu pāṭṭacceluttakkaṭava[n]

⟨16⟩ maṉṟāṭi iṭaiyan

⟨17⟩ muk[kaṉeṉ itu]

⟨18⟩ ••••śvara

⟨19⟩ irakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0198⟩ No. 198. (A.R. No. 177 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājēndra I. Year 21: 1032-33 A.D.

The title of the king Pūrvadēśamum-gaṅgaiyum-kiḍāramum-koṇḍaruḷiya Para kēsari and palaeographical considerations suggest the identity of the king with Rājēndra I,

It records the gift of a Śekaṇḍigai (gong) weighing 72 palams, by Tiṇaiyaṉ Āḍavalāṉ alias••• Periyaṉ.

Text.

⟨1⟩ pūrvvadēśamum kaṅkaiyum kiṭāramum koṇ-

⟨2⟩ (ṭ)ṭa koparakecaripanmarāṉa uṭaiyā[r*] śrīrājendracoḻa teva[ṟ*]ku yāṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu 21 āvatu uṭaiyā[r*] tiruvakkarai m(ā)hāteva[r*]kku tiṇaiya-

⟨4⟩ ṉ āṭavalāṉāna ka•• ka periyaṉ iṭṭa cekaṇṭikai [ka]ṉāl [ni]ṟai

⟨5⟩ eḻupattiru pala[m*] itu cantrātitava(l)ṟ koṭṭa iṭṭatu [|*] itu śrī-

⟨6⟩ pa[nma]rahēśvararakṣai ⟨Page 69⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0199⟩ No. 199. (A.R. No. 178 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 10: 1079-80 A.D.

On grounds of palaeography, the inscription may be assigned to Kulōttuṅga I.

This records the gift of sheep by Tāmar-uḍaiyāṉ Tiruvāṟaipon, the wife of Āṟaiyan [ṉa]ḍaippori Ka[rumaṉ] alias Aḻagiyasōḻa-pPallavaraiyan, a resident of Kārāṇaik kōṭṭai in Viḻupparaiya-nāḍu in Rājēndraśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu for a sandhi lamp to the god at Tiruvakkarai, for the merit of her husband.

The name of the division, Viḻupparaiya-nāḍu, seems to suggest the origin of the name Viḻuppuram, the headquarters of the taluk.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kulo-

⟨2⟩ ttuṅkaco[ḷa]dēva-

⟨3⟩ ṟku yāṇṭu 10 āvatu

⟨4⟩ rājendracoḻa vaḷanā-

⟨5⟩ ṭṭu viḻupparaiya nāṭṭu

⟨6⟩ [ka]rāṇaik koṭṭaiyi-

⟨7⟩ lirukkum āṟaiyan-

⟨8⟩ [ṉa]ṭaippori ka[ruma]-

⟨9⟩ [ṉā]na aḻakiya coḻap-

⟨10⟩ pal[la*]varaiyanukku i-

⟨11⟩ van akamuṭaiyā-

⟨12⟩ ḷ tāmaruṭaiyān [ti]-

⟨13⟩ [ruv]āṟai pon tiruva-

⟨14⟩ [k]karai uṭaiyānukku

⟨15⟩ vaitta nicata muṭṭā[tu]-

⟨16⟩ santiviḷakku onṟu

⟨17⟩ kku āṭu 12 ivvā-

⟨18⟩ ṭu koṇṭu orā[ṭ]-

⟨19⟩ [ṭ]aikku [1]2 nā-

⟨20⟩ ḻi ney āka ikkoyi-

⟨21⟩ l kulaṅkiḻān kā[śya]-

⟨22⟩ pa gōtrattil nampi cā-

⟨23⟩ na perumānum bhāra[dv]ā-

⟨24⟩ ji gōtra[ttu]••••

⟨25⟩ māran śiva[ppirā][hmaṇa]-

⟨26⟩ [num]••••••••• [kkoyil]••••

⟨27⟩ tiṭal nā•• ira

⟨28⟩ •••• ka•••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0200⟩ No. 200. (A.R. No. 179 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 7: 1076-77 A.D.

On grounds of palaeography this inscription may be assigned to Kulōttuṅga I (1070-1120 A.D.).

It seems to record some arrangement by the Nāṭṭār in the presence of Nīlagaṅgaraiyar, made in expiation of the sin committed by mistake by Paḷḷi Uḻukkai Nāḍāḻvān for having killed Pachchai Paḷḷi by an arrow in the course of a hunting expedition led by the Nāṭṭār.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kulottuṅkacoḻadēvarkku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu [7] vatu nilakaṅkaraiyaru

⟨3⟩ ivar paṟṟil nāṭṭār veṭṭai-

⟨4⟩ kkup pona iṭattile paḷḷi uḻuk-

⟨5⟩ kai nāṭāḻvān paccai paḷḷiyaik

⟨6⟩ kaippiḻaipā[ṭe] yeyya nīlakaṅkarai-

⟨7⟩ yaru nāṭṭārumiruntu keṭṭu- 1 ⟨Page 70⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0201⟩ No. 201. (A.R. No. 180 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine on the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 3: 1120-21 A.D.

This inscription records the assignment of pāḍikāval collected from the dēvadāna lands belonging to the god at Tiruvakkarai in Māttūr-nāḍu at the rate of 2 kalam of paddy per mā of wet land and 2 kalam of varagu per mā of dry land, by Śeṅgēṇi Ammaiyappan Pāṇḍi alias Naralōkavīra-ppēraiyan of Muññuṟṟuk-kuḍippaḷḷi in Vijayarājēndra-vaḷanāḍu in Ōymā-nāḍu for the food and other offerings to the Uḍaiyār and Āḻvār at Tiruvakkarai. The amount of paddy to be transformed into rice required for every item is stated to be five units for every two units of rice.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] vikkiramacoḻadēvar-

⟨2⟩ kku yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu ō 1 ymānā-

⟨3⟩ ṭāṉa vijaiyarājēntra vaḷanāṭṭu

⟨4⟩ muñ nūṟṟukkuṭippaḷḷi ceṅkeṇi a-

⟨5⟩ mmaiyappan pāṇṭiyāna naraloka vi-

⟨6⟩ [ra]pperaiyaneṉ māttūr nāṭṭu tiru-

⟨7⟩ vakkaraiyuṭaiyār tevatāṉam nirni-

⟨8⟩ lamum punceyyum nāṟpālellaiyum pā-

⟨9⟩ ṭikāval nirnila māttā liru kala nellum

⟨10⟩ punce nila māttā lirukala varaku pāṭikāvalā-

⟨11⟩ n peṟu uṭaiyāṟku irukūṟum āḻvārk-

⟨12⟩ ku oru kūṟumāka amutuceytaruḷa āḷuṭaiyā-

⟨13⟩ ṟku mantiraponaka marici nāṉāḻiyu ntiru vartta-

⟨14⟩ yāmattukku arici nāṉāḻiyum arici kuṟuṇi-

⟨15⟩ kku añciraṇṭāka nel patakku nāṉā ḻiyum kaṟiyamu-

⟨16⟩ tukku nel munnāḻiyu ntayiramutukku nel munnāḻiyu-

⟨17⟩ n neyyamutukku nel nāṉāḻiyum aṭaikkāyamu-

⟨18⟩ tilaiyamutukku nel iru nāḻiyum ā[ka*] nāḷonṟu-

⟨19⟩ kku nel tūṇiyum āḻvārar[k*] kamutu ceytaruḷavu-

⟨20⟩ m kaṟiyamutu neyyamutu tayiramu taṭaikkā yamuti-

⟨21⟩ laiyamutukku canti onṟukku arici nānā ḻikkumāka

⟨22⟩ nel patakkum āḷuṭaiyār[k*]ku u[cci] sandhi[k]ku

⟨23⟩ mantirappo-

⟨24⟩ nakat-

⟨25⟩ tukku mu-

⟨26⟩ ••••••

⟨27⟩ [pā]••••

⟨28⟩ nā [pa]

⟨29⟩ um•••••

⟨30⟩ nti••••

⟨31⟩ tevaṟku [ca]-

⟨32⟩ nti onṟukku

⟨33⟩ arici nānā-

⟨34⟩ ḻiyum ā-

⟨35⟩ ka arici kuṟu-

⟨36⟩ ṇikku añ-

⟨37⟩ [ci]raṇṭāl

⟨38⟩ nellup-

⟨39⟩ patakku nā

⟨40⟩ nāḻiyum

⟨41⟩ āka āḷu-

⟨42⟩ ṭaiyāṟku

⟨43⟩ nāḷ oṉ-

⟨44⟩ ṟukku ne[l*]lu

⟨45⟩ tūṇippa-

⟨46⟩ takku nānā-

⟨47⟩ ḻi

⟨SIIv17p0i0202⟩ No. 202. (A.R. No. 181 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in Chandra mauḷīśvara temple.

Māṟavarmaṉ Vikramapāṇḍya III. Year 6: 1288-89A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti Samasta bhuvanēkavīra, etc., of the king and is dated on the 273rd day of the 6th year. ⟨Page 71⟩

It records a tax-free gift of land by the king to god Āḷuḍaiya Nāyaṉār at Tiruvakkarai, a taṉiyūr of Māttūr-nāḍu in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam, for a special daily service called Vikrama-Pāṇḍiyaṉ sandhi and an annual festival to be cailed Vikramapāṇḍiyaṉ tirunāḷ, both named after himself.

After the signatures of Guṇamaṅgalam-uḍaiyāṉ and Vaḻudiyadaraiyaṉ the phrase tirueḻuttu occurs, perhaps signifying royal assent.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] samastabhuvan[ai*]nakavira candrakulamaṅgalapradīpa madhurāpurīmahēndrakēraḷa kulakāḷā ntyakaradivākaracōḷavaṅśavā-

⟨2⟩ rirā[śi]bā[ḍa]bānala laṅgāpati kāḷa [kūṭa] katanakāḷakaṇṭha karṇṇā[ṭa] karikaḷabha ka[ṇṭhī]rava kṣēmāsuravidā-

⟨3⟩ raṇa narasiṅha kāṅkavaṅśa vaiśvānara jayantamaṅgalapurādhiśvara virakaṇḍakōpā[la] bhujaṅgavihagarā-

⟨4⟩ ja kādvīpuravi[ra*]cita sā[mmrā]jy[ā*]bhiṣēka gaṇapatiga[ndha*]gajakūṭapākala ba[hu]vidhavairidu[r*]ggabha[ṅ*]jana praṇatarāja [sth]ā-

⟨5⟩ panācāryya tribhuvanarājādhirāja paramēśvara śrīvikramapāṇḍyateva jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭalattu māt-

⟨6⟩ tūr nāṭṭut taṉiyūr tiruvakkarai uṭaiyār tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiya nāyaṉār koyiṟ tāṉa[t*] tārkku namperāl kaṭṭi-

⟨7⟩ ṉa vikramapāṇṭiyaṉ cantikkum vikrama pāṇṭiyaṉ tirunāḷukkum amutupaṭi cāttuppaṭi uḷḷiṭṭu veṇṭum nitta-

⟨8⟩ nimintaṅkaḷukkum tirunāmattukkāṇi iṟaiyiliyāka[k] kuṭutta kaṉṟiyappaṟṟil erppākkam nāṟ pāl ellaikkum u-

⟨9⟩ ṭppaṭṭatu aṉaittu āyavaṟkam uṭppaṭa āṟāvatu cittirai mātam mutal iṟaiyili tiru nāmattukkāṇiyāka[t] tanto-

⟨10⟩ m ippaṭikku ivvolai piṭipāṭākakkoṇṭu kalliluñ cempilum veṭṭikkoḷka ivai kuṇamaṅkala muṭai-

⟨11⟩ yāṉ eḻuttu ivai vaḻutiyataraiyaṉ eḻuttu tiru eḻuttu 1 ḷ 273 2 itu śrīmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0203⟩ No. 203. (A.R. No. 182 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 44: 1113-14 A.D.

On account of the high regnal year, palaeography and the fact that two of the Śivabrāhmaṇas mentioned in this inscription figure also in No. 206 below dated in the 3rd regnal year of Vikramaśōḻa, Kulōttuṅgaśōḻadēva of this inscription may be identified with Kulōttuṅga I (1070-1120 A.D.).

This records the gift of 65 kāśu by Vāmaṉaṉ Śrī Rāmaṉ, a resident of Irumuḍiśōḻach-chēri in Tribuhuvanamādēvi-chchaturvēdimaṅgalam for perpetual lamps, one each for the gods Āḷuḍaiyār and Āḻvār at Tiruvakkarai, one sandhi lamp for goddess Durgā, oil for oil bath on Saturdays and māsa-tirunāḻi-eṇṇai for the first two deities. Kulaṅ-giḻavan Āttirayaṉ Kuṉṟameḍuttān Tiruiḍaiyān, Kāśyapan Paṟpanāban Tiruvēṅgaḍam and Bhāradvāji Tiruvēṅgaḍañ-Chūṟai, the śivabrāhmaṇas of the temple undertook to arrange for the burning of the lamps. ⟨Page 72⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] kulottuṅkacoḻadēvaṟ[ku*] yāṇṭu nāṟpa[ttu] nālāvatu kaṅ[kai*]koṇṭacoḻa vaḷa nāṭṭu

⟨2⟩ virāvat[ā*]ravaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyam tiribhuvanamāteviccaturvēdimaṅkalattu śrīmulastānantiru vakkarai

⟨3⟩ āḷuṭaiyār koyilum ā[ḻ*][vā]r koyilum kāṇiyuṭaiya kulaṅkiḻavan āttirayaṉ kuṉ ṟameṭuttāṉ tiru

⟨4⟩ iṭaiyānum kā[ śyapa] n paṟpanāpan tiruveṅkaṭamum bhāratvāji tiruveṅkaṭañcūṟaiyum iv vaṉaivo-

⟨5⟩ m tiripuvanamāteviccatuṟvetimaṅkalattu irumuṭicoḻacceriyil irukkum vāmaṉaṉ śrīrāma-

⟨6⟩ ṉukku eṅkaḷ vaṟkattār koṇṭu kaṭava kācu 65 ikkācu aṟupattañcukku tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiyār-

⟨7⟩ kku oru tirunantā viḷakkum tiruvakkarai āḻvārkku oru tirunntā viḷakku nturīkkaiyārk koru cantiviḷakku-

⟨8⟩ m iraṇṭu teva[r*]kaḷukkum caniyeṇṇaikkāppu māsat tirunāḻiyeṇṇaiyum nikki niṉṟa-

⟨9⟩ tu ntūṇṭuvān kūliyākavum ipparicu cantirātittavaṟ ikkoyi liraṇṭuṅ kuṭamu[m*]

⟨10⟩ alakuṅkoṇṭu pukuvār ittiruviḷakku merittu ikkoyil kaikko(yi)ṇṭu tiruvārāta-

⟨11⟩ ṉai ceyvome innallāṟṟūr vāmaṉan cirāman pakkal koṇṭu kaṭavomāṉa

⟨12⟩ kācu 65 cuttamali 3 ikkācu onṟukku tiṅkaḷuḻakkāḻākkeṇṇai polivatāka po-

⟨13⟩ linta eṇṇai 29 uḻakkāḻā 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0204⟩ No. 204. (A.R. No. 183 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅgachōḷa I. Year 29: 1098-99 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti, Pugaḻmādu viḷaṅga, etc., of the king.

It records the dedication of the services of Aṅgāḍi, her daughter Pēraṅgāḍi and her descendants as dēvaraḍiyār to god Mahādēva in Tiruvakkarai by Amudan Paḷḷikoṇḍān, Amudan Veḷān and Amudan Uyyavandāṉ, the first being referred to as a veḷḷāḷa resident of Pandimaṅgalattu-ppāligaiyūr in Māttūr-nāḍu in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam. This document is endorsed by the first of the three donors who are evidently brothers on account of their patronymic Amudan. The other two of the signatories are apparently described as Rājaśikhāmaṇi-ppallavaraiyaṉ and as the Mūvēndavēḷān of Karikālaśōḻatteṉkarai-nāḍu, a member of the regiment called Mudikoṇḍaśōḻatterinda villigaḷ respectively.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] pukaḻmātu viḷaṅka jayamātu vi[ru*]mpa nilamakaḷ nilava malar makaḷ

⟨2⟩ puṇara urimaiyiṟ ciṟanta maṇimuṭi cūṭi mi[ṉava*r ni]laikeṭa villavar kulaitara vikkalar ciṅkaṇar

⟨3⟩ melkaṭal pāyattikkaṉaittum tan cakkara naṭātti virasiṅhāsanattu puvana[mu]ḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭu

⟨4⟩ viṟṟiruntaruḷiya korājakesaripanmarāṉatri[pu*]vanacakkiravattikaḷ śrī kulottuṅkacoḻadēvaṟ [ku*]yāṇ-

⟨5⟩ ṭu 29 tāvatu jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattu māttūr nā[ṭṭu]p pa[nti]maṅkalattuppara lik[ai]

⟨6⟩ ūr irukkum veḷḷāḷan māmpākkamuṭaiyān amutan paḷḷikoṇ[ṭ]ānum amutan veḷānum amu[ta]-

⟨7⟩ n uyyavantā[ṉu]m i[va]ṉaivoṅkaḷaṭiyāḷ aṅkāṭiyum ivaḷ makaḷ pe[ra]ṅkāṭiyu[m]

⟨8⟩ ivaḷ makka[ḷu]m tiruvakkaraiyuṭaiya mātevaṟku dēvaraṭiyārāka śrīhastatt[e] nirvārttukkuṭu- ⟨Page 73⟩

⟨9⟩ ttom ivvaṉaivom amutan paḷḷikoṇṭāṉen rājacikāmaṇi[p*]pa[l*]lavaraiyanen i[p*][pa]-

⟨10⟩ ṭi aṟiven muṭikoṇṭacoḻat teri[nta]villikaḷukku kūṟu karikāla coḻat tenkarai nāṭṭu muventaveḷ[ā]-

⟨11⟩ nen itu panmāhēśvararakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0205⟩ No. 205. (A.R. No. 184 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājādhirāja II. Year [3]: 1165-66 A.D.

This inscription may be assigned to Rājādhirāja II both on grounds of palæography and on account of the donor••••••••• Śambuvarāyaṉ being a later member of the family of Śambuvarāyas. Further the king bears the title Tribhuvanachakravartigaḷ which is borne only by later members of the main Chōḷa family. The year 3 is mentioned in the body of the inscription (line 8).

In lines 6 and 7 a transaction of the 12th year of śālaikalamaṟutta Rājakēsari is mentioned. This king may be identified with Rājādhirāja I.

The inscription seems to record the gift of land as dēvadāna by Muṉṉūṟṟu Śeṅgēṇi Miṇḍan Śīya••••••• Appan Śambuvarāyan of Ōymā-nāḍu. Since the inscription is built in, other details are lost.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tiripuvanaccakkarava(ra)rtti[ka*]ḷ śrī irājātirājatevaṟku iyāṇ••• ••••

⟨2⟩ [ṇ]ṭalattu ōy 1 māṉāṭṭu munṉūṟṟu ceṅkeṇi miṇṭan ciya••••••

⟨3⟩ appan campuvarā[ya]nen immaṇṭalattu ōymāṉāṭāna vijaiyara•••••

⟨4⟩ ṉā ttiruvakka[r]ai āḷuṭaiyā(r)ṟku immaṇ[ṭa*]lattu o•••••

⟨5⟩ [i]•ṉuḷ vaḷappākkattil piṟinta tevatāna brahmadēśa neṟkun[ṟi]••••

⟨6⟩ ṉṟu varukīṟa ūr cālai kalamaṟutta kovirājakecaripaṟmarā•••••

⟨7⟩ yāṇṭu 12 āvatu ipperumāḷ aruḷic ceyya nivantaṅkaṭ•••••

⟨8⟩ cellātu kiṭanta ūr irājātirāja tevaṟku munṟāvatu mutal•••••

⟨9⟩ ppāṭikāval palvari yāyamakappaṭa tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiyā(r)ṟku•••••

⟨10⟩ laiyil subrahmaṇyadēvaṟ (ma) tevatānamāka viṭṭen vanniyaṉāna ama•••••

⟨11⟩ tutaviṟamār pa [l]lavaraiyangē ṅkai iṭai kumari iṭaic ceytār pā[va]2 •••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0206⟩ No. 206. (A.R. No. 185 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 3: 1120-21 A.D.

This incomplete record mentions Kulaṅgiḻavan Paṟpanāban (Padmanābhan) Tiruvēṅgaḍam and Tiruvēṅgaḍañ-Chūṟai, the lease-holders of the temple of Mahādēvar in Tiruvakkarai in Māttūr-nāḍu and Tāḻi Di••••••• of Talaikkāviri-Mēyūr in Viḻupparaiya-nāḍu. ⟨Page 74⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] vikkiramacoḻadēvarku yāṇṭu 3

⟨2⟩ munṟāvatu māttūr nāṭṭut tiruvakkarai ma-

⟨3⟩ hādēvar koyil kāṇi uṭaiya kulaṅkiḻa-

⟨4⟩ van paṟpanāpan tiruveṅkaṭamum tiruve-

⟨5⟩ ṅkaṭañcūṟaiyum ivviruvom viḻuppa-

⟨6⟩ raiyanāṭṭu meyūr talaikkāviri meyū(r)-

⟨7⟩ ruṭaiyān tāḻi ti 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0207⟩ No. 207. (A.R. No. 186 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine of Chandra mauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I.

This inscription belongs to the reign of Kulōttuṅga I, but the date has been lost It is mentioned that the grant was made from his camp in the garden at Ambil in Kāñchi, where he had his light refreshment (śiruśōṟu).

This inscription records the grant by the king of lands and also of the income from the levies, antarāyam and āchchiyabhōgam from the villages of Tiruvakkarai, Kōraikēṇi Peruṅgēṇi and Maṭṭaikāl apparently to the deities at the Śiva temple in ‘Tiruvakkarai’. Repairs to the temple were also provided for from the above income.

The grant is stated to have been made at the instance of a person who had the title Abhimānarāman.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] cuṅkantavuttaruḷina śrīkulottuṅkacoḻatevar••••• pperumāḷ śrīkāñciyil ampil toppi(l) leḻuntaruḷi iruntu ciṟucoṟ[ṟu]•••

⟨2⟩ niṟka jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattu māttūrṉāṭṭut tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiyā[r*] koyilil piṭāra[n] a[m]palakkūttaṉaikkāṭṭi kaṅkai koṇṭān apimānarāmaṉāna [ka]••••

⟨3⟩ tevaṟku pūjaikkum tiruppaṇikkum subrahmaṇyadēvaṟkum uḷḷurppaṟṟu tevatānamāka veṇumenṟu viṇṇappañceyya tiruvāya moḻintaruḷina paricāvatu

⟨4⟩ tevatānamāka tiruvakkaraiyum ko[rai]keṇiyum peruṅkeṇiyum maṭṭaikālum [ten]pāṟ kellai kaṭiyāṟum vaṭapāṟkellai nenmali ye[ra]kkūṭai kiḻānkaraiyum melapāṟ-

⟨5⟩ kellai ponnampūṇṭik kaṇṭikkaṇavativāykkālum kiḻpāṟkel[lai] perumpākkattukkup pona kiḻakkil peruvaḻiyum innāṟpāle[l*]laikkuḷḷu[m*] a[n]ta-

⟨6⟩ rāyamum ācciyapokamum tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiy[ā*]ṟku tevatāna[mā]ka viṭṭamaikku kāṭuveṭṭi eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0208⟩ No. 208. (A.R. No. 187 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājēndrachōḷa [I]. Year 28: 1039-40 A.D.

On palæographical considerations this inscription may be assigned to the reign of Rājēndra I.

It seems to record an endowment for a perpetual lamp. It mentions Aḷayeṟi Kaṇḍilā[ma]rai. ⟨Page 75⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrīrājē[ndra]dacoḻaveṟku yāṇṭu 28 ā-

⟨2⟩ vatu śrītiripuvanamāteviccaturvvētimaṅkalattut tiruvakka•••••••

⟨3⟩ niṟai [14] pala aḷayeṟi kaṇṭilā[ma]rai [nāṉ]•••••

⟨4⟩ ccāttivaitta tirunantā viḷakku arai•••••••• 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0209⟩ No. 209. (A.R. No. 187-A of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Chandra mauḷīśvara temple.

Rājarāja I

This inscription begins with the praśasti Tirumagaḷpōla, etc., of Rājarāja I. The date portion, however, has been lost.

It seems to mention the setting up of an image for the śrībali procession by•• •••••Vaṉṉi Kuṉṟaṉ Kumāra[ṉ].

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tirumakaḷpolap perunilaic celviyuntaṉakke urimai pūṇṭamai maṉakk[oḷak] kāntaḷūrc [c]ālaikala•••••

⟨2⟩ mpapāṭiyuntaṭikaivaḻiyuṅ kuṭ(ā)malaināṭuṅ kollamuṅ kaliṅkamu meṇṭicaipukaḻ[nta] ī[ḻa] •

⟨3⟩ vaṉṉi kuṉṟaṉ kumāra[ṉen] kaṅkaikoṇ[ṭa]coḻapperi[ya]ṉāya ma•••

⟨4⟩ yak[ko]ṇṭār śrībali eḻu[n]taruḷuvi[t]ta tirumeṉi 1 m itteva[r mun] tiruvā[m]ā ••••

⟨SIIv17p0i0210⟩ No. 210. (A.R. No. 188 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa inside the first prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Vikramapāṇḍya (III ?) Year 4: 1286-87 A.D.

The characters of this inscription are of the 13th century A.D. Hence the king Perumāḷ Vikramapāṇḍya may be identified as Māṟavarmaṉ Vikramapāṉḍya (III) who ascended the throne in A.D. 1283.

It records the construction of the maṇḍapa by the Pāṇḍya queen, Ulagamuḻudumuḍaiyār.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] perumāḷ vikkirama-

⟨2⟩ pāṇṭiya tevar nampirā-

⟨3⟩ ṭṭiyār ulakamuḻutumuṭai

⟨4⟩ yār ceyvitta tirumaṇṭapam

⟨5⟩ yāṇṭu 4 ௳ ⟨Page 76⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0211⟩ No. 211. (A.R. No. 189 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west and south bases of the maṇḍapa inside the first prākāra of Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kṛishṇadēvarāya. Ś. 1437: 1515 A.D.

The details of date given, viz., Śaka 1437, Bhāva, Āḍi 9, correspond to 1515 A.D. July 8. The Śaka year quoted was current.

This inscription records the grant of 2 pieces of land to a Śaiva-maṭha presided over by Tiruvakkarai Tirukkāḷatti Pichchan MeññAṉa(MeyjñAṉa)-māmuṉi for māhēśvarapUjā, by Tirumalai NAyaka,1and the śrIbhaṇḍArattār of the temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śuvasti [||*] śrīmaṉ śrīvīrakiṣṇa[yirāyark*]ku cellāniṉṟa cakāttam 1430eṉ mel pāva[va*]ruṣam āṭimātam 9śrīmatu tirumalai-

⟨2⟩ nāya[kka]rum tiruvakka[rai] uṭaiya nayiṉār [śrīpa]ṇṭārattārum cilālekai paṇṇik kuṭuttapaṭi [ti]ru[va]kka[rai tiruk]kāḷatti[piccan]

⟨3⟩ meññāṉa māmuṉiyaḷ peril caivamaṭattukku māyēśvarapūcaikkup putuppākkam eri kiḻ• kaṭṭukkaraikku teṟku pirāyam paḷḷa uṭaippukku kiḻakku

⟨4⟩ vaṭakku ural piḷikaikku meṟku itukku uḷpaṭṭa kuṇṭil 27 24 aṭikkolāl nañcey kuḻi 2 500 koraikeṇiyil

⟨5⟩ piṟivāṉa kāṅkayaṉentalil vaṭamelai mūlaiyil ayyanār koyil tākkil 24 aṭiyil kuḻi500 āka kuḻi 1000 inta

⟨6⟩ kuḻi āyiramum intac caiva maṭattukkuc cantiṟātitta varaiyum caṟuvamāṉṉiyamāka naṭakkakkaṭa vatāka[vu]m i[tukku]

⟨7⟩ akitam paṇṇiṉavan 3

⟨SIIv17p0i0212⟩ No. 212. (A.R. No. 190 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the 1000 pillared maṇḍapa inside the second prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III. Year 2: 1179-80 A.D.

This inscription is dated in the 2nd Year of Kulōttuṅgachōḻadēva who was pleased to conquer Madurai and the crowned head of the Pāṇḍya, i.e., Kulōttuṅga III. The donor evidently belongs to the Śambuvarāya family and his title Pāṇḍināḍu-koṇḍān seems to indicate that he participated in the campaign against the Pāṇḍyas.

This records the building of a maṇḍapam, named Gaṇḍar Śūriyan-tirumaṇḍapam in the temple of god Āḷuḍaiyār at Tiruvakkarai in Māttūr-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu by Ammai Appaṉ Pāṇḍināḍu-koṇḍāṉ alias Gaṇḍar Sūriyaṉ Śambuvarāyaṉ.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tribhuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ maturaiyum pāṇṭiyaṉ muṭittalaiyuṅ k[oṇṭa] ruḷiṉa śrīkulottu

⟨2⟩ ṅka coḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 2 vatu irājarājavaḷanāṭṭu māttūr nāṭṭu uṭaiyār tiruvakkarai āḷu ṭaiyār

⟨3⟩ koyilil ittirumaṇṭapam kaṇṭar cūriyaṉ tirumaṇṭapam eṉṉum peyarā-

⟨4⟩ l ceyvittāṉ ammai appaṉ pāṇṭināṭu koṇṭānāṉ kaṇṭar cūri-

⟨5⟩ yaṉ campuvarāyaṉ [||*] ⟨Page 77⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0213⟩ No. 213. (A.R. No. 191 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the 1,000 pillared maṇḍapa inside the second prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kōpperuñjiṅga.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XII, No. 246.

⟨SIIv17p0i0214⟩ No. 214. (A.R. No. 192 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the 1,000 pillared maṇḍapa inside the second prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III Year 16: 1194 A.D.

On palæographical grounds this inscription may be assigned to the 12th century. The details of date given viz., 16th year, Kumbha 2, Pūraṭṭādi correspond to 1194 A.D., January 25, Tuesday f.d.n. ·68,

This seems to record the gift of a lamp made of brass to god Āḷuḍaiya Nāyaṉār of Tiruvakkarai in Māttūr-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻamaṇḍalam. It mentions one Puṟaiśai Poṉṉambala-kKūtta[ṉ].

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⟨1⟩ ••••••••• ṭaruḷiṉa śrī[ku]lottuṅka coḻa(co)teva[ṟku yā]ṇṭu 16 vatu kumpa nāyaṟṟu iraṇṭām tiyatiyum pūraṭṭātiyum pe[ṟṟa] nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu irājairājavaḷanāṭṭu māttūrnāṭṭu tiruvakkarai āḷḷuṭaiya nāya[ṉ]ṉārkku [pu]ṟaicai pponṉampalakkūtta••••

⟨2⟩ ttu oru palam tipa pāttiram oṉṟināl [pi]ttaḷai iṭai 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0215⟩ No. 215. (A.R. No. 193 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the 1,000 pillared maṇḍapa inside the second prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III. Year 16: 1194 A.D.

For the same reasons mentioned in No. 214 above, this inscription also may be assigned to Kulōttuṅga III. The details of date given viz., 16th year, Makara 24, ba. 9, Monday, Anusham, correspond to 1194 A.D., January 17.

This records the gift of 128 cows and 4 bulls entrusted into the hands of śivabrāhmaṇas for 4 perpetual lamps to god Āḷu[ḍai*]ya Nāyanār at Tiruvakkarai, in Māttūr-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu, by••••••••• gaśoḻa-kKāḍavarāyaṉ.

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⟨1⟩ ••••••••• [k]oṇṭaruḷiṉa śrīkulottuṅkacoḻatevaṟku iyāṇṭu 16 vatu makara nāyyaṟṟu irupattu nālān tiyatiyum tiṅkaḷ[ki]ḻamaiyum apara [pa]kṣattu navamiyum peṟṟa aḻaittunāḷ irāja irājavaḷanāṭṭu māttūrnāṭṭu tiruvakka-

⟨2⟩ ••••••••• kacoḻakkāṭavarāyaṉeṉ vaitta tirununtāviḷakku 4 ittirununtāviḷakku nālukkum viṭṭa cāvā muvāp pacu 128 iṣapam 4 ippacu nūṟṟirupatteṭṭum iṣapam nālum ippacu uṭaiyār tiruvakkarai āḷḷu[ṭai*]ya nāyanār koyiliṟ kāṇi uṭai-

⟨3⟩ ••••••••• bhāradvāji tiruvakkaraipa[ṭ]ṭanum immuvom ippacuk kaikkoṇṭu cantirātittavarai nālu tirununtāviḷakku merikk(ā)kkaṭavomāka sammatittu ubhai yaṅ kaikkoṇṭom immuvom itupaṉmāheśvararakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 78⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0216⟩ No. 216. (A.R. No. 194 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the 1,000 pillared maṇḍapa inside the second prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III. Year 16: 1193-94 A.D.

On palæographical grounds and on account of the donor Ammai Appaṉ Pāṇḍināḍukōṇḍāṉ Gaṇḍar Sūriyaṉ Śambuvarāyaṉ who is known to have been a feudatory of both Rājādhirāja II and Kulōttuṅga III (vide No. 212 above and No. 217 below), this record may be assigned to Kulōttuṅga III.

This records the gift of two five-faceted lamps with stands including iron chains to god Āḷuḍaiyār of Tiruvakkarai by Ammai Appaṉ Pāṇḍi-nāḍu-koṇḍāṉ Gaṇḍar Sūriyaṉ Śambuvarāyaṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tiripuvaṉaccakkaravarttikaḷ kulottuṅkacoḻadēvaṟku yāṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭu 16 vatu uṭaiyār tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiyārkku ammai appaṉ pā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭi nāṭu koṇṭāṉāṉa kaṇṭar cūriyaṉ campuvarāyaṉ ceyvittu iṭṭa

⟨4⟩ aiñcu nilaikkutti viḷakku 2 ṉāl iruppu nārācam uṭpaṭa tarā eṭai āyirattu-

⟨5⟩ nūṟṟu eṇpattu irupalam [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0217⟩ No. 217. (A.R. No. 195 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the right side of the gōpura of the first prākāra of Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājādhirāja II. Year 7: 1169-70 A.D.

This inscription records the building of the gōpura to be named Gaṇḍar Sūriyaṉtiruggōpuram by Ammai Appaṉ Pāṇḍināḍu-koṇḍāṉ alias Gaṇḍar Sūriyaṉ Śambuvarāyaṉ. The same donor built in the 2nd year of Kulōttuṅga a maṇḍapa named after himself (No. 212 above) and made a gift of two lamps in the 16th year of the same king (No. 216 above).

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīirā-

⟨2⟩ jātirājatevaṟku yāṇṭu eḻāvatu tiruvakkarai-

⟨3⟩ āḷuṭaiyār-

⟨4⟩ koyili lit tirukkopuraṅ kaṇṭar cūriyaṉ tirukko-

⟨5⟩ purameṉṉum peyarāl ceyvittāṉ ammai

⟨6⟩ appaṉ pāṇṭi nāṭu koṇṭāṉāṉa kaṇṭar cūri-

⟨7⟩ yaṉ campuvarāyaṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0218⟩ No. 218. (A.R. No. 196 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the left side of the gōpura of the first prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Ś. 1352: 1430 A.D.

This inscription records in Tamil verse the construction of a gōpuram and tirumaṇḍapam for the god at Vakkarai by Śemmandai Gāṅgēyaṉ, the chief of Kambakkaḷiṟṟaṇṇalidūr (?). ⟨Page 79⟩

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⟨1⟩ vimpac cakara maṟṟorāyirattu muṉṉū-

⟨2⟩ ṟṟukku me laimpattiraṇṭiṉil vakkarai

⟨3⟩ yārkkaṇi kopuramuñ cempoṟṟiru-

⟨4⟩ maṇṭapamuṅ kaṇṭāṉ ceñcoṟ-

⟨5⟩ tevaracaṉ kampakkaḷiṟṟaṇṇalitūr-

⟨6⟩ maṉ cemmantai kāṅkeyaṉe u-

⟨SIIv17p0i0219⟩ No. 219. (A.R. No. 197 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the left side of the gōpura of the first prākāra of Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

This inscription also in verse and in modern characters records the renovation of gōpura and maṇḍapa by Śevva[ṉṉa]ṉ. The structures are stated to have been originally built by Gāṅgēyaṉ (vide No. 218 above).

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⟨1⟩ paṉṉākapūṣaṇa-

⟨2⟩ r vakkarai yicaṟ-

⟨3⟩ kup pattiyuṭaṉ mu-

⟨4⟩ ṉṉāḷiṟ kāṅka-

⟨5⟩ yaṉ kopurama

⟨6⟩ ṇṭapa mu[ṟṟuṅ]

⟨7⟩ kaṇṭā ṉiṉ[ṉā]-

⟨8⟩ ḷataṉaiyel-

⟨9⟩ lām navamākki-

⟨10⟩ ṉa t[e]ṅkaḷ kacci

⟨11⟩ c ciṉṉāṉ tuṇai-

⟨12⟩ vaṉaracaṉ kumāraṉa-

⟨13⟩ [ṟ]cevva[n]ṉaṉe u-

⟨SIIv17p0i0220⟩ No. 220. (A.R. No. 198 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the east base of the gōpura of the first prākāra of the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Śāḷuva Narasiṅgadēva. 1483 A.D.

The titles of Śāḷuva Narasiṅgadēva are given as Śrīman Mahāmaṇḍalīśvaraṉ mēdiṉimīśuragaṇḍa Kaṭṭāri. This inscription is dated on the 28th day in Kārttigai of Śōbhakṛit which will correspond to 1483 A.D., November 26. Narasā-Nāyaka (evidently of the Tuḷuva family) is mentioned in this record as an agent of the king.

This records an order of Narasa-Nāyaka exempting the dēvaḍiyār of god Āḷuḍaiya nayiṉār of Tiruvakkarai from the payment of kalattuṭṭi as Karaikkāṭṭu-ppaṟṟu and Śeṅgāṭṭu-ppaṟṟu were not included in Kōliyanallūr Śīmai (Tiruvakkarai was perhaps included in one of the above two paṟṟus).

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⟨1⟩ cuvatti [||*] śrīmaṉmākāmaṇṭalīcuraṉ metiṉi mīcurakaṇṭa kaṭṭāri cāḷuva cāḷuva

⟨2⟩ naraciṅkateva mākādhīrācāviṉ kāriyattukku kaṭavar naracā nāyakkar

⟨3⟩ copakiṟi varuṣam kāttikaimātam 28 tiruvakkarai āḷuṭaiya nayiṉār koyil tevaṭiyār kalattu[ṭa]ṭi-

⟨4⟩ yiṟuttu vanta mutal(na) karaikkāṭṭuppaṟṟu ceṅkāṭṭup paṟṟu koliyanallūr [ci]maiyil

⟨5⟩ illātapaṭiyāle ivarkaḷukku inta kalattuṭṭi paṇam kaḻitta aḷa[vu]kku inta kala-

⟨6⟩ ttuṭṭi paṇam cantira ātittavaraiyum koḷḷakkaṭavatu allavākavum inta kalattuṭṭi-

⟨7⟩ paṇattukku yātoruvaṉ [a]kutam paṇṇiṉavaṉ keṅkai karaiil kārāmpacuvai-

⟨8⟩ yum pirāmaṇaṉaiyum koṉṟa pāvattille poka[k*]kaṭa[va*]ṉ ākavum ⟨Page 80⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0221⟩ No. 221. (A.R. No. 199 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west base of the gōpura of the first prākāra of Chandramaulīśvara temple.

Śōbhakṛit.

This inscription engraved in late characters records the fixation of the levy on looms at 1/4 paṇam per loom and the resettlement of the weaver community after there had been a quarrel between the various communities, by Nāga Raḍḍiyār and Liṅgā Raḍḍiyār of Śri Naraśā-Paṇḍitar-nāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ cuvakiṟiti varuṣam āvaṇimātam 28 2 śrīmatu rājamanarāja śrī naracāpaṇṭitarṉāṭṭu liṅkāraṭṭiyār ṉākaraṭṭiyār mattumuṇṭāna ṉāṭṭārum kaikkoḷarc cikalattil

⟨2⟩ peṟapaṭṭu poyi ūrkkuṭi eṟāmal yiru[k]kai[yi*]l niṇṇaiyam paṇṇinatu [|*] mātam taṟi 1 kāl paṇamāka kaṭṭaḷaiyiṭṭom intapaṭikku pūmiyum ākācamum uḷḷamaṭṭu[k*] kellām varuki[ṟa]

⟨3⟩ turaikaḷ ellārum yintapaṭikku naṭa[p*]pi[k*]ka kaṭa(v)erākavum yitukku yātā moruvar tappitam paṇṇiṉāl avarkaḷ keṅkai karaiyile kārām pacuve koṇṇa toṣatti le poka[kka*]ṭa (v)erākavum

⟨4⟩ yinta eḻuttu ekāpola aṅkīṣam ū-

⟨5⟩ rkkaṇakku nallāpiḷḷai maccinaṉ aḻakappapiḷḷai eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0222⟩ No. 222. (A.R. No. 200 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the ruined Śiva shrine within the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Rājarāja I. Year 16: 1000-01 A.D.

This incomplete record commences with the praśasti, Tirumagaḷ pōla, etc., of the king. The donor Śembiyaṉ-mādēviyār is mentioned here as the queen of Gaṇḍarādittadēva and the mother of Uttamachōḷa. This queen, who, it is stated, built this temple called Śivalōkam at Tiruvakkarai in stone also figures as the builder of the temple at Tiruvārūr (vide No. 617 below).

This records the grant of the village Maṇali in Āṉmūr-nāḍu in Ōymā-nāḍu, as dēvadāṉa for god Paramasvāmigaḷ at Śivalōkam, the stone temple built by Śembiyaṉ mahādēviyār. The amount to be paid by the residents of Maṇali to the temple both in kind and in cash towards every item of provisions for worship, offerings and other connected services is given in elaborate detail.

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⟨1⟩ ||| ||| śrī svastiśrī [||*] tirumakaḷpolap perunilaccelviyun taṉa-

⟨2⟩ kke urimai pūṇṭamai maṉakkoḷak kāntaḷūrc cālai kalamaṟuttaruḷi ve-

⟨3⟩ ṅkai nāṭuṅ kaṅkapāṭiyu nuḷamppāṭi taṭikaivaḻiyum kuṭamalaināṭum-

⟨4⟩ kollamuṅ kaliṅkamum tiṇṭiṟal veṉṟit taṇṭāṟkkoṇṭu taṉṉe-

⟨5⟩ ḻil vaḷar ūḻi yellā yāṇṭun toḻutakai viḷaṅkum yāṇṭey ceḻiyarait tecukoḷ śrīkorājarāja rājakēsaripanmaṟk

⟨6⟩ ku yāṇṭu 16 āvatu śrīkaṇṭarāti[t*]ta tevar nampirāṭṭiyār śrī uttamacoḻarait tiruvayiṟu vāytta uṭaiya pirāṭṭiyār cempiyaṉ māteviyā[r]

⟨7⟩ eṭuppittaruḷiṉa śrī tiruvakkarai tirukkaṟṟaḷi civalokam(m) uṭaiya paramasvāmikaḷukku tevatāṉamāka ceyta ūr oymānāṭṭu āṉmurnāṭṭu maṇali ūrār rāja-

⟨8⟩ kēsariyā laṭṭakkaṭava pañcavāra(ṉ)ṉe[l*]lu āyirakkāṭi paḷḷip peṟu toṇṇūṟṟu a[ṟu] kāṭimukkāl yivai kāṭi kalamākkiya ⟨Page 81⟩

⟨9⟩ (ṉ)ṉellu muṉṉūṟṟu aṟupattu aiyṅkalaṉe eḻukuṟuṇi ivai tribhuvanamahādēvi poṟk kāl ṉālāyiravaṉoṭo-

⟨10⟩ kkum civalokaṉṉāṉa marakkālāl kalattuvāy aiyṅkuṟuṇi vāci eṟu ṉe[l*]lu ṉūṟ-

⟨11⟩ ṟu aiympattu yirukalaṉetūṇi āka vāciyeṟṟi civalokaṉāṉa marakkālāl

⟨12⟩ mutalāṉa ṉe[l*]lu aiñnūṟṟorupattu eḻukalaṉe irutūṇimukkuṟuṇi ivaṟṟu-

⟨13⟩ ḷ maṇaliyiṉinṟum tiruvakkaraikku eṭutta eruttu [kū]li poti oṉṟiṉāl ṉe[l]lu irukala-

⟨14⟩ ṉey tūṇi patakku eruttukkūli patakkāka ṉūṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟuṉālu erut-

⟨15⟩ tukku eruttukkūli niṅku ṉellu muppattirukalaṉetūṇi nīkki tiruvakkarai tirukkoyilukku vantu civalokaṉāṉa marakkālāl mutalāṉa ṉellu ṉāṉūṟṟeṇpat[t]aiyṅkalaṉe yeḻu kuṟuṇi meṟppaṭi tevatāṉa maṇali ūrār iṭakkaṭava kācu niṟaikkallāl poṉ onpatiṉ kaḻañceyarai

⟨16⟩ araikkāl itu araivāci yeṟṟi kācuniṟaikkallāl iṭakkaṭava tuḷai niṟaipoṉ patiṉmukkaḻañ caraiye mūṉṟu mañcāṭiyum āṟumā ippoṉ kācukallāl aḻikkavum iṉ ṉellu civaloka ṉāṉa marakkālāl ṉe[l]laṭṭavum nivaṉtam ceytapaṭi āṇṭārkku tiruamutu mūṉṟu santikkum

⟨17⟩ arici kuṟuṇi ṉānāḻiyāka ku[ṟ*]ṟu kūli uḷppaṭa aiñciraṇṭu vaṇṇattāl ṉe[l]lu mukkuṟuṇi aṟu nāḻiyum kaṟi a[mu*]tu porikkaṟi oṉṟum miḷakupoṭi oṉṟumāka kaṟi amutu iraṇṭukku māka mūṉṟu santikku ṉe[l*]lu muṉṉāḻiyum kaṟi amutu mūṉṟusantikku miḷakupoṭikku tiṅkaḷ po-

⟨18⟩ ṉ kuṉṟiyāka orāṇṭaikku poṉ āṟu mañcāṭiyum tayir amutu muṉṟu santikkum tayiramutu ṉāṭurikkuṉ ṉe[l*]lu muṉṉāḻiyum aṭaikkāyamutukku muṉṟu santikkumāka veṟu[mi]laikku ṉe[l*]lu ṉāḻiyum veṟum pākku mūṉṟu santikku patinañcukku tiṅkaḷ poṉ kuṉṟiyāka orāṇṭaikku kācu kallāl poṉ

⟨19⟩ āṟu mañcāṭiyum śrīpali eḻuttaruḷa irāvaikku pali aricikku ṉellu uriyum tiru vārātiṉai ceyum ṉampikku nicati ṉellukkuṟuṇi eḻuṉāḻi ā[ṇ]ṭu varai kappaṭattukku kācu kallāl poṉ araikkaḻañcum tiruuṇṇāḻiyyai pariyārañceyu māṇiyaḷ iruvarkku ṉellu nicataṅ kuṟuṇi nāṉāḻiyum

⟨20⟩ uvaccakaḷ talaippaṟai koṭṭuvāṉ oruvaṉukku kuṟuṇi uṭppaṭa uvaccakaḷ ṉāl-

⟨21⟩ var[k*]ku nicata nellu mukkuṟuṇi irunāḻiyum tiruppatiyam pāṭuvār iruvar[k*]ku nicata-

⟨22⟩ ne[l*]lu patakkum āṇṭuvarai kappaṭattukku kācu kallālp poṉ kaḻañcum tirunaṉ-

⟨23⟩ tavāṉañcetu tiruppaḷḷittāmamum paṟippāṉukku nicata ṉellu kuṟuṇiyum āṇṭu-

⟨24⟩ varai kappaṭattukku kācu kallāl pon oṉpatiṉ mañcāṭiyum tirualakum tirumeḻu-

⟨25⟩ kkum iṭṭu tiruppaḷḷittāmam toṭuppāḷukku nicata ṉellu muṉṉāḻiyum āṇṭu varai-

⟨26⟩ kappaṭattukku poṉ kācu kallāl ṉālu mañcāṭiyum śrīkāriyañceyvārkkuṉ ṉe[l*]lu

⟨27⟩ kuṟuṇiyum saṅkrāntikaḷum maṟṟum snapa[ naṅ] kaḷum kalacaṅkaḷum maṟṟuñ cālka-

⟨28⟩ ḷum kuṭaṅkaḷum peruntiruvamutukku pāṉaikaḷum caṭṭikaḷum tīrumuḷaikkup pālikai-

⟨29⟩ kaḷum iṭuṅ kucavaṉukku nicatanṉellu munṉāḻiyum tirupparicaṭṭaṅkaḷ uṭppaṭa

⟨30⟩ maṟṟum paricaṭṭakamuva veṇṭuvaṉakamuvum 1 paricaṭṭaṅkoḷḷikku nicatan ṉellu ṉāḻiyum āka

⟨31⟩ oru ṉāḷaikku ṉe[l]lu kalaṉe tūṇi oruṉāḻiyuriyāka orāṇṭaikkumāka ṉe[l*]lu ṉā ṉūṟṟeṇpa-

⟨32⟩ ttaiṅkalaṉe eḻukuṟuṇi ṉāṉāḻiṉe[l*]lu ṉe[r] āka miḷakukkum veṟuṅkāykkum nivantaṅ

⟨33⟩ kaṭavārkku kācu kallāl cilavāṉa poṉ iru kaḻañce mukkālum tirumeyppūccu cantaṉat tukku

⟨34⟩ tiṅkaḷ [poṉ] mañcāṭiyāka orāṇṭaikku poṉ kācu kallāl araik kaḻañceyiraṇṭu mañcāṭi yum

⟨35⟩ citārikku tiṅkaḷ poṉ kuṉṟiyāka orāṇṭaikku kācu kallāl po[ṉ*] ṉāṟu mañcāṭiyum nontā viḷak-

⟨36⟩ konṟukku nicata ney uḻakkum tiruvamutukku muṉṟu santikkum ney uḻakkāḻākkum santi-

⟨37⟩ viḷakkup patiṉṉeṭṭukku ṉey uḻakkāḻākkum mūṉṟu santikku śrī palikku cuṟṟu viḷakkukku āḻākku māka

⟨38⟩ nicata ṉey ṉāḻi āḻākkukku orāṇṭaikku kācu kallāl poṉ aṟu kaḻañcaraiye ṉālu mañ cāṭiyum tirupparicaṭṭat- ⟨Page 82⟩

⟨39⟩ tukkum tirunamanikaikkum uttariyattukkum jalapavi[t*]tirattukku ōrāṇṭukku kācu kallāl poṉ kaḻañce-

⟨40⟩ iraṇṭu mañcāṭiyum uttaramayaṉamum dakṣaṇamayanamum appiyya viṣuvum cittirai viṣuvu maṟṟu-

⟨41⟩ m iṭukkuvitta grāṇa muṇṭākilum snapaṉa[ñ*] cetaruḷa peruntiruvamutukku uḷapa paṭa snapanattāl kācu ka-

⟨42⟩ llāl poṉ oṉpatu mañcāṭiyāka snapana añciṉukku poṉ iru kaḻañce kālum āka kācu kallāl 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0223⟩ No. 223. (A.R. No. 201 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south base of the Varadarāja Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 27: 1096-97 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti, Pugaḻmādu viḷaṅga, etc., of the king.

This seems to record some gift made by Kuḍippaḷḷi Śēndan Nāgan alias Rājēndra śōḻa Viḻuppādirāśan of Poygaipākkam, in Paṉaiyūr-nāḍu in Rājēndraśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu for the merit of his younger brother Śēndan Kārāṇai alias Kiḍārattaraiyaṉ. Other details are lost as the inscription is incomplete.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] pukaḻmātu viḷaṅka cayamātu virumpa nilamakaḷ vaḷara malarmakaḷ puṇara urimaiyiṟ ciṟanta maṇimuṭi cūṭi minavar nilaikeṭa villavar kulaitara likkalan ciṅkaṇan mel kaṭal pāyat tikkanaittum

⟨2⟩ tan ca[k*]kara naṭ[ātti] virasinhāsanattu pu[va*]na muḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya kōrājakēsaripanmarāna tiripuvaṉaccakkaravatti śrīkulottuṅka[c]oḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 27 āvatu rājēntracoḻa vaḷanāṭṭup paṉaiyūr nāṭṭup poykaipākkattuk-

⟨3⟩ kuṭippaḷḷi centanākanāna rājēntracoḻa viḻuppātirācanen en tampi centan kārāṇaiyāna kiṭārattaraiyaṉaiye-••••••••• ttam[ai]yil avanukkāka jayaṅke••••• ma••••• 2

⟨SIIv17p0i0224⟩ No. 224. (A.R. No. 202 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west base of the Varadarāja Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 41 : 1110-11 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 3 sheep for a sandhi lamp for god Tiruvakkarai Ālvār by a shepherd (maṉṟāḍi) Śelvan Vaḍugan.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [śrī*] kulottuṅkacoḻatevarkku yāṇṭu 41 āvatu tiruvakkarai āḻvārkku

⟨2⟩ santi viḷakku[kku*] uṭalāka i[śrī] koyil kulaṅ kiḻavan tirunāvuṭaiyān pakkal maṉṟāṭi

⟨3⟩ [c]elvan vaṭukan viṭṭa āṭu 3||

⟨SIIv17p0i0225⟩ No. 225. (A.R. No. 203 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west base of the Varadarāja Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 41: 1120-21 A.D.

This inscription seems to record a gift similar to the one recorded in No. 224 above, by Aḻagaṉ, a shepherd. ⟨Page 83⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] śrīkulo[t]tuṅkacoḻadēvaṟkku yāṇṭu 41 āvatu tiru[va]kkarai yāḻvā ṉukku-

⟨2⟩ santiviḷakku[kku*] uṭalāka maṉṟāṭi aḻakaṉ ikkoyil kāṇi uṭaiya kulaṅkiḻavan āttiraiyaṉ tirunāṭuṭaiyān pa 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0226⟩ No. 226. (A.R. No. 204 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the Varadarāja Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I. Year 3[0]: 1099-1100 A.D.

This epigraph commences with the praśasti, Pūmādu viḷaṅga, etc., of the king.

This mentions Śeṅgāṭṭu Moḻakkan alias Marudāntakapperiyaraiyan, the kuḍippaḷḷi of Vaḷḷaippākkam, in the eastern hamlet of [Tri]bhuvaṉamahādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam and Marudagaṇḍaṉ Marudānta•••••••••, the kuḍippaḷḷi of Veḷuṅgambāḍi of Paṉaiyūr-nāḍu. Other details are lost as the inscription is incomplete.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] pūm[ā]tu viḷaṅka jayamātu virumpa nilamakaḷ nilava malar makaḷ puṇara urimaiyiṟ ciṟa[n]ta maṇimuṭi [cūṭi] minavar ni[lai]keṭa villavar kulaitara eṉai mannavar iṟiya[lu]ṟ[ṟi] ḻita[ra]t tikkaṉaittun ta[n] cakkara naṭā[t]ti vi-

⟨2⟩ jai abhiṣēkam paṇṇi vi[ra]siṁhāsa[ṉa]ttu a[va*]nimuḻutum muṭaiyāḷoṭum viṟṟi runtaruḷiya kōrājakēśaripanmarāṉa tribhu[va*]ṉaśa[kra]va[t*]tika[ḷ] śrīkulottuṅka coḻadēvaṟku yāṇ[ṭu*] 3[0] vatu jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalat-

⟨3⟩ tu [śrīma]diribhuvaṉamahādēvi śatu[rva]timaṅkalattu kiḻpiṭākai vaḷḷaippā[kka*]ttuk [ku]ṭip [pa]ḷḷi ceṅkāṭṭu mo[ḻa]kkanāṉa marutāntakapperiyaraiya[nu]kku immaṇṭa[la*]t tup paṇaiyūr nāṭṭu ve-

⟨4⟩ ḷuṅkampāṭik kuṭippaḷḷi marutakaṇṭaṉ marutānta 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0227⟩ No. 227. (A.R. No. 205 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the Varadarāja Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Adhirājēndra. Year 2: 1068-69 A.D.

This epigraph contains two portions, one in Sanskrit and the other in Tamil. The former engraved in Grantha characters records that Kōtachōḷaka Vimāna originally built of brick was now rebuilt of stone by Śēndaṉ (Jayantan) Poyakāpati. The Tamil portion which is incomplete while recording the same fact describes him as Kumāri Śēndaṉ alias Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa Viḻupparaiya-nāḍāḻvāṉ, a kuḍippaḷḷi of Poypākkam in Paṉaiyūr-nāḍu in Rājēndraśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu. (See Introḍuction).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] śrīcakrēśa paramēṣṭivimānakalgham śrīman parā-

⟨2⟩ śarasunirmmitamaṇḍapasya [|*] kō[ta]cōḷakēṣṭaka vimā-

⟨3⟩ na vidhikramēṇa śēntana pōyakāpati śilāmaya [kṛ]

⟨4⟩ ta vimānam [||*] uṭaiyār śrī atirājēntra dēvarkku yā-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭu 2 āvatu rājēṅtra coḻavaḷanāṭṭup paṉaiyūr nāṭṭu poyyā-

⟨6⟩ kkattukkuṭippaḷḷi kumāricentaṉāna jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa viḻuppa-

⟨7⟩ raiya nāṭāḻavāṉa 1 ⟨Page 84⟩

⟨SIIv17p0i0228⟩ No. 228. (A.R. No. 206 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the Varadarāja Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I

This inscription which commences with the short praśasti, Pugaḻmādu viḷaṅga etc., of Kulōttuṅga I stops abruptly after mentioning the king's titles Rājakēsarivarman alias Tribhuvanachakravarttigaḷ.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] pukaḻmātuviḷaṅka (ca)jayamātu virumpa nila-

⟨2⟩ makaḷ nilava malarmakaḷ puṇara urimaiyiṟ ciṟa[n]ta maṇi muṭi cūṭi mīnavar nilaikeṭa vi-

⟨3⟩ llavar kulaitara ēṉai mannava riritalattiḻitarat tikkaṉaittu ntan cakkara naṭātti vira-

⟨4⟩ siṁhāsanattup puvanamuḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭum vīṟṟiruntaruḷiya kovirājakēsari

⟨5⟩ pa[nma]rāna tribhuvanacakravarttikaḷ 1

⟨SIIv17p0i0229⟩ No. 229. (A.R. No. 207 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north base of the maṇḍapa in front of the Varadarāja Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Vikramachōḷa. Year 8: 1125-26 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 12 sheep for a sandhi lamp to the Āḻvār at Tiruvakkarai in Māttūr-nāḍu by Śēṭṭan (Jyēshṭhan) Tiruvāṟai, a shepherd of Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōḻapuram in Naḍuviṟ-kūṟu in Śōḻa-maṇḍalam. The sheep were made over to the care of Kulaṅgiḻavan Āttraiyan Tirunāḍuḍaiyāṉ, a lease-holder of the temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] vikkiramacoḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 8 āvatu coḻa maṇṭalattu naṭuviṟ kūṟṟu kaṅkai koṇṭacoḻapurattu maṉṟāṭi ceṭṭan tiruvāṟai jayaṅkoṇṭaco-

⟨2⟩ ḻamaṇṭalattu māttūr nāṭṭut tiruvakkarai āḻvāṟku vaitta sandhiviḷakku onṟukku viṭṭa vāṭu paṉniraṇṭu ivvāṭu 12m kaikkoṇṭen

⟨3⟩ ikkoyil kāṇi uṭaiya kulaṅkiḻavan āttrēyan tirunāṭuṭaiyā[ṉeṉ*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0230⟩ No. 230. (A.R. No. 208 of 1904.) TIRUVAKKARAI, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

At the entrance (left side) into the Varadarāja-Perumāḷ shrine in the Chandramauḷīśvara temple.

Year 24.

This inscription in Tamil verse is dated in the year 24 of the reign of an unnamed king. Palaeographically it may be assigned to the 11th century.

It records the construction of a door to the temple of Vishṇu (Māl) at Vakkarai by Kaṇḍaṉ Turuvvaikon of Maḍandai (?). ⟨Page 85⟩

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]-

⟨2⟩ icai viḷaṅ-

⟨3⟩ kuṭaiyaṉman-

⟨4⟩ eṅkoṉukku-

⟨5⟩ irupattu nālā-

⟨6⟩ māṇṭu kucai-

⟨7⟩ viḷaṅkumaṟai-

⟨8⟩ yavarkaḷ kuḻu-

⟨9⟩ miya vakkarai-

⟨10⟩ māliṉ ko-

⟨11⟩ yil cāla ti-

⟨12⟩ cai viḷaṅ[ku*] [ti]-

⟨13⟩ ruvācal p[o]-

⟨14⟩ ṟkkatavu ca-

⟨15⟩ mai[t*]tāṉ ve-

⟨16⟩ ṉ[ṟi] ticaivi-

⟨17⟩ ḷaṅku veṟ-

⟨18⟩ kkaṇṭaṉ

⟨19⟩ turuvvai-

⟨20⟩ koṉ vaḻi-

⟨21⟩ kkarici maṭa[n]-

⟨22⟩ tai kov

⟨23⟩ ve [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0231⟩ No. 231. (A.R. No. 209 of 1904.) MĒLŚĒVŪR, GINGEE TALUK, South ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Vṛishabhapurīśvara temple.

Rājādhirāja I. Year 27: 1044-45 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti, Tiṅgaḷērtaru etc., of Rājādhirāja I.

It records the gift of 96 sheep for a perpetual lamp for god Tiruttāntōṉṟi Mahādēva in Kīḻvaḻich-Chēvūr in Śiṅgapura-nāḍu in Rājēndraśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu, by Nārāyaṇaṉ Rājarājaṉ alias Kēraḷāntaka-ppallavaraiyan, the kiḻavaṉ of Vāñjiyūr and the Perun danam officer.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ tiṅkaḷerta

⟨3⟩ ru(t)eṉṟoṅkal

⟨4⟩ veṇkuṭaikki-

⟨5⟩ ḻ nilamakaḷ nilava malar[maka]-

⟨6⟩ ṭpuṇarntu ceṅkol[o]

⟨7⟩ [c]cik karuṅkali kaṭintu ma-

⟨8⟩ ṉṉupallūḻiyuḷ te-

⟨9⟩ ṉṉavar kulamakaṉ māṉā-

⟨10⟩ paraṇaṉ poṉmuṭiyā-

⟨11⟩ ṉāpparumatiṭ pacuntalai

⟨12⟩ porukaḷattarintu virakera-

⟨13⟩ ḷaṉai āṉaikkiṭuvitta-

⟨14⟩ caivil cuntara pāṇṭi-

⟨15⟩ yaṉait ticaikeṭat to-

⟨16⟩ llaiyil mullaiyūr-

⟨17⟩ tturatti olkalil veṇāṭṭarai-

⟨18⟩ caic ceṇāṭṭotukki mevupuka ḻirāmakuṭa mūvar keṭa muṉintu

⟨19⟩ velai keḻu kāntaḷūrc cālai kalamaṟuppit tāhavamallaṉumañcak-

⟨20⟩ kevutaṉ (n)[ṟā]ṅkarum paṭaiyālāṅkavaṉ ceṉaiyuṅ kaṇṭappayaṉum ka[ṅ]-

⟨21⟩ kātiraṉum vaṇṭamar kaḷiṟṟoṭu maṭiyat tiṇṭiṟal viritaru vikkiyuḷ vi-

⟨22⟩ caiyātittaṉu ntarumuraṭ caṅkamayaṉu mutali camara pīru vottuṭaiya nimir

⟨23⟩ cuṭarp ponṉoṭayṅkeri puraviyoṭum piṭittut taṉṉāṭaiyil cayaṅ

⟨24⟩ koṇṭu tuṉṉār koḷḷipp[ā]kkai uḷḷeri maṭuttu villavar mīṉavar

⟨25⟩ veñciṉac caḷukkiyar vallava[r] mutaliṉar va[ṇa]ṅka vīṟṟirunta jayaṅkoṇṭa

⟨26⟩ (koṇṭa) coḻaṉ uyartaru perumpukaṭ korājakecaripanmarāṉa uṭaiyār śrī

⟨27⟩ rājātirājadēvarkku yāṇṭu 27 āva[tu] rājentiracoḻavaḷanāṭ-

⟨28⟩ ṭuc ciṅkapuranāṭṭuk ki[ḻ]vaḻic cevūrt tiruttāntoṉṟi mahāteva- ⟨Page 86⟩

⟨29⟩ rkkup peruntanattu vāñciyūr kiḻavaṉ nārāyaṇaṉ rājarājaṉ āṉa

⟨30⟩ keraḷānta[ka]p pallavar[ai]yan vaitta tirunontā viḷakku oṉṟiṉāl

⟨31⟩ vaitta āṭu toṇṇū[ṟ]ṟāṟu ivai cāvāmuvāp perāṭu āvatākavu-

⟨32⟩ m ivvāṭu toṇṇūṟṟāṟiṉālum rājakecariyāl nicatam uḻak-

⟨33⟩ ku ney[yi]ṭa mu[ṟai]y uruttira civaṉ [ī]cāṉa śivaṉ pakka-

⟨34⟩ l aṭṭak kaṭavatāka ivai cantirāti[t]tavaṟ celum [|*] ittanma-

⟨35⟩ m panmāhēśvarar rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv17p0i0232⟩ No. 232. (A.R. No. 210 of 1904.) MĒLŚĒVŪR, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine in the Vṛishabhapurīśvara temple.

Rājarāja I. Year 26: 1010-11 A.D.

This inscription contains portions of the praśasti, Tirumagaḷ pōla etc., of Rājarāja I.

It seems to record an endowment of sheep for a perpetual lamp by a vāṇiyaṉ of Tañjāvūr. It also seems to record another endowment for a perpetual lamp.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] 1 •••• .

⟨2⟩ polap pe••••