SOUTH INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS VOLUME XXV Part 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0001⟩ No. 1.

Stone lying on the bund of the tank.

1852 A.D.

This is dated in the month of May in the year 1852 A.D.

This Telugu verse inscription records the rebuilding of the lake which was built by Gōṁpanavoḍiyalu.

It states that Nadi Varadarājaṁma got a portion of the lake being carefully rebuilt. The lake was completed with the money brought from Nēkhunāṁkhān, for the merit of the king. It mentions the names of Mahaṁmadu Agharapu Bāhubaluḍu, Engineer Major Ḍibeṭsu, Sundaramodalār, etc.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī peṁppa[nvalu]yarya gōṁpana voḍiyalu ce kaṭṭiṁpa

⟨2⟩ [kaṁ*]bhamu cervukaṭa | ka[ṭṭiṁ]panaṁ • • kā dōhiyagu na rē[ṁ*]dyu-

⟨3⟩ vāradhidyuṁccuṭayunu | na[ṁ]di varadarājaṁmma padilaṁ-

⟨4⟩ bbugā koṁtta kaṭṭiṁci kī¨rticē ghanatagāṁce | rājuku-

⟨5⟩ puṁṇyaṁbbu rānaṁtta nēkhu[nāṁ]khānuni ·aḍigi pai-

⟨6⟩ kaṁbbudecci | kaḍama gaṭṭiṁcci munupaṭi kaṭṭasamamu | ·alu-

⟨7⟩ gu kattuva gaṭṭiṁcci nalatuve[la] | peṁppa velaśillagā [kī¨rti peruga]-

⟨8⟩ sutuḍu | bhaḷi mahaṁmmadu ·agharapu bāhubaluḍū-

⟨9⟩ • va 1852 (na)nēṭi mē nelalō reṁḍō ḍivijan śivilu-

⟨10⟩ yiṁjanīru mējaru ḍibeṭsu doragāruṁnna-

⟨11⟩ • • • • • peddakāmaṇaṁ suṁddara modalāriṁnni-

⟨12⟩ • • • • • śikaṁdappāgāruṁnnu tālūkā mēsti-

⟨13⟩ • • • • • • • • • • darāriṁnni yī1 ⟨Page 2⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0002⟩ No. 2.

Stone in the Choultry in the village.

Damaged. It refers to Udayagiri-rājya and the names of individuals viz., Nāgi-nāyani and Kōsināyani.

Text.

⟨1⟩ bulagā • [·u]dayagiri rājyāsaku • • • • • • • • • •

⟨2⟩ • • • • • cā¨ryya hoṁnanāgi nāyiniku • • • • • • • • • •

⟨3⟩ ku taṁmuḍu gōsināyinki • • • • • • • • • • kōṭi-

⟨4⟩ • ṁ cēsi daṁṇayyāku kī[¨rti] • • • • • • • • • • vaṁ ṭi •

⟨5⟩ bāhmaṇa stīlaku • • • • • • • • • • gānu • •

⟨6⟩ caṁ dā¨rkka • • • • • • • • • • catu samu-

⟨7⟩ duṁnu cellagaladi • • • • • • • • • • kōṭigu-

⟨8⟩ • nakulaṁgāna • • • • • • • • • • yavvaru • •

⟨9⟩ ppinānu bāhmaṇni [ca*]ṁpina • • • • • gaṁgaka-

⟨10⟩ tagōvu caṁpina • • • • • • • • • • [dvi]guṇaṁ-

⟨11⟩ puṇyaṁ paradattānupālanaṁ • • • • • dattaṁ-

⟨12⟩ niṣphalaṁ bhavet || maṁgaḷa •

⟨SIIv25p0i0003⟩ No. 3. (A.R. No. 3 of 1908.) CUMBUM, CUMBUM TALUK, KURNOOL DISTRICT.

Another slab in the same choultry.

This inscription is dated in Śaka •••••, Chaitra, śu 2, Monday which details are insufficient for verification.

This record does not give the name of the king. Palaeographically it may be assigned to the 15th-16th century. It records the provision of grains and pepper for worship and food-offerings to god Vīrabhadradēva by the merchant guild Ubhaya-nānādēśa Ayyāvo[ḷe] •• mūlamukhyamainasamasta-pekkaṁḍru and their group when they meet at the mukha-maṇḍapa of the temple of Vīrabhadradēva at Maṭṭipeṁṭa. The grant is stated to have been made by Pāṁmayyaṁgāru, son of mahāmaṇḍalēśvara aṁtyaṁbaragaṁḍa Vallabhayyadēva-mahārāju at the request of Suṁkaṁ Mallana-pekkaṁḍru. Pekkaṁḍru Mallana is stated to have issued this. ⟨Page 3⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ [śrīgaṇā]dhipatayē namaḥ | śrī • • • • •

⟨2⟩ [ya] namaḥ | svastiśrī sakala śakavaruṣaṁbula • •

⟨3⟩ • • [sa]ṁvvatsara cayi ta śu 2 sō svasti samasta nijanāmā • • • • •

⟨4⟩ • • layina śrīgaṇēśvaradēvara gavurīśvaradēvara divyaśrī[pā] • • • • •

⟨5⟩ yina naṁdikanuma naḍaci ·akhila vubhaya nānādēśa ·āyyā[vo] • • • • •

⟨6⟩ mūla mukhyamayina samasta pekkaṁḍr¤uṁnnu vīrapparivāramuṁ[nu]

⟨7⟩ pēṁṭṭa vīrabhad¤radēvara mukhamaṁḍapamunaṁdu vaj¤ra śiṁhyāsanā rū[ḍhu]-

⟨8⟩ layi kū¨rcuṁḍi maṭṭipeṁṭa vīrabhadradēvaraku yiṁccina dha¨rṁmma śāsana vīra-

⟨9⟩ bha dadēvaraku ·amru tapaḍikiṁnni ·aṁgaraṁga vayibhavālakuṁnnu sāgiṁcina

⟨10⟩ vivaraṁ naṁdikanuma naḍaci nānādhāṁnyāla pati yeddu peṟuka 1ki ·a kā-

⟨11⟩ sulekhānu dūdi malana poṁkala peruka miriyāla perukalu vīniki

⟨12⟩ patiperuka 1ki kāsu lēkhānu ·ācaṁdā¨rkka sthāyigānu yistimi gāna

⟨13⟩ yīdhaṁ¨rmmānaku yevvaru ginaka tappinānu gaṁgakaratasu gōvu jaṁppina pāpā-

⟨14⟩ na povvāru pedda koḍukunu caṁppina pāpāna povvāru svadattā dviguṇaṁ pu-

⟨15⟩ ṇyaṁ paradattānu pālanaṁ [|*] paradattā pahārēṇa svadattuṁ niṣphalaṁ bhavēttu | maṁgaḷaṁ

⟨16⟩ mahā śrīśrīśrīśrīśrī śrī manmahāmaṁḍalēśvara ·aṁtyaṁbaragaṁḍa vallabhayyadēva ma-

⟨17⟩ hārājula kumāruṁḍu pānimayyaṁgāri ·ānatini suṁkaṁ mallana pekkaṁ-

⟨18⟩ [ḍru]nu daṁḍaṁ nedi vinnapaṁ pāliṁci yicina dha¨rmaśā-

⟨19⟩ [sana]mu ||

⟨SIIv25p0i0004⟩ No. 4. (A.R. No. 4 of 1908.) GARIKEPĀḌU-AGRAHĀRA, SATTENAPALLE TALUK, GUNTUR DISTRICT.

Circular cup of white marble in a private house.

This Brāhmī inscription, partly embossed and partly engraved may be assigned to the first century B.C., on grounds of palaeography. It seems to record that the work (koḍaṁbaṁ) of a rail (sūchilā) was of a merchant (āpaṇika) named Datta (Data). It mentions that it was his gift.

The first two letters do not form part of the inscription. They were by mistake chiselled in the wrong way. The sentence too did not convey the correct idea of the gift it runs. ⟨Page 4⟩

Dabhaka Apanikasa dānaṁ-The gift of Dabha, the merchant (āpaṇika) What follows is the correct record and runs.

Dabhasa Āpanikasa sūchikōḍabaṁ-The last word is not clear. Sūchi is the railing. The translation must be the cup which fits into the top of (the post in) the railing (a gift) of Dabha, the merchant.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ • 1 datasa āpaṇikasa dānaṁ [|*] 2 datasa āpaṇikasa 3 sūcilā koḍabaṁ 4[||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0005⟩ No. 5.

Slab lying in a mound in the Sāhebu Bazaar.

Śaka 1055: 1133 A.D.

The details of date given in the record viz., Śaka 1055, Āshāḍha ba, Monday, Dakshiṇāyana-saṅkrānti corresponds to 1133 A.D., June 26.

It records a gift made by Vāsēna, son of Prōle-nāyaka, for the merit of his father. The nature of gift is not clear.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. X, No. 92.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī śakava¨rṣaṁbulu 1055

⟨2⟩ guneṁṭi ·āṣāḍha ba[8] sōmavāramuna

⟨3⟩ dakṣiṇāya[na*] saṁkrāṁtti nimittamu-

⟨4⟩ naṁ danaruṁ ba[ḷḷi]prōlenāyaku ko-

⟨5⟩ [ḍu]ku vā[nē]na dama traṁ ḍiki dha-

⟨6⟩ ¨rmmamugā • • • • • kōṭī-

⟨7⟩ śvara dēvara • • • • • va¨rti ⟨Page 5⟩

⟨8⟩ viya • • • • • vīni

⟨9⟩ jēkoni • • • • • • • • • • pu tā

⟨10⟩ nu pau • • • • • • • • • • ḍu • •

⟨11⟩ • • • • • • • • • • 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0006⟩ No. 6.

Another slab lying on a mound in the Sāhebu Bazaar.

Śaka 1049: 1127 A.D.

This is dated Śaka 1049 which may correspond to 1127 A.D. Other details of date are not given.

It seems to record the grant of lands for the worship (havibaliarchana) and food-offerings to the deity Trikōṭīśvaradēva of Vellaṁṭūra on the occasion of Uttarāyaṇa-saṅkrānti. It mentions the sthānapati Īśānaśiva-paṇḍita who is endowed with a portion of the land.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. X, No. 85.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śakava¨rṣaṁbulu

⟨2⟩ 1049 gu śāhi ·uttarā-

⟨3⟩ yaṇa saṁkrāṁtti nimitta-

⟨4⟩ muna vellaṭūri trikōṭīśva-

⟨5⟩ ra dēvaraku havibali ·a¨rccana-

⟨6⟩ laku ma[ṭṭe] nāyaku niccina bhū-

⟨7⟩ mi kha 3 nīrumaṟtalu 2 sthāna-

⟨8⟩ pati ·īśāna sivi paṇḍituta kha 2 nī-

⟨9⟩ ri maṟtulu 1 dīni nevvarēni vilōmamu sē-

⟨10⟩ sinavāru gaṁggakaṟtaṁgavula vadhi ·icci-

⟨11⟩ na vāru bāṇarāsi vaccinavāru svada-

⟨12⟩ ttaṁ paradattaṁ jyā vihārē[ta] vasuntharā ṣaṣṭhi¨rvva¨rṣa

⟨13⟩ sahaśrāṇi [viṣṭā]yāṁ jāyatē krimi || ⟨Page 6⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0007⟩ No. 7.

On the four faces of a pillar in Sāhebu Bazaar.

Śaka 1060: 1138 A.D.

This record commences with a praśasti Samasta Guṇagaṇālaṅkāra etc., of the king. This record refers to the deity Trikōṭīśvara.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti samasta guṇagaṇālaṁkāra

⟨2⟩ vigaliḍa madakaladviṣadahaṁkāra

⟨3⟩ pa hiṁḍipālakula kulācala mi-

⟨4⟩ gēṁda catu¨rtthakulakumudinī caṁdra

⟨5⟩ ·aribirudamadadviradamadanivāraṇa

⟨6⟩ goṁka narēṁdra gandhavāraṇa tanaruṁba ṟī-

⟨7⟩ dipuravarādhīśvara samabhya¨rccita trikō-

⟨8⟩ ṭīśvara vivaraṇa raṇavinōda saṁpādi-

⟨9⟩ ta budha pamōda dipakṣavakṣasthala-

⟨10⟩ da lanabhalla gaḍigōṭamalla sujana jana-

⟨11⟩ vada vasaṁtakāṁtājayaṁta gaṁḍara-

⟨12⟩ gaṁḍa gaṁḍamā¨rttaṁḍa nāmādi sa[masta] ⟨Page 7⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0008⟩ No. 8.

On the four faces of a pillar.

Śaka 1075 = 1153 A.D.

It records a gift of sheep by Tarumbaṟiti Mārāya-nāyaka for maintaining a lamp to the god in the Trikōṭīśvara temple at Velaṁṭūru, for the merit of his father Gauri-nāyaka.

Text.

⟨1⟩ lakṣmīlīlālavālē gunemanōsaravo rāja kaṁṭhīra vā

⟨2⟩ dīvaṁśēmaṁṭhāravanīśōjani jana vinuta śrīmatāṁ parja-

⟨3⟩ yānāṁyenōtkvaṁttāri rāja dviradanaradane mabhṛ-

⟨4⟩ kairubhṛladbhidṟētte mattēbha līlāṁjaladarani karasajjī

⟨5⟩ tte¨rggarjētēśca || kurvēṁtiyasvāri pura padāha pōdṟū

⟨6⟩ ta dūmādvajadhūmalēkhādigvāmane tikucamuṁḍatē

⟨7⟩ pu kastūri kāpa talatā vilāpaṁ || ·āsī bhṛtutthābhija

⟨8⟩ nāvataṁ sōmaṭṭaḥ pabhinnāri lalāṭapaṭṭaḥ tasvātmadā

⟨9⟩ bhūdgaḍigōṭamallaḥ koṁḍassamutkhaṁḍita śa tuṣaṁḍaḥ ||

⟨10⟩ tasyabhūttanayaḥ pavardhitanayōnāvabsamitvāvaniḥ

⟨11⟩ pōlaśrī lalana karōbja madhupomaṭṭaḥ padi pōra

⟨12⟩ nautē pāṁdharmaju pāṁḍu pāṁkavamu puṣātu gēdu-

⟨13⟩ rgo bhīnatēṁpōlaḥ krūra dirōdhanāyaka maka pradhūdaithavya

⟨14⟩ dhikṣāguruḥ naruḥ vurakanya nirādhipannakasyanidniṣama

⟨15⟩ nmūlana lālasō raṇēṣu | naripaścimadēśakūṭa-

⟨16⟩ kaśvaṁ prathamōpāyana pū¨rvakaṁpralēbē ||

⟨17⟩ • • lakṣmī lakṣikavakṣasaḥ kṣiribhṛkāṁ cōḍasya cō-

⟨18⟩ ḍāmaṇēḥ krīḍakalōḍika gauḍalātalaka praschīka pāthō-

⟨19⟩ nidhi syaśyatyāga parākrama kramabaṇi ggoṁta [*] śaśā-

⟨20⟩ ṁkacchaviḥ puśraśśakrunikaṁbinī bhramarakacchēdajchi dō ⟨Page 8⟩

⟨21⟩ rāja[śē] lakṣmīṁvakṣasi bhāraśīṁca vadanē kāṁśiṁkanau

⟨22⟩ kṣmāṁ bhujē dōḥkhaḍgē jayavallabhānnavanava prītyābhi-

⟨23⟩ dhattēnikaṁ nēccharvēṣamamāṁśikasthirimiri vyāmṛśya sē-

⟨24⟩ ¨rṣyaṁla satkī¨rrtiyya svakadīyya bhīkaripubhi¨rdiśca kramākrā-

⟨25⟩ maśi || kasyamaṁdaḍi prōlasya sōda¨ryyaśśau¨rynaśāli

⟨26⟩ naḥ maṭṭassaṁpu gōdhūmaṣuraṭṭaśśiṣṭavaśyala || goṁkaṁ

⟨27⟩ mṛgāṁkaccha vimacchakī¨rrteṁkaṁ rakajakaṁṭhīravammākāriṁ

⟨28⟩ bhaktyāsamārādhya sakiṁkarōṁbhūdbhūyōḍanuṁ mānava

⟨29⟩ rāvaṇārēḥ kuṁkaṁkadīyaṁ vilayāṁśakasyadaṁkāyikaṁ śa-

⟨30⟩ śruniba¨rdaṇēṣu dhartēsahasrāṇiraṇēmukhānini¨rṣūka saṁṣu-

⟨31⟩ ka viṣuka ṣōraṁ | sōyaṁ maṭṭayanāyakaśśibaruṇaḥ pra-

⟨32⟩ tyagdharāmaṁḍalē | vikhyātē nelaṁbūra nāmanipavaredēvaṁśri-

⟨33⟩ kauṭīśvaraṁ bhaktyā sthāvya viṭaṁka kōṭipaṭalairabhraṁkaṣai¨rbhrāji-

⟨34⟩ kaṁ kasyāgāramajīkaranni jayaśō rāśi prakāśāyikaṁ ||

⟨35⟩ *svasti śakava¨rṣaṁbulu 1075 nēṁṭi ·utta

⟨36⟩ rāyaṇa saṁkrāṁtti nimittamunaṁ dana[ruṁ]-

⟨37⟩ baṟti māraya damakaṁḍrigēri nāyaku-

⟨38⟩ naku dha¨rmmā¨rrthamugā velaṁṭūri śri kōṭīśvara

⟨39⟩ dēvarakakhaṁḍava¨rtta dīpaṁbunakiccina goṟi-

⟨40⟩ ya 15 vaniṁ jēkoni sādabōyuni bīradana putra

⟨41⟩ [puvu]trika mācaṁdrā¨rkamu nitya māneṁḍuneya vō-

⟨42⟩ yaṁggalavāṁḍu ⟨Page 9⟩

Next face in Continuation.

⟨35⟩ svasti samasta guṇagaṇālaṁkāra

⟨36⟩ vi galikamadakala dviṣadahaṁkāra

⟨37⟩ pahiṁḍi pālakula kulācala mri-

⟨38⟩ gēṁdra catu¨rrthakula kumudinī caṁdra

⟨39⟩ ·aribirudamadadvirada madanivāraṇa

⟨40⟩ goṁka narēṁdra gandhavāraṇa kanaruṁbaṟi-

⟨41⟩ śi puravarādhīśvara samānya¨rccikaśri kō-

⟨42⟩ ṭīśvara vitaraṇaviṇōda saṁpādi-

⟨43⟩ ka budha pramōda vipakṣa vakṣasthala-

⟨44⟩ dalanabhalla gaḍigōṭamalla sūjana jana-

⟨45⟩ vana vasaṁta kāṁśājayaṁśa gaṁḍara

⟨46⟩ gaṁḍa gaṁḍa mā¨rttāṁḍa nā maradi samasta

⟨47⟩ praśastisahitaṁ śrī manmaṁdaḍi-

⟨48⟩ maṭṭi nāyakuṁḍu damayanna prōle nā-

⟨49⟩ yakunaku dha¨rmmā¨rtthamugāṁ goṁḍapa-

⟨50⟩ ḍumaṭilōnivelaṁṭūra śrī maśtri kō-

⟨51⟩ ṭīśvara dēvaraṁ bratiṣṭha sēyiṁcci guḍiga-

⟨52⟩ ṭṭiṁci yā dēvaraku bhōgā¨rththamugā

⟨53⟩ sakava¨rṣamulu 1060 nēṁṭi ·uttarā-

⟨54⟩ yaṇa saṁkrāṁti nimittamuna velaṁ ṭū-

⟨55⟩ raniccinavelevolamukha 122 vīnilōna

⟨56⟩ dēvaru damasarigrahamunakiccina lekka

⟨57⟩ kuṁcci muppanahiṁgutūṁ kuṟu mā-

⟨58⟩ ppēri viṁjaka ba3 nūṁtana tuṁjaka ba3

⟨59⟩ golle muttaka ba3 muppamakomma ba3

⟨60⟩ prōlamabolla ba3 muppama komma ba3

⟨61⟩ būrada gaṁgga ba3 jakkamapaḍla sū-

⟨62⟩ rama saraga ba3 ⟨Page 10⟩

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⟨63⟩ pāḍeḍi cavuṁḍaka ba3 madēka ba3 rē-

⟨64⟩ kā ba3 naṭṭa vōju ba6 ḍakka kūmare ba3

⟨65⟩ malle berasina maddaliyakāṟiddaṟaku

⟨66⟩ ba6 saṁtudhāravāni ba2 goḍagumāretalle

⟨67⟩ panikiṁgā ba3 mruggu caṁdama ba 1na 10

⟨68⟩ koṁṭavāni ba2 mōlunāyaka kāpa ba3

⟨69⟩ komma bōyuni bā kāṭabōyuni bā

⟨70⟩ śōkabōyuni ba 1

The third face.

⟨71⟩ 2 sthānapare yīśāna śivipaṁḍituni ba 3 pūjāriki ba 3

⟨72⟩ mahājanavrittulu dōnebhallu ba2 peddanabhallu ba2 ·āditya bhallu ba2

etc. etc.

⟨79⟩ śrīmaśu prōlināyakuṁḍu velaṁṭūri paḍumaṭa-

⟨80⟩ ṁ dana krūrpiṁccina peṁjeruvu baṟuṁda śrīmaśtri kōṭīśva-

⟨81⟩ ra dēvaraku nivēdyā¨rtthaṁbugā niccina maṟukurulu 10

⟨82⟩ maṭṭināyakuni kroppiṁccina ceṟuvulu māmāri ceṟuvokka-

⟨83⟩ ṁ ḍu daṁḍagaṭṭa ceṟuvokkaṁḍu maṁdya pūḍa ceṟuvokkaṁḍu

⟨84⟩ mōḍikoṁḍūri dakṣiṇamu ceṟuvokkaṁḍu jīvadhanamunaku-

⟨85⟩ ṁdrāga graddaṟāki yoddaṁ groppiṁccina jeṟuvokkaṁḍu maṁḍya-

⟨86⟩ poṁḍi ceṟuvu muṁdaṭi ceṁṟu vokkaṁḍu mā vūri ceṟpuna ma-

⟨87⟩ ṭṭi nāyakuṁ ḍīdēvarakiccina ma¨rttulu 8 nāvi nāyaku koṁḍapa nāyakuṁḍu

⟨88⟩ peṁjeṟuvu paḍumaṭaṁdanakroppiṁccina ceṟruna nī dēvarakiccina ma¨rtulu 3

⟨89⟩ bahubhi¨rvṛ sādhā etc.

⟨92⟩ • • • • • ·ī dha¨rmmuvunaku viṣnu-

⟨93⟩ mu sēsinavāru paṁcca mahāpātakamu sēsinavāru ||

⟨94⟩ kāmanabhaṭla ba 2 (perhaps an insertion to be made in the body of the inscription). ⟨Page 11⟩

The next face contains a number of grants inside the same temple by different persons:—

⟨SIIv25p0i0009⟩ No. 9.

Pillar in the Sāhebu Bazaar.

Śaka 1055: 1133 A.D.

This is dated Śaka 1055 which may correspond to 1133 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of 55 sheep entrusted into the hands of Gāde-bōya, son of Pēri-śeṭṭi for a perpetual lamp to the deity Trikōṭīśvaradēva by Vāsi-nāyaka, son of Prōli (Brōli)-nāyaka on the occasion of Uttarāyaṇa-saṅkrānti. The shepherd was required to measure out annually a māna of ghee for the lamp.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. X, No. 94.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī śakava¨rṣaṁbulu 1055

⟨2⟩ gu śāhi ·uttarāyaṇa saṁ kā-

⟨3⟩ ·aṁti nimittamunaṁ bōlināyaku[ni]

⟨4⟩ koḍuku vāsināyakuṁ dama ta-

⟨5⟩ ṁ ḍiki dha¨rmmā¨rtthamugā śrīmati kōṭī-

⟨6⟩ śvara dōvara kakhaṁḍava¨rtti dīpamuna kicci-

⟨7⟩ na goṟiyalu 55 vīniṁ jēkoni pēri

⟨8⟩ seṭṭi koḍuku gāde bōyuṁḍu dana

⟨9⟩ putrānu pautrikamu nitya māneṁḍu

⟨10⟩ neyi vōyaṁgalavāṁḍu ⟨Page 12⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0010⟩ No. 10.

Pillar in the Sāhebu Bazaar.

Śaka 1060: 1138 A.D.

This inscription is dated Śaka 1060 which may correspond to 1138 A.D.

It records the gift of 55 sheep on the day of Vishu-saṅkrānti for burning a perpetual lamp to the deity Trikōṭēśvaradēva by Koṇḍapa-nāyaka, son of Maṭṭe-nāyaka, for the merit of his father. The gift was left in the hands of Eṟeya-Bōya's son (name not clear) who agreed to maintain the lamp with one māna of ghee daily.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. X, No. 104.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti

⟨2⟩ śakava¨rṣaṁbulu 1060 gu śāhi

⟨3⟩ viṣuvu saṁkrāṁti nimittamuna dama

⟨4⟩ taṁ ḍi maṭṭe nāyakunaku dha¨rmmā-

⟨5⟩ ¨rtthamugāṁ goṁḍapanāyakuṁḍu

⟨6⟩ tikōṭīśvaradēvara ·akhaṁḍava¨rti dī-

⟨7⟩ paṁbuna kiccina goṟiyalu 55 vī-

⟨8⟩ niṁjēkoni ·eṟiya bōyuni koḍuku

⟨9⟩ • • bōyuṁḍu dana putrānu pautrika mā

⟨10⟩ caṁ dā¨rkamu nitya māneṁḍu neyi vōyaṁga-

⟨11⟩ la vāṁḍu

⟨SIIv25p0i0011⟩ No. 11. (A.R. No. 11 of 1908.) SATTENAPALLE, SATTENAPALLE TALUK, GUNTUR DISTRICT.

On the four faces of a pillar in the same place.

Śaka 1060 = 1138 A.D.

The details of date given in the record namely Śaka 1060, Uttarāyaṇa do not admit for verification.

It records a gift of 55 sheep by Pedda-Koṇḍapa-nāyaka, son of Paṟiti Nāvi-nāyaka, for maintaing a lamp. ⟨Page 13⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī śakava¨rṣaṁbulu 1060

⟨2⟩ gu śāhi ·uttarāyaṇa saṁ kāṁti

⟨3⟩ nimittamusaṁ beddakoṁḍapa nāya-

⟨4⟩ kuṁḍu danataṁ ḍi danaruṁbaṟiti [nā]-

⟨5⟩ vināyakuniki dha¨rmmā¨rtthamugā sakha-

⟨6⟩ ṁḍava¨rtti dīpaṁbuna kiccina goṟiya-

⟨7⟩ lu 55 vīniṁ jēkoni kētabōyu[ni]-

⟨8⟩ ṁḍu danapu trānu pauṭhraka mācaṁ dā-

⟨9⟩ ¨rkamu nityamāneṁḍu neyi voya[ṁga]-

⟨10⟩ la vāṁḍu

⟨SIIv25p0i0012⟩ No. 12.

Pillar in the Sāhebu Bazaar.

Śaka 1091: 1169 A.D.

This inscription is dated in Śaka 1091 which is said to correspond to 1169 A.D.

It records a gift of 55 sheep left in the hands of a shepherd Navedana, son of Kalle-bōya, for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Trikōṭīśvaradēva on the day of Uttarāyaṇa-saṅkrānti, for the merit of his parents. The shepherd undertook to supply a māna of ghee daily to maintain the above endowment.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. X, No. 169.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti śakavaruṣaṁbulu

⟨2⟩ 1091 gu śāhi ·uttarāyaṇa saṁ-

⟨3⟩ krāṁti nimityamuna sāni pōli-

⟨4⟩ ma tamattalli daṁ ḍrulaku

⟨5⟩ dha¨rmmā¨rtthamugā śrīma ti-

⟨6⟩ kōṭīśvara dēvara kakhaṁḍava¨rtti dīpa- ⟨Page 14⟩

⟨7⟩ ṁbuna kiccina goṟiyalu 55 vī-

⟨8⟩ niṁ jēkoni kallebōyuni koḍu-

⟨9⟩ ku sapadana putrānu pau trika mā-

⟨10⟩ caṁ drā¨rkamu nitya māneṁḍu neyi

⟨11⟩ voyaṁgalavāṁḍu

⟨SIIv25p0i0013⟩ No. 13. (A.R. No. 13 of 1908.) KUMBAKŌṆAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

West wall of the shrine of the goddess in the Nāgēśvarasvāmi temple.

Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ: year 4+4

This incomplete inscription is dated in the 4th year opposite to the fourth year of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and records the gift of 138 cows by the king for the supply of milk and ghee to the temple of Bhaṭāra of Tirukkīḻk-kōṭṭam in Tirukkuḍamukku i.e., Kumbakōṇam. It also records a gift of 100 kāśu for burning two perpetual lamps in the same temple.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 8.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟañcaṭaiya-

⟨2⟩ ṟku yāṇṭu nāṉku itaṉeti-

⟨3⟩ r nālāṇṭu cellāniṟkat

⟨4⟩ tirukkuṭa mukkiṟṟirukkiḻk-

⟨5⟩ koṭṭattu bhaṭārarkkup pālu-

⟨6⟩ neyyu māṭṭak komāṟañca-

⟨7⟩ ṭaiyar kuṭutta pacunūṟṟu mu-

⟨8⟩ ppatteṭṭu [|*] iraṇṭu nontā

⟨9⟩ viḷakkerikkak kuṭutta kācu

⟨10⟩ nūṟu [|*] ippacuviṉāl niyata-

⟨11⟩ m pāl [pattu] nāḻiyun ney

⟨12⟩ ••• me ikkāciṉāl ne 1 ⟨Page 15⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0014⟩ No. 14. (A.R. No. 14 of 1908.) KUMBAKŌṆAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

North wall of the Sūryanārāyaṇa shrine in the Nāgēśvarasvāmi temple.

Rājakēsari Vijayarājēndra. Regnal year 36-1045 A.D.

This record commences with the praśasti Tiṅgaḷēr-tarut-ten-toṅgal, etc., of the king.

The details of date are Māgha, ba, Wednesday, Āyilya-nakshatra in the year 36.

The king is credited with the titles Jayaṅgoṇḍachōḷaṉ and Rājakēsari.

It records the grant of several lands as iṟaiyili by the mūlaparuḍai of Tirukkuḍamukku to the deities Tirukkārōṇam-uḍaiya-mahādēva and Kaṉṉiyāpiḍāri. This iṟaiyili-pramāṇa was executed when the members assembled in the inner precinct (uḷḷāḷai) of the temple of Tirukkīḻkōṭṭamuḍaiyār.

In this record the king is claimed to have destroyed the city of Kalyāṇapura and to have performed the annointment of heroes. The conquests and the titles of king helps us to identify the king with Chōḷa Rājādhirāja I.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tiṅka

⟨2⟩ ḷertaru tan toṅkal

⟨3⟩ veṇkuṭai niḻalkkiḻ ni-

⟨4⟩ la makaḷ nilava malarmakaṭ puṇarntu teṅko

⟨5⟩ [l]occi kkaruṅkali kaṭintu tantaiyar tamaiyar tam[pi]

⟨6⟩ yar taṉṟiru maintareṉṟivarai maṇimuṭi cūṭṭikka

⟨7⟩ ṉṉi kāvalar teṉṉavar [muvaruḷ vāṉa]kam iruvarukkaruḷi

⟨8⟩ k kāṉakam oruvarukkaḷittu [p]oruti[ṟaṉ] ceralaṉ velaike-

⟨9⟩ ḻu kāntaḷūr cālai kalamaṟuppittu ilaṅkaiyaṟ karaicaiyum

⟨10⟩ alaṅkal vallapaṉaiyuṅ kaṉṉakucciya[r] kāvalaṉaiyum ⟨Page 16⟩

⟨11⟩ poṉṉa[ṉ] muṭittalai taṭintu taṉ koṭippaṭaiyai evi

⟨12⟩ k kaṉṉāṭakar viṭu kaṭakaripuraḷat taṉṉā • yil ta[mi]ḻp paraṇi

⟨13⟩ koṇ ṭoṉ[ṉu]r vacci neṭuvāṉ viccayaṉ veruneṉi

⟨14⟩ t tañciyo[ṭa]t taṉ vañciyam paṭaiyālāṅkavaṉ pitā-

⟨15⟩ vai [m]ātā ••• ñ catāmali viṅkunirp pūṇṭu[r veñ]-

⟨16⟩ camattakap pa[ṭuttu]ppaṭai āhavamallaṉ payattoṭu

⟨17⟩ [avar] viṭum oṟṟarai veku ••••• t tāṅkavar mār[ pi-

⟨18⟩ l] āhavamal ••• iyāṅka • ma[ñciṉa] neṉṉa naṉkeḻuti-

⟨19⟩ c ce[lu]tti ••••• ttaṉ pulikkoṭippaṭai • roṭṭi[yār]

⟨20⟩ • ṇavaṉācaik kaṭalpurai ciṟutuṟai peruntuṟai •• ruppa • •

⟨21-23⟩ •

⟨24⟩ ṭu ceṇṭāṭip poru puli virakkoṭiyoṭu [tiyāka koṭi eṭu]

⟨25⟩ t toṉṉavar kavaran toṉnetip piṟakkum iravalar •• •••

⟨26⟩ tu viravalil avaṉviṭu taṇṭattukkava[ṉ] [velpuravi]nuḷa-

⟨27⟩ mpaṉum kāḷitāsaṉum viṉappantārc cāmuṇṭaṉu-

⟨28⟩ p[o]rk kommayaṉum villavarājaṉum mutali-

⟨29⟩ ṉar vel camattariyala •

⟨30⟩ ka avar peru netikavātu

⟨31⟩ kūrccaraṉ uppaḷaṉ koy-

⟨32⟩ [m] malarp pa[cunta]talai tār nta-

⟨33⟩ milappaṉataṭintu muṉ koṇ-

⟨34⟩ ṭu takai • ṉta[ppai] muṉ ṉata[ppa]-

⟨35⟩ appakai cekuttu uppaḷaṉ vaḻi[yil tappi]-

⟨36⟩ l pallaraicar nāṅkatu miḻakku māṭṭātu taṉpūṅka- ⟨Page 17⟩

⟨37⟩ ḻal caraṇe[ṉap] pukuta araṇavarkkaḷittu ttaṭamuṭi mi-

⟨38⟩ ṭṭukkuṭuttut taṭaṅkaivaṉatappaiyaip paṟittu-

⟨39⟩ ṭaṉ koṭu ponta [piṉpa]ṟaṉ tulaintañciyum añcā-

⟨40⟩ ta[n]āy veñcamaṅkaruti viṭa[va]ṉ[ta] peṟakkaṭaikaḷ mu[ṉ]

⟨41⟩ peritavaṟkku ṟaivalāran torunāḷ cātti aṟaikaḻal

⟨42⟩ [pu]kaḻ pātam muṉpa[ma]r piraṭṭaril oruvaṇaip peṇṇu-

⟨43⟩ [ṭai pa]ṭutti oruvaṉai añcu cikaippaṭac ciraippittu ne[rva]

⟨44⟩ ḻi āha[vamalliyu]m āhavamallanum eṉṟu peyar iṭuvittaṉṟava-

⟨45⟩ ṉ viṭutta ••• ṟ kaṭai taṉnoṭum pokki uṟakkuṭaṉ viṭṭa[ṉal]

⟨46⟩ viṭātu [ce]ṉṟaṅ k[o]ṭṭiṉar mutukiṭap porutu taṉkaruṭap puli

⟨47⟩ ttaṇṭiṉmuṉ tānoru tamiya neṟimāṉā kaṭavakarai-

⟨48⟩ k kalliyāṇapurameṉṉun toṉṉakartukaḷeḻat tukaippit-

⟨49⟩ taṉṉakar • ṇacuṟai karumāḷikai poṭiyākki āṅkatu kākka niṟ[ai]

⟨50⟩ pūṅkaḻal [aṭayi]rā kuttaṉ mutaliyar kaṭakaḷiṟṟaṇar carora muppat

⟨51⟩ taiyvar pariyoṭuṅkariyoṭum paṭṭukap porutap poru nakar vij[ai]-

⟨52⟩ rājentṛ te • ṉviṅkicai mikavar abhiṣekañ ceytu cirkeḻu vi[śva]

⟨53⟩ lokattu viḷaṅku manuneṟi niṉṟaśvametañ ceytaraicu viṟṟirunta

⟨54⟩ [j]aiyaṅkoṇṭacoḻaṉ uyarntaperum pukaṭk kovirājakecari ye[ṉa]

⟨55⟩ lākip peru[me]ṇṭicaiyellā niṟainta kirtti uṭaiyār śrī vijairāj[ē]- ⟨Page 18⟩

⟨56⟩ ntṛdēvaṟku yāṇṭu 36 āvatu uyyakkoṇṭāṉ vaḷa nāṭṭup [pā]-

⟨57⟩ mpūr nāṭṭu tirukkuṭamukkil mulaparuṭaiyom ivvāṭṭai makaranā[ya]ṟṟu

⟨58⟩ [a]para[pa]kṣattu • •dhiyaiyum putaṉkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa āyi[ le-

⟨59⟩ ya] ttiṉ nāṉṟu ca • caḷa ||

⟨60⟩ ••• ••• ••••

⟨61⟩ ••• ccāṟṟappuḷḷi[v]ācittut tiru[kki]ḻk-

⟨62⟩ koṭṭam muṭaiyār koyilil

⟨63⟩ uḷḷālait tirumuṟṟattu[k] kūṭṭa-

⟨64⟩ kkuṟaivaṟak kūṭiiruntu paṇi-

⟨65⟩ p paṇiyāl[ppa]ṇittu iṟaiyi-

⟨66⟩ lippiramāṇañceytu [ku]ṭutta paricā-

⟨67⟩ vatu tirukkāroṇamuṭaiya mahādē-

⟨68⟩ varum kaṉṉiyāpiṭārikaḷum ūrkkiḻ iṟai-

⟨69⟩ iṟukkakkaṭavai nilam iṟai paṟṟumaiyil

⟨70⟩ ittevarkaḷ [ciri] paṇṭāramāyak kūṭa iruṉta • •

⟨71⟩ kācu[kal]lāl niṟaipoṉ ṉānūṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟu eṇka[ḻañcu ippo]-

⟨72⟩ ṉ ṉā[nū]ṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟu eṇ kaḻaiñcaṅkoṇṭu [t]evarkaḷ

⟨73⟩ nilam [sa]paippo[tuv]vāyk kālukku meṟkkum ••••• •••

⟨74⟩ ••• [ṉū]ṟṟu irupatteṭṭukkuḻi koṇṭa t[oru] mā[v]āka vi •• lamum pu

⟨75⟩ ••••• nilam ••• ••• •••• m pa[ṇṇi] koṇ[ṭu] tevar vi- ⟨Page 19⟩

⟨76⟩ ṭṭa nila[ttu]kku vaṭakku • mutuvaṉ māyāṉ kāṭaṉum tampimār[ka] nilattu

⟨77⟩ kku me[ṟ]ku viḷainilam ••• ••• ••••

⟨78⟩ • ṉaṅkā[ṭ]ṭu[k]kuk kiḻakku coḻa uttamavāykkālukku te[ṟ]kum [mu]-

⟨79⟩ vāṟṟukku vaṭakku māṭalāṉa tiruvirā[mi]śvaraṉ naṉ •• ti nila-

⟨80⟩ ttukku me[ṟk]ku naṭu[vu]paṭṭa nilattil ittevar tiru • [mu][ṟ]ṟamum

⟨81⟩ pū naṉtaṉavaṉa[ṅ]ka[ḷu]m nikki maramuṭaip puṉcey[ka]ḷum a

⟨82⟩ [k]ai[yāṟu] •• ka nilam ••• ••• •••• ṉa

⟨83⟩ [kka]ṉ mahādēvanuṉ tampimāru nilattukku vaṭakku ••• vaḻi

⟨84⟩ [k]ku teṟkku māṭilaṉ [mut]tanakka ṉūr[pa]ṇaṉ br[ā]hmaṇi [nila*]

⟨85⟩ ttukku teṟkkum kaviṇiyaṉ mahādēvaṉ divākaranilattu

⟨86⟩ kku vaṭakkum vayiśravaṇṇa[vī]śvaramuṭaiyā •• ner[o]

⟨87⟩ •• yā • viḷainilamum puṉceyum akaiyāṟum toṭṭamu-

⟨88⟩ m āka ni ••• ••• •••• m tirumuk[kāl va]-

⟨89⟩ ṭṭa muṭaiya māhādēvar viṭṭa nilattukku teṟkum •

⟨90⟩ ••••• maṟkkum mākāṇi nākaṉ •••••

⟨91⟩ kkuk kiḻakku toṭṭa ni ••• ••• ••••

⟨92⟩ ••••• tirukkiḻkkoṭṭamuṭaiya māhādēvar[kku]

⟨93⟩ paḷḷikoṇṭāḻvā •

⟨94⟩ viṭṭa nilattukku vaṭakku

⟨95⟩ tiruvāyppāṭit tevaro • •

⟨96⟩ muṉṟopāti vanta toṭṭa

⟨97⟩ nilam ••• ••• •••• ⟨Page 20⟩

⟨98⟩ ••• coḻa •••••

⟨99⟩ ••••• teṟku viḷai nila •

⟨100⟩ mu[m pu]ṉce[yum] ivvāykkālukkuva-

⟨101⟩ ṭakku viḷainila[mu]m āka nilam m •••••

⟨102⟩ ••• ••• •••• kavuṇiyaṉ āna mu-

⟨103⟩ tukaṇavati yu • [ca]ṉṉampi ma[ka]num • kku

⟨104⟩ meṟkku paḻa[vā]ṟṟukku vaṭakkum viḷaini[la*]

⟨105⟩ m ••• ••• •••• tāṉiyaṉā

⟨106⟩ ••• ••• ••••

⟨107⟩ • kku ēḻukaraikku vaṭakkut tā[ṇṭava]

⟨108⟩ mahādēvaroṭu nerpāti koṭit toṭ[ṭa]

⟨109⟩ nilam ••• ••• •••• kulaiyātā-

⟨110⟩ ṉ paḷḷivāykkālukkut teṟkku vi-

⟨111⟩ ḷai ni[la*]mum puṉceyum āka nilam •••

⟨112⟩ ••• ••• •••• ṭā [ku*]

⟨113⟩ ḷ nilam vāyilārkuḷattukkum peruvaḻi-

⟨114⟩ kum vaṭakku toṭṭa nilam m •••••

⟨115⟩ •• m ākappalataṭikaḷālum nūṟṟu iru

⟨116⟩ pat teṭṭuk kuḻi koṇṭatoru mā • ka vanta

⟨117⟩ nilam m ••• ••• ••••

⟨118⟩ •• iṉṉilam āṟaṉāye nākumākkāṇi

⟨119⟩ • nāṉkumā mukkāṇi āḷākkāṇi muntiri

⟨120⟩ kaikkiḻ aṉāy[e] mākāṇi [ar]aikkā[l]e-

⟨121⟩ munti[ri*] kaiyum cantirā[ti*]tta

⟨122⟩ vaṟ epperppaṭṭa iṟai

⟨123⟩ yum veḷḷāṉ veṭṭi

⟨124⟩ yum iṟaiyilikkāna uḷ ⟨Page 21⟩

⟨125⟩ [ḷi]ṭṭu eppeṟppaṭṭa iṟai

⟨126⟩ kaḷum nāṅkaḷe iṟuttukkuṭu-

⟨127⟩ kka ittevar iṉṉilaṅkaḷi •

⟨128⟩ • liye anubhavikkap vārā

⟨129⟩ • ipponkācu niṟai 393[600] ṅ

⟨130⟩ [k]oṇṭu cantirā[ti]ttavaṟ iṟaiyili cey-

⟨131⟩ tu kuṭuttom tirukka roṇamuṭaiya mahā[ā]-

⟨132⟩ d[ē]vaṟkkum kaṉṉiyar piṭārikaḷukkum

⟨133⟩ mulaparuṭaiyom ipparicu iṉṉi[la*]ṅka

⟨134⟩ ḷ cantirāti[t*]tavaṟ iṟaiyiliyāka tirukkiḻ-

⟨135⟩ koṭṭamuṭaiya mahādēvar koyi-

⟨136⟩ [li]lle kallil veṭṭi vittukkuṭu-

⟨137⟩ [k*]kkaṭavomāka iṉṉilaṅkaḷ eppe-

⟨138⟩ ṟppaṭṭa iṟaiyumiḻicci iṟaiyilip-

⟨139⟩ piramāṇañ ceytu kuṭuttom ni • •

⟨140⟩ na k[ā*]roṇamuṭaiya mahādēvarkkum

⟨141⟩ kaṇyāpiṭārikaḷukkum mulaparuṭaiyom

⟨142⟩ mulaparuṭaiyil iruntu paṇittār kaviṇiya-

⟨143⟩ ṉ naṭuvilārāmutu nāyaṉeṉ kaviṇiyaṉ •

⟨144⟩ [n]ārāyaṇaṉ kaviṇiyaṉ jātavetaṉutittaṉ mā[ṭa]-

⟨145⟩ ḷa[ṉā] • v[ai]n veṇkāṭu te[var] māṭalaṉtevaṉ co

⟨146⟩ maṉ [m]āṭalaṉ pāṇṭaṉ tāmotaraṉ kamutuva-

⟨147⟩ ṉ māyāncomaṉ kamutuvaṉakkanākaṉ kamutuva-

⟨148⟩ ṉ māyān comaṉ kamutuvaṉ mātevaṉ caṅka-

⟨149⟩ raṉ [p]āratā[ya]ṉ vaṭukanakkaṉ kāmakkāṉi nārāyaṇaṉ

⟨150⟩ mātevaṉ kāmakkāṉi caṅkaraṉ koṟṟaṉ kāmakkā-

⟨151⟩ ṉi pāṇṭaṉ kecavaṉ ātriyaṉṉutittanuttaṉ ⟨Page 22⟩

⟨152⟩ nārāyaṇaṉ vāsutevaṉ mokiliyaṉ nārāya-

⟨153⟩ ṇaṉārāvamutu viyākkira pātaṉ appira[m]eyaṉ

⟨154⟩ • ḷḷa • kaviṇiyaṉ cāttan ṣapa vāraṉ kaviṇiyaṉ mātevan

⟨155⟩ caṅkaraṉ kaviṇiyaṉ vāsutevaṉ contaṉ

⟨156⟩ māṭala [nā]rā[ya]ṇa [ne]yanaṉ kamutuvaṉ tām[o]taraṉ caṅkaranā

⟨157⟩ rā[ya]ṇan kāmakkā[ṇi] icalaṉ māyāṉ kāmakkā[ṇi] 1 nācaṉ cirākava

⟨SIIv25p0i0015⟩ No. 15. (A.R. No. 15 of 1908.) KUMBAKŌṆAM, KUMBAKŌṆAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

East wall of the Subrahmaṇya shrine in the Nāgēśvarasvāmi temple.

Rājēndrachōḷa I, Year 8: 1019-20 A.D.

This incomplete and damaged record commences with the praśasti, Tirumaṉṉi-vaḷara, etc., of the king.

This seems to record a grant for food offerings and lamps during the three sandhis to the god Chandraśēkaradēva set up by Vēḷāṉ Malli alias Uṇṇānaṅgai, probably in the temple of Tirukkīḻk-kōṭṭam-uḍaiyamahādēva in Tirukkuḍamukku in Pāmbūr-nāḍu in Uy[ya*]koṇḍār-vaḷanāḍu. Other details are lost as it is damaged.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tirumanti[vaḷara] • [ru nila]

⟨2⟩ maṭantaiyum por ceyappāvaiyu • [cir]

⟨3⟩ ttanic celviyun tan [pe]run teviyarāki

⟨4⟩ iṉpuṟa neṭitiya[l*] lūciyi •••••

⟨5⟩ nāṭu ntuṭar vaṉavelip paṭaṟa vaṉavāci-

⟨6⟩ yuñcuḷḷic cūḻ matiṭ koḷḷippākkamu-

⟨7⟩ m taṇṇa[ṟ*] karumuraṇ maṇṇaikkaṭakkamum ⟨Page 23⟩

⟨8⟩ porukaṭa riḻa 1 tta r ai ya[r*] tamuṭi[yum] āṅkavar

⟨9⟩ teviyar ōṅkeḻil muṭiyum muṉṉavar pakkal

⟨10⟩ teṉṉavar vaicca cu[n]tira muṭiyum intiraṉ[nā]

⟨11⟩ ramun teṉṟicai īḻamaṇṭala muḻuvatum e[ṟi]-

⟨12⟩ paṭ[ai*]k koḷaṉ muṟaimaiyil cūṭuṅkulatanamāki[ya]

⟨13⟩ palar pukaḻ muṭiyum ceṅkatir mālaiyum caṅ[ka]-

⟨14⟩ tir velait tolperuṅkāval palapaḻanti(r)vu[ñ]-

⟨15⟩ ceruviṟ ciṉavil irupattorukāl araicukaḷai ka-

⟨16⟩ ṭṭa paracur[ā]maṉ mevaruñ cāttimattivaraṇ karuti irutti-

⟨17⟩ [ya] cem p[o]ṟṟiruttaku muṭiyum māp peru[n] taṇṭāṟ

⟨18⟩ kopparakesari panmarāṉa śrī rājentṛi 2 coḻatevar-

⟨19⟩ kku yāṇṭu [8] vatu uy[ya*]koṇṭā[r*] vaḷanāṭṭu pāmpūr nāṭṭu

⟨20⟩ t tirukkuṭamukkil tirukkiḻkkoṭṭamuṭaiya(r) mahātevar [śrī] •

⟨21⟩ ••••• kommai [m mārka]m muṭaiyāṉ ciṅkaṉ vaitta • •

⟨22⟩ ••••• veḷān malliyāṉa uṇṇānaṅkai eḻuntaruḷu-

⟨23⟩ vitta cantiracekar tevaṟku ivaḷiṭai[ ti 3] tirukkiḻk koṭṭamuṭaiya

⟨24⟩ mahāteva ••••• māka •• [ñamtecam] uṇṇā naṅ-

⟨25⟩ ••• ••• •••• [mu]ṉṟu sa(t)ntikkum oru santi arici iru nāḻiyāka arici aṟunāḻi

⟨26⟩ ••• ••• •••• va[ṇ*]ṇattāl jha 7 kaṟi amutukkum ney

⟨27⟩ ••• ••• •••• mutukkum tiruviḷakku muṉṟu sa(t)ntikkum māka 4 ⟨Page 24⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0016⟩ No. 16. (A.R. No. 16 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

Below a belt of sculptures in the walls around the central shrine in the Airāvatēśvara temple.

These label inscriptions may be assigned to the 12-13th century, on grounds of palaeography.

These describe the sculptures represented above them which depict the scenes from the lives of the devotees of god Śiva. Among them, a few may belong to the group of 63 Śaiva-saints.

For the details of these labels and those that are painted on the outer gōpura nearby, see A.R.E.p., 1908, part II, para 66-67, pp. 68-69.

TEXT.

North wall.

⟨1⟩ avināciyāṇṭār mu[ta*]ḷai vāyppiḷḷai |

⟨2⟩ tirumurukaṉ pūṇṭiyil peṟṟapaṭi |

⟨3⟩ uṭaiya nampiyai veṭar vaḻipaṟittaviṭam ||-

⟨4⟩ | uṭaiya nampikku [o]lleṉṟaruḷiṉpaṭi ||-

⟨5⟩ uṭaiya nampiyai āṇṭukoṇṭaruḷiṉapaṭi |

⟨6⟩ āvaṇa ōlai kāṭṭiṉapaṭi |

⟨7⟩ uṭaiyanampi eḻuntaruḷukiṟār |

⟨8⟩ icai ñāniyār |

⟨9⟩ caṭaiyaṉār

⟨10⟩ tirunilakaṇṭap perumpāṇaṉār

⟨11⟩ ^1^kociṅkaperumāḷ |

⟨12⟩ necāṇṭār

⟨13⟩ pāṇṭi mātevi |

⟨14⟩ appālum aṭiccānta aṭiyār ||-

⟨15⟩ || muḻuniṟupūciya munivar ||-

⟨16⟩ | mukkālum tirumeni tīṇṭuvār ||-

⟨17⟩ | tiruvāruṟ piṟantār |

⟨18⟩ paramaṉaiye pāṭuvār | ⟨Page 25⟩

⟨19⟩ pattarāyppaṇivār |

⟨20⟩ koḻppuliyāṇṭār ||-

⟨21⟩ | pukaḻt tuṇaiyār ||

⟨22⟩ cerut tuṇaiyāṇṭā[r] |

⟨23⟩ iṭaṅkaḻiyāṇṭār |

⟨24⟩ kaḻaṟciṅkanār |

⟨25⟩ muṉaiyaṭuvār [*]

West wall.

⟨26⟩ vāyilār [*]

⟨27⟩ neṭumāṟaṉār |

⟨28⟩ kāriyār [*]

⟨29⟩ koyi[lāṟ] |

⟨30⟩ kaṇampulāṇṭār |

⟨31⟩ aiyyaṭikaḷ kāṭavarkonār |

⟨32⟩ cattiyāṇṭār

⟨33⟩ kaliyaṉār ||

⟨34⟩ -||| kalikkam[p]āṇṭār katai |||-

⟨35⟩ atipattar katai [|*]

⟨36⟩ || naraciṅka muṉaiyaraiyar ||

⟨37⟩ pukaḻc coḻanār |||-

⟨38⟩ || poyyaṭimaiyillāta pulavar ||§

⟨39⟩ ||| kūṟṟuvaṉār |||-

⟨40⟩ [ka]ṇanātāṇṭār katai ||-

⟨41⟩ ceramāṉ perumāḷ katai |-

⟨42⟩ ci[ṟu]ttoṇṭāṉṭār katai [|]

⟨43⟩ cākkiyaṉār [|] 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0017⟩ No. 17. (A.R. No. 17 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

East wall of the first prākāra in the Airāvatēśvara temple and now at the right of entrance in the same temple.

Rājarāja III, year 21: 1236-37 A.D.

This damaged inscription may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to 13th Century and records the grant of income from taxes on the trees in the temple gardens deposited in cash in the Rājarājaṉ treasury (Rājarājaṉ-karuvūgalam) (-Karuvūlagam) for food-offerings to the deity in the temple. The gardens in the Rājarāja-viḷāgam were stated to have been destroyed due to some calamity and the revival of the gardens was arranged for, in a specialised manner with provision of some exemption (details not clear) in the same area (viḷāgam).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ [sva] ••• ••• ••••tikaḷ śrī rājar[ā]ja tevarkku [yāṇṭu] irupattoṉṟāvatu uṭaiyār irājarājiśvara muṭaiyār tirunāmattukkāṇi [pa]la[uḷa]vai rājarā 1 ja viḷākam kiḻ kūṟṟilum me[l] kūṟṟilum rājarāja 1 ṉ ti[ruppati]yi[lū]ṭṭu viḷākattilum niṉṟa teṅkum māvum puḷiyum uḷḷiṭṭa maraṅkaḷ tu[ri]tamāṉa nāḷile veṭṭuṇṭum viḻuntum aḻivupaṭukaiyil

⟨2⟩ ••• ••• •••• ka •• ṅkaḷ ••••• [ṭayeyum] kaivilaikoṇṭu potukaiyil ittirunta vaṉaṅkaḷil kuṭimakkaḷait teṅkum maramum 2 uḷḷiṭṭaṉa vaikka ••• ••• •••• coḻa • ṉ iṭattu irupatāvatu varaiyum iṟuttu vantapaṭi iṟukkap paṟṟāteṉṟum iṟukkalāmpaṭi niccayittu ippaṭikku kalveṭṭit taril

⟨3⟩ ••• ••• •••• lū ••••• paṭiyaiy 3 rājarāja 1 p pāṇṭi nāṭṭu miḻalaik kūṟṟattu 4 kaḻaṉivāyiluṭaiyāṉ arayaṉ niṉṟa[lāki] āṭuvārāṉa p[o]ttappic coḻar ••••• ⟨Page 27⟩ •• ṇṇappañceytu irupattoṉṟāvatu mutal vaiykkalā maraṅkaḷ vaiykkavum vaiytta marattil teṅkum palāvum nikki

⟨4⟩ ••• ••• •••• kaḷukku ••• t •• ippaṭiye iṟukkavum teṅkukaḷukku teṅku oṉṟukku kāykkapukka āṇṭu mutal irupattañ[cā]ka vanta teṅkāy eṇṇavum [palā] oṉṟukku āṟākavanta palākkāy mutal koḷḷavum itile amutu paṭikku nāṟcāṇ cuṟṟile iraṇṭu palāppaḻam iṭavum nikkiniṉṟa palākkāy nālu-

⟨5⟩ •• nālukkum palākkā[y] oṉṟu[kku] kaṭavatāka vanta kācu irā[ca*]rācak karuvu(ka)lattile oṭukkavum kaṭavatāka nāyaṉār tiruvuḷḷamāṉamaiyil teṅkum palāvum uḷḷiṭṭa maraṅkaḷ vaittu ippaṭi ••• iṟukka [ka*]ṭavarkaḷāka paṇṇuvittu ce ••••• cantiraciṅkaṉ tirunantavaṉamum koṭṭaiyūr tirunāmattuk kāṇiyāṉa tirunanta vaṉaṅkaḷum 5

⟨SIIv25p0i0018⟩ No. 18. (A.R. No. 18 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

East wall of the first prākāra in the Airāvatēśvara temple.

Rājādhirāja II: Year lost.

This fragmentary inscription commences with the praśasti, Kaḍalśūḻnda-pārmādarum, etc., of the king who ascended the throne in c. 1166 A.D.

It seems to record a copy of the order of the king (tirumugappaḍi) and refers to the king Tribhuvanachchakkaravartti Kō[nēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ*]. The details of the record are lost.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kaṭal cūḻnta pārmātaṟām pūmātarum kalai [m]ātarum [a]ṭal cūḻnta ••• ••• ••••

⟨2⟩ muṭi puṉaintaruḷi a[ṟu]camaiyamu maimpūtamum neṟiyil •• • tu pā •• ppat teṉṉavaruñ ceralaruñ ••••• ⟨Page 28⟩

⟨3⟩ ḷippac cempo[n vi]rasiṅkhāsaṉattu ulakuṭai muk kokkiḻāṉapaṭikaḷoṭum viṟṟirunta ••• ••• ••••

⟨4⟩ ••• ••• •••• taruḷivanta tirumukappaṭi tiripuvaṉac cakkaravartti ko ••• ••• ••••

⟨5⟩ ••• ••• •••• m inta ••• mañcaṇai ••• ••• •••• 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0019⟩ No. 19. (A.R. No. 19 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

East wall of the first prākāra in the Airāvatēśvara temple.

Rājādhirāja II: Year 12: 1174 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti, Kaḍal-śūḻndapārmādarum, etc., of Rājādhirāja II.

It refers to an order (tirumugam) issued on the 157th day of the 12th year of the king.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kaṭṭa cūḻnta pār mātarum pūmātaruṅ ••• •• ṭa[l] cūḻnta p[o] ••• ••• •••• mātarum mārntu vāḻa nāṟkaṭal cūḻ puviyeḻum pāṟkaṭal pol pukaḻ parappa ātiyukamā meṉṉac cotimuṭi puṉaintaruḷ aṟucamaiyamu maippūta[mu] neṟiyil niṉṟu ••• ppat teṉṉavaruñ ceralaruñ ciṅkaṇaru mutalāya ••• ••• ••••

⟨2⟩ cevippa ūḻiyūḻiyoru ceṅko leḻupāru miṉita ••• ••••• ho ••••• la kuṭai mukko kiḻā naṭikaḷoṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya kovirājakecari panmarāṉa tribhuvaṉaccakkara varttikaḷ śrī rājādhirājadēvarkkuyāṇṭu panniraṇṭāvatu nāṉ nūṟṟai[mpa]t teḻiṉāl pirasātañ ceytaruḷiṉa tirumukappaṭi ••• ••• ••••

⟨3⟩ ••• ••• •••• toṇṭar ••• ••• •••• [ṭ]aiyāḷ ivūr 1 i[mā]••• ••• •••• ttanen •••rāja ••••• ••••• 1 ⟨Page 29⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0020⟩ No. 20. (A.R. No. 20 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

East wall of the first prākāra of the Airāvatēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III, year 8: 1185-86 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti, Puyalvāyttu, etc., of the Chōḷa king Kulōttuṅga III. The order is dated in the 64th day of the 8th year of the king.

It records an order of the king issued to his officials Kaḷappāḷarāyaṉ and Villavadarayaṉ on the application of Maṇalūr Vāduli Ārāmudu Śrī. •• alias Madhurāntaka-brahmārāyaṉ of Rājarājach-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Nittavinōda-vaḷanāḍu who in turn ordered the authorities of the temple of Rājarāja-Īśvaram-uḍaiyār including those in-charge of the temple treasury called Rājarājaṉ-karuvūgalam (-vūlagam) appointing the jewel-makers in the above temple and fixing the remuneration to be paid to such people on a par with the garland-makers (tiruppaḷḷittoṅgal-uḍaiyār) along with a site (maṉai) as jīvita so that the former could reach home early.

The order was drafted by Neṟiyuḍaich-chōḻa-mūvēndavēḷāṉ and attested by Nandiyaraiyar, Nuḷambādirāyar, Pāṇḍyarāyar, Vēsāliyarayar, Virāṭarāyar, Vayirādarāyar, Viśaiyarāyar, Kanakarāyar and Aṉakarāyar.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] puyal vāyttu vaḷamp[eru]kap poyyāta ṉā[ṉ]maṟaiyiṉ ceyal [va] ••••• kaḷum jayamakaḷuñ ciṟantu vāḻa veṇmatipoṟ koṭai viḷaṅka vel ventar aṭivaṇaṅka maṇmaṭaintai maṉaṅkaḷippa maṉuniti taḻaittoṅ[ka]c [ca]kkaramuñ ceṅkolun tikka[ṉait]tuñ celanaṭappak kaṟpak[āla]m puvikāppap poṟppamainta

⟨2⟩ muṭi puṉaintu cempoṉ virasiṅh[ā]saṉattup puva[ṉa] muḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭum viṟṟiruntaru ••••• kecaripaṟmarāṉa tiripuvaṉac cakkaravarttikaḷ śrīkulōttuṅka coḻatevaṟkku yāṇṭu eṭ[ṭ]āvatu nāḷ aṟupattu nāliṉāl pirasātañ ce[y]taruḷiṉa ceyyum paṭippaṭi kaḷappāḷa[rāya]ṉum villavatarayaṉum uṭaiyār rāja rāja īśvaramuṭaiyār ⟨Page 30⟩

⟨3⟩ ke •••••śvara kaṇ[kāṇi tiru]cci[ṟ*]ṟampala muṭaiyāṉum śrīkāriyam poṉ me[y*]nta co[ḻa] ••••• [v]āyaṉum tirumāḷikaikaṭaṟu ceyvārkaḷum tirumāḷikai rāja rājaṉ karuvukalattā[ru]m ceyyat tiruvāymoḻintaruḷiṉapaṭi uṭaiyār rāja rāja īśvaramuṭ[aiyā]r k[o][yi]lukkup poṟpaṇi eṭuppārka[ḷu] •• tāyamāka oruvar mutal koḷḷavu[m] i[p]perkku nittaviṉotava-

⟨4⟩ ḷanā ••••• kaṭaṟṟattu ••••• kakkāṭāṉa rāja rājaccarup petimaṅkalattu maṇalūr vātuli ārā amutu śrī •• va ṉāṉa maturāntakap pirammarāyaṉ sāmutāya[māy*] niṟkavum ivaṉukkuk koṟṟukku nāḷ oṉṟu[kku] [ū]ṟkālāl tūṇippatakku nellum āṭṭaikku ••••• vai mutal kācu ikkoyiṟ tiruppaḷḷit to[ṅ]kaluṭaiyārkaḷukku sāmutāyamāy niṟkiṟa[va]ṉ peṟṟapaṭiye peṟa-

⟨5⟩ vum nellup peṟum iṭattu vāciyum iḷanāḷum nikkāte ittevar tevatāṉam vikkirama coḻavaḷa nāṭṭuk kavaittalaiyāṉa paṇṭitacoḻac caruppetimaṅkalattu ivaṉ kāṇiyāṉa nilam uṭpaṭaveṇṭum nilam jivitam aṭaikkavum ivaṉ kāṉāmeyk kāṭ[ṭip] peṟavum ivaṉukkup poṟpaṇi eṭuppār maṉaiuṭaṉe ce[ra oru] maṉai iṭavum p[eṟa]veṇumeṉṟu ivaṉ namakku-

⟨6⟩ c coṉṉamaiyil i[ppaṭi ce]yyak kaṭavatāka collik kaṇa[kkilum] iṭṭuk koḷḷak kaṭavar[ka]ḷāka va[ri]k kūṟu [cey] ••••• [kkuc coṉṉ]om ivaṉ nāḷ aṟupatu mutal poṟ[paṇi eṭup]pārkkup kā• mu• tāyamāp kkā ••••• •• ṭṭup peṟ[ṟu]ppuṭavai mutalukkup peṟukiṟa kācu tirumā[ḷi]kai rāja rājaṉ karuvukalatte peṟa[vu]m nellu vāciyum iḷa[nāḷum] nikkāte pa

⟨7⟩ ṇṭita coḻac caruppetimaṅkalattu ivaṉ kāṇiyāṉa nilam uṭpaṭa veṇṭum nilam [jivi]tamāka aṭai[kka]vum [ivaṉu]kkup poṟpaṇi eṭuppār maṉai uṭaṉecera orumaṉai [i]ṭavum vaḻakkaṅkaḷil paricaṭṭan tarattile peṟakkaṭa[va]ṉāākavum paṇṇi ippaṇi ivaṉukkum ivaṉ ⟨Page 31⟩ vaṟkattārkkum [kā]ṇiyāka ikkoyiṟ tirumāḷikaiyile kalveṭṭakkaṭavatākavum paṇṇuvateṉ-

⟨8⟩ ṟu tirumantira ōlai ne[ṟi]yuṭaic coḻuventaveḷān eḻuti- nantiyarai[ya]rum [nuḷa]mpāti rā[ya]rum pāṇṭiyarā[yarum] ••••• rāyarum [vecāli][yāyarum] virāṭarāyarum vayirā[ka]rāyarum vicaiyarāyarum kaṉakarāya[rum] ••••• rum aṉakarāyarum eḻuttiṭṭup pirasātañceyta[ru*]ḷi van[ta*]tu [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0021⟩ No. 21. (A.R. No. 21 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

South wall of the first prākāra in the Airāvatēśvara temple.

Māṟavarmaṉ Vīrapāṇḍya: Year 3:

This inscription is assignable to the 14th century on palaeographical grounds. The details of the date viz., 3rd regnal year and 292nd day are not sufficient for verification.

It records an order of the king issued by him from his seat called Kālingarāyaṉ in his palace at Kaṇḍiyūr in Pāṇḍikulapati-vaḷanāḍu in Śōḻamaṇḍalam granting twenty vēli of tax-free land in Teṉkuṟukkai alias Rājanārāyaṇapuram in Tirunaṟai-paṟṟu in Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu as the capital for conducting the services in the temple of Rājarāja-Īśvaram-uḍaiyanāyaṉār at Rājarājapuram, a western hamlet of Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa-vaḷanādu. This order was signed by Villavarāyaṉ and others.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī komāṟapaṉmar tirupuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī vīrapāṇṭiya tevarkku yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu nāḷ 12524 ṉāl prasādam ceytaruḷiṉa tirumukappaṭi [|*] coḻa maṇṭalattup pāṇṭikulapati vaḷanāṭṭuk kaṇṭiyūr koyil paḷḷiyaṟaik kūṭattup paḷḷippīṭaṅ kāliṅkarāyaṉil eḻuntaruḷi irutta 1 ce[yta*] niṉaippiṉpaṭi [|*] ⟨Page 32⟩

⟨2⟩ kulottuṅka coḻavaḷanāṭṭu melkūṟṟu irāja rāja 1 purattu uṭaiyār rājarāja 1 īśvaramuṭaiya nāyaṉār koyil tiru[p*]paṇikku veṇṭuvaṉavukkuṭalāka innāṭṭu tirunaṟaiyūr[ppa]ṟṟil teṉkuṟukkaiyāṉa irāca nārāyaṇa purattile [kār] maṟu viḷaiyunnilattile • irupatiṟṟu velinilam muṉṟāvatu paṅkuṉi māta mutal

⟨3⟩ mutalaṭaṅka iṟaiyiliyākak kuṭuttu innāṉkellaiyilum tiruccūlakkallum nā[ṭ*]ṭivittu cantirātittavaraiyum im mutal koṇṭu tiruppaṇiyum naṭatti ippaṭi kallilum cempilum vēṭṭivittuk koḷka eṉṟu tiruvāy moḻintaru[ḷi*]ṉapaṭikku ivai ikuṭi uṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu [|*] ivai villa

⟨4⟩ varāyaṉ eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0022⟩ No. 22. (A.R. No. 22 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

Inner gōpura of the Airāvatēśvara temple, right of entrance.

Śaka 1408 = 1486 A.D.

The details of the date of the record viz., Śaka 1408, the cyclic year Krōdhana, Makara-saṅkramaṇa which details are not sufficient for verification.

It records the grant of land in Śividapaṟṟu at Rājarājaśuram (i.e., Rājarājēśvaram) to meet the expenses of worship of the deity Rājarājēśuram-uḍaiya-nā[yaṉā]r also called Tambirāṉār by Ayyaṉ Vīramaraśar.

This chief may be identified with his namesake who figures as a subordinate of the Vijayanagara king Virūpāksha III, who ruled between 1465 and 1486 A.D.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śubhamastu [||*] śakābdam 1[4]08 ṉmel cellā niṉṟa kuṟotana 2 sa- ⟨Page 33⟩

⟨2⟩ [m*]vaṟsarattu makaranāyaṟṟu [samkra]mapuṇyakālattu ṉāyanār irājarāje 1 curamuṭaiya nā[yaṉā*]

⟨3⟩ ṟku pūcaikku ayyaṉ viramācar taṉmamāka rājarāje 1 curattil civita paṟṟil taṭi pala-

⟨4⟩ viṉāl cetta nañcey rūpāy1 inta nilam oṉṟe muṉṟu

⟨5⟩ [mā]vum araikkāṇi muntirikai[k*]kiḻaraiyum tampirāṉār pūcaikku-

⟨6⟩ ṭalāka cantirātittavaraiyum naṭappatākavum aricilāṟṟukku vaṭakku

⟨7⟩ iḷaiya [vaiṉātikku] tep paṭutta ••• paṟṟu nilakkaṭamai mā •••••

⟨8⟩ ••••• ṇa[ṭar]ttu miṉāṉ kellaikkuṭpaṭa koyilile kaṇṭu koṇṭu pūcai naṭattavum |

⟨SIIv25p0i0023⟩ No. 23. (A.R. No. 23 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

Inner gōpura of the Airāvatēśvara temple, right of entrance.

Māṟavarman Śrīvallabha

This incomplete epigraph may palaeographically be assigned to 13-14th century. The portion referring to the regnal year is damaged. The extant details of date are the fourteenth day of the month of Tai of a regnal year (not clear).

It states that the nāṭṭavar of Ūṟṟattūr met at the temple of Rājarāja-Īśuram and agreed to provide for the services and festivals in the temple from out of the income from taxes collected. The tax collectors were empowered to collect the toll tax of half a paṇam per head; tax on cattle, one palam, per head; tax on head-load, half a paṇam per load; tax on import and export; 5 per cent and the like or else to break open the locked doors of the houses and to destroy and confiscate the vessels therein. Their remuneration is stated to have been specified. ⟨Page 34⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] komāṟapar(m)mar 1 tirupuvaṉa(ṉā)ccakkaravattikaḷ śrī śrīval[lapa] tevaṟkku yāṇṭu •••kku tai mātam 14 ti[ka]ti ••••• ttuṅka(tuṅka)[coḻa*]vaḷanāṭṭu ūṟṟattūr nā[ṭ]ṭavarom irā rā 2 curattu periya |

⟨2⟩ nāṭṭāṉk[ka*]kāvil niṟaivuṟa niṟaintu kuṟaivaṟak kūṭiyiruntu [uṭ]aiyār irācā curamuṭaiya(r) nāyaṉāṟku tiruppaṇikkum tirunāḷukkum uṭalāka nāṅkaḷ paṇṇikkuṭutta camayam āvatu [|*] per mutalppaṭiye per oṉṟu-

⟨3⟩ kku araiyāka vanta paṇamum kaṟṟukkolukku 3 per oṉṟukku oṉṟā ••• ta paṇamum palata(l)laikkum per oṉṟukku ar[ai]yāka vanta paṇamum eṟucāttu iṟaṅkucāttukku nūṟṟukku aiñcāka vanta paṇa[m] peṟavum aḷappaṉ mukappaḷavukkum immātiri peṟavum ivvakaippaṭi taṇṭik [koḷḷum] iṭattu aṭaitta katavu taḷḷiyum maṇka[lan]takattum veṇkalam ••••• ippaṭi taṇṭikkoḷḷavum ippaṭikku

⟨4⟩ t taṇṭi vantavar[ka]ḷukku •• lli •• kkap pāvāṭai •• ••••• ciṟu aricip •• ppā •• ppaṭi veṟṟilai ippaṭikku veṇṭuṅ kuṟaivaṟuppukaḷu ••• kuṟai vaṟukkak kaṭa 4

⟨SIIv25p0i0024⟩ No. 24. (A.R. No. 24 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

Below the image of a dvārapālaka set up close to the inner gōpura of the Airāvatēśvara temple, left of entrance.

Vijayarājēndradēva (Rājādhirāja I).

This label inscription in characters of c. 11th century states that this image (dvārapālaka image) was brought by the king from Kalyāṇapuram after sacking it.

(cf: K.A.N. Sastri: Cōḷas, Vol. I, p. 275 n). ⟨Page 35⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] uṭaiyār śrī vijayarājendradēvar-

⟨2⟩ kalyā(yā)ṇa 1 puram eṟintu koṭuvanta tuvārapālakar

⟨SIIv25p0i0025⟩ No. 25. (A.R. No. 25 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

Above the empty dēvakōshṭhas on the walls of the outer gōpura of the Airāvatēśvara temple.

These small label inscriptions assignable to about the 12th Century contain the names of the gods and goddesses whose images have been installed therein.

TEXT.

NORTH SIDE.

⟨1⟩ ādicaṇḍēśvaradēvar ||-

⟨2⟩ gaṅgādēvi |

⟨3⟩ dumburu 2 nāradar [|*]

⟨4⟩ vaiśravaṇan [|*]

⟨5⟩ candran |-

⟨6⟩ mahāśāstā ||-

⟨7⟩ nāgarājā [|*]

⟨8⟩ vāyu |

WEST SIDE.

⟨9⟩ hṛlēkhādēvi ||

⟨10⟩ rudrā[ṇī ||]

⟨11⟩ vaiṣṇavī-

⟨12⟩ brahmāṇī 3 [|*]

⟨13⟩ varuṇan || ⟨Page 36⟩

⟨14⟩ śrīnandikēśvaradē[var ||]

⟨15⟩ pēriya dēvar [|*]

⟨16⟩ śāntyatītāśakti [|*]

⟨17⟩ śāntiśakti |

⟨18⟩ vidyāśakti ||-

⟨19⟩ pratiṣṭhāśakti [|*]

⟨20⟩ nivṛttiśakti ||-

SOUTH SIDE.

⟨21⟩ dakṣaprajāpati

⟨22⟩ yamu nādēvi ||-

⟨23⟩ rati §

⟨24⟩ kāmadēvin ||-

EAST SIDE.

⟨25⟩ agnidēvar ||-

⟨26⟩ agastyadēvar [|*]

⟨27⟩ śrī dēvi || i

⟨28⟩ durggādēvī ||

⟨29⟩ dēvēndran [|*]

⟨30⟩ patmanidhi 1||-

⟨31⟩ sūryadēvar ||-

⟨32⟩ sūbrahmaṇyadēvar ||-

⟨33⟩ kṣētrapālar ||-

⟨34⟩ sarasvati ||-

⟨35⟩ viśvakarmmā ||-

⟨36⟩ īśānadēvar ||- ⟨Page 37⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0026⟩ No. 26. (A.R. No. 26 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On two stones lying in the court-yard of the Airāvatēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I (acc. 1070 A.D.)

These two pieces of stone are of one and the same record of the king. It contains a belittle portion of the praśasti commencing with Pugaḻśūḻnda-puṇari, etc.

It refers to a transaction of the peruṅguṟi-mahāsabhai of a village (name lost) and to the boundaries of land, the details of which are lost.

TEXT.

A

⟨1⟩ — niṟutti vaṭati[cai] vākai cūṭittenṟi— 1

⟨2⟩ ⎯⎯ ru[n] talaittiṭat ta[np]oṉ nakarpappuṟattiṭai—

⟨3⟩ ⎯⎯ peruntiruvum paḻiyukantu koṭutta pukaḻu—

⟨4⟩ ⎯⎯ p paṭuttu maṟṟavar tammai vanacarar tiriyu—

⟨5⟩ ⎯⎯ ṁhāsanattup puvani muḻutuṭaiyāḷo—

⟨6⟩ ⎯⎯ mūrp piṭākai [i]caiyāna rājacuntari nal—

⟨7⟩ ⎯⎯ nayum ittevar koyilum tirumuṟṟamum—

⟨8⟩ ⎯⎯ viḷaiyātey pāḻkiṭantamaiyil itṉilaṅ—

⟨9⟩ ⎯⎯ ṭuttuk koṇṭu 2—

B

⟨1⟩ ⎯⎯ ṭit tenṟicait t[e]marut—

⟨2⟩ ⎯⎯ tiṭaikiṭappa innāḷ ••• ••• •••• p piḻai pol niṟaṉ—

⟨3⟩ ⎯⎯ [ṇṭalaṅ] koḷ[ḷa*] tiruviḷai[ttaruḷi v]eḷḷavaru parittaḷaṅkaḷum—

⟨4⟩ ⎯⎯ •• lai kaḷiṭṭaruḷi tiṟal koḷ virasiṅhāsa namti— ⟨Page 38⟩

⟨5⟩ ⎯⎯ timaṅkalattu peruṅkuṟi mahāsabhaiyom—

⟨6⟩ ⎯⎯ kaṇṇāṟṟu 2- ñ catirattu rūpāy 4 itil teṟkaṭaiya—

⟨7⟩ ⎯⎯ ṟṟu 5 ñā catirattu nilam 4 lil teṟkaṭaiya nilam •••—

⟨8⟩ ⎯⎯ ••• ••• •••• nilattukku itu •••

⟨9⟩ ⎯⎯ ••• ••• •••• ciṟuko

⟨SIIv25p0i0027⟩ No. 27. (A.R. No. 27 of 1908.) DĀRĀŚURAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

Stone lying in the court-yard of the Airāvatēśvara temple.

This epigraph palaeographically assignable to c. 14th-15th Century refers to a gōpura called Īgai-mūvēndiraiyar tiruk-kōpuram, probably of the above temple.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ īkai muventiraiyar

⟨2⟩ tirukkopuram ||

⟨SIIv25p0i0028⟩ No. 28. (A.R. No. 28 of 1908.) TIRUPPANANDĀḶ, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

East wall of the first prākāra of the Aruṇajaṭēśvarasvāmi temple.

Rājarāja II year 18: 1163 A.D.

This record commences with the praśasti of the king, Pūmaruviya-poḻil-ēḻum, etc.

It records the sale of 375 vēli of wet and dry lands by Śēndaṉ Kūttāḍuvāṉ alias Rājarāja-vaṅgāra-muttaraiyaṉ, of Peṇṇāgaḍam alias Muḍigoṇḍaśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya village in Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu to one Aḻiyāviradaṅkaṇḍār-Tīyilumpiriyār alias Kuṅgiliyakkalaiyar, for a value of 1000 aṉṟāḍu-naṟkāśu. The land, thus sold, is mentioned to be in possession of the seller since it was purchased in his name by his father Sēndar alias Vāṇakularāyar from one Vāḷavarāyaṉ of Kīḻkarai-Kāṭṭuppaḷḷi of the same nāḍu. The purchaser is referred to here as a worshipper of the famous Śaiva saint Tirukkaḍavūr-Kuṅgiliyakkalaiyāṇḍār, who is described to have prepared the deity Tiruttāṭakēśvaram-uḍaiyār at Tiruppanandāḷ in Maṇṇi-nāḍu. ⟨Page 39⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ nataṅkaṟppuyantana maṟaiyo • toḻilvaḷan ellārun tanitta niyeyil vāḻuntaṉamiyāmeṉa makuḻa oru varuṭan oruvaṟkkum onṟiṉuṭan onṟiṉukkum veruvarukai maṉattinṟi viḻaintu kātaluṭan cena inti nanmutaṟṟi cāpāla neṇmaruvoruvaṭivāki vantapaṭiyeṉaninṟuma-

⟨2⟩ ṉu vāṇai tani naṭātti māliyāṉai piṇippuṇ paṉmaṇic cilampe yāṟṟuvana celoṭaiye kalakkuṇ paṉputemāve vaṭuppaṭuvana māmalane kaṭiyavāyina varupuṉale ciṟaippaṭuvana kāvukaḷe koṭiya vāyina kaḷḷuṇpaṉavaṇṭukaḷe • poyyu ••••• vaṉa veye • ponmalivaṉa eḻu kaḻaniye • mayyuṭaiyana neṭuvanaiye • maruḷuṭaiyana iṉa 1 mānkaḷe kayalkkulame piṟantoḻukum pakaittāya nekaṭintoṟuppān iyaṟppulavane poruḷkeṭppān icaippāṇaney

⟨3⟩ kūṭañceyvānenṟu kūvankākkun tirunāṭṭi niyalvituve naṉinṟu kāval neṟi pūṇṭu neṟiyallatu niṉaiyātu tantaiyil lontantaiyākiyum tāyanillon tāyanākiyu maintanillon maintaṉākiyum naṉuyinkaṭkku yitadākiyum viḻi peṟṟa payanenṉavum mey peṟṟa aruḷenṉavum mukam peṟṟapaṉuvalenṉavum ettuṟaikkum iṟaiva nenṉavum yanañcey peruntavame naṉavum muttamiṭ kuttalaiva nenṉavum muṟṟulakiḷ mutalva nenṉavum anaiciyaṟkai muṟai niṟut-

⟨4⟩ ti allavaikaṭintāṟuyttuy porukaliyin iruḷ nikki pukaḻenṉum nilāpparappi kanṉaṭarum kāliṅkarum tenṉavarum ciṅkaḷarum kekaiyarum koṅkaṇarum kūpakarum kāśyaparum kāmpocarum kocalarum kontaḷarum papḷarum pāñcālarum poppaḷarum pūluvarum mattinarum manāṭṭarum

⟨5⟩ ṉuttavarum mākatarum koṭivaṭaṅkutan kopurak koṟṟavācal vantiṉṭi iṭutiṟaikaḷaneka koṭiyāliyaṟ pāvala vakaṟṟikkarumāmukil tiruniṟuttu kakanakkaṇvan rājarājan tirumānviluntirut toḷilum tirumanti 1 ⟨Page 40⟩

⟨6⟩ tilum piriyātu mantānakkuḻuliyaṟ kon makuṭa cūḷāma •• •• tnamtilata coḷakulātnam pūmakaḷilum jayamakaḷilum puvimakaḷilum nāmakaḷilum puvimakaṉilum nāmakaḷilu mutaṟ teviyāy nātuṅkaṟkivaḷena pānanai carperuntēviyar pallāṇṭenṟaṭi perāp perācutaninaṭātti peṇ •• ṇaracāyamuṭicūṭiuṭanāṇai uṭanāḷaiyum uṭan ciṟappum uṭan irukkaiyum kaṭanāka veypaṭaittaruḷi aṟampurakkuṅ karuṇai valli kavalaiyaṟappacumpuravikkaṭ viṭṭerkaṭavivaruntavaṉa kulattulakan toḻavantaruḷiya cāntidōtayam • nāṇa mutaṟkkuṇa nārkum nal-

⟨7⟩ loḻukkumum peruṅkaṟppum peṇumayiṟkkulatipam tiruvantappurap perumāḷ akilaloka •• mātar veṉṟāraṇaṅkaḷoru nānkum •• kalvaruntani nāyaki puvanamuḻutuṭaiyāḷm akkirāmakkaliya vālaru maḻai poḻi kuḷir veṇkuṭaic cakkaravaṟtti cenanātan taraṇimayintan ••••• laṅkalmalaṟ colai āluṅkiḷiyavankātaṟ poru ••••• rupa ••• pāṟkaṭalviḷai yāṭum peṭaiya naṉm po ••••• ṭi mayil pūloka cunta niyām perpaṭaitta ṉānmukatton perum paṭappai paḻakkum paṇai vaiyyamettu m

⟨8⟩ camaṉtakamaṇimāntan puṉaikaṉattuva maṇitayyalāṟ koru cūḷāmaṇi cakatēkacintāmaṇi puṇṇiya moru vaṭivukoṇṭu pukaḻenṉumaṇi puṇantu ••• penta••• ••• •••• nirvaḻi • • yomaṭiyomenamunṉinṟu toḻutettamutalmai peṟṟa mulanāyaki inam poḻiyuṅkavi rā ••••• yāṉaiyoṭu ter kaṭāvatta nam poḻiyum irācarācan tāy veḷai taritta poṟkoṭi icaimuḻutum kuṇamuḻutum koṭaimuḻutum eḻilmuḻutum ticaimuḻutu maṇ muḻutu

⟨9⟩ m tirumuḻutum uṭaiyaḷāki munṉamutulakuyya muṭicūṭum irācapaṇṭitan taṉṉai muḻutuṭaiya tevi taraṇi muḻutuṭaiyāḷum pārvāḻavu maṟaivāḻavum ••• ••• •••• palatuval vāḻavum malāṭa kulattava tarittutticaiviḷakkup peṇmaiyuṭain peruṅ ••••• malarmicai naṭāttuṅkuyil ulakuṭai mukkokkiḻā naṭikaḷenṉum alakil kaṟppillā ⟨Page 41⟩ vintamaṭantaiyum tiruntiya tanperuṅkuṇattāl ciṟantōṅka aṟampākkum aruñtutiyena varum peru avani muḻutuṭaiyāḷum maṉṉiya perumpukaḻḻuṭaitta te-

⟨10⟩ vankiḻānaṭikaṉum ūḻiyūḻipalakaṟppil vāḻi maṇam puṇantiruppa utaiyakiri ucceṟi mati veṇ kuṭaipputu niḻaṟkkiḻ cantiramukamaṇṭalattu tirumalarmakaḷ te ••••• •• uṭaniruntatena cempon vīrasiṁhāsanattu avani muḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭum vīṟṟiruntaruḷiya kopparakecari paṉmarāna tiripuvaṉac cakkaravaṟttikaḷ śrīrājarājadēvaṟkku yāṇṭu 18 āvatu vaṭakarai virutarāja bhayaṅkaravaḷa nāṭṭu brahmadēyan taniyūr peṇṇākaṭamāna muṭikoṇṭa coḻac carup-

⟨11⟩ petimaṅkalattup paḷḷikkāṇiyuṭaiya centankūttāṭuvā nāna rājarājavaṅkāra muttaraiya nen nilavilai āvaṇam ināṭṭumaṇṇi nāṭṭut tiruppanantāḷ ••• ••• •••• 1 śvaramuṭaiyāraic cevveḻuntaruḷivitta tirukkaṭavūṟ kuṅkiliyak kalaiyāṇṭārntaci pātantuppaṇi ceytirukkum aḻiyāvātaṅkoṇṭār tīyilum rāṉa kuṅkiliyakkalaiyaṟku nānviṟṟuk kuṭutta nilamāvatu ināṭṭukkiḻ kāraikkāṭṭup paḷḷi vāḷavarāyan pakkal en tamappan

⟨12⟩ (c)aintarānavāṇa kularāyar en perile poruḷiṭṭu vilai koṇṭu ennutāy varukiṟa neṭuñceri yenṟu perkūvappaṭṭa ūr nilam kāleyaraik kālināl nelp payir ceyyu nilamu ••••• ḷḷiṭṭuppun payir ceyyu nilamuḻuṭpaṭa nilam 375 veli innila munnūṟṟeḻupattaiv velikkum kiḻ pāṟkellai rājēndra coḻap perāṟṟukku meṟkum tenpāṟkellai ivvāṟṟukku vaṭakkum melpāṟkellai cerukuṭi •• ṇṭiyum irāca neriyum akappaṭac ceñlūr i

⟨13⟩ nāyan kuṟucciyil nattattukku ••• ••• •••• āṟṟūr veḷiyile puṟappaṭa itaṉai ••• ••• •••• kal ••• āṟṟūr veḷakku ••••• vicaiyekiḻakku nokkip po ••• kkuṟuk ⟨Page 42⟩ • kkut tekum ••• ••• •••• ivvicaitta perunār kellaiyuḷ naṭuvupaṭṭa nilam munnūṟṟu ••••• v veliyum ivaṟkuviṟukkuṭuttukkoḷvatāna emmicai tevalaip poruḷ aṉṟāṭu naṟpa kācu 1000 ikkācu āyiramuṅkāṭ ṭeṟṟi āvaṇakkaṇiye kaiccelavaṟak koṇṭu viṟṟu vilaiyāvaṇañ ceytu kuṭutten ivvaḻiyā virataṅkoṇṭārtiyilum ••••• na kuṅkiliyakkalaiyaṟku iccentan kūt ••••• nāna rājarāja- vaṅkāra muttaraiyanen in nilattukku ituve vilai yāvatākavum itu veporumāvaṟutip poruḷc cilavolai yāvatākavum ituvallatu veṟu porumāvaṟuti poruḷ cilavolai kāṭṭak kaṭavatallatākavum ippaṭi

⟨14⟩ vilaikkaṟaviṟṟu poruḷaṟak koṇṭu viṟṟu vilaiyāvaṇañ ceytu kuṭutten iv vaḻiyā virataṅkoṇṭār tīyilum piriyātārāna kuṅkiliya ••• ••• •••• vaṅkāra muttaraiya nen i ••• ••• •••• ṅkaḷum innilattālvanta urimaikaḷum akappaṭaviṟṟukkuṭutten ivvaḻiyā virataṅkoṇṭār tīyilum piriyātārāna kuṅkiliyaṟku centan kūttāṭuvā

⟨15⟩ nāna rājarāja vaṅkāra muttaraiyanen ivar colla inta vilaip piramāṇam eḻutinen brahmadēyam tiruppanantāḷmadhyasdhan parantāṉūruṭaiyān ••• ••• •••• ikkācu āyiramuṅ kaikkoṇ ••• ••• •••• taraiyanen ivaiyenneḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai centan vāṇakularāyan eḻuttu § ippaṭikku ivai kūttāṭuvān āḷappiṟantān eḻuttu |||—ippa-

⟨16⟩ ṭikku ivai kūttāṭuvān ciṟaimīṭṭāṉ eḻuttu ||— ippaṭi aṟiveṉ atikāram kaṅkaikoṇṭaveḷān eḻuttu ||—ippaṭi aṟiveṉ ••• ••• •••• m poruṭaiyān eḻuttu ippaṭi aṟiven muvaraiyān[e]n ivai en eḻuttu ||— ⟨Page 43⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0029⟩ No. 29. (A.R. No. 29 of 1908.) GAṄGAIKOṆḌACHŌḶAPURAM, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

West wall of the central shrine in the Bṛihadīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga I year 41: 1110-11 A.D.

This damaged and incomplete inscription contains parts of the kingds praśasti beginning with Pugaḻ-śūḻnda-puṇari, etc.

The first of the three verses in Sanskrit language and written in Grantha characters invoke the goddess Śrī (i.e., Lakshmī), while the other two verses trace the genealogy of the Gāhaḍavāla kings of Kanauj viz., Yaśōvigraha, Mahīchandra and śrī Chandradēva.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ lutkaraḥ [|*] samrambhaḥ suritārambhē 1 saśrī • ••• ••• •••• 2 lamālāsudipaṅga •••••

⟨2⟩ ••• 3 tō[bhū]nmahīcandraśvandradhāmanibhannijam [|*] yēnāpā ••• ••• •••• 4 sāpāritamyaśaḥ 5[||*] tasyābhūttanayō [nayaikarasikaḥ*] krāntañciṣa nmaṇḍalō viddhastō ddhatadhīrayōdhatimiraḥ śrī candra [dē]vōnṛpa[ḥ*] [|*] 6 ⟨Page 44⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0030⟩ No. 30. (A.R. No. 30 of 1908.) GAṄGAIKOṆḌACHŌḶAPURAM, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

West wall of the central shrine in the Bṛihadīśvara temple.

Mallikārjuna Śaka [13]74: 1452-53 A.D.

The details of the date of the record except for the Śaka and cyclic years, are lost as it is damaged.

This highly damaged record seems to register a grant of land as māṉṉiyam. It refers to one Kachchirāyaṉ and the village Vaḻudilampaṭṭu. All other details are lost.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] vijayātbhu[da] ••• śakā ••• [13]24l mel cellāniṉṟa [ci]trabh[ā]••• ••• •••• n kiḻakku śrīman rājādhirāja ••• ••• •••• dēvarāya • •

⟨2⟩ mahārāyar viḷantai Ekāmpa ••• ••• •••• rupam taṉakku malli kārjjuna ••• ••• •••• m tantu tecamāṉṉiya ••• ••• ••••

⟨3⟩ parattile viṇṇappañ cey ••• ••• •••• [ṇa]ppamum tiruuḷḷam paṟṟa ••• ••• •••• kaccirāyaṉ eṉṟu perum ••• ••• •••• ciṉṉa •••••

⟨4⟩ mañcam iraṭṭaip pantam ca ••• ••• •••• ttu vaḻutilampaṭṭu ucā[ma] ••• ••• ••••paṟṟuc cirmaiyum ••• ••• •••• ṭṭi ā •••••

⟨5⟩ inta varicai māṉṉiyaṅka ••••• [pa] vittu koṇṭu intaccirmaiyu[m*] uṭ ••••• ta āka [a]ṉupavittu koḷḷavum ••• ••• •••• ḷai mu[ṭi] •••••

1. The rest of the inscription is lost.

⟨6⟩ cittiramañcam patiṉeṭṭuppa ••• pikai ca •• vaikka • ṅ taṅkai ekampaṉ kacci ma ••• ••• •••• mallikāṟcunarāyaṉā ••• ••• •••• 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0031⟩ No. 31. (A.R. No. 31 of 1908.) GAṄGAIKOṆḌACHŌḶAPURAM, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Bṛihadīśvara temple.

Perumāḷ Parākrama-Pāṇḍya year lost.

This inscription may palaeographically be assigned to c. 13th century. The details are lost as it is damaged.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ iḥ- svastiśrī [||*] perumāḷ parākrama pāṇ[ṭi] ••••• ••• tti ••• ••• •••• ka viṭṭa •••itu ••••• ••• ṉ eḻuttu ••••• ṉ eḻuttu [|*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0031A⟩ No. 31A. (A.R. No. 31A of 1908.) GAṄGAIKOṆḌACHŌḶAPURAM, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Bṛihadīśvara temple.

This damaged inscription 1may be assigned to c.13th century on palaeographical grounds.

It records an order of the King (name lost) granting lands probably in Gaggaikoṇḍachōḷapuram in Mēṟka-nāḍu, for worship, a sandhi named after king Sundara-Pāṇḍya 2, festivals etc., to a deity (name lost). The order was issued to the variyilār making the gift land as tax-free (iṟaiyili) from the month of Chittirai in his 4th regnal year. The document was attested by Tuñjalūr-uḍaiyāṉ. ⟨Page 46⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ iḥ- svastiśrī [||*] tribhuvaṉaccakravatti ko ••• ••• •••• ••••• ṭaiyār koyi ••• ••• •••• aiyyaṉ peruma ••••• •• ya te[var]

⟨2⟩ tammuṭaiya tirunāmattāl cuntarapāṇ[ṭi] ••• ••• •••• • ku nivantaṅkaḷuk[ku] ••• ••• •••• ṭu meṟkānāṭṭu ••• ••••• ya coḻa •••••

⟨3⟩ kaṅkaikoṇṭa coḻapurattu poṉ ••• ••• •••• m meṟku irā ••••• kkukaṭa [kaṭa]ppai ••• ••• •••• • kku uṭ • •

⟨4⟩ ūrkaḷāl varum naṉcey puṉce[y] ••• ••• •••• [ti]ruvoṭai kuḷamum ••• ••• •••• pāṭṭam kuḷavaṭai mā[vaṭai] ••• ••• •••• [ṭ]aippaṭṭa •••••

⟨5⟩ muṉṉāḷvaraiyum pūcaikku iṟaiyili ••• ••• •••• kku nāl vanta mu ••• ••• •••• ṭṭil vallavanallūr ••••• •• [e]llaikku uṭpaṭṭa naṉcey puṉcey uṭ •••••

⟨6⟩ ttil tirunāmattukkāṇikku iṟuttu pa ••• ••• •••• ruṉūlum ciraṅkanāta nā[ya] ••••• ṭaiy perāl kaṭṭiṉa [kaṇa] ••••• ṉ cantikkum tirunāḷukkum nālāvatu cittirai māta-

⟨7⟩ mutal iṟaiyiliyākakkuṭuttu variyilār kaṇak •• [m]ākac [co]ṉṉom ippaṭikku ivvolaiye piṭipāṭ[āka] koṇṭu cantirātittavaṟc cel ••• [kal]lilum cempilum veṭṭi aṉupavittup potu[ka] ivai[tu]ñcalūruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu ||

1. The ends of the lines are built in.

2. Rest of the portion of the record is lost.

⟨SIIv25p0i0032⟩ No. 32. (A.R. No. 32 of 1908.) GAṄGAIKOṆḌACHŌḶAPURAM, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Bṛihadīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III year 13 = 1190 A.D.

This incomplete record commences with the praśasti Pugaḻ vā[y*]ttu vaḷam-peruga, etc., of the king, of which only portions can be made out.

It records an order of the king issued on the 160th day of the thirteenth year of his reign. It purports to be a copy of the king's order in connection with some transaction of a dēvadāna land. Mentions the sub-division Karavaḷa-nāḍu.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ puyal vā[y]ttu vaḷam perukap poyyāta nāṉmaṟaiyiṉ ceyal vā[y]ppa tirumaka(ḷ)ḷum ceyamakaḷum ciṟaṟ^1^⎯⎯

⟨2⟩ yum maṭamāṉu[m] vaṉtorutuṟaiṉiruṇṇak koḻ veṅkaikkoṭi [i*]mayattuk koṟṟavar ta⎯⎯

⟨3⟩ tam perunilai • nāṟṟicaikkum kāvalaṉākac ceya maturai • ••• ••• ••••⎯⎯

⟨4⟩ patinmuṉṟāvatu nāḷṉūṟṟu aṟupatiṉāl prasādam ceytaruḷiya tirumukappaṭi [|*] kulottuṅ⎯⎯

⟨5⟩ le eḻu[ntaruḷi] vittapaṭikku ittevar tevatāṉam ••• ••• yaṅ karavaḷanāṭṭu [na*]ṭuviṟkkā^2^⎯⎯ ⟨Page 48⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0033⟩ No. 33. (A.R. No. 33 of 1908.) GAṄGAIKOṆḌACHŌḶAPURAM, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Bṛihadīśvara temple.

Kōnēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ year lost.

This damaged inscription may be assigned to the 12th-13th century on palaeographical grounds. The extant details of date available is 152nd day of the king's reign period.

It records an order of the king issued to the priests (mūlappaṭṭuḍaippañchāchārya)

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tirupuvaṉaccakkaravatti koneriṉmai koṇṭāṉ uṭaiyār kaṅk[ai] ••• ••• •••• koyilil ••••• lappaṭṭuṭaip pañcācāriyat tevakaṉmmikkum śrīmāhe

⟨2⟩ śvarakkaṇkāṇi c[e]yvārkaḷukkum śrīkāriyam ceyvāṉukkum cevikkum pulavarkaḷil [ta]mpu ••• ••• •••• •• yilil tiruvāykkeḻvi viṇṇappam ceyvārkaḷil kāṇiyāna paṇi oṉṟu

⟨3⟩ •• [ku] muṉpu peṟṟu varukiṟapaṭiye nā[ḷ]oṉṟukku tūṇiyāka vantaṉel nimaṉtamāka ivaṉukku veṇṭuvā • ••••• vai ceyyavum ippaṭikku ik koyilil kalveṭṭavum peṟaveṇumeṉṟu

⟨4⟩ ivaṉ namakku [cc]oṉṉamaiyil ippaṭiye ceyyak kaṭavat[ā*]kac coṉṉom [|*] ikkoyilile kalveṭṭak kaṭavutākap paṇṇuka [|*] eḻuti nāṉ tirumantira ōlai minavan muventaveḷāṉ

⟨5⟩ ••• [eḻu] || toṇṭaimāṉ eḻuttu || viḻinattaraiyaṉ eḻuttu || ciṅkaḷarāyaṉeḻuttu [||] ••••• rāyaṉ eḻuttu || [yā]ṇṭu •• nāl nāḷ 152 |||§ ⟨Page 49⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0034⟩ No. 34. (A.R. No. 34 of 1908.) GAṄGAIKOṆḌACHŌḶAPURAM, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Bṛihadīśvara temple.

This fragmentary inscription may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to the 12th century. Except for the tithi and the week-day viz., trayōdaśi and Monday, the other details of date are lost.

It seems to record a gift of some villages, which were originally made as dēvadāna, as tax-free (iṟaiyili) along with its income from taxes from the date of the record. All other details are lost.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrīḥ [||*] śrīmat kittikku mel tribhuvaṉac 1⎯⎯

⟨2⟩ trayōdaśiyum tiṅkaṭkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa tiru⎯⎯

⟨3⟩ va(r) tāṉamāka viṭṭa vaṭakarai virudharājabhayaṅkara⎯⎯

⟨4⟩ uḷḷiṭṭa ūrkaḷ iṉṉāḷ mutal mutalaṭaṅka iṟaiyi⎯⎯ ⎯⎯

⟨5⟩ pūvum karuppum kamukum ceṅkaḻinirum vāḻai koḻuntu • ••• ••• •••• kku vaḻutalai⎯⎯

⟨6⟩ ṟai taṭṭoli taṭṭārappapāṭṭam veṭṭippāṭṭam i ••• ••• •••• ṭṭut tevaikaḷ uṭ⎯⎯

⟨7⟩ yap peṟu cantivikrahappeṟu maṟṟum eṟperppaṭṭa uḷ ••• ••• •••• iṉṉāḷ [mutali] muta •••

⟨8⟩ mpilum veṭṭi ivvūriṉil tiruccūlastāpaṉam

⟨9-12⟩ ••• ••• •••• ⟨Page 50⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0035⟩ No. 35.

One of the pillars in the Kambattaḍi-maṇḍapa in the Sundarēśvara temple.

Vīrappa-nāyaka Śaka 1505: 1583 A.D.

This is dated in the month of Pushya of the cyclic year Svabhānu in the Śaka year 1505 which may correspond to January 1583 A.D.

It states that Vīrappa-nāyaḍu, son of Kṛishṇappa-nāyani caused to be constructed a maṇḍapa, probably the Kambattaḍi-maṇḍapa, wherein the inscription is found engraved on one of the pillars.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śubhamastu [||*] svastiśrī śakābdaṁ

⟨2⟩ 1505 ·a·inēṁṭi mī

⟨3⟩ danu svabhānu saṁvatsara

⟨4⟩ puṣya māsaṁ viśvanātha-

⟨5⟩ nāyani kriṣṇappanāya-

⟨6⟩ naiyya komāruṁḍuca

⟨7⟩ vīrappa nāyaḍu ka-

⟨8⟩ ṭiṁci [na]maṁḍapamu śrī

⟨SIIv25p0i0036⟩ No. 36. (A.R. No. 36 of 1908.) MADURAI, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

Stone set up in front of the Perumāḷ temple.

Veṅkaṭa-mahārāya (I) Śaka 1523 A.D.

This damaged and incomplete inscription gives the details of date viz., Śaka 1523 (mistake for 1524), Śubhakṛit, Mēsha, śu 13 are not sufficient for verification.

It seems to record some shares of lands from different villages purchased from several Vaishṇava individuals in favour of the lineage of the jīyar serving the Bhāsyakārar (i.e., Rāmānuja) in the Madanagōpālanmāḍat-tiru-vīdi in Madurai. The other details are lost. ⟨Page 51⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śrīmatē rāmānujāya namaḥ śubhamastu ||

⟨2⟩ [sva]stiśrī [||*] bhuvan[ai*]kavira-śrīvīrapra-

⟨3⟩ tāpa-rājādhirāja-rāja paramē-

⟨4⟩ śvara-śrīvīraveṅkaṭa mahārāyara

⟨5⟩ pradhivīrājyam paṇṇā niṉṟa

⟨6⟩ śakābdam 1523 1 itiṉ mel cellā

⟨7⟩ niṉṟa śubhakṛt varuṣattu mēṣattu pūrvapakṣa-

⟨8⟩ ttu trayōdaśiṉāḷ maturai mataṉag[ō]pā-

⟨9⟩ lan māṭattiru [vi]tiyil bhāṣyakārarukku pa-

⟨10⟩ ṇiyāka jī[ya]r sant[ā]nattukku cilāśā-

⟨11⟩ sanam [|*] iṟṟaiṉāḷ aḻakiya ciṅ-

⟨12⟩ kar kaiyyile kiṟayamāka

⟨13⟩ koṇṭa kucciyūr paṅkoṉ-

⟨14⟩ ṟu appāvaiyyaṅkār kaiy-

⟨15⟩ yil koṇṭa paṅkoṉṟu vaṅ-

⟨16⟩ kippuṟam rākava[y*]yaṅkār [kai*]yyil 905

⟨17⟩ poṉṉukkuśōbhakiṟatu varuṣaṅ-

⟨18⟩ koṇṭa uttamar kovi •• ṅ ••• ṉa

⟨19⟩ yūr • ti • tayaṅkāṟkku- kku ••• ••• ••••

⟨20⟩ paṇṇi[na] paṅkoṉṟum sam •••••

⟨21⟩ pṛmādīca varuṣam tirumalayaṅkār •••••

⟨22⟩ •• l kiṟayamāka koṇṭa paṅko 2 ⟨Page 52⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0037⟩ No. 37. (A.R. No. 37 of 1908.) TIRUPPARAṄKUṈṞAM, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

On one of the pillars in the rock-cut cave.

Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ year 6: 773 A.D.

This Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription is engraved in archaic characters of 8th century A.D has been attributed to Jaṭila Parāntaka of the Āṉaimalai inscription dated Kali 3871 (see S.I.I., Vol. XIV, Nos 1 and 2, Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII, pp. 317 ff).

It records the construction of the Tirukkōyil (shrine) and of the Śrītaṭākam (tank) by Śāttaṉ Gaṇapati, a resident of Karavandapura who is known as Pāṇḍi-Amṛitamaṅgalavaraiyaṉ, and is stated to have belonged to the Vaidya family and to have been the mahāsāmanta of the king. The shrines of Durgādēvī and Jyēshṭhādēvī were constructed by Nakkaṉ-koṟṟi, who is described as the Dharmapatni, probably of this mahāsāmanta.

This general who was also called Sāmanta Bhīma and an important member of the Vaidya family (vai(j)ya-mukhya) is stated to have excavated a temple for Śaṁbhu and to have consecreated the image of the god in the Kali year 3874 (773 A.D.). If this Śiva temple referred to in an inscription from Tirupparaṅkuṉṟam (A.R.Ep., 1951-52, No. B. 143) and the tirukkōyil (temple) stated to have been excavated by Śattaṉ Gaṇapati are identical, as it is not unlikely, the date of the latter event, viz., the 6th year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ, must be equated with 773 A.D., the date of the former event. This gives us the date of his accession as 768 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 3.

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⟨1⟩ śrī komāṟañ caṭaiyaṟku

⟨2⟩ rājyaparṣam āṟāvatu cellā-

⟨3⟩ niṟpa maṟṟavaṟku • mahā-

⟨4⟩ sāmantaṉākiya karavantapurādhi-

⟨5⟩ vāsī vaijyan pāṇṭi ami-

⟨6⟩ rtamaṅkalavaraiyaṉāi-

⟨7⟩ ṉa cāttaṅ kaṇapati ti- ⟨Page 53⟩

⟨8⟩ ruttu vittatu tirukkoi-

⟨9⟩ lum śrītaṭākamum itaṉuḷa-

⟨10⟩ ṟa muḷḷatum [|*] maṟṟava

⟨11⟩ ṟku dharmmapatni ākiya na-

⟨12⟩ kkaṅ koṟṟiyāṟ ceya-

⟨13⟩ p paṭṭatu durgādēvi ko-

⟨14⟩ iluñ jēṣṭai koilum [|*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0038⟩ No. 38. (A.R. No. 38 of 1908.) VARICHCHIYŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

On a rock overhanging the Pañchapāṇḍavar-paḍukkai.

There are three fragmentary inscriptions engraved on this cave. They record the beds to be carved. These inscriptions may palaeographically be assigned to c. 2nd century B.C.

The first inscription reads ••••• paḷiy-koṭupi •••••

This refers to the gift of a paḷḷi (cave). The second inscription reads •••• nūṟu kāchāṉa meaning the gift of one hundred kārshāpaṇa coins.

The third inscription reads ••••• nataṉ āk-iya nāllu irukai meaning the four beds (seats) were caused to be made by ••••• nataṉ.

⟨SIIv25p0i0039⟩ No. 39. (A.R. No. 39 of 1908.) VARICHCHIYŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

On a rocky outcrop of the village Kuṉṉattūr, three furlongs south of the village.

Immaḍi-Narasiṅga-mahārāya.

This undated inscription can be palaeographically assigned to 15th century A.D. It seems to record a gift of three villages viz., Ma[lai]-kkuḍi, Palāṅguḷam and Añ[ja]ru as dēvadāna to the deity Vīrabhadra-nāyaṉār, by Vīramarasayya, the kaṟtar of Madurai-maṇḍalam, for the merit of Nāgaṇanāyakkar.

Vīramarasayya of this record is evidently identical with Ayyaṉ Vīramarasa figuring in a record from Dārāśuram. (A.R.Ep., No. 22 of 1908) ⟨Page 54⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ ciṟiman ma(ā)kāmaṇṭalīcuraṉ metiṉi-

⟨2⟩ micurakaṇṭa kaṭṭāri cāḷuva immaṭi nara-

⟨3⟩ ciṅkamakārāyar piṟativirācciyam ceytaru-

⟨4⟩ ḷukiṟa nākaṇa nāyakkaṟku taṉmamāka maturai

⟨5⟩ maṇṭalattukku kaṟtarāṉa viramaracayyaṉ varuccūr

⟨6⟩ • 1 jirapattira nāyaṉār teyvatāṉamāka

⟨7⟩ viṭṭa malaikkuṭi palāṅkuḷam añcarumā

⟨8⟩ ••••• yitta muṉṟu entalyuḷ paṭṭamunṟumā 2

⟨SIIv25p0i0040⟩ No. 40. (A.R. No. 40 of 1908.) VĪRAŚIKHĀMAṆI, SANKARANAYINAR KOVIL TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT.

On a pillar of the rock-cut cave temple.

Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Chōḷapāṇḍya year 8: 1028-29 A.D.

This damaged inscription seems to record a gift of land for maintaining a lamp in the temple of Kayilāyattu-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ at Vīravinōdachaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Kallaga-nāḍu in Muḍigoṇḍaśōḻavaḷanāḍu.

The donor's name is not clear. However, from the extant portion of the record, it may be said that the above gift was made by Maṇḍai ••• śōlai Śāttaṉ of the above village. The names of the Śivabrāhmaṇas, who are probably to carry out this endowment are given.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 136.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ koccaṭaiyavaṉmarā-

⟨3⟩ ya śrī cuntara coḻapāṇṭiya teva[r]-

⟨4⟩ kku yāṇṭu 8 āvatu irācarācappā-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭi nāṭṭu muṭikoṇṭa coḻavaḷanāṭṭu ⟨Page 55⟩

⟨6⟩ kallaka nāṭṭu brahmadēyam viraci ••••• [yā]-

⟨7⟩ ṉa viravinotac caruppetima •••••

⟨8⟩ śrī kaiyilāyattu perumāṉa •••••

⟨9⟩ vvūr irukkum maṇṭai ••••• co

⟨10⟩ lai cāttaṉ vacca [nantāviḷakku] •••

⟨11⟩ eṟu •• vukāṇi oṉ ••• mu-

⟨12⟩ ṉṟu sandhiyum i •••

⟨13⟩ ru muṭṭāme erikka kaṭavo • •

⟨14⟩ ivūr śivabrāhmaṇaṉe •••

⟨15⟩ [ṉe]kaṇaṉum pāttiśvara • •

⟨16⟩ •• pāttiśvara •••••

⟨17⟩ ṇyaṉum ••• 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0041⟩ No. 41. (A.R. No. 41 of 1908.) VĪRAŚIKHĀMAṆI, SANKARANAYINAR KOVIL TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT.

On one of the beds in the Pañchapāṇḍavar-paḍukkai on the hill.

This inscription is engraved in Grantha characters of about the 9th10th century and its language is an admixture of Sanskrit and Prākṛit.

It records an anāśana-vrata (fasting) evidently of some jaina monk.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti[śrī] 2

⟨2⟩ sama[nā]śanaḥ

⟨3⟩ puñyam 3 saha-

⟨4⟩ pa lē ṇanaḥ- ⟨Page 56⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0042⟩ No. 42. (A.R. No. 42 of 1908.) VĪRAŚIKHĀMAṆI, SANKARANAYINAR KOVIL TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT.

Near the foot-prints engraved on the hill.

This epigraph engraved in characters of about the 14th century A.D., records that the foot-prints of Śrī Sakasāṉandar (i.e., śrī Sahajānanda) were caused to be carved by a certain Avaiyampukkāṉ.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ om [|*] śrīcakacāṉantar śrī-

⟨2⟩ pātam eṟiyaruḷivittāṉ

⟨3⟩ avaiyam pukkāṉ taṉ-

⟨4⟩ mam [||*] om paramaharaḥ-

⟨SIIv25p0i0043⟩ No. 43. (A.R. No. 43 of 1908.) KAḺUGUMALAI, MELUR TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

On a slab in the Kośakkuḍi street.

Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ year 23: 791 A.D.

This record refers to an expedition of the Pāṇḍya army against Śaḍaiyaṉ-Karunandaṉ of Malai-nāḍu, in which the fort of Arivāyūr was destroyed. This Śaḍaiyaṉ-Karunandaṉ is identical with the Āy chieftain whose records are found in the northern part of the Travancore region. He may have originally been a Pāṇḍya vassal as indicated by the surname Śaḍaiyaṉ and may have subsequently rebelled against the Pāṇḍya in conjunction with the Vēṇāḍu ruler of this period, which action was probably the cause of the expedition referred to in the present inscription. Two soldiers of the battalion commanded by the Pāṇḍya subordinate Eṭṭi-Maṇṇaṉ alias Maṅgala-Ēṉādi of Perunechchuṟam, named Viṉaiyantoḻu-śūraṉ of Pūndaṉmali in Toṇḍai-nāḍu and Śāttaṉakkaṉ of Pēreyiṟkuḍi lost their lives in this fight, and in commemoration of their services, some land valued at 20 kaḻañju of gold was given apparently by this Ēṉādi. This endowment, which was made over to the sabhai of Kumaramaṅgalam, may have been in the nature of an udirappaṭṭi.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 31.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śrī komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟ-

⟨2⟩ ku yāṇṭu irupattu-

⟨3⟩ mūṉṟu avvāṇṭu ma- ⟨Page 57⟩

⟨4⟩ lai nāṭṭu caṭaiyaṅ-

⟨5⟩ ka[ru] na[nta*]ṉār meṟpaṭai [po]-

⟨6⟩ y arivi[ū]r[k] koṭṭai

⟨7⟩ aḻittu naṉṟu cey-

⟨8⟩ tu paṭṭār perunec-

⟨9⟩ cuṟattu eṭṭi maṇ-

⟨10⟩ ṇaṉāyiṉa maṅkala e-

⟨11⟩ ṉāti uḷviṭṭuk koyi-

⟨12⟩ ṟ cevakariruvar [|*] avaka-

⟨13⟩ ḷi loruvaṉ ṟoṇṭai-

⟨14⟩ nāṭṭu pūntaṇmali vi-

⟨15⟩ ṉaiyan toḻucūraṉ oruva-

⟨16⟩ ṉai pereyiṟku[ṭi]c cāt-

⟨17⟩ taṉakkaṉ [|*] ivviruvaraiyu-

⟨18⟩ ñ cārtti irupatiṉ kaḻa

⟨19⟩ ñcu poṉ peṟum pūmi a-

⟨20⟩ ṭṭikkuṭu[t*]tāṉ kummaṇa-

⟨21⟩ maṅkala[t*]tu capaiyā[r*]kku-

⟨22⟩ ••••• kalapaṭṭama-

⟨23⟩ ••••• [e]ṉāti [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0044⟩ No. 44. (A.R. No. 44 of 1908.) MĒṬṬUPAṬṬI, NILAKKOTTAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

North, South and East walls of a temple on the hill.

Śaka 1410: 1488 A.D.

The inscription is dated Śaka 1410, Kīlaka and Tai.

It records a gift of lands as dēvadāna to the deity Siddhamalai-nāyiṉār by a certain Timmāchchi-nāyakkar Tirumalaiyaṉ of Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam. The gift land is said to be in Kariyappaṉkōṭṭai which was situated in Puṟamalai Kallaga-nāḍu. The donor is said to have obtained the same as a private property (svaya-gata-dānam) from his overlord Mahābali-Bāṇādhirājar. ⟨Page 58⟩

It may be said that this Bāṇa chief belongs to the later Bāṇa family who were governing from Madurai.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] śakābdam 1410 itaṉ mel cellāniṉṟa kilaka varuṣam tai mātam 6 toṇṭaimaṇṭalam timmācci nāyakkar tirumalaiyaneṉ nāyiṉāṟ cittamalai uṭaiyāṟku kuṭutta tevatāṉamāvatu puṟamalai kallakaṉā l eṉakku nāyinār mahābalībāṇādhirājar cuyakatat taṉ[ma*]māka tanta cīrmaiyil kariyappaṉ koṭṭaikku va ••• ••• •••• kaṟpittu viṭṭa tevatāṉattukku nāṉkellai āvatu [|*] ikkuḷattu kī[ḻ*]kaṭai[k]kompil poṟṟaikkum cūlakallukkum meṟku kariyappaṉ koṭṭaikku vaṭakku āttikaṇavāyku mer[k*] kuṟap[o*]ku[m*] vaḻikku kiḻakkuk [cittama]ṉa ••••• iṉṉāṉkellaikku[ṭpa]ṭṭa naṉcey puṉcey eppaṭṭaṟpaṭṭaṉavum candrāditya varaiyum tevatāṉamāka anubhavittu[k*] koḷḷavum [|*] ittevatāṉattil tirupputtur paramasvāmi bha[kta]nukku sarvvamā(n)nyam rūpāy 2ṭṭa [|*] inta tevatāṉattukku ahitam ceytavaṉ

⟨2⟩ gaṅgaikkaraiyile gōvaiyum brāhmaṇaraiyum guruvaiyum vadhai ceytavaṉ poṉa pāpattile povatākavum [|*] ippaṭikku tirumalaiyaṉ eḻuttu § |

⟨SIIv25p0i0045⟩ No. 45. (A.R. No. 45 of 1908.) MĒṬṬUPAṬṬI, NILAKKOTTAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

On the beds in the Pañchapāṇḍavar-paḍukkai in a cavern on the hill.

There are three fragmentary inscriptions which may palaeographically be assigned to 2nd century B.C.

The first inscription reads chaiy-aḷaṉ vintai-ūr kāvi-y meaning the cavern of Chaiyaḷaṉ (i.e., one form Ceylon) of Vintaiyūr. The second inscription reads nākapērūr = atai chāttaṉ makaṉ meaning the son of Chāttaṉ Atai of Nākapērūr.

The third inscription reads ••••• ti ••••• kkāttāṉ ma ••••• ṉam •• ly ••••• This is a fragmentary and badly managed inscription.

Besides the above, there are nine other fragmentary inscriptions here. They can be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 2nd century B.C.

The first inscription reads: antai ariyti meaning a personal name Antai Ariyti. ⟨Page 59⟩

The second inscription reads: antai iravātaṉ meaning a personal name Antai Iravātaṉ.

The third inscription reads: matira antai visuvaṉ meaning Antai Visuvaṉ of Matirai.

The fourth record reads: antai chenta-a-tāṉa meaning the gift of Antai Chēntaṉ.

The fifth inscription reads: chantaitai chantaṉ meaning a personal name Chantantai Chantaṉ.

The sixth record reads: patiṉ-ūr atai meaning a person A[n*]tai of Patiṉūr.

The seventh inscription reads: kuvira antai chey-a tāṉa meaning the gift made by Kuvira Antai.

The eighth inscription reads: kuvira antai vēḷ-a tāṉa meaning the gift of Kuvira Antai, a vēḷ

The ninth record reads: tiṭi-il-a-tāṉa meaning the gift of (the people of) Tiṭi-il.

⟨SIIv25p0i0046⟩ No. 46. (A.R. No. 46 of 1908.) MĒṬṬUPAṬṬI, NILAKKOTTAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

In the cavern containing the Pañchapāṇḍavar paḍukkai on the hill.

This inscription in characters of 14th century reads Tripurādēviyār.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śrīḥ | tripurādēviyār

⟨SIIv25p0i0047⟩ No. 47. (A.R. No. 47 of 1908.) MĒṬṬUPAṬṬI, NILAKKOTTAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

In the cavern containing the Pañchapāṇḍavar paḍukkai.

This inscription in characters of about the 14th century states that the foot-prints of Sahajānandanādar were caused to be carved by Selvajñānasambandar belonging to the merchant community of Vikramaśōḻapuram (cf. No. 42 of 1908)

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ om [|*] śrī sahajānantanātar tiruvaṭi ni-

⟨2⟩ lai ye[ṟ*]ṟiyaruḷippaṇṇu vittār vikkira-

⟨3⟩ ma coḻapurattuc ceṭṭippiḷḷaiyāna cel-

⟨4⟩ va ñāna campantar tanmam ⟨Page 60⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0048⟩ No. 48. (A.R. No. 48 of 1908.) TIRUPPAṬṬŪR, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Aiyaṉār temple.

Kulōttuṅga II year (10): 1142-43 A.D.

This inscription commences with the praśasti, Pūmēvu-vaḷar tiruppoṉ, etc of the king.

It records a gift of four cows and a kuttuviḷakku weighing 40 (palam ?) for maintaining one-eighth of a lamp for a sandhi in front of the deity Piḷḷaiyāṟ (i.e., Aiyaṉār) of Tiruppiḍavūr, a brahmadēya in Tiruppiḍavūr-nāḍu, a division of Tribhuvamamuḻuduḍai-vaḷanāḍu by a goldsmith (taṭṭāṉ) named Gaṇapati alias Tiruchchiṟṟambalaperuntaṭṭāṉ, a nānādēśip-peruntaṭṭāṉ of Gaṅgaikoṇḍachōḻapuram. The record was engraved by one Dāsan Viḻikoṇḍān Tiruchchiṟṟambalam-uḍaiyāṉ of Pāmburam in Pāmbōr-nāḍu.

The goldsmith who figures as a donor in this record must have belonged to a merchant guild called nānādēśi.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] pūmevu vaḷart tiru[p]poṉ mārvu puṇara nāmevu kalaimakaḷ nalam perutu ciṟap-

⟨2⟩ pa vijaiya māmakaḷ velpuyattirup pat ticai[yu]ñ celvamum meṇṭicai viḷaṅka niru-

⟨3⟩ par vantiṟaiñca niṇil maṭan[tai]yait tirumaṇam puṇar[n]tu cirvaḷar taruma maṇimuṭikavitteṉma[l]-

⟨4⟩ lai ñālattu palluyiṟkellām mellaiyili[ṉ]pamiyal viṉuṉeyti veṇkuṭai niḻaṟ-

⟨5⟩ ••• ••• •••• cci vāḻi pallūḻi yāḻi naṭappac cempoṉ virasiṅṅāsaṉattup puvaṉa muḻutuṭai

⟨6⟩ yāḷoṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya korājakecari panmarāna tripuvaṉaccakravarttikaḷ ci[ri] kulottuṅka co-

⟨7⟩ ḻa dēvaṟkku yāṇṭu [10]vatu tripuvaṉa muḻutuṭai vaḷanāṭṭut tiruppiṭavūr nāṭṭut dēvatāṉa brahma-

⟨8⟩ dēyan tiruppiṭavūr uṭaiya piḷḷaiyārkku kaṅkaikoṇṭa coḻapurattu maṉaikku[ṭi] manaittaṭṭān u- ⟨Page 61⟩

⟨9⟩ ṭaiyān kaṇavatiyāna ṉānādēcippe[ru]ntaṭṭāṉā[ṉa] tiri ciṟṟampalappe[ru]ntaṭṭāneṉ yitdēvaṟkkuc śandrāti-

⟨10⟩ ttavaṟ cella santi oṉṟukkut tiruviḷakku erikaikku nān viṭṭa pacu ṉāliṉāl viḷakku araikkāli[ṟ]ku

⟨11⟩ ney kuṟuṇi nāṉāḻi ivviḷakku eriya iṭṭa kutti viḷakku oṉṟi nāliṭai nāṟppatu ippaṭikku ik-

⟨12⟩ kal veṭṭi neṉ pāmpūr nāṭṭu pāmpurattut tācan viḻikoṇṭān tiricciṟṟampalamuṭaiyā-

⟨13⟩ neṉ ivai enneḻuttu svastiśrī itu panmāyē •• • •

⟨SIIv25p0i0049⟩ No. 49. (A.R. No. 49 of 1908.) TIRUPPAṬṬŪR, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

Right wall of the entrance of the gōpura in the Aiyaṉār temple.

This epigraph engraved in characters of about the 11th century A.D. mentions the name Araiyaṉ Rāja [Rā]jaṉ alias Madurāntaka Iḷaṅgōvēḷāṉ.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti

⟨2⟩ śrī arai-

⟨3⟩ yaṉ rāja-

⟨4⟩ rāja ṉāṉa

⟨5⟩ maturānta-

⟨6⟩ ka iḷaṅ-

⟨7⟩ ko ve-

⟨8⟩ ḷāṉ [|*]-

⟨SIIv25p0i0050⟩ No. 50. (A.R. No. 50 of 1908.) TIRUPPAṬṬŪR, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

Left wall of the entrance of the gōpura in the Aiyaṉār temple.

This inscription engraved in characters of about the 13th century A.D, states that this gōpura was caused to be constructed by Teṟṟi Ādittaṉ alias Ottaga[ne]rittap-pichchaṉ of Tiru Āyappāḍi-nāḍu. ⟨Page 62⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti

⟨2⟩ śrī it-

⟨3⟩ tirukk[o]-

⟨4⟩ puram e[ṭu*]-

⟨5⟩ ppittā-

⟨6⟩ n teṟṟi

⟨7⟩ ātitta-

⟨8⟩ ṉāna o-

⟨9⟩ ttakaṉe

⟨10⟩ [ne]ritta-

⟨11⟩ mpicca-

⟨12⟩ ṉ itu

⟨13⟩ tiru āya-

⟨14⟩ ppāṭi

⟨15⟩ nāṭṭā-

⟨16⟩ ṉ i-

⟨17⟩ ttanma-

⟨18⟩ m rakṣi-

⟨19⟩ ttān u-

⟨21⟩ śrīpāta-

⟨22⟩ m enta-

⟨23⟩ laime-

⟨24⟩ latu ||— ⟨Page 63⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0051⟩ No. 51. (A.R. No. 51 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga III year 27: 1204-05 A.D.

The inscription commences with the praśasti, Maduraiyum Pāṇḍiyaṉmuḍit-talaiyuṅ-koṇḍ-aruḷiya etc., of the king.

It records a gift of six sandhi-lamps to the deity Tiruvayaṉīśuramuḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Vaḻugūr in Irumbāḍu-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam by Kālakāladēva, son of Umā, a dēvaraḍiyār of the temple. The Śivabrāhmaṇas of the temple received 18 paḻaṅkāśu, evidently from Kāla-kāladēva himself, for maintaining the above endowment.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] [tiripuvaṉaccakkaravarttikaḷ] maturaiyum pāṇṭiyaṉ muṭittalaiyuṅ [ko]ṇṭaruḷiya śrī kul[ottu]ṅka coḻadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 27vatu jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭapattu

⟨2⟩ veṇku[ṇ]ṟak koṭṭattu irum pāṭunāṭṭu vaḻukūr āḷuṭai[yār tiru]vayanicuramuṭaiyār koyilil tirumaṭai viḷākattu i[ru]kkum tevaraṭiyā-

⟨3⟩ r[āṉa] umai makaṉ kālakāla tevaṉ iṉnāyaṉāṟku caṉti viḷakku [ā]ṟu iv viḷakkāṟukkum ikkoyil kāṇi uṭaiya civabrāhma roṅ kaik-

⟨4⟩ koṇṭa naṟpaḻaṅkācu 18 ippaḻaṅkācu patineṭṭuṅkaik koṇṭu iccaṉti viḷakkāṟuñ candrādityavarai celuttak kaṭavomikkoyiṟ kāṇi uṭaiya civabrāhmaṇarom [||*]

⟨1⟩ —kku taṇṭecura prasādamākak kuṭuttaruḷiṉa paṉṉira ••• ••• •••• [lil] kiḻakku 370m co vittu ippaṭi potika ikkoyil muta-

⟨6⟩ —ṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai koyil kaṇakku nitta viṉōtapaṭṭaṉ eḻuttu [||*] ⟨Page 64⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0052⟩ No. 52. (A.R. No. 52 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Kshaya, Aṟpaśi 22.

This record may be assigned on c. pelaeographical grounds to 13th Century.

It refers to an order (nirupam) issued to the tāṉattār of Vaḻugūr in Chaḷukkippaṟṟu by the Gāṅgayar to meet the expenses of worship and services to the debty Tiruv-ayaṉīśuram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār from out of the income from the sarvamānya-iṟaiyili lands granted in the same village. Also it mentions that the worship was not conducted properly and this necessitated Gāṅgayar to purchase the lands as tirunāmattukkāṇi and assign it to the god.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ kṣaya varuṣam aṟpaci mātam 2[2] ḷa śrīmatu ••• ••••• caḷukki 1 ppaṟṟu vaḻukūrt tāṉattāṟku

⟨2⟩ nirupam taṅkaḷūr poṉṉi ental iṉṉāḷvaraiyum āḷuṭaiyār tiruvaya[ṉi] curamuṭaiyaṉāyaṉāṟkut ti[rup]-

⟨3⟩ paṇipūcai pātiāy naṭaikkaiyil ivvūr kāṅkayar nammuṭaiya ūril paṭṭiṟaikku inta poṉṉi ē-

⟨4⟩ ••• ••• •••• tiṟappākiyum [tāṅ]kalum kiḻainattameṭum vilaiyāka viṟkaiyil kāṅkayar [tiru]-

⟨5⟩ nāmattukkāṇiyāka koṇṭu cātanam paṇṇikkoḷḷukai yil iṉṉāyaṉāṟku pūcai tiruppaṇikku mu-

⟨6⟩ tal illātapaṭiyāle ivar viṟṟa cātanappaṭi intap poṉṉi [ēn*]talum tāṅkalum kiḻai nattameṭum ivai aṭaṅ-

⟨7⟩ kalum sarvvamānnya iṟaiyiliyāka kuṭutta aḷavukku itukku veṇṭum kuṭiyum eṟṟi veṇṭum payirum payiṟcey-

⟨8⟩ tu koṇṭu iṉṉilam cantrātittavaraiyum naṭattik koḷḷavum 2 śi 3 inta dharmmam iṟakku-

⟨9⟩ vāṉ gaṅkai karaiyil pacuvaik koṉṟāṉ pāvam koḷḷuvāṉ [||*] ⟨Page 65⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0053⟩ No. 53. (A.R. No. 53 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the South wall of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Vīra-Viruppaṇṇa-Uḍaiyar year Pram[ō]dūta.

This incomplete record may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 14th century A.D.

The details of date viz., Pramōda, Aṟpaśi 27 are insufficient for verification.

The record states that a sum of 25 paṇam was deposited into the treasury in lieu of 685 kuḻi of different dēvadāna lands sold to Ēṉāttaraipiḷḷai alias Sembiyadaraiyar and Poṉṉāṅkaṭṭi Kāṅgēyar.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ tiruvāykkeḻvi muṉṉāka śrīvira viruppaṇṇa uṭaiyāṟku cellāniṉṟa piṟa[m*]o tūta

⟨2⟩ varuṣam aṟpaci mātam 27 tiyati ivvūr eṉāttaṉ piḷḷaiyā nāyiṉa cempi-

⟨3⟩ ya taraiyaṟkum poṉṉāṅkaṭ[ṭi] kāṅkeyaṟkkum ciṟu pāṭākaviṭṭi 1 eḷutta-

⟨4⟩ [ṅ] kuḻi 200m māñceṟu kuḻi 250m sōmanāyiṉār tevatāṉam

⟨5⟩ kāṅkeyaṉ peruñceṟu kuḻi 235m āka ti[la] 2 3 kuḻi 685

⟨6⟩ m eṅkaḷ paṭṭiṟaikku miṉ nāyiṉāṟku kuṭuttu ci paṇṭārattile-

⟨7⟩ irupattu añcu paṇam kuṭukka veṇṭiṉapaṭiyāle innilam ••• 3

⟨SIIv25p0i0054⟩ No. 54. (A.R. No. 54 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

North, West and South walls of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Ravivarmaṉ alias Tribhº Kulaśēkharadēva year 5: ⟨Page 66⟩

The record may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to about 13th century. The details of date given viz., year 5, Tulā, śu 3, Saturday, Anushanakshatra cannot be tallied in the absence of identification of the king.

It records the grant of lands, etc in the village Śāttaṉūr in Irumbēḍunāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam by the nāṭṭavar of Śāḷukki-paṟṟu as tirunāmattak-kāṇi-iṟaiyili to the deity Tiru-Ayaṉīśuramuḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Śōḻanallūr belonging to the same nāḍu. The kāṇi lands of the village Śāttaṉūr were once sold as Ta(Cha)ṇḍēśura-peruvilai. It is stated that for a long period they were left uncared in the absence of their kāṇiyāḷar (ivvūr kāṇiyāḷar illāmal pulattalaiyāyk-kiḍaikkaiyil).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tiruvāykkeḻvi muṉṉāka ko iraviyaṉmar āṉa tiripuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīkulacekaratevaṟku yāṇṭu 5 aiñcāvatu tulānāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣattu tritiyaiyum caṉikkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa aṉiḻattu nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu irumpeṭu nāṭṭu ••••• kaṭanta coḻanallūr āḷuṭaiyār tiruayaṉī curamuṭaiya nāyaṉāṟku caḷukkipaṟṟu nāṭṭavarom taṇṭe curaperuvilaiyāka viṟṟa kāṇiyāvatu ikkoṭṭattu iṉṉāṭṭuc cāttaṉūr

⟨2⟩ nerunāḷppaṭa ivvūr kāṇiyāḷar illāmal pulattalaiyāyk kiṭakkaiyil ivvūr innāyaṉāṟku tirunāmattuk kāṇiyāka ivvūr nāṟpāṟkellaikkuṟpaṭṭa naṉcey nilamum puṉcai nilamum nattamum ēriyum eriniṟkoḷum maramuṅkiṇaṟum potuvum potāriyum maṟṟum eppeṟppaṭṭa pirāttikaḷumuḷppaṭa ivvāṇṭai aṟpacimāta mutal tirunāmattuk kāṇiyākak kuṭuttom ivvūṟ mulataḷinikki

⟨3⟩ kaṭamai āyam poṉvari kācu kaṭamai kāttikaip paccai nāṭṭuvari taṟiyiṟai taṭṭārap yāpāṭṭam maravaṭai kācāyvaṟkam pala kuṭiyiṟai vācal vari maṟṟum eppeṟpaṭṭa karaṅkaḷum innāyaṉārku sarvvamāṉiyamākak kuṭuttom ippaṭi tirunāmattukkāṇi iṟaiiliyākak kuṭutta cāttaṉūṟku varum kaṭamai kuṭimai eppeṟpaṭṭa upātikaḷum nāṭṭukke paramāka iṟuttuk kuṭukka kaṭavomākavum ippaṭi innāyaṉāṟku ⟨Page 67⟩

⟨4⟩ ic cāttaṉūr tirunāmattukkāṇi iṟaiiliyākac cantirātittavarai celvatākak kallilum cempilum veṭṭik kuṭuttom āḷuṭaiyār tiruvayaṉicuramuṭaiya nāyaṉāṟku caḷukkippaṟṟu nāṭṭavarom paṇiyāl ivai nāṭṭuk kaṇakku ka ••••• veḷāṉ eḻuttu § ippaṭikku ivai peruṅ nakar [ni]yamaṅkāṟiya(m)ṅkiḻāṉ pallavarāyaṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai vitinūr cempiyataraiyaṉeḻuttu ippaṭikku ivaicaḷukki vaṇṇakkaṉ vaṇikarātittaṉ eḻuttu

⟨5⟩ ippaṭikku ivai maṅkalanallūr ko •• ntai kaḷappāḷarāyaṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai kuvaḷaik kulottuṅkap pallavarayaṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai kiṇaṟu māpeṟuṅ kaṟavūrkiḻavaṉ cantarapperumāṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai ā • yāṟṟūr kaṇṇinakai vikkirama coḻap pallavaraiyaṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai perunakar koññaivaḷavaṉ muventaveḷāṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai vitinūr ••• •• tiru na •••

⟨6⟩ ivai vicaiyapālaṉ eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai puttuḻāṉ vayiravaṉ eḻuttu

⟨SIIv25p0i0055⟩ No. 55. (A.R. No. 55 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Tribhº Rājarājadēva (Rājarāja III) year 23: 1238-39 A.D.

This epigraph is in characters of thirteenth century.

It records the gift of 22(1/2) kāśu by the śivabrāhmaṇas (names mentioned) of the temple who obtained from Āṇḍār, Poṉṉambalak-kūttar, a devotee of Vaḻugūr for maintaining 4(1/2) sandhi lamps in the temple of Āḷuḍaiyār Tiruvayanīśvaram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Vaḻuvūr in Irumbēḍu-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḷa-maṇḍalam. ⟨Page 68⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tribhuvaṉac cakravattikaḷ śrī rājarājadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 23āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭalattu

⟨2⟩ veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu irumpeṭu nāṭṭu vaḻukūr āḷuṭaiyār tiruvayaniśvaramuṭaiyaṉāyaṉāṟku ivvūril

⟨3⟩ kumpiṭṭirukkum āṇṭār poṉṉamvalakkūttar pakkal iṉṉāyaṉārkoyil śivabrāhmaṇaril kāk

⟨4⟩ ku nāyakaṉ paṭṭaṉāṉa nāṟpat teṇṇāyirabhaṭṭaṉ kaikkoṇṭa paḻaṅkācu 5 aiñcukku erikkuñ canti-

⟨5⟩ viḷakku 1 oṉṟum tirukkāḷatti bhaṭṭaṉ peruntirukkoyi luṭaiyāṉu mavan tampi tiruvekampa-

⟨6⟩ muṭaiyāṉum kaikkoṇṭa paḻaṅkācu 5 aiñcukku erikkuñ cantiviḷakku 1 oṉṟum āka viḷak-

⟨7⟩ ku iraṇṭum candrādityavarai erikkakkaṭavomil muvom kākku nāyakapaṭṭaṉ tiru-

⟨8⟩ vekampam uṭaiyāṉ mātevappaṭṭaṉ kaikkoṇṭa paḻaṅkācu 10

⟨9⟩ pattukku erikkum cantiviḷakku 2 iraṇṭum viṉāyakapaṭṭaṉ uṭaiya pi-

⟨10⟩ ḷḷai makaṉ viṉāyakaṉum ivaṉ tampi karuṇākaraṉum kaikkoṇṭa paḻa-

⟨11⟩ ṅkācu 2(1/2) iraṇṭe araikkum erikkum cantiviḷakku (1/2) araiyum āka vi-

⟨12⟩ ḷakku 2(1/2)yum cantirātitavarai erikka kaṭavom yimmuvom ivviḷakku 4(1/2)-

⟨13⟩ yum ivvūr niyāya •• karil āṇṭār poṉṉampala kūttar tanmam [||*] ⟨Page 69⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0056⟩ No. 56. (A.R. No. 56 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Vīrarājēndradēva year 7:

This incomplete inscription may be assigned to c. 12th century A.D on palaeographical grounds.

It records the gift of 150 kalam of paddy by Tuṇavar, son of Āṟpākkiḻāṉ Iḷaiyāḻvār, a native of Āṟpākkam in Māgaṟal-nāḍu in Kāliyūrkkōṭṭam in the same maṇḍalam for the tiruppaḷḷi-eḻuchchi service to the deity Ayanīśvaram-uḍaiyār. The śivabr-hmaṇas of the temple of Tiru Ayanīśvaram-uḍaiyār at Vaḻugūr in Irumbīḍu-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam undertook to provide food-offerings lamp, etc., to the deity at the early morning service (tiruppaḷḷi-eḻuchchi).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī virarājentiradēvarkku yāṇṭu 7vatu jayaṅ koṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak ko-

⟨2⟩ ṭṭattu irumpeṭunāṭṭu vaḻukūrt tiru ayaṉiśvaramuṭaiyār koyil kāṇiuṭaiya śivabrāhmaṇarom im maṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭalattuk kāliyūrkkoṭṭattu mā[ka]ṟal nāṭṭu āṟpākkattu āṟpākkiḻāṉ iḷaiyāḻvār makaṉ tuṇaivar pakkal nāṅ-

⟨4⟩ kaḷ innāyaṉārkkut tiruppaḷḷi eḻuccikku upaiyamākap poliyūṭṭuk kaikkoṇṭa 150 ḷ in nellu nūṟṟaimpatiṉ kalamum

⟨5⟩ kaikkoṇṭu tiruppaḷḷi eḻuccikku nit[ta] nāṉāḻi arici tiru amutu cantirātittavarai celuttak kaṭavomākavum ic coṟu nāṅkaḷe koṇ

⟨6⟩ ṭu iccantikku ••• tiruviḷakkumiṭṭu ney ••••• celuttak kaṭavomākavum cammatittom ikkoyil kāṇi u 1- ⟨Page 70⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0057⟩ No. 57. (A.R. No. 57 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Tribhº Rājarāja (Rājarāja III) year 17: 1232-33 A.D.

This epigraph may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to about the 13th century A.D.

It records the gift of 32 cows and a bull by Śeṅgēṇi Vīrapperumāḷ alias Kulōttuṅga-Śambuvarāyaṉ for maintaining a perpetual lamp to the deity Tiruvayanīśuram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Vaḻugūr in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam. The maṉṟāḍis Periyanāṭṭukkōṉ, Ayanīśurakkōṉ and Parambakkōṉ undertook the gift and agreed to maintain the lamp by the supply of ghee measured by Rājakēsari-uḻakku.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tribhuvanaccak[ka*]ravattikaḷ śrī rāja rājadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 17āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭa-

⟨2⟩ lattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu vaḻukūr tiruvayaṉicuramuṭaiya nāyaṉāṟku ceṅkeṇi [vi]ra

⟨3⟩ pperumāḷāṉa kulottuṅka coḻac campuvarāyaṉeṉ ināyaṉāṟku tirunuṉtāviḷakku oṉṟukku viṭṭa pacu mu-

⟨4⟩ p pattiraṇṭum iṣapam 1 oṉṟum i[vū]r maṉṟāṭi periyanāṭṭuk koṉ ciṟṟi ayaṉicurakkoṉum parampak ko-

⟨5⟩ ṉ naṅkaṉāṉa nāṟpatteṇṇāyirakkoṉum ivviruvom ippacu muppattiraṇṭum iṣapa-

⟨6⟩ m oṉṟum cāvā muvāp perum pacuvākak kaikkoṇṭu irācakecari uḻakkāle nāḷ oṉ-

⟨7⟩ ṟukku uḻakku neyyāka vanta ney cantirātittavarai aḷakka [ka*]ṭavom ivviruvom itu [bha]nmākecura irakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 71⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0058⟩ No. 58. (A.R. No. 58 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Tribhº Kulōttuṅga year 17: 1194-95 A.D.

This epigraph may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to about the 12th century A.D.

It records the gift of paddy from out of the dēvadāṉa lands like Poṉṉiēndal at Puravarinallūr, the income from taxes such as śīkāriyappēṟu, kāttigai-kāśu, taṟiiṟai from the maḍaiviḷāgam lands, etc., for food-offerings and services (tiruppaṇi) to the deity Tiruvayaṉīchcharam-uḍaiyār of Vaḻugūr in Irambēḍu-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻamaṇḍalam by Śeṅgēṇi Vīrarākkidas-śambuvarāya, who styles himself ‘a Pallavaṉ’.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tiripuvaṉaccakkaravarttikaḷ śrī kulottuṅ coḻa tevarkku yāṇṭu 17āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻama-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu irumpeṭunāṭṭu vaḻukūr tiruvayaṉiccaramuṭaiyārkku ceṅkeṇi virarākkitac cam-

⟨3⟩ puvarāyaṉeṉ puravari nallūr poṉṉi ental uḷḷiṭṭaṉa tevatāṉattil kaṇkāṇi mā nellu cikāriyap peṟu kāt-

⟨4⟩ tikai kācu maṭaiviḷākattil taṟi iṟai eppeṟpaṭṭa āyaṅkaḷ innā[ya*]ṉā(r)kku tiruppaṇi amutupaṭikku kuṭutteṉ

⟨5⟩ pallavaṉ virarākkitac campuvarāyaṉeṉ ittaṉmam vilakkuvāṉ keṅkai iṭaicetār pāvam koḷvāṉ

⟨6⟩ ittaṉmam iṟakkuvāṉ- ⟨Page 72⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0059⟩ No. 59. (A.R. No. 59 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Tribhº Tribhuvanavīradēva year 38: 1215-16 A.D.

This inscription is in characters of about the 13th century A.D.

It records the gift of three paḻaṅ-kāśu by Puttuḻāṉ Periyāṉ Śambuvarāyap-pallavaraiyaṉ for maintaining a perpetual lamp to the deity Tiruvayanīśuram-uḍaiyār of Vaḻugūr. The Śivabrāhmaṇas undertook to maintain the endowment from out of three kāśu received from the donor.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tiripuvaṉac cakkaravattikaḷ tiripuvaṉa viratevaṟku yāṇṭu 38vatu vaḻukūr āḷuṭaiyār tiruvaya-

⟨2⟩ nicuramuṭaiyāṟku puttūḻāṉ periyāṉ campuvarāyap pallavaraiyaṉ vaitta cantiviḷakku 1 iccanti-

⟨3⟩ viḷakku oṉṟukkum ikkoyil śivabrāmaṇar kaikkoṇṭa paḻaṅkācu poṉ ippaḻaṅkācu muṉṟuṅ ko-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭu ivviḷakku oṉṟum cantirātittavarai erikka kaṭavom ikkoyil śivabrāmmaṇarom ḥ—

⟨SIIv25p0i0060⟩ No. 60. (A.R. No. 60 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Tribhº Kulōttuṅgachōḷadēva, year 17: 1194-95 A.D.

This inscription records the gift of dēvadana lands at Puravarāinallūr for lamps to the deity Tiruvayaṉīśuram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Vaḻugūr in Irumbēḍu-nāḍu in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśoḻa-maṇḍalam by the nyāyattār including Kuṟuśēkaṟa Kaḷappāḷa Sāvakanāyaṉ Ammaiappasāvakan.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tiripuvaṉaccakkaravarttikaḷ ci kulottuṅka coḻa tevaṟku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu 17āvatu jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu irum peṭunā[ṭ*]ṭu ⟨Page 73⟩

⟨3⟩ vaḻukūr nāyaṉār tiruvayaṉiccara(m) muṭaiyār[k*]ku veṭṭi kuṟucekaṟa kaḷappāḷaccāva[ka*]-

⟨4⟩ ṉ[ā]ṉa ammai appa cāvakan uḷḷiṭṭa niyāyatto[m*] iṉayinār tiruvayaniccara-

⟨5⟩ muṭaiyār[k*]ku nāṅkaḷvaicca(c) tiruviḷakku iraṇṭukkum in nāyanār tevatānaṅkaḷ pu-

⟨6⟩ ravari nallū[ri*]lp poruṉi viḷākamum ve[ṭ]ṭi arimukkai[yum*] viḷakku iraṇṭukku viṭa tom 1

⟨7⟩ • 2 keṅkai iṭai kumari iṭai cetaṉ pāva(ā)m kovārar 3[||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0061A⟩ No. 61A.

⟨1⟩ prabhava varṣam cittirai ø20(1/2) svastiśrī vaḻukūr āḷuṭaiya tiruvayanicuramuṭaiyaṉāyiṉār tiruvāy

⟨2⟩ keḻvi muṉpāka āticaṇḍēśvaran ivvūr eṉāttan piḷḷaiyāṉā[yi]ṉa cempiyataraiyaṟkum meṟpaṭi- ⟨Page 74⟩

⟨3⟩ poṉṉāṅkaṭṭi kāṅkeyarāyaru[kku*]m sarvvamānya iṟaiyili yāka nām olai kuṭuttapaṭi namakkup ponni ēṉtal

⟨4⟩ pātiyum kiḻai nattameṭum namakku sarvvamānnya iṟaiyili yāka kāṇi ā[kki]k kallum veṭṭi rājasāśana

⟨5⟩ vāṅkit tankaiyil 1 ivar tāṉāy kuṭutta nammuṭaiya pulavarai nallū[ri]l pātiil nammuṭaiya nilamāna māñce

⟨6⟩ ṟuvil vaṭapāti patiṉālaṭikkolāl kuḻi 250m eṉāttaṉ melpāti 1000m āka 5940m cantrātitya-

⟨7⟩ varaiyum sarvvamānnya iṟaiyiliyākat tanta aḷavukku tāṉ veṇṭum payirc ceytu koḷḷavum

⟨8⟩ ivai nallakampaṭṭaṉ eḻuttu ivai āḷuṭaiyāṉ paṭṭan eḻuttu ivai koyiṟkaṇakku kāṅkaya brāhmarā

⟨9⟩ yaṉ eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0061B⟩ No. 61B.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ piṟa [m*]otūta varuṣam aṟpaci ø27 tiyati uṭaiār āḷuṭaiyār

⟨2⟩ tiruvayaṉicuramuṭaiya nāyiṉār eṅkaḷukku ceṟupāṭu āka[ka*]llu veṭṭit-

⟨3⟩ tanta māñceṟuvum ēṉāttaṉum māñceṟu kiṇaṟṟil pātiyum iḷaiya-

⟨4⟩ nāyaṉār tevatāṉamāṉa kāṅkeyaṉ peṟuñ [ceṟu]vum miḷakuṭuttu

⟨5⟩ ci paṇṭārattil paṟṟiṉa ø25 ippaṇam irupattu añcukkum ivai

⟨6⟩ cempiyataraiyaṉ eḻuttu ivai kāṅkayarāyaṉ eḻuttu ivai

⟨7⟩ ūr kaṇakku kāṅkeya piramarāyaṉ eḻuttu [||*] ⟨Page 75⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0062⟩ No. 62. (A.R. No. 62 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Bhūpati-uḍaiyar, son of Bokkaṇa-uḍaiyar Śaka 1332: 1410 A.D.

This record belongs to the reign period of Bhūpati-uḍaiyar who is in all probability be identical with Vijaya Bhūpatirāyar of another record from this place (A.R. No. 63 of 1908) or Vīra-Bhūpati-uḍaiyar of Veḍāl record (A.R. No. 75 of 1908) The details of date given viz., Śaka 1332, Vikṛiti, Kanni ba 8, Monday may correspond to 1410 A.D, September 22, but the tithi was Navami.

It registers the kāṇivilai-pramāṇam issued in the name of Ādichaṇḍēśvara by two persons Ēṉādaṉ Virayaṉ Sembiyadaraiyaṉ and Maṇḍalapurushaṉ (Tāya)dēvaṉ, for the lands excluding the dēvadāṉa portion in the area called Kaḻudaimēṭṭuk-kollai at the kāṇi-āṭchi village Puravarai-nallūr to the tānattār and kaikkōḷar of the village Vaḻugūr alias Kalikaḍiṉda-śōḻanallūr in Irumbēḍu-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟa-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam, for a price value of 35 vāśipaḍā-naṟ-paṇam deducting the value from out of kaḍamai for the cultivation made in the year Virōdhi. It also states that they have agreed to pay the taxes for these lands and the tirunāmattukkāṇi lands of the deity. This land transaction executed at the request of Maṉṟār Vaṇikkar of Vaḻugūr was attested by a number of signatories.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrīman mahāmaṇḍaliśvaran virapōkkaṇa uṭaiyar kumārar pūpati[rāya] uṭaiyaṟkkuc cellāṉiṉṟa śakābdam 13[32] mel cellāṉiṉṟa

⟨2⟩ vikiṟuti varuṣam kaṉniṉā(ā)yaṟṟu aparapakṣattu aṣṭami (sōma vāsura)ttu nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟa koṭṭattu irumpeṭunāṭṭu vaḻukūrāṉa(k) kalikaṭiṉ[ta]-

⟨3⟩ coḻanāllūr maṉṟār vaṇikkarmār keṭṭu ••••• kāṇivilai āvaṇa kai eḻuttu [|*] ivvūr eṉāttaṉ virayaṉ cempiyataraiyaṉum meṟpaṭi maṇṭala puruṣaṉ [tāya]tevaṉum ivviruvarom eṅkaḷūr kāṇiāṭci ā[ṉa]

⟨4⟩ puravarainallūril kaḻutai meṭṭuk kollaiyil nālu ta[ri]cukku naṭu muṉ tiruccūlatāpanattukkuṭpaṭṭa nilattil ⟨Page 76⟩ tevatāṉam pāti nikki eṅkaḷ tiṟampil pāti koḷvāruḷaro eṉṟu •• moḻi ••• itaṟku etir moḻi kuṭuttor ivūr āḷ uṭaiyār tiruvayaṉicuramuṭai-

⟨5⟩ [yār koyil caṇṭe*] curaṉ aruḷic ceyaṟpaṭikku ivvūrt tāna[ttā*]rum kaikoḷarum vilaiku[ṟi]tta nilavilai tantu koṭuppa eṉṟu piṟkūṟap piṟ kūṟiyārum iruk[ka*] kaḻutai meṭṭuk kollaiyil nālutakucukku naṭumunpu tiruccūla nilam uḷḷatu nāyaṉār tevatāṉam pāti-

⟨6⟩ ṉīkki eṅkaḷ pātikku emmil icainta vilaipporuḷ aṉṟāṭa taṉ naṭakkum vāci paṭā naṟ ø35 ippaṇa muppattañcukkum ātiśaṇḍēśvara vilaiyāka viṟṟu eṅkaḷ kāṇiyāṭci cāttaṉūrp paṭṭikaikku-

⟨7⟩ viroti varuṣattukku nāṅka[ḷ*] uḻata kaṭamaikku pūṇṭa [paṇam] nikki[n*] nilaikku ivar kaiyil vāṅki celutti viṟṟu vilaippiṟamāṇa[m paṇ*]ṇikkuṭuttom i[n]ta nilamum nāyiṉār tirunāmattukāṇi uṭan cettu[k*]koṇṭu muṉpilāṇṭu cammatittu •• uṭaṉe inta nilamumuṭpaṭa iṟuttuk-

⟨8⟩ koḷḷakkaṭavarkaḷākavum ituve poruḷmāvaṟuti poruṭ celavu varappeṟṟom eṉṟu col[lappe]ṟā tākavum ik kāṇi āṭcikki eppeṟpaṭṭakalaṉu millaik kalaṉuḷavāy ••• ••• •••• paṭilyāṅkaḷe kalaṉ tirttu kuṭukka kaṭavomākavum

⟨9⟩ tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka kalluveṭṭik kuṭuttom iviruvarom ippaṭikku eṉārttaṉ [virayaṉ cempiyata]raiyaṉ ••••• eḻuttu ippaṭikku maṇṭala puruṣaṉ tāyaṉ eḻuttu ivarkaḷ [kāṇivilai] piṟamāṇam paṇṇiṉamaikku ivaicaḷukkip paṟṟu nāṭṭu •••

⟨10⟩ ••••• veṇ peruntaravāṇātarāyaṉ ippaṭi aṟiveṉ vitiṉūr mukkuṭaic cel •••••

⟨11⟩ ••••• aṟiveṉ caḷukkinampiyāṉa paḷḷikoṇṭāṉ § ippaṭi aṟiveṉ ku ••••• kku piḷḷaiyāṉārāyiṉa aruḷāḷap perumāḷ toṇṭaimaṇṭalap piramarāya-

1. The record stops here.

⟨12⟩ ••••• aṟiveṉ ivvūr cempiyaṉ viḻupparaiyaṉ / ippaṭi aṟiveṉcāvaka ••••• yaṉ / ippaṭi aṟiveṉ vituṟūr aḻakapperumāḷ /

⟨13⟩ ••••• ṟiveṉ caḷukki vaṇṇakkaṉ aruḷāḷaṉātaṉ ippaṭi aṟiveṉ caḷukki nallū ••••• vittaṉ^1^ /

⟨SIIv25p0i0063⟩ No. 63. (A.R. No. 63 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Śirigirinātha-uḍaiyār, son of Vijaya Bhūpati-rāyar Śaka 1348 = 1425-26 A.D.

This epigraph belongs to the reign period of Bhūpati-uḍaiyar who is in all probability be identical with Vijaya Bhūpatirāyar of another Śirigirinātha-uḍaiyār who is probably identical with Śrīgiri of the Madras Museum Plates (Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII, pp 306 ff). It furnishes the date Śaka 1346 (1424 A.D).

The present record furnishes the details of date viz., Śaka 1348, Viśvāvaśu, Makara śu 13, Monday, Tiruvādirai-nakshatra which regularly correspond to 1426 A.D., January 21.

It records the gift of income from various taxes (āyam) from kaikkōḷar, vāṇiyar, immigrant tenants, paḻavari and puduvari accrued from the vāśal, ubayaṅ-kaṭṭuk-kuttagai of 70 paṇam per year, 10 paṇam for the clothes (puḍavai), chekkupaṭṭai āyam and the amount collected from the market (śandai) for maintaining perpetual lamp to the deity Tiruvayanīśuramuḍaiya-nāyaṇār of Vaḻugūr alias Kali[kaḍinda]śōḻanallūr in Irumbēḍu-nāḍu in Veṇguṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam by Mallarasa[r*]. Mentions ayaṉ Poṟkōyil-uḍaiyār at the end of the record.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrīman mahā[maṇ]ṭalicuraṉ ariyarāya vipāṭan pāṣai-

⟨2⟩ kku tappuvarāyarakaṇṭaṉ muvarāyara kaṇṭaṉ śrīviravicaiya-

⟨3⟩ pūpatirāyar kumāra cirikirināta uṭaiyaṟku cellāniṉṟa ca(ha)kāt-

⟨4⟩ [tam] 1348- iṉmel cellāniṉṟa vicuvācu varuṣattu

⟨5⟩ [ma]karanāyaṟṟu pūṟuvapa(k)kṣattu tiṟaiyoteciyum tiṅkaḷ kiḻamai- ⟨Page 78⟩

⟨6⟩ yum peṟṟa tiruvātirai nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇ-

⟨7⟩ ṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu irumpeṭunāṭṭu

⟨8⟩ vaḻukūrāṉa kali[kaṭinta] coḻanallūr āḷuṭaiyanāyaṉār

⟨9⟩ tiruvayaṉicuramuṭaiya nāyaṉār tirumaṭai viḷākattil kaik koḷaṟkum kai-

⟨10⟩ cc[ai] ••• ṟkum vāṇiyar cekkup paṭṭaṭai āyattukkum ceṉai[kka] •••

⟨11⟩ ••• kum pala paṭṭaṭaiya4 • •me(l)le[ṟu]m (k)kuṭikaḷukkum paṭṭai nūlāyattukkum

⟨12⟩ ••• kkum ••• ••• •••• peṟku paṭṭai nālāyattu-

⟨13⟩ [k]ku paṭṭai āyappaṭṭaiccam[p]ātam •• yaccamma nam kuḻi ø-10- m atikai mātam

⟨14⟩ •• ma[ṟṟu]m āyattai nokkippa •• vaya •• vācalil piṟakkum paḻavari putuva-

⟨15⟩ ri maṟṟumep peṟppaṭṭa cakala upāttikaḷumuṭpaṭa upayaṅkaṭṭuk kuttak[ai] varuṣam [o]ṉ

⟨16⟩ ṟukku koḷḷu[m] ø70- m puṭavai mutalukku ø10- m āka ø[80]- m cantiṟādhittavaraiyum varu

⟨17⟩ ṣam varuṣam toṟum celavaṟukka kaṭavarkaḷ ākavum cekkupaṭṭai āyam cantai-

⟨18⟩ yil vaṟukiṟa mutalu[ḷḷatu] tiruvayaṉicuramuṭaiya nāyaṉār koyilukku tirununtāviḷa-

⟨19⟩ kku iṭakkaṭavārkaḷ ākavum immatikāri cantiṟādhittavaraiyum naṭakkama-

⟨20⟩ llara[ca][r*] upaiyam taṉakke[yinta] (dha)t tarumattu melk[ā*]ttu [me]l varu piṟatā-

⟨21⟩ ṉarum cukame irukkaveṇum eṉṟum dha[r*]mattukku kaṭava[r] kaḷukkey nāyakkar kal-

⟨22⟩ lu veṭṭik ku[ṭut]teṉ inta kallu veṭṭukku akutam paṇṇiṉavarkaḷ keṅkai-

⟨23⟩ karai[yi*]le kārāmpacuvaik koṉṟa pāvam koḷḷak kaṭavarākavum

⟨24⟩ ayaṉ poṟkoyiluṭaiyarāyarai cipātattu talaikārkka • • ⟨Page 79⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0064⟩ No. 64. (A.R. No. 64 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the Kāmarasavalli-ammaṉ shrine in the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Sadāśivadēva-mahārāya Śaka 14(90): 1568 A.D.

The details of date viz., śaka 14(90), Vibhava, Siṁha, śu 10, Monday, Tiruvōṇam may be equated with 1568 A.D., August 2, Monday. However, the nakshatra was Jyēshṭha.

This highly damaged inscription seems to record some gift for the śrībali offerings, lamps etc., to the deity Tiru Ayanīśurattu-nāyaṉar of Vaḻugūr probably by Śūrappa-nāyakkar, who is described as the agent (karttar) of Kṛishṇappa-nāyakkar.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] śrī maṉmakāmaṇṭalecura catācivateva makārāyar piṟutivirācciyam paṇṇi aruḷāniṉṟa

⟨2⟩ cakāṟtam 14[60] itaṉmel cellāniṉṟa vipava caṅvaṟcarattu ciṅkanāyaṟṟu pūṟuvapakṣattu

⟨3⟩ tecamiyum comavāramum peṟṟa tiruvoṇattu nāḷ śrīmatkṛṣṇappa nāyakkarayyaṉ kāriyattukku

⟨4⟩ kkaṟtarāṉa śrīmat cūrappa nāyakkar śrīkṛṣṇappa nāyakkarayyaṉ ••• ••• ••••

⟨5⟩ ••• ••• •••• [vaḻukūr] tiru ayaṉicurattu nāyaṉār koyilil śrīpeli

⟨6⟩ k[ku]m ••• ••• •••• ttukkum oru tiru viḷakku kkum

⟨7⟩ ••• ••• •••• nāmattuk ••• ••• •••• ruṣam oṉṟu •• •• i-

⟨8⟩ vai ••• ••• •••• tiṉam yiraṇṭu neramum eḻu-

⟨9⟩ n taruḷa[ppa]ṇṇi ••• ••• •••• tākavum ••• ••• •••• •••

⟨10⟩ ••• ••• •••• ⟨Page 80⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0065⟩ No. 65. (A.R. No. 65 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

West wall of the prākāra of the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

This damaged inscription may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to the 14th century.

It seems to record the fixation of taxes on loom (taṟik-kaḍamai), vāśaival-āyam and ūr-viniyōgam evidently payable to the temple by those who had settled in the various streets at Vaḻugūr.

An incomplete record found below this contains some of the epithets of the Vijayanagara king.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ [śrī] irattākṣi varuṣam ā ••• ••• ••••

⟨2⟩ tāṉattār vaṭakkut teruvi[l*] na[ṭu]vekacci •• la •••

⟨3⟩ nāyakkar perunteruvil eṟukiṟa kuṭiyaḷukku taṟi-

⟨4⟩ kaṭamai vācal āyam ūrar viṉiv[o]kam

⟨5⟩ ūril taṟiyil oṉṟumukkāl koḷḷak kaṭavatākavum

⟨6⟩ ti ••••• te ••••• ṭai irāyaṉ perunteruvukku

⟨7⟩ [m]elai teruvukku ••••• teṟ •• kiḻakku te-

⟨8⟩ [ru]vume eṟukiṟa kuṭiyaḷukkum taṟikaṭamai vācal-

⟨9⟩ āyam araiye araikkā[l] taṟi viḻukkāṭu koḷḷak kaṭavatu ākavum im(ma)-

⟨10⟩ matikārikku 1 akitam paṇṇiṉavarkaḷ gaṅkaik karaiyil kārām pacuvaik-

⟨11⟩ koṉṟa pāvattile povaṉ cantiṟātittavaraiyum naṭakkakkaṭavatu •• kacci araikku va •••

⟨12⟩ ivai nāṟpatteṇṇāyira[paṭṭar] eḻuttu ivai śrīvamāt[e]va bhaṭṭar 2 eḻuttu

⟨13⟩ ••• ḷaṟku ••••• ti abhimāna bhūṣaṇa veḷāṉ eḻuttu

⟨14⟩ ivai koyil kaṇakku taṇṭaka nāṭṭu prammārāyaṉ eḻuttu [||*] 3

⟨SIIv25p0i0066⟩ No. 66. (A.R. No. 66 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

West wall of the prākāra of the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

Achyutadēvarāya Śaka 1460: 1538 A.D.

The details of the date of the record viz., Viḷambi, Mēsha śu. 12, Uttiram, Wednesday regularly correspond to 1538 A.D., April 10, f.d.t. 13 f.d.n. 32.

This incomplete inscription seem to record some gift by the adhikāri Tikkana-nāyaka for conducting a festival called pallakku-sēvai (Palanquin procession) for the deity Tiruvayaṉīśuram-uḍaiyār of Vaḻugūr alias Kalikaḍindaśōḻanallūr in Chalukkip-paṟṟu in Irumbēḍu-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟakkōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam. It is said that the above gift was made for the merit of one Kāḷattirājaiyaṉ, son of mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Iḷaṅgaiyadēvaśōḻa-mahārājaiyaṉ.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrīmanmahāmaṇḍa le-

⟨2⟩ śvaran metini [mī]caṟakaṇṭa kaṭṭāri sāḷu-

⟨3⟩ va rācātirāca rācaparamecuvara pāṣaikku

⟨4⟩ ttappuvarāyarakaṇṭaṉ muvarāya[ra]kaṇṭa

⟨5⟩ ṉ ka[ṇ]ṭa nāṭu koṇṭu koṇṭa nā-

⟨6⟩ [ṭu kuṭā]tāṉ [pū]rvvatēkṣiṇa paccima utta-

⟨7⟩ ra catu[śca]muttirātipati śrīvirapratāya naraciṅ-

⟨8⟩ [ka]tevakumāṟan accutaiyateva mahārā-

⟨9⟩ yar piṟi[ti]vi rācciyam paṇṇi aruḷā niṉ-

⟨10⟩ ṟa cakā[tta]m 1490-n mel cel-

⟨11⟩ lā niṉṟa eviḷampi samvatsarattu

⟨12⟩ kku cellum viḷampi samvatsara-

⟨13⟩ ttu meṣanāyaṟṟu pūṟuva pakṣattu tu-

⟨14⟩ vāteciyum uttiramum peṟṟa putavāra-

⟨15⟩ ttu nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭa

⟨16⟩ lattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu iru-

⟨17⟩ m peṭunāṭṭu caḷukkipaṟṟu kalikaṭi- ⟨Page 82⟩

⟨18⟩ nta coḻanallūrāṉa vaḻukūr [ā]-

⟨19⟩ ••••• r tiruvayanicuramuṭaiya na-

⟨20⟩ ••••• koyil pallakkuc cervaikku

⟨21⟩ ••••• mahāmaṇḍaleśvara ilaṅ-

⟨22⟩ kayateva coḻa mahārācayaṉ kumārar kāḷa-

⟨23⟩ tti [ṟā]caiyaṉ taṉmamāka atikāriy tikka-

⟨24⟩ ma [nā]yakkaṉ eḻuntaruḷappaṇṇuvikkai yi-

⟨25⟩ l inta ū ••• vattukku ••••• muṉṉāḷ 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0067⟩ No. 67. (A.R. No. 67 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the prākāra of the Brahmapurīśvara temple.

The details of the date viz., Sarvadhāri, Māśi 30 are not sufficient for verification. The record may be assigned to c. 16th century on grounds of palaeography.

It records a deed of agreement (iśai ōlai) entered into by the ūravar of Vaḻugūr in connection with an offence committed by a certain Mīnavaraiyar. It mentions that the fugitive must be given the death sentence on the date of the record that the ūravar would pay 20 paṇam to a person who furnishes the information (paṟai) evidently regarding the whereabouts of the fugitive that a person who withholds the information would be excommunicated, that one who provides assylum to the culprit would pay ⟨Page 83⟩ the necessary fine (rājagaram) and put up with the āvikka[ḍa*]ṉ (a punishment ?).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ caṟuvātikāri varuṣam mācimātam 30tiyati vaḻukūr ūrava[r] emmil porintiyicai ōlai[yiṭ]ṭu[k]koṇṭapaṭi [||*] minavarāyar avappaṭākkāri kaṭaippaṟṟa perumāḷ koyilile pūntu aṭaittukkoḷḷukaiyil

⟨2⟩ nāḷatu cāka kaṭaivaṉākavum nāḷatu cākaiyil ūrile irupatu paṇam kuṭukka kaṭavom ākavum melaikkum yātoruvar paṟai eṭuttatuṇṭānāl [iru]patu paṇam kuṭukka kaṭaivom ākavum

⟨3⟩ paṟai eṭutta aṉṟu cākakkaṭaivaṉākavum yātoruttar orunāḷ yiraṇṭu nāḷ tāmatam coṉṉatuṇṭāṉā[l*] avaṉ cātikkum piṟampāy naṅkai nācivaṉum vilakki naṉmai tiṉmaiyum tuṟantu cātikkup pi-

⟨4⟩ ṟampākak kaṭaivaṉākavum yiṭaṅkuṭuttavaṉe intaccetam uḷḷatu kuṭuttu yirācakarattukkum aparātamum kuṭuttu āvikka[ṭa*]ṉaiyum paṭakkaṭaivaṉākavum ippaṭi cammatittu yicai ōlaiyiṭṭuk koṇṭom iv-

⟨5⟩ vaṉaivaro(m) mippaṭikku ivai ūṟku camainta apimāṉa pūṣaṇa veḷār eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivarkaḷ colla eḻutiṉamaikku ūṟkku taṇṭakanāṭṭu pramarāyar tirumalaiyār makaṉ aḻakiya varataṉ eḻuttu-

⟨SIIv25p0i0068⟩ No. 68. (A.R. No. 68 of 1908.) VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a slab set up near the sluice of a tank.

Nṛipatuṅgappōttaraiyar year 6:

This inscription is engraved carelessly and records the construction of a sluice at Vaḻugūr by Aṟamiḷippāru Vaḷagū[r*] of Maṉṉarmaṅgalam in Taḻundūr-nāḍu.

(Published in S.I.I., Vol. XII, No. 62). ⟨Page 84⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śrīnirupatoṅkappot-

⟨2⟩ ta[rai]yarkku yāṇṭu ā-

⟨3⟩ ṟāvatu vaḷakūril taḻu-

⟨4⟩ ntūr nāṭṭu maṉṉar[maṅ]-

⟨5⟩ kala maṟamiḷappāru •••••

⟨6⟩ • ceyvitta tūmpu [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0069⟩ No. 69. (A.R. No. 69 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya (III) year 13+3:

The regnal year and the other details of date viz., Kaṟkaṭaka śu 7, Wednesday correspond to 1318 A.D., July 5.

It records tax-free gift of the village Naṅgaiyār-ēndal by the nāṭṭār of Perumugaip-paṟṟu in Malaippaṟṟu for conducting worship in, and the repairs of, the temple of god Kaṟaikaṇṭhīśvaram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Viḍāl in Vikramapāṇḍya-vaḷanāḍu alias Viḍārpaṟṟu of Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koṉerimel koṇṭāṉ koṟcaṭapaṉmar tirupuvaṉac cakkaravattikaḷ śrī cuntarapāṇṭiyatevaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉmuṉṟāvatiṉ etir muṉṟāvatu kaṟkaṭakanāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu saptamiyum putaṉkiḻamai peṟṟa attattu nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟakko-

⟨2⟩ [ṭṭa*]ttu viṭāṟpaṟṟāḷa vikkirama pāṇṭiya vaḷanāṭṭu viṭāl uṭaiyār kaṟaikkaṇṭīcuramuṭaiya nāyaṉārkku malaippaṟṟil perumukaippaṟṟu nāṭṭavarom iṉṉāyaṉārkku pūcaikkun tiruppaṇikkum eṅkaḷ nāṭṭil naṅkaiyār ēntal tirunāmattukkāṇi yiṟaiyiliyākat tantom ivūr nāṟpāṟkellaikkum ⟨Page 85⟩

⟨3⟩ [naṭuvu*]paṭṭa naṉcey puṉcey māvaṭai kuḷavaṭai puṟavaṭai erivāypuṟavaṭai nattantaricu kaḷartiṭar taṟiyiṟai kācāy vaṟkam maṟṟum epperppaṭṭaṉavum tirunāmattukkāṇi yiṟaiyiliyākattantu ivūr candrātitta varaiyuñ celvatāka kalliluñ cempilum veṭṭi ivūr nāṉ

⟨4⟩ kellaiyilun tiruccūla stāpaṉamum paṇṇittantom perumukaippaṟṟu nāṭṭavarom ippaṭikku nāṭṭavar paṇiyāl ivai nāṭṭuk kaṇakku vicaiyarāyaṉ eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0070⟩ No. 70. (A.R. No. 70 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga year 12:

This inscription in characters of about the 13th century stops abruptly after referring to the village Viḍāl and the deity [Kaṟaikkaṇṭhīśvaramuḍaiyār.]

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kolottuṅka coḻa tevaṟku yāṇṭu 12 āvatu viṭāl kaṟaikka 1-

⟨SIIv25p0i0071⟩ No. 71. (A.R. No. 71 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Rājādhirāja (II) year 5: 1167-68 A.D.

This inscription contains two fragmentary parts. The first piece refers to the king and his reign period. It seems to record the gift of four cows for a lamp to god Kaṟaikaṇṭīśuram-uḍaiyār of Viḍāl in Uttamaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu by Mūlaṅkiḻattinittāṇḍi. It was entrusted to the śivabrāhmaṇas of the temple.

The next piece records a gift of four cows for a perpetual lamp to the deity [Kaṟaika*]ṇḍīchchuram-uḍaiyār by a certain Periyāḷvi, daughter of a śeṭṭi, whose name is lost.

The other details are not clear as they have been indifferently engraved. ⟨Page 86⟩

TEXT.

A

⟨1⟩ cakkaravattikaḷ siri irājātirāja tevaṟkku yāṇṭu 5 āvatu uttama co-

⟨2⟩ ḻavaḷanāṭṭu viṭāl kaṟaikaṇṭi curamuṭaiyaṟkku mulaṅkiḻattinittāṇṭi vaitta ca 1

⟨3⟩ ṟukku viṭṭa pacu nāluṅ koṇṭu ikkoyil kāṇiyuṭaiya civabrahmaṇan kāśya 1

⟨4⟩ ciṅkap paṉṉum gaṅgā

⟨5⟩ dharappaṉṉum iviruvo 1

B

⟨1⟩ ṇṭiccaramuṭaiyāṟku-parivumai ceṭṭi makaḷ periyāḷvi vacca naṉtāviḷakkoṉ-

⟨2⟩ ṟiṉāl pacu nālu §

⟨SIIv25p0i0072⟩ No. 72. (A.R. No. 72 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

West wall of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Sundarapāṇḍya (III) year 13+3: 1318 A.D.

This inscription may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 13th Century. The details of date Kaṟkaṭaka, śu 1 are not sufficient for verification. It stops after the date portion abruptly. The king of this record may be identified with his namesake figuring in inscription No. 69 discussed above.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koṉerimel koṇṭāṉ koṟcaṭapaṉmar tirupuvaṉac cakkaravattikaḷ śrī cuntarapāṇṭiyatevaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉ muṉṟāvatu etir muṉṟāvatu karkaṭakanāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu pratamaiyu 1

2. This inscription stops here.

⟨SIIv25p0i0073⟩ No. 73. (A.R. No. 73 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

West wall of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Kulōttuṅga (III) year 27: 1204-05 A.D.

The characters of this epigraph may be assigned to c. 13th Century and hence, the king may be identified with Kulōttuṅga III. The other details of date viz., Wednesday and Puṉarpūsam are not sufficient for verification.

It records the grant of lands in the village Siviṟi in the Viḍīlpaṟṟu along with its income from taxes (named) to meet the expenses of worship and the repairs in the temple of god Kaṟaikkaṇṭhīśuram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Viḍāl in Viḍāṟpaṟṟu alias Vikramapāṇḍya-vaḷanāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam by the nāṭṭavar of Teḷḷāṟṟup-paṟṟu of the same nāḍu. It refers to Toṇḍaimaṇḍala-brahmārāyaṉ as a signatory.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tiripuvaṉac cakkaravattikaḷ ci kulottuṅka coḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu 2[7]m putaṉkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa puṇar pūcattu nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak-

⟨2⟩ koṭṭattu viṭāṟpaṟṟāṉa vikkirama pāṇṭiya vaḷanāṭṭu viṭālil uṭaiyār kaṟaikkaṇṭicuramuṭaiya nāyaṉārkku iṉṉāṭṭut teḷḷāṟṟupaṟṟu nāṭṭavarom iṉṉāyaṉārkkup pūcaikkum tiruppaṇi-

⟨3⟩ kkum eṅkaḷ nāṭṭil civiṟi tirunāmattukkāṇi iṟaiyiliyākat tantom ivūr nāṟpāṟkellaikkum uṭppaṭṭa naṉcey puṉcey māvaṭai kuḷavaṭai puṟavaṭai erivāy puṟavaṭai nattantaricu kaḷartiṭar taṟiyiṟai taṭṭā-

⟨4⟩ rappāṭṭam cekkiṟai kācāyavaṟkam maṟṟum epperppaṭṭaṉavum uṭpaṭa tirunāmattukkāṇiyiṟaiyili yākat tantu ippaṭikku candrātittavaraiyum cellak kallilum cempilum veṭṭi ivūr nāṉkellaiyi-

⟨5⟩ lun tiruccūla stāpaṉamum paṇṇit tantom teḷḷāṟṟup paṟṟu nāṭṭavarom ippaṭikku nāṭṭavarom ippaṭikku nāṭṭavar paṇiyāl ivai toṇṭaimaṇṭalap piramarāyaṉ eḻuttu [||*] ⟨Page 88⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0074⟩ No. 74. (A.R. No. 74 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

North wall of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Tribhº Kōṉērimēlkoṇḍāṉ year 13+[3]:

The record may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 13th century.

This refers to an order issued by Nallappaṉ Paḍiyaṉ Aṅgarāyan to the tānattār of the temple of Kaṟaikaṇṭēśvaram-udaiya-nāyanār of Viḍāl in Agalūr-paṟṟu recording the grant of lands as iṟaiyili to meet the expenses of festival, food offerings and daily worship on the occassion of Kōdaṇḍarāmaṉ-sandi instituted in his name.

A number of tax terms and the boundaries of the gift land are mentioned. Mention may be made of a number of signatories who attested the document.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tribhuvaṉaccakravatti koṉerimel koṇṭāṉ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu viṭālpaṟṟāṉa vikkirama pāṇṭiya vaḷanāṭṭu akalūrppaṟṟil viṭālil nāyaṉāṟ koyiṟt tāṉat-

⟨2⟩ tāṟku iṉṉāyaṉāṟku nallappaṉpaṭiyaṉ aṅkarāyaṉ namperāl kaṭṭiṉa kotaṇṭarāmaṉ cantikkum tirunāḷukkum amutuppaṭi cāttuppaṭi uḷḷiṭṭu veṇṭum nitta nimantaṅkaḷukkum tirunāḷ celavukkum ikkoyil tiruppaṇikkum uṭalāka i[v*]vūr nāṉkellaikkum uṭppaṭṭa naṉcey puṉcey nattam taricu-

⟨3⟩ eri (ēri)vāypuṟavaṭai tiṭarkaḷar nirnilai maranilai uḷḷiṭṭa samastaprāptikaḷum patiṉmuṉṟāvatiṉ etir [muṉṟāva]tu cittirai mātam mutal tevatāṉa iṟaiyiliyākat tantu ittāl varum kaṭamai poṉvari kāṇikkai kāttikaip paccai māvaṭai kuḷavaṭai kācāyavaṟkam kiṟṟuvari cantu vikkiramappeṟu vācal viṉivokam kūṟṟi-

⟨4⟩ lakkai kaṭaik kūṭṭilakkai taṟi iṟai cekku iṟai taṭṭuppaṭṭi taṭṭārappāṭṭam aricikkāṇam āyavaṟkam maka[n]mai [ceṭṭip]peṟu taccuttāḻvu āḷamañci nāṭṭu ⟨Page 89⟩ viṉivokam uḷḷiṭṭa aṉaittāyavaṟka † ttu iṟaikaḷum upātikaḷum tevaikaḷum uṭppaṭa mutal aṭaṅkal iṟaiyiliyāka variyilār kaṇakkilum kaḻittu itukku nic-

⟨5⟩ ceyippāṉa poṉṉum iṉṉāṭṭukku nicceyitta mutalile celaviṭuvatākac coṉṉom ippaṭikku ivvolai piṭipāṭākak koṇṭu ivvūr kaikkoṇṭu candrātittavaraiyum cellak *kallilum cempilum veṭṭuvittu ivūr[ṉān]kellaiyilum tiruccūlastāpaṉam paṇṇikkoṇṭu mutalaṭaṅkal iṟaiyiliyāka aṉupavittup pūcait-

⟨6⟩ tirunāḷum tiruppaṇiyum tāḻvaṟa naṭattip potuka ivai neṭṭuruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu ivai neṭṭuruṭaiyāṉ teva viccātirapperumāḷ iḷaiyāḻvāṉ kāliṅkarāyaṉ eḻuttu yāṇṭu 2 nāḷ 291 tulyam 1 śubhamastu [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0075⟩ No. 75. (A.R. No. 75 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Bhūpatirya, son of Dēvarāya Śaka 1329: 1408 A.D.

This inscription records the grant of sarvamānya-iṟaiyili lands alongwith its income from taxes in Pūdēri in Poṉṉūṟ-paṟṟu by a certain Ārkkārmuṟ Sembandai Tuṇaiyirundāṉ Virupparāya-Kāṅgayar to provide for the Tuṇaiyirundāṉ-śandhi evidently instituted by the donor, after his own name, and for burning two perpetual lamps to god Kaṟaikaṇṭīśvaramuḍaiya-nāyaṉār and to meet the expenses of providing food-offerings, a perpetual lamp and the repairs of the deity Payyaga-piḷḷaiyār in the village Viḍāl in Poṉṉūṟ-paṟṟu in Śiṅgapura-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam. This was signed by Virupparāyak-Koṅgayar.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] śrīmanmahāmaṇḍaleśvaran arirāyavibhāṭan bhāṣaikkut tappuvarā-

⟨2⟩ yarakaṇṭan muvarāyarakaṇṭan śrīvīradēvarāya śrīmatu kumārar bhūpatirāya uṭaiyar ⟨Page 90⟩

⟨3⟩ pṛthivirājyam paṇṇi aruḷāniṉṟa kālattuc cellāniṉṟa śakābdam 1329- ṉ

⟨4⟩ meṟcellāniṉṟa sarvvajituvaruṣattu makaranāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu caturddaśiyum viyāḻa-

⟨5⟩ kkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa puṇarpūcattu nāḷ ārkkārmuṟ cempantai tuṇaiyiruntāṉ virupparāyak kāṅkayar jaya-

⟨6⟩ ṅ koṇṭa coḻamaṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattuc ciṅkapura nāṭṭu poṉṉūṟpaṟṟil viṭāl

⟨7⟩ uṭaiyār kaṟaikkaṇṭīśvaramuṭaiya nāyaṉāṟkut tuṇaiyiruntāṉ cantikkum tiruṉuntāviḷakku-

⟨8⟩ iraṇṭukkum poyya(ā)[ka] piḷḷaiyāṟku tiruppaṇḍā[ra]ttukkum tiruṉuntāviḷakku [o]ṉṟukkun tiruppaṇi

⟨9⟩ kkum candrādityavaraiyum cellap poṉṉūṟ paṟṟup pūteriyellaiyil uṭpaṭa kiḻpāṟkellai

⟨10⟩ kaḷarukkum taṇṭukaraikku meṟkum teṉpāṟkellai 1 ilaṅketevaṉentalerivāyiṟ tiruccūla-

⟨11⟩ sthāpaṉattukku vaṭakkum melpāṟkellai iṉṉāyaṉār tirunāmattukkāṇi viṭārellaikkuk kiḻakkum vaṭapā-

⟨12⟩ ṟkellai neṟkuṉṟat tellaiyilantip puṟavaṭakkut teṟkum āka iṉṉāṉkellaik kuṭpaṭṭa nilamuṅ ki-

⟨13⟩ ḻ ṉokkiṉa kiṇaṟum meṉokkiṉa maramuṅ kaikkoṇṭu ellai muṟṟun tām veṇṭum payiṟcey-

⟨14⟩ tu koṇṭu kaṭamai poṉvari kāṇikkaiyupātiyum pala poṉvaṟkamum pala nelvaṟkamumippaṟṟ[ai]

⟨15⟩ ṉokkik koḷḷum pala varikaḷum pala upātikaḷumuṭpaṭa sarvvamānnya iṟaiyiliyākat tiruṉāmattu-

⟨16⟩ kkāṇiyākac candrātittavaraiyuñ cellaviṭṭom iv[ai] [vi]ruparāyakkāṅka[ya]r eḻuttu [||*] ⟨Page 91⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0076⟩ No. 76. (A.R. No. 76 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Viruppaṇa-uḍaiyar, son of Hariyaṇa-uḍaiyar: naka 1314: 1392 A.D.

The details of date viz., Āṅgīra, Vṛiśchika •• 8, Friday and Magha regularly correspond to 1392 A.D., November 8. The paksha intended was bahuḷa.

This incomplete epigraph records the grant of lands in Tirumaṇi in Poṉṉūr-paṟṟu by one Rāmadēvarāyaṉ, at the instance of Śivadēvar for maintaining a perpetual lamp, worship, food-offerings and repairs to the deity Kaṟaikaṇṭīśvaram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Viḍāl in Poṉṉūr-paṟṟu in Śiṅgapura-nāḍu in ••••• kūṟṟam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḷa-maṇḍalam.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ ••••• hāmaṇḍalēśvaran harirāya vibhāṭan ha[ri]yaṇa uṭaiyar kumārar viruppaṇa uṭai •••••

⟨2⟩ ••••• ṉṟa śakābdam 1314- ṉ melcellā niṉṟa āṅgiravarṣattu vraścika nāyaṟṟu • •

⟨3⟩ ••• aṣṭamiyum veḷḷikkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa makattu nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa coḻamaṇ[ṭa] 1lattu

⟨4⟩ ••• kūṟṟattu ciṅkapura nāṭṭu poṉṉūrpaṟṟu viṭāl uṭaiyār kaṟaikkaṇṭiśvaramuṭaiya nāyaṉār[k*]ku

⟨5⟩ ••• sandhikku amutupaṭi tirununtāviḷakku oṉṟukkum pūcait tiruppaṇikkum irāmatevarāyaṉ

⟨6⟩ ••• ttu śivatevarāṇai yā[l*] kuṭutta poṉṉūrpaṟṟu tirumaṇiyil entalāṉa muṅ •• l [ni]lam

⟨7⟩ ••• ntalum •• puṟavaṭaiyum iṉṉāyaṉāṟku taṉ ellai muṟṟum tām veṇṭu[m]

⟨8⟩ ••• ••• •••• koṇṭu kaṭamai poṉvari vācalpaṇam taṟi kaṭamai ••••• kuṭimai

⟨9⟩ ••• [mā]vaṭai ma[ṟa]vaṭai ••••• ippaṟṟil koḷḷum pala varikaḷum pala upātikaḷum

⟨10⟩ ••• ••• •••• mepāṟkellai ••••• 1 ⟨Page 92⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0077⟩ No. 77. (A.R. No. 77 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

West wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Kulaśēkhara Śambuvarāya: Year 25.

This inscription may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 13th Century. The details of the date viz., Mēsha śu 3, Monday and Mūlam are irregular as the nakshatra Mūlam do not fall in the month of Mēsha and on the śukla tritīya day. The nakshatra has been wrongly read as Hasta which cannot fall in the month of Mēsha and on Śukla tritīya day. The details of date given above may correspond with four dates viz., A.D., 1204, 1231, 1258 and 1302 in this period. But his 25th year of rule do not regularly agree with any of the first three dates. It corresponds to 1302 A.D.

It records a gift of lands in the village Aruḷi-ēttal in Attip-paṟṟu to conduct a festival called Śeyyāṟṟu-veṉṟāṉ-tirunāḷ and to provide for the repairs and perpetual lamp to god Kaṟaikkaṇḍīśvaram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār at Viḍār in Viḍārpaṟṟu alias Vikramapāṇḍya-vaḷanāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kulacekarac campuvarāyaṟku yāṇṭu 25 āvatu mēṣa nāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣattu tṛtiyaiyum tiṅkaṭkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa mulattu nāḷ

⟨2⟩ cayaṅkoṇṭa coḻa maṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu viṭārpaṟṟāṉa vikramapāṇṭiya vaḷanāṭṭu viṭāril uṭaiy[ār ka]ṟaik kaṇṭīśvaramuṭaiya nāya-

⟨3⟩ ṉāṟku ceyyāṟṟuveṉṟāṉ tirunāḷukkum tiruppaṇikkum tirunantāviḷakkukkum attippaṟṟu aruḷi ettal cantrātittar varaiyum naṭakkumpaṭikku

⟨4⟩ sarvvamānnya iṟaiyili tirunāmattukkāṇi āka iṉṉāyanāṟku ivvūr nāṟpāṟkellaiyum tiruccūla stāpaṉam paṇṇi kallilum cem

⟨5⟩ pilum veṭṭik kuṭuttōm [||*] ⟨Page 93⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0078⟩ No. 78. (A.R. No. 78 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Nīllakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Kumāra Kampaṇa, son of Bokkaṇa: Sādhāraṇa: 1370 A.D.

The beginning of the lines are lost. The record may palaeographically be assigned to c. 14th Century. The details of date viz., Sādhāraṇa, Dhanus śu 8, Wednesday, Uttiraṭṭādi regularly correspond to 1370 A.D., December 25, f.d.t. 68. The Śaka year being 1292 expired.

It records a grant of lands along with income from various taxes (specified) in the village Umaiyāḷ-ēndal in Poṉṉūrp-paṟṟu to provide for the worship, repairs and perpetual lamp to the deity Kaṟaikaṇṭīśvaramuḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Viḍār in Poṉṉūrp-paṟṟu in Śiṅgapura-nāḍu in Veṇkuṉṟakkōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam, for the merit of king Bokkaṇṇauḍaiyar (i.e., Bukka I). The name of the donor is not mentioned in the record. Probably it may be a royal gift that is referred to in this record.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ • 1 ••• ••• •••• pokkaṇa uṭaiyar kumārar kumāra kampaṇa uṭaiyarkkuc cellāniṉṟa sādhāraṇa varṣam dhanussu nāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu aṣṭamiyum putaṉkiḻamaiyum uttiraṭṭāti nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭa cOḻamaṇṭalattu veṇkuṉṟak koṭṭattu ciṅkapuranāṭṭup poṉṉū[rpa]ṟṟu viṭāril uṭaiyār kaṟaikkaṇṭīśvaramuṭaiya nāyaṉārkku uṭaiyār

⟨2⟩ ••• ••• •••• uṭaiyarukku naṉṟāka iṉṉāyanāṟku pūcaikkum tiruppaṇikkum tiruṉantāviḷakku[kku*]m ippaṟṟil umaiyāḷ ental tirunāmattukkāṇi yiṟaiyiliyākat tantom ivvūr nāṟpāṟkellaikkum uṭpaṭṭa naṉcey puṉcey māvaṭai maravaṭai kuḷavaṭai puṟavaṭai erivāy puṟavaṭai nattam taricu kaḷar 2 ⟨Page 94⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0079⟩ No. 79. (A.R. No. 79 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

Paridāpi.

This undated epigraph is engraved in characters of about the 15th Century. It records a short deed of agreement (śiṟu-muṟi) issued (by the temple authorities) in the name of the deity Ādichaṇḍīśvara along with a certain Kuñjaramallar to the army (śēṉai) called kaivalāṉ Taṉiy-āmaivallāṉ-śēṉai Kāchchukaṭṭi-Aṉṟuvarāgaṇḍaṉ regarding the grant of sites (maṉai) (the boundaries of which are specific) as a kāṇi from the month of Avaṇi in the above year to the temple of Kaṟaikaṇṭhīśvaram-uḍaiyanāyiṉār of Viḍāl. Among the boundaries specified in the record, the temple of Sambandap-perumāḷ-nāyaṉār is situated to the south of the gift land.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ āti caṇṭēcuraṉ tiruvāy malantaruḷiṉapaṭikku [|*] kuñcura mallarkku ciṟumuṟi viṭāl uṭaiyārāṉa

⟨2⟩ kaṟai kaṇṭī[cu]ramuṭaiya nāyiṉār tirunāmattuk kāṇi paritāpi varuṣām 1 āvaṇi mātam mutal

⟨3⟩ taṅkaḷukku teruvāka campantapperumāḷ nāyaṉār koyilukku vaṭakku kiḻciṟaku maṭamāka mukkol

⟨4⟩ kaṟai viṭṭu vaṭakkum mel ciṟaku kallukku vaṭakkum vāṇiyan vāṉiṉattukku kiḻakkum vaṭakku

⟨5⟩ kaḻaṉikkālukku teṟkum kiḻakku tirunaṉtavaṉattukku meṟkum uṭpaṭṭa maṉaiyum maṉaippaṭaippai-

⟨6⟩ yum kaivalāṉa taṉiyāṇmai vallāṉ kāccukaṭṭi | aṉṟu varākaṇṭaṉ ceṉaikkum

⟨7⟩ ivarkaḷukku kāṇi āka kuṭuttom § [||*] ⟨Page 95⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0080⟩ No. 80. (A.R. No. 80 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the gōpura of the Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara temple.

This Sanskrit inscription engraved in Grantha characters of about the 14th century consists of two verses in the Śārdūlavikrīḍita metre.

The first verse is in praise of the deity Nīlakaṇṭha at Vishapura, worshipped by the large Nīlagrīva (i.e., Kaṟaikaṇṭhīśvaram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār of Veḍāl), while the second verse speaks of seven hills in that place, named after seven persons viz., Phaṇīpati (i.e., Ādiśēsha), etc., who are stated to have worshipped the Īśvara here.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ gaurīśō girijāpurē kratayugē gaurīsa mārādhitastētāyāma-

⟨2⟩ pi rāmanāmanagarē rāmēśvara stannataḥ skandaśō guha pūjitō guha-

⟨3⟩ purē pādhāt sa vōñcaparē nīlagrīva [mu]ni[ṣṭu]tō viṣapurē śrī nīla-

⟨4⟩ kaṇṭhaḥ kalau | [1*] ādāvēva sadāśivam phaṇipati śrīkaṇṭhagauri-

⟨5⟩ guhā dhātā viṣṇura vīśvaraḥ viṣupurē cakram 1 ssa mārādhanam |

⟨6⟩ tēṣānnāmahirēva sapta mahitā śśailāstadaivābhavan

⟨7⟩ yē kurvvanti ca tān pradakṣiṇammī mucyanta ēvaina sā | [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0081⟩ No. 81. (A.R. No. 81 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

Above the entrance into the maṇḍapa in front of a cavern on a hill.

Vijaya.

This inscription engraved in characters of about the 16th century and records the gift of a maṭha called Nīlakaṇṭha-nāyaṉār-maṭha to a certain Sāmantaya-nāyakkar for the merit of one Timmā-nāyakkar. The name of the donor is not mentioned in the record. ⟨Page 96⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ vicaiya varuṣam cittirai [mātam] timmā-

⟨2⟩ nāyakkar puṇṇiyamāka ••••• [cāma]-

⟨3⟩ ntaiya tevaṟku nilakaṇṭa nāyaṉār-

⟨4⟩ maṭam tāraivāttuk kuṭuttom [|*] [i]tukku

⟨5⟩ ahitam paṇṇinapar keṅkai ka-

⟨6⟩ raiyil kārām pacuvai [k]oṉṟa pāvattil po-

⟨7⟩ [vār*] [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0082⟩ No. 82. (A.R. No. 82 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a boulder near a natural cave known as Āṇḍār-maḍam on a hill.

Nandi (Nandivarman): Year 14.

This inscription may palaeographically be assigned to c. 8th Century.

It records a gift of two paṭṭis of land by Siṅgaṉ-Śattimalai to a jaina establishment (paḷḷi) at Viḍāl. It also seems to refer to the renovation of some structure by a certain Viḻi ••••• p-pērāyar, who is described as the head (māmudali) of another paḷḷi at Tirunaluṅgoṇḍai.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śrīyāṇṭu patiṉālāvatu nantikku •••••

⟨2⟩ viṭār paḷḷikku ciṅkaḷa 1 cattimalai cat •••

⟨3⟩ •• ṟṟu ū[rā]ṟpaṭṭiyum viṭāl iraṇṭu •••

⟨4⟩ paṭṭiyum kuṭuttāḷ • tirunaluṅkoṇṭai melaip-

⟨5⟩ paḷḷi māmutalaṭikaḷ viḻi •••••

⟨6⟩ •• p perāy[ār] putukku [||*] ⟨Page 97⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0083⟩ No. 83. (A.R. No. 83 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a boulder in front of the natural cave called Āṇḍār-maḍam on the hill.

This record may be assigned to c. 8-9th century on palaeographical grounds.

It seems to record the gift of gold for a lamp in the paḷḷi at Nandimaṅgalam and registers an undertaking given by Sembiyan Tamiḻavēḷar of the above paḷḷi to the son of Tiruppūr-nakkaṉ of Pulaiyyūr to maintain the lamp by the female jaina acetic Kanaka vīrakkuṟattiyār and her pupils from out of the income from taxes like eṇṇaik-kāṇam and pudā-nāḻi granted by the latter. Nandimaṅgalam seems to be the other name of the Veḍāl, called Viḍāl, the findspot of the record. This name also figures in a record of Chōḷa Rājakēsarivarman discussed below. (No. 84).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ mā tevi[āna na]nti maṅkalattu

⟨2⟩ paḷḷikku to •• ṭu ••••• ṭṭi •••

⟨3⟩ •• ṭṭi •• ṉa ••• tevaṉ [ka]ḻai

⟨4⟩ ñcu po[n] ••••• pon ••••• ippon •••

⟨5⟩ •• āṭiyil ti[ru]viḷakku vacca •••••

⟨6⟩ ••• māteviāna nan[ti]ma-

⟨7⟩ [ṅ]kalattu paḷḷi uṭaiya •••••

⟨8⟩ kanakavīrakkuṟa[t]tiyar vaḻi māṇākkikaḷāyilu[m] ittiru viḷakku

⟨9⟩ ney muṭṭāme aṭṭi erikkakkaṭava muṉṟā-

⟨10⟩ y iṭṭatevaṉtaḷi vaicca taṇṭa[p] paṭuvar •••••

⟨11⟩ ••• mātevi āna nan[ti] maṅkalattu paḷḷiyuṭ[ai*]ya cempiyan •••

⟨12⟩ tamiḻaveḷār ni[ṟi]ttiṟa paricāvatu pulaiyyūrruṭaiyān tiruppūr

⟨13⟩ nakkaṉ makan e[ḻa]ṭi vacca dharmmam eṇṇaiyk kāṇamum putā nāḻiyum koṇṭu •••••

⟨14⟩ [ke*]ṅkai iṭai kumari iṭai [ce]tār [cey]ta pāvaṅkoḷvār [||*] ⟨Page 98⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0084⟩ No. 84. (A.R. No. 84 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a boulder in front of the natural cave called Āṇḍār-maḍam on the hill.

Rājakēsarivarman: Year 14: 894 A.D.

This record may be assigned to c. 9th Century on grounds of palaeography.

It records an undertaking given by the lay disciples of a Jaina monastery at Viḍāl alias Nandimaṅgalam, in the eastern side of Śiṅgapuranāḍu, to protect and feed Kanakavīrakkurattiyār, the female disciple and follower of Guṇakīrti-Bhaṭāra of Viḍāl, her pupils and the four hundred female ascetics. The king of this record may be identified with Āditya I.

(Published in S.I.I., Vol. III, No. 92, Ibid., Vol. XIII, No. 245)

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kovirācakecariparma[r*]kku yāṇṭu patinālāvatu ci-

⟨2⟩ ṅkapura nāṭṭuk kiḻvaḻi vāṭāl mā[ḷa]viyūrānta maṅkala-

⟨3⟩ ••• ṭanuṅ kiḻānummuṭaya kuṇakirtti paṭārarvaḻi māṇākkiyār kaṉakavirakkuratti-

⟨4⟩ ••• ••• •••• yummavar vaḻi māṇākkiyāraiyum ••••• yāṟṟu varkkum

⟨5⟩ rā[na*]ntamaṅkala muṭaiyyārayum mavar vaḻi māṇākkiyāraiyum •• ḷiru nūṟṟuvarayum

⟨6⟩ kanaka virakkura[t*]tiyār [i]vakaḷ[ḷātaṉa]maiyil ikkayaṟ viḷai •• [nā] nūṟṟukkum vaḻi •• ṅ-

⟨7⟩ kaṉmikaḷḷātanamaiyil kāttūṭṭu vomāṉām eṅkaḷuṭaiya svarakū itu [rakṣi][p*]pāraṭi ni •••

⟨8⟩ itu [val]laṉ na[ṉ]ṟuṭal melaṉa mātaviyūrānanta maṅkalamuṭaiya ka[ṉa]kavirakkurattiyār

⟨9⟩ ••••• vil itaṉai tiṟuttavalavar makaḷā[ta]ṉamaiyil āca vallavar •••••

⟨10⟩ iṭai mukkiyarumitu kāppā 1 ⟨Page 99⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0085⟩ No. 85. (A.R. No. 85 of 1908.) VEḌĀL, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a pillar of the maṇḍapa in front of the natural cave known as Āṇḍār-maḍam on the hill.

Madi[rai*]koṇḍa Parakēsarivarman Year 19: 925-26 A.D. (Parāntaka I)

This damaged inscription can be assigned to c. 10th Century on grounds of palaeography.

It seems to refer to a gift by Viṇṇagar Vayiramēgaṉ to a Daśapuriyan, a Kāḷāmukha belonging to the Harita-gōtra and Āpastamba-sūtra. The other details are not clear as the record is incomplete.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī mati[rai*]koṇṭa kopparakecari paṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 19 āvatu viṇṇa[kar]-

⟨2⟩ vayiramekaṉeṉ hārita kotrattu [hā]pastambha 1 sūtrattukkālāmukha

⟨3⟩ daśapurīyanṉukku ciṅkapuranāṭṭu kiḻvaḻimandapurattai vayirameka

⟨4⟩ • ṟu koṇṭa ••• ••• •••• ṇṭur cayamali īśvarandaṉai • • •

⟨SIIv25p0i0086⟩ No. 86. (A.R. No. 86 of 1908.) NEṞKUṆAM, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a Slab set up in front of the Śilaiyammaṉ temple.

Rājakēsarivarman: Year 24: 894 A.D.

This inscription may be assigned to c. 9th Century on grounds of palaeography.

It records a grant of land (names specified) alongwith income from taxes as ērippaṭṭi for the maintenance of a lake at Neṟkuṉṟam on the eastern direction of Śiṅgapura-nāḍu by Nambiyamallaṉār, son of Nṛipatuṅgamaṅgalappēraraiyaṉ. One of the taxes referred to here is termed āṉavāy-daṇḍam. The name Nṛipatuṅgamaṅgalappēraraiyaṉ seems to suggest that he should have been named after the Pallava king Nṛipatuṅgavarman.

The high regnal year of the king and the palaeography of the record helps us to identify this Rajakēsarivarman with Chōḷa Āditya I.

(Published in S.I.I. Vol. III, No. 93; and Ibid., Vol. XIII, No. 308). ⟨Page 100⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] ko-

⟨2⟩ virācakecari panma[r*]kku

⟨3⟩ yāṇṭu irupattu-

⟨4⟩ nāllāvatu 1 ciṅ-

⟨5⟩ kupuṟa nāṭṭuk kiḻva-

⟨6⟩ ḻi neṟkuṉṟat-

⟨7⟩ tu erikku nirupato-

⟨8⟩ ṅka maṅkalap pe

⟨9⟩ raraiyar makaṉār nam-

⟨10⟩ piya mallaṉār cey-

⟨11⟩ ta eri[p*]paṭṭi marutañ ce

⟨12⟩ ṟuvuṅ koṭumāṭi-

⟨13⟩ yum kaḻuvalūm

⟨14⟩ i[m*] muṉṟum eri-

⟨15⟩ ppaṭṭi ceytu ku-

⟨16⟩ ṭutteṉ [||*] itu i-

⟨17⟩ ṟaṅka ūromuṅ-

⟨18⟩ (k)kuṭimai ceyyi-

⟨19⟩ l eḻā narakattu

⟨20⟩ kiḻā narakam

⟨21⟩ pukuvom [||*] eri[p*]paṭṭi

⟨22⟩ iṟakkuvāṉum ēḻā-

⟨23⟩ narakattu kiḻānaraka-

⟨24⟩ m pukuvāṉ [||*] itu-

⟨25⟩ kāttā 2 āṇṭāṉ ⟨Page 101⟩

⟨26⟩ aṭi eṉ muṭimela-

⟨27⟩ ṉa |||—āṉavāy

⟨28⟩ taṇṭa muḷḷiṭṭu

⟨29⟩ eppeṟpaṭṭa maṉ-

⟨30⟩ ṟupāṭum erikke ku-

⟨31⟩ ṭutteṉ nampi-

⟨32⟩ ya • ma[l*]laṉeṉ [||*] itu-

⟨33⟩ iṟakkuvāṉum e-

⟨34⟩ ḻā narakattu kiḻā naraka-

⟨35⟩ m pukuvāṉ [||*] uromu-

⟨36⟩ m itu iṟaṅka kuṭi-

⟨37⟩ mai ceyyil eḻā-

⟨38⟩ narakattu kiḻā nara-

⟨39⟩ kam pukuvom i-

⟨40⟩ tu kāttāṇ-

⟨41⟩ ṭāṉ aṭi eṉ-

⟨42⟩ muṭimelaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0087⟩ No. 87. (A.R. No. 87 of 1908.) NEṞKUṆAM, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a Slab set up near the sluice of the lake in the village.

Dēvarāya, (son of Vijayarāya-uḍaiyar) Śaka 1352: 1430 A.D.

The details of the date viz., Śaka 1352, Sādhāraṇa, Āvaṇi 12 are not sufficient for verification. The record may be assigned to c. 15th Century on grounds of palaeography.

It records the permission granted by Tirumalai-nāyakkar, son of Kanyāsūryaṉ Vaḍakku-nāyakkar and his horseman of the Kannaḍa country for the excavation of the lake called Sukumāṟaṉ-ēri at Neṟ-kuṇam. The village Neṟkuṇam was held as jīvita-paṟṟu by the king himself. ⟨Page 102⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] śrīmanmakā maṇṭa-

⟨2⟩ liśvara śrī vicayarāya uṭai-

⟨3⟩ yar kumā[ra] śrī tevarāyar[k*]ku

⟨4⟩ cakāttam 135[2]- ṉ me

⟨5⟩ l cātāraṇa varuṣam āvaṇi [mātam]-

⟨6⟩ 12 tiyati śrīmatu kaṉyā cūri-

⟨7⟩ yaṉ vaṭakku n[ā]yakkar maka-

⟨8⟩ ṉār tirumalai n[ā]yakkarum i-

⟨9⟩ var cervai kaṉṉaṭiya • irāvu-

⟨10⟩ ttamārum eṅkaḷ civitamā-

⟨11⟩ ṉa neṟkuṉam cukumā[ṟa]ṉ eri-

⟨12⟩ yile kuḻiveṭṭa cantirāti

⟨13⟩ tta varaiyum cella kallu

⟨14⟩ veṭṭi naṭṭ[o]m ittan-

⟨15⟩ mam akutam paṇṇiṉavaṉ

⟨16⟩ keṅkai karaiyil pacuvai

⟨17⟩ ••• pār[p]pāṉai • •

⟨18⟩ •• ṟa pāvam pe •••

⟨19⟩ ittaṉmam irakṣi • •

⟨20⟩ •••••

⟨SIIv25p0i0088⟩ No. 88. (A.R. No. 88 of 1908.) ŚŌḺAPURAM, SIVAGANGAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North, West and South bases of a ruined Gaṇēśa temple in the village.

Māṟavarman Sundarapāṇḍya I Year: Lost (acc. 1216 A.D.)

This fragmentary record in three pieces has been arranged as A, B and C. This disturbed inscription contains parts of the enlarged version of the praśasti beginning with Pūmaruviya, etc., of the king. From the extant portion available, it seems to register some gift to provide for foodofferings. The name of the officer who attested the grant made is not clear. ⟨Page 103⟩

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A

⟨1⟩ —keraḷa ••••• ciṉaippuliyuṅ koṭuñcilaiyuṅ[ku]lain ••• •• vāḷārn[ti] poṟkirimel varikkayalkaḷ viḷaiyāṭa iruṅkayalkaḷ viḷaiyāṭa iruṅkaṭal valaiyata tiṉitaṟam perukak karuṅkali kaṭintu ceṅkol naṭappa • oru(ṅ)kuṭai niḻal irunilaṅkaḷira muvakait tamiḻum muṟaimai vakai vetamu naviṉṟu—ḷara aiyvakai veḻviyuñ ceyviḷai(yi*) yaṟṟa aṟuvakaic camaiyamumaḻakuṭaṉ [tikaḻa] eḻuvakaip pāṭalu muyaluṭaṉ parava eṇṭicai yaḷavuñ cakkarañ cellak ko— 1

⟨2⟩ —ṭa maruḷeṉa [vo]ruvar ••• muṉṉoruvar muṟai muṟai kaṭava tan ••••• tiṟaiñca ilaṅkoḷi maṇimuṭi yintiraṉ pūṭṭiya pulaṅkatirāra mārvi[ṉi]ṟ poliya paṉimalart tāmarait ticaimukaṉ paṭaitta maṉuneṟi taḻaippa maṇimuṭi cūṭip poṉṉi cūḻ nāṭṭup puli āṇai po[y]—k kayilāṇai kaiva—veñciṉa vivuḷiyum veḻamum parappit tañcaiyu murantaiyuñ centaḻal koḷutti kāviyu nilamu niṉṟu kavi[ṉiṟa]ppa vāviyu māṟu maṇi ni(r)raṇittu kūṭamu māḷikaiyuṅ ko—

⟨3⟩ —vicci cempiyaṉai ••••• veḷai koṇṭivaṉ teviyarai veḻa ••••• p paim poṉ maṇimuṭi paṟittu pāṇaṉukku [kku*]ṭuttaruḷi pāṭalañ ciṟappiṟ parutivāṉṟoyu māṭakap puricai yāyirattutaḷiyiṟ coravaḷava ṉaviṣeka maṇṭalattu virar aviṣeka vicaiyamākak kūṭi nāḷu—ki minnantaṟu kaṇ matac ••••• mel koṇṭu nirāḻivaiya [muḻu]tum potu voḷittu kūrāḷiyuñ cey toḷumey koṇṭu p[oypa]ṭāta varumaṟaite(r) rantaṇar vāḻ teyvap puliyūr tiruvellaiyuṭ—

⟨4⟩ — • ṅka ••• ••• •••• vamainta miṉṉuñcapaiyāṉai piḷaviṭai koṇṭu vāṅkuciṟai yaṉṉan tuyiloḻiya vaṇṭeḻuppum pūṅkamalavāvi cūḻ poṉṉamarāpati uḷ[ḷi]run tulakan tāṅku muyar meruvaik kuṇarntu vaittaṉaiya coti maṇi ⟨Page 104⟩ maṇṭapat—paḻanaṟ coṇāṭu veṉṟaḻaip[pa*]vāṉ nilaikulaintu vā[ḷa]kirikkappuṟatte poṉ vaḷavaṉurimai yuṭaṉ pukuntu peṟṟa putalvaṉiṉ pereṉṟu muṉkāṭṭi maṟṟavaṉ ••••• maṅkala—

⟨5⟩ —ṉoṭi muṉṉuḻaṉṟa vemmaiyelāṅ kaiyalat tāṉo(r) tavam paṇṇi taṇṭār muṭi[yu]ṭaṉe viṭṭa pukaliṭaṉṟaṉmār veḷaikkuttiriya miṭṭapaṭik[ku] piṭipāṭituvāka poṅku nir—ñālattu pūpālar toḷa viḷaṅku ceṅkayal koṇṭu ••••• tirumukamum paṇṭiḻnta coḷapatiyeṉu—miḷavaḻaṅki viṭaikuṭu—viṭṭaruḷi otakkaṭaṟ pāril ventar ••••• • ṟṟa •• taṅkaḷ ••••• kaṭavuḷivaṉeṉ ṟeṇṇit talaiyuṟ ṟaṭaiyātār taṇṭaliṭaiyeṉṉa kiḷaiyuṟṟaṉṉa per muḻutuṅ keṭṭaruḷeṉṟetti va—

⟨6⟩ —kaḷpola takkiṇai ••• ttu ••••• teṉkoṅkaṉ vantiṭṭa teṇṭaṉukku [mi]ṉpoṅka cāttiya āparaṇan takkateṉa vaḻaṅki [ā]rāta perunaṇpiṉaic ciṟaiyumiṭṭu tirumālu nāṉmukaṉuñ cevitta ceṅkaṭ karumāl kaḷiṟṟuvaru mukkaṭ [kaṭa*]vu(ḷ) ḷivaṉeṉa māṭa maturaiyiṟ tāṉ po[n]—••• ••• •••• varkku tollaip puvikku miṇaṅkāmaṟ tā[ñ] coṉṉa ellaikkuḷ ṉiṟpa icaivitta ••••• koṇṭivāṟu ceyyātoḻi yi[li]ya maṉukku[n] nalviruntākkutu mumaiyeṉa viṭṭaruḷi—

⟨7⟩ —yum okkac curuṇṭotuṅki karuvikkārāḷum veṭṭu raṇṭu [ma]yaṅ[kak*] kaikoṇṭu velāvalaiyattu viḻntavaṉ poy na[ṭu]—miṉavaṟkup pā[l*]kuṭamāmeṉṟu tamvirar koṉ mākamukaṭu taṭavi maḻai maṭukkum—

⟨8⟩ —yoḻiya ventalaṟk koṭuvāḷḷuyakalaniriṟc[ai]ytu tekkulattu veṇkavaṭivitta viramuḻuteṭuttu pāṭum pa— moruṅkak kaikkoṇṭu—ṇip paṭṭaṅ kaṭṭi muṭicūṭi mār[pi]llaṇai

⟨9⟩ —ra maṇṭapattiṟ pukku ticai to—k katirvel vaṭaventar tam pātam mekat taḻaiyaṇiya virakkaḻalaṇintu viḷa—yikale kuḻaiyarivaiyar toḻutu ni—••••• muḻutuṭaiyāroṭum viṟṟiru abhiṣekam paṇṇiyaruḷi— ⟨Page 105⟩

B

⟨1⟩ —amutu arici irunāḻi

C

⟨1⟩ —cantirātittavaṟ celvatākak kallile—

⟨2⟩ —[tarai]yaṉ • eḻuttu ippaṭikku ivai eḻu—

⟨3⟩ —ippaṭikku ivaimā ••• muventa veḷā—

⟨SIIv25p0i0089⟩ No. 89. (A.R. No. 89 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Immaḍi Narasiṁ[ha*]-mahārāya Śaka 1421 = 1500 A.D.

The details of date of the record viz., Śaka 1421, Siddhārthi, Tai 12, do not admit verification. The weekday and the nakshatra are not given.

The king is described as the Dharmarāya and as the son of Narasiṁharāya.

This incomplete record refers to a dharma śāsana issued by Tipparasar to the mūlaparusha-mahājanas of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu, exempting the taxes like araśu-kaṭṭu, pāḍikāval, kīḻvārappachchai, viniyōgam, echchōṟu, etc on the mānya-kshētra which were being enjoyed by them already and for the enjoyment of the same as sarvvamāṇya.

The present epigraph seems to furnish the last date for Tipparasa, the agent of the king as we hear from the inscriptions from Pirāṉmalai in Tiruppatur Taluk that some gifts were made for his merit. These two records of Immaḍi Narasiṁha are dated Śaka 1422, Raudri, a year later than the date of our record. Does it indicate that Tipparasa died between the date of the record under study and that of the above two epigraphs? (See A.R.Ep., 1903, Nos. 139 and 151).

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⟨1⟩ [svasti] [||*] śrīmanmahāmaṇḍalēśvaran metinimicura-

⟨2⟩ kaṇṭan kaṭṭāṟicāḷuvan 1 harihararāyavibhāṭan bhāṣaikku tappu

⟨3⟩ varāyarakaṇṭan kaṇṭaṉāṭu koṇṭu koṇṭaṉāṭu kuṭātāṉ pūrvvada- ⟨Page 106⟩

⟨4⟩ kṣiṇapaścimōttaracatussamudrādhipati narasiṅharāya śrīmat kumāradharmma-

⟨5⟩ rā(ā)yarāna immaṭinarasiṁ[ha*] mahārāyar prathvīrājyam paṇṇiyaruḷāniṉṟa śakābdam

⟨6⟩ 1421-n mel cellāniṉṟa sidhārtthi varuṣam taiø 12 nāḷ śrīmatu

⟨7⟩ tipparasar keraḷa ciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyan tirupputtūr mūlaparuṣa-

⟨8⟩ mahājaṉaṅkaḷukku namaskāra pūrvvam āka dharmmaśāsanapramāṇam paṇṇikkuṭu-

⟨9⟩ ttapaṭi [|*] taṅkaḷukku pūrvvamāka anubhavittu varukiṟa mānnyakṣētraṅkaḷukku

⟨10⟩ aracu kaṭṭuppāṭikāval kiḻvārappaccai viniyogam ecco

⟨11⟩ ṟu taṅkaḷ āḷ aṭiyār iṟai ūḻiyaṅkaḷukkuṅ kaḻittu sarvvamānyamāka

⟨12⟩ anubhavittuk koḷḷumpaṭikku kaṟpittu viṭṭom [|*] immariyāti-

⟨13⟩ yile taṅkaḷ kṣētraṅkaḷukku ellām eppeṟpaṭṭa iṟai ū-

⟨14⟩ ḻiyaṅkaḷuṅ kaḻittu sarvvamānnyamāka ācandrārkka [kṣiti] sthāyi 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0090⟩ No. 90. (A.R. No. 90 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ: Regnal year 4+1, 593rd Day.

This inscription in Sanskrit and Tamil is written in Grantha and Tamil characters. Palaeographically, the record may be assigned to 8th-9th Centuries A.D. The Sanskrit verses at the beginning states that Tennavan-Pallavādhipa, who is also called Māṟaṉ-Āditya born at Pōḻiyūr in Pōḻiyūrdēśa made an endowment of forty Kṛishṇa-kāchā for maintainning a lamp to the deity Śūlapāṇi in the temple at Śrīsthalī. ⟨Page 107⟩

The Tamil portion, dated in the 4th+1st year and 593rd day of the reign of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ records the gift of a perpetual lamp by Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ alias Teṉṉavaṉ Pallavaraiyaṉ of Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu to be maintained in the temple of the deity Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-bhaṭāra at Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Mīkuṇḍāru in Koḻuvūr-kūṟṟam. The amount of gift is specified as 120 palam. The sabhai of Maṇaṟkkuḍi, a brahmadēya village received the interest of 40 kaḻañju and agreed to supply one uri of ghee daily measured by the śūla-nāḻi of the temple treasury to the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-bhaṭāra. Also states that the vaṇṇār of Tirupputtūr had received a kaḻañju as poliyūṭṭu.

The chief Māṟaṉ Āchchaṉ also figures in a record, of the same king, dated an year earlier, from Courtallam in Tenkasi Taluk in Tirunelveli District. (S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 4) In this record he is referred to as the araiyaṉ of Pōḻiyūr. In our inscription he is referred to also by his title Teṉṉavaṉ Pallavaraiyaṉ, Māṟaṉ-Achchaṉ is the Tamil variant of the Sanskrit name Māṟaṉ-Āditya. (Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 5) Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-bhaṭāra has been curtailed into the modern name of the temple Tiruttaḷīśvara.

It is probable that this person must have enjoyed the status of a minor chieftain of Pōḻiyūr area. This chief is totally different from śōḻāntaka-Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Māṟaṉ Ādichchaṉ of Poḻiyūr figuring in a record of Śōḻantalaikoṇḍa Vīra Pāṇḍya (acc. 946 A.D.) from Paḷḷimaḍam in Aruppukkottai Taluk of Ramanathapuram District. (See, S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 79).

The village Pōḻiyūr in the division Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu must have been included in the Mudukuḷattur or in the Paramakudi Taluk of Ramanathapuram District. (See, S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 5).

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] pōḻiyūrākhyadēśēsmin pōḻiyūrē prasūtavān [|*] māḷunāditya[rā]mā-

⟨2⟩ śrī tēnnavan pallavādhipaḥ [||*] dīpannitya pradīptyai sikataku ṭibhava br[ā*]hmaṇēbhyaḥ pradāya-

⟨3⟩ catvāriśatpramānān śatadhrati caraṇōtthuta varṇṇa pradhānaḥ [|*] śrī sthalyām kraṣakācān tadudibhavi-

⟨4⟩ ṣā praddhidēyēna vipraiḥ ārddha prastēnasiddhairi ppravihitamakarōtsusthita[ś] śūlapāṇēḥ |||—

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

⟨6⟩ n nāḷālk toḻuvūṟṟattu mīkuṇṭāṟṟu brahmateyam tirupputtūrt tirukkaṟṟaḷi bhaṭāraṟkku po- ⟨Page 108⟩

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

⟨8⟩ oṉṟu itaṉiṟaiyṉūṟṟirupatiṉ palam [|*] itaṟkku pakalum muṭṭāmal ca[ndrā]dityaval erivatā-

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

⟨10⟩ ya maṇaṟkkuṭic cavaiyār poliyūṭṭākak koṇṭa kaḻañca 40 nāl ••••• cūlanāḻiyā-

⟨11⟩ l nicatippaṭi muṭṭāmal uriya ney yaṭṭuvatākak koṭuttāṉ [|*] iva ••••• kat tirupputtūr

⟨12⟩ vaṇṇārkku poliyūṭṭāka kkuṭutta kaḻañcu oṉṟu [|*] ivviḷakku ••• ••• •••• ṭṭa kaṭava sabhaiyā-

⟨13⟩ raiyum rakṣippār śrīpādam eṉ śirassiṉ meliṉ |||

⟨SIIv25p0i0091⟩ No. 91. (A.R. No. 91 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Kṛishṇarāya Śaka 1432 = 1510 A.D.

The details of date of the record viz., Śaka 1432, Pramōdūkā, Uttarāyaṇa, Vasanta-ṛitu, Ṛishabha śu 12, Monday, Svāti-nakshatra regularly correspond to 1510 A.D., May 20.

It seems to state that Śiṅgama-nāyakkar, son of Veṅgala-nāyakkar of Sinda-ppaṭṭu ratified a grant of 6 mā of land previously made by Bhairavanayiṉār, son of Dakshiṇāmūrti-bhaṭṭar Ādityadēvar of Kāñchīpuram belonging to Bhārgava-gōtra and Bōdhāyana-sūtra, for the merit of Svāmi Chellappar alias Vīra Narasiṁharāya-nāyakkar and the same land was made over as sarvamānya to a person who was the son of Śrīsthalīśa-bhaṭṭa, belonging to Prathama Ātrēya-gōtra and Āgnēya vaiśya-sūtra and residing at Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu, for the enjoyment of his heirs. The chief who ratified this grant, is described with a string of birudas like gaṇḍara-gaṇḍa, Vaidigajabhīma, etc., probably indicating a high rank during the rule of this king.

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⟨1⟩ śubhamastu svasti śrīman mahā ma-

⟨2⟩ ṇḍalēśvaran hariyarāya vibhā- ⟨Page 109⟩

⟨3⟩ ṭan bhāṣaikkut tappuvarāyar kaṇṭan

⟨4⟩ kaṇṭan muvarāyira kaṇṭan ka-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭa nāṭu koṇṭu koṇṭa

⟨6⟩ nāṭu kuṭātān pūrvva dakṣiṇa

⟨7⟩ paścima uttara samudrādhipati śrī-

⟨8⟩ kṛṣṇarāyar pṛdhivirājyam paṇ-

⟨9⟩ ṇi aruḷāniṉṟa śakābdam

⟨10⟩ 2432 § itiṉ meṟcel-

⟨11⟩ lā niṉṟa pramōduta samva

⟨12⟩ tsaramattu uttarāyanattu vasantaṛ-

⟨13⟩ tuvāna ṛṣabhanāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu dvādaśi

⟨14⟩ puṇyakālamum sōmavāramum peṟṟa [svā]ti na

⟨15⟩ kṣatra[t*]tu nāḷ § 1 svāmi śimatu cellappa rāna vīranara-

⟨16⟩ siṅharāya nāyakkaṟkuppuṇyam āka bhārggava gōtrattu bō-

⟨17⟩ dhāyana sūtrattu śrīkāñcipuram dakṣiṇāmūrtti bhaṭṭar

⟨18⟩ ādityadēva putrar śrīmatu bhairavanayiṉār dharmmamāka

⟨19⟩ kaṇṭerakeṇṭan 2 vaidigajabhīman hannipraca

⟨20⟩ ṇḍan hattimuvarakaṇṭan pāṭagajaputran nāṭati nā

⟨21⟩ ṟāyaṇan śrīmatu veṅkala nāyakkar kumārar ciṅkama [n]ā-

⟨22⟩ yakkar § cintappaṭṭu § 3 keraḷa ciṅkavaḷa nāṭṭu brahmadēyantiruppu-

⟨23⟩ ttūr pradhama ātraya gōtrattu [kulananem] vaiśya sūtrat- ⟨Page 110⟩

⟨24⟩ tu śrīstalīśabhaṭṭan putran śrīstalīśabhaṭṭa

⟨25⟩ [ivū]r melpiṭākai neṭumāttū •••••sa

⟨26⟩ hiraṇyōdaka pūrvvam āka [sarvva]mānnya mākak kuṭuttat tirupputtūr paḻampaṭi nilam §

⟨27⟩ āṟumā iṉṉilam āṟumāvukkum vaṉta iru maṭai ū-

⟨28⟩ ruṇikku vaṭimeṟkut tevi [vaya]kka[lum] itaṉ va

⟨29⟩ ṭakku arumpu[rutti]yum itaṉ vaṭakku [a]mmai

⟨30⟩ ceyyum itaṉ teṉmeṟku [pi]rāṭṭi ūruṇikku

⟨31⟩ teṟku puḷiyañ cey[yum] meṟpaṭi ūruṇi-

⟨32⟩ kku mēṟkuc coṟaṉ vayakka-

⟨33⟩ lum itaṉ meṟku [tteṟkil] kaṇṇañc[eyyum] itaṉ

⟨34⟩ [va]ṭakiḻakkuc colaivayakkalu ākappa ••• [ḻa] varampu

⟨35⟩ kuṟiyātatta[ṭi] ēḻāl nilam tirupputtūrpaṭi āṟu

⟨36⟩ mā nilamum āsantantipravēśam ācandrārkka sthā-

⟨37⟩ yiyāka sarvvamānnyamāka anubhavittuk koḷḷavum §

⟨38⟩ § svadattām paradattām vāyōharē[ttu]

⟨39⟩ vasundharā[m] § ṣaṣṭhim varuṣa sahasrāṇi viṣṭha[yā] ñjāya [tēkṛ]-

⟨40⟩ mi[ḥ]§ svadattāt dviguṇam puṇyam paradattānu pālanam § pa-

⟨41⟩ radattāpahārēṇa svadatt(ā)nniśphalam bhavēt § dānapālana-

⟨42⟩ yō[r]mmaddhyē dānāt śrēyōnu pālanam § dānāt svargamavāpnō-

⟨43⟩ ti pālanādacyutam padam § ⟨Page 111⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0092⟩ No. 92. (A.R. No. 92 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Kṛishṇadēva-mahārāya: Śaka 1•••, Pramōdūta = 1510 A.D.

The date portion of the record is mutilated. The cyclic year Pramōdūta during the reign period of this king corresponds to Śaka 1432 and in the Dakshiṇāyana of that year śu 12, Monday, U[ttiraṭṭādi]-nakshatra may be equated with 1510 A.D., October 14, f.d.n. 13. This is in the month of Tulā only.

This incomplete record semms to register the grant of 48 shares and 52 house-sites (maṉai) at Karaiyūr and Nāraṇamaṅgalam in Kēraḷaśiṅgavaḷanāḍu in Pāṇḍi-maṇḍalam by Bhairava-nayiṉār, son of Dakshiṇāmūrtibhaṭṭar Ādityadēvar of Kāñchīpuram belonging to Bhārgava-gōtra and Bōdhāyana-sūtra, as vipra-bhāga (share for the brāhmaṇas) to Chellappa for the study of vēdas and Purāṇas (addhyayana-vṛitti and Purāṇa-vṛitti)

The order recording the aforesaid grant, made for the merit of Vīra Narasiṁharāya-nāyakkar alias Chellappar was issued to the aśēsha-vidvanmahājanas of the different gōtras and sūtras, on the date mentioned earlier.

Chellappar (Śellappar) alias Vīra Narasiṁha is known to us from the previous record, wherein too, the gift was made for his merit. The honorific title Svāmi mentioned for him in the record No. 91 of 1908 indicate that he was a powerful chief or viceroy. He has been identified with Narasiṁharāya or Narasa-nāyaka, the father of Kṛishṇadēvarāya in the Report. (See, A.R.Ep, 1909, para 69, page. 116). V. Rangachari had suggested that he is identical with his namesake who figures and styles as ubhayapradhāni in a record from Chingleput dated Śaka 1450. (Same as, A.R.Ep., 1909, No. 233, Ind. Ant., Vol. XLIII, pp 45-46).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti [||*] śrīman mahāmaṇḍalēśvaran rājādhirāja[n] • ••• ••• ••••

⟨2⟩ virapratāpa śrīkṛṣṇayadēvamahārā[ya] ••• ••• ••••

⟨3⟩ paṇṇiyaruḷāniṉṟa śakāptam tta ••• ••• ••••

⟨4⟩ cellāniṉṟa pramōdūta varṣattu dakṣi ••• ••• ••••

⟨5⟩ yaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu dvādaśiy sōmavā •••••

⟨6⟩ nakṣatramum vyatipādayōgamum peṟṟa u ••• ••• •••• 1 ⟨Page 112⟩

⟨7⟩ ṇya kālattile śrīman vīranarasiṅharāya nāya[kkarā]ṉa

⟨8⟩ cellappaṟku puṇyamāka bhārggavagōtrattu bautēya na 1

⟨9⟩ sūtrattu śrīkāñcipuram dakṣiṇāmūrttibhaṭṭar ādityad[ē]var putra[r] śrī[ma]-

⟨10⟩ tu bhairanayiṉār nānāgōtrattu nānāsūtra aśēṣa[vi]dvanmahā-

⟨11⟩ jaṉaṅkaḷukkum dharmmaśāsa[ṉa]ppaṭṭayam koṭuttapaṭi [|*] pāṇṭi maṇṭa-

⟨12⟩ lattu keraḷa ciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu kāraiyūrum nāraṇamaṅkalamum ti[ruc]-

⟨13⟩ cellappapurattukku v[ai]prabhāgam addhyanavṛtti purāṇavṛtti uṭpaṭa

⟨14⟩ sahiraṇyōdhaka dhārāpūrvvamāka koṭutta bhāgam 48 maṉai 52

⟨15⟩ inta bhāgam [2] nāṟpatteṭṭum maṉai aimpattiraṇṭukkum ellaiyāvatu ki-

⟨16⟩ ḻpāṟkellai āmaṇattāṇṭāṉ ellaikku meṟkum teṉpāṟkel-

⟨17⟩ lai vela[ṅ]kuṭi ellaikkum tiruppattūr ellaikkum māṅkuṭi ellaikkum va-

⟨18⟩ ṭakkum melpāṟkellai c[e]mpaṅkuṭi ellaik[ku] 2

⟨SIIv25p0i0093⟩ No. 93. (A.R. No. 93 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhº Śrīvallabha Year 21: (Chaḍaiyavarmaṉ Śrīvallabha)

This epigraph belongs to the reign period of Śrīvallabha and does not furnish the details of date except his regnal year. In the absence of praśasti, ⟨Page 113⟩ the identification poses a problem. Palaeographically the record may be assigned to the second half of the 12th Century.

It registers a gift of 50 sheep for maintaining a perpetual lamp to the deity Śrītali-Paramēśvara in the temple at Tirupputtūr a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu by Rājēndraśōḻaṉ Kēraḷaṉ alias Nishādharājaṉ. The gift was entrusted to a sheperd Naṅgaṉ Chōṟaṉ, who agreed to supply one uḻakku of ghee measured by śūla-uḻakku for the maintenance of the lamp. (S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 252).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tripuvaṉac cakkaravarttikaḷ śrī vallavadēvarkku yāṇṭu 21 āva-

⟨2⟩ tu keraḷaciṅka vaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyan tiruppattūr śrītaḷip parameśvaraṟku irājentra-

⟨3⟩ coḻaṉ keraḷanāṉa [niṣadha]rājan ittevaṟku tirununtāviḷakku oṉṟu erippataṟkuc cūla uḻa-

⟨4⟩ kkāl uḻakku ney cantirātittaval aṭṭuvataṟku iṭaiyaṉ naṅkaṉ coṟaṉ kaikkoṇṭa-

⟨5⟩ cāvāmuvāp perāṭu 50 [|*] itu śrīmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0094⟩ No. 94. (A.R. No. 94 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the Central Shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Parākrama Pāṇḍya Year 11:

This record may be assigned to the 12th century on palaeographical groungs.

It records a gift of 300 kalam of paddy from out of the dēvadāṉa villages Pottikkuḍi and Viḷakkamaṅgalam of the deity Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍār by Rājēndraśōḻaṉ Kēraḷaṉ alias Nishādharāyan of Poṉṉamarāpati in Puṟamalaināḍu, for the festival of pavitrārōhaṇa to be conducted in the month of Aippigai (Aippaśi) to the god Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍār of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu.

The king Parākrama-pāṇḍya may be identified with Māṟavarmaṉ Parākrama, who is known to have been a contemporary of Kulōttuṅga I as said earlier. The Vikkiramaṅgalam record of Parākrama Pāṇḍya, who is also identified with the above Māṟavarmaṉ, refers to a gift of the 40th year of Kulōttuṅga (See A.R.Ep., 1927, para II, para 39). ⟨Page 114⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tribhuvanac ca[kka]ravattikaḷ śrīpa[rā]kkirama pāṇṭiyadēvaṟ[ku yā]-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu 11- vatu keraḷaci[ṅkava]ḷa nāṭṭu brahmateyam tirupputtūr tiruttaḷi[yāṇ]-

⟨3⟩ ṭāṟku puṟamalaimanāṭṭup poṉṉamarāpati irāj[e]ntra coḻan keraḷanāṉa niṣatarā-

⟨4⟩ yan tiruttaḷiyāṇṭār tevatāṉam keraḷaciṅkavaḷa nāṭṭu pottikkuṭiyilum viḷa-

⟨5⟩ kkamaṅkalattilum tiṉakku ••••• [kku]m paricaṭṭattukkum tantu varukiṟa nellu muṉ-

⟨6⟩ nūṟṟuk kalamum ittevaṟku ā ••• ••• •••• [aiyp]pikaiy māsattu pavitrārōha-

⟨7⟩ ṇa[m] paṇṇa candrādityavat eṉ taṉmamākac cey[tu]k kuṭutteṉ tiruttaḷiyāṇṭāṟku i-

⟨8⟩ rājentiracoḻaṉ keraḷaṉāṉa niṣatarāyaṉeṉ itu panmāhēśvara irakṣaiḥ

⟨SIIv25p0i0095⟩ No. 95. (A.R. No. 95 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhº Kulaśēkhara Year 15:

This record may palaeographically be assigned to the 12th century.

It states that the mūlaparishai of Tirupputtūr met in the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār, at Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅgavaḷanāḍu and agreed to assign lands made after purchase from out of the 50 śōḻiya-naṟ-paḻaṅkāśu deposited in the temple treasury by a certain lady Jaṉiyāṉai-Tiruvuḍaiyāḷ of Niyamam in Tēnaṟṟuppōkku and a resident of Śrīkōyil for the purpose of maintaining a tirunilai-viḷakku (lamp) weighing 140 palam to the deity mentioned above. ⟨Page 115⟩

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tribhuvanac cakravattikaḷ śrīkulaśēkharadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 15vatu keraḷaciṅka va-

⟨2⟩ ḷa nāṭṭu brahmadēyan tirupputtūr mulapariṣaiyom tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyanār śrīko-

⟨3⟩ yilil kūṭiyirukkateṉāṟṟup pokku niyamattu taṉiyāṉai tiruvuṭaiyāṉ innāyanāṟku

⟨4⟩ vacca tirunontā viḷak koṉṟukku ivaṉ śrī paṇṭārattoṭuk iṉacoḻiya ••• muṅkā-

⟨5⟩ ruṭaiya iṭṭa tirunilaiviḷak ko ••• ••• •••• eṭai 740 palam ikkācu aimpatukkum •••••

⟨6⟩ śrīkṛṣṇaṉ muṭitta kantapirāṉ ••• ••• •••• k kalam caṅkūr vayalil nālu tikkum veṉṟāṉe-

⟨7⟩ ṉuñ ceyal me ••• ••• •••• nilaṅkaḷ vilaikoṇṭu ic ceyile ••••• ṭi arai

⟨8⟩ nilamumive ••• kiṇaṟu ••••• tirunontāviḷakkuc candrādityavaṟ cella-

⟨9⟩ tāka kalveṭṭik kuṭuttom mulapariṣaiyom itu śrī mahaiśvara rakṣai §

⟨SIIv25p0i0096⟩ No. 96. (A.R. No. 96 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

East wall of the maṇḍapa in the front of central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

In characters of C. 11th Century A.D.

This record is in Grantha Characters composed in Sanskrit verse. This is in Arya metre. This incomplete verse mentions the name Kuntaḷavati and the daity Śristhaḷī (Tamil: Tiruttaḷī).

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ śrī kkuntaḷava-

⟨2⟩ ti nāmē le-

⟨3⟩ striyau śrī-

⟨4⟩ sthaḷipatē- ⟨Page 116⟩

⟨5⟩ vā putyā sti-

⟨6⟩ ni vēdyāyaḥ

⟨7⟩ ••••• rpi • 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0097⟩ No. 97. (A.R. No. 97 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ, Śrīvallabha Year 17.

This record begins with the meykirti Tirumaḍandaiyum-Jayamaḍandaiyum, etc., of the Pāṉdya king Śrīvallabha. It mentions the mūlaparushai of Tiruppattūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu and registers the gift of 11 kañañju, six mañjāḍi of gold to meet the expenses for raising the garden (tirunandavaṉam) and for the tirumugai and tiruppaḷḷittāmam to the dūty Śrītaḷiparamēśvarar by Tañjāvūrkiḻavaṉ Vaḍugaṉ-uyyavandāṉ, a merchant of Aruviyūr alias Dēśi Uyyavandapaṭṭaṇam in the above nāḍu. The sempoṉ-kāśu deposited in the treasury was weighed by the measure called kūttāḍi. The garden raised was named Toṇḍiyūraṉ-Uyyavandāṉ.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tirumaṭantaiyuñ jayamaṭantaiyun tirupuyaṅkaṉiliṉi tiruppa irunilamum perumaiyeyta eṇṭicaiyuṅ kuṭainiyaṟṟa maṉṉavarellām vantiṟaiñ māvil-

⟨2⟩ talavaru maṇimuṭi cūṭit teṉkumariyum vaṭakaṅkaiyun tiraikkaṭale ellaiyākap pār muḻutuṅkayalāṇaipāntu ceṅkolluṭaṉ varai manniya vīrasiṅkāsaṉattu mukko kiḻānaṭikaḷo-

⟨3⟩ ṭum vīṟṟiruntaruḷiya māmutal matirkulam viḷakkiya komutal koccaṭaiya paṟmarāṉa tripuvaṉaccakkaravarttikaḷ [śrīval]lavadēvarkku yāṇṭu 17 āvatu keraḷaciṅka vaḷanāṭṭu branma(hma)-

⟨4⟩ dēyan tirupputtūr mūlaparuṣaiyom innāṭṭu aruviyūrāṉa teciuyyavantāṉ vaṭukaṉ uyyavantāṉ ivvūr śrītaḷiparamēśvararkku ittevar te-

⟨5⟩ vatānam paṭaiyāṇivāykkāl teṟ[ki]l ceri[vayakkal] kīḻet [toṇ]ṭiyūraṉ uyyavantāneṉṉun tirunantavāṉam ⟨Page 117⟩ tirumukait tiruppaḷḷittāmam ākkutaṟkuc cantirātittavaṟ ittevar śrīpa-

⟨6⟩ ṇṭarattuk kūttāṭiyāl nāḷ 1 kku viṭakkaṭava ipaṇam [puṭavai] mutalukku ōrāṇṭukkuk kācu- 1m celuttuvatāka śrīpaṇṭārattu ivaṉ oṭukkiṉa cempoṉkācu kallāl patinoru kaḻañ-

⟨7⟩ ce āṟumañcāṭiyum śrīpaṇṭārattile oṭukkuvittuk koṇṭu iṉta vastuvukku iṉnelumayyañ celuttuvomāka kalveṭṭuvittukkuṭutto mūlaparuṣaiyōm itu [cantirasē]-

⟨8⟩ kharara rakṣai ||

⟨SIIv25p0i0098⟩ No. 98. (A.R. No. 98 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Māṟavarmaṉ Parākrama-Pāṇḍya Year 3:

This built in inscription which is not fully preserved may be assigned to about the 12th century on grounds of palaeography. It commences with the praśasti of the king Tirumagaḷ-puṇara, etc. of the king.

It states that the mūlaparushai of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu after making an announcement (vāyiṟ-chāṟṟi) met at the Naralōkavīraṉ-tiruv-eḍuttukkaṭṭi in the temple of Niṉṟaruḷiṉa Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-viṇṇagar-āḻvār of Kaṟkuḷaṅgarai and transacted the sale of lands āvaṇattu-nattam and a tank in the village Vēlaṅguḍi, a hamlet to the west of Tirupputtūr, for the deity Śrītaḷi-Paramēśvara of the place. The sale-price of 120 kaḻañju of gold was received by the sabhai from the temple treasury of the above deity and made over the lands, after making it tax free for the Naralōkavīraṉ-sandhi to be conducted in the midday as an endowment of Uyyavandāṉ Kaṇḍadēvaṉ alias Dēvar Kāṅgēyar. A village named Varaguṇapuram figures as one of the boundaries of the saleland.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tirumakaḷ puṇara pukaḻ makaḷ viḷaṅka vikkiramac jayamakaḷ poṟpuyattiruppa kaṉaka meruviṟ kayal vi[ḷai]yāṭa irunilattoru tani veṇkuṭai niḻaṟṟat tirumaṇi cūṭi taṉ urimaiyiṟ cūṭi ulaku potu niṅka oru kolo- ⟨Page 118⟩

⟨2⟩ cci vañci maṉṉarum vaṭapula ventarum añci vantiṟaiñci aṭimalar cūṭa maṉṉiya virasiṅṅāsaṉattu ulaka muḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya māmutal matikkulam viḷakkiya komutal komāṟavaṟmarāṉa tri[bhuva]ṉic cakkaravarttikaḷ

⟨3⟩ śrī parākkiramapāṇṭiya dēvaṟkuyāṇṭu 3 āvatu keraḷaciṅka vaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyantirupputtūr mulaparṣaiyom vāyiṟcāṟṟi nammur kaṟkuḷaṅkarai niṉṟaruḷiṉa jeyaṅkoṇṭa coḻaviṇṇakarāḻvār toyilil naralokavīraṉ tiruveṭu-

⟨4⟩ ttuk kaṭṭiyil kūṭṭakkuṟaivaṟak kūṭiyiruntu śrītaḷi paramēśvaraṟku nammūr melpiṭākai velaṅkuṭiyum āvaṇattu nattamum uḷḷiṭṭa nilaṅkaḷil ittevar paḻan tevatāṉaṅkaḷum arumpūṟ kūṟṟatāṭakattukku viṭṭa nilaṅkaḷum nikki niṉṟa nila muṟṟukkum vilai -

⟨5⟩ —ka iṟaiyiṟakkavum ittevar śrīpaṇṭārattuk kaikkoṇṭa poṉ 105(1/2)ḷa ippoṉ nūṟṟaṅkaḻañcaraiyum ittevar śrī paṇṭārattu nel viṟṟirunta kācāl uṭalāṉa poṉ 14(1/2)ḷam ākap poṉ 120mā ippoṉ nūṟṟirupatiṉ kaḻañcum sabhaiyomey kai 1

⟨6⟩ —ṇṭu ivvelaṅkuṭiyum kuḷamum āvaṇattu nattamum uyyavantāṉ kaṇṭatevaṉāṉa dēvar kāṅkeyar taṉmamāka naralokavīraṉ cantikkuc celvatākak kuṭutteṉ 3[|*] ittanmañcellumiṭattu uccic cantikku muṉpey celvatākavum innilaṅkaḷukkup perunāṉ 2

⟨7⟩ [kel]lai kiḻellai iṭṭa cūlak kalakkaḷukku meṟkum teṉṉellai kaṟkuḷaṅkarai niṉṟaruḷiya jeyaṅkoṇṭa coḻaviṇṇakarāḻvār cikovintaviḷākattu vacakki viḷaintu varukiṟa viḷaitaṭikaḷile [kiḻa*]kku meṟku nokkip pokiṟa vaḻi vaṭavācaṟutiyile iṭ

4. Built in.

⟨8⟩ ṭa cūlakkalkkaḷukku vaṭakkum melellai varakuṇapurattū rellaikkalkkaḷukkum kaṟukkai i—

⟨9⟩ kkaḷukku teṟkum āka ic cuṭṭappaṭṭa ellaiyil akappaṭṭa nilattuk kiṭāraṅkoṇṭa coḻa—

⟨10⟩ p peṟāteṉṟu colluvār grāmadrōhikaḷāvatākavum ipparicu iṟai iḻicciyum vilaiperuḷarak—

⟨SIIv25p0i0099⟩ No. 99. (A.R. No. 99 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhº Kulaśēkhara year 2+1+1

The details of the date of the record viz., Siṁha 30 in the regnal year 2+1+1 of the above king are not sufficient for verification. The record may be assigned on grounds of palaeography to about the 12th century.

It records a gift of taxes antarāyam, nel, nāḍupāḍu and kuḍimai from Atiśayapāṇḍyanallūr alias Kūttakkuḍi in Kīḻ-Kuṇḍāṟu, the dēvadāṉa villages given earlier to the deity Varaguṇapperm.ḷ Kūttāḍudēvar, by Kaṇḍaṉ Uyyavand.āṉ alias Kāṅgayaṉ of Niyamam in Tēṉāṟṟuppōkku to meet the expenses connected with the festival conducted on the day of his natal star Puṉarpūśam, for the food-offerings to be made on the above day, for the persons reciting Tiruppadiyam hymns daily, to the dēvaraḍiyārs accompanying them, the sambāṉ, mattaḷakkāṟaṉ (drummer) and to those who sung Tamil (hymns) daily, in the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṉda-nāyaṉār of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tribhuvanaccakravattikaḷ śrī kulaśēkharadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 2 e[ti]-

⟨2⟩ rāmāṇṭiṉetirāmāṇṭai ciṅkanāyaṟṟu muppatāntiyati nāḷ keraḷaciṅkavaḷa-

⟨3⟩ nāṭṭu brahmadēyantirupputtūr tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyaṉār koyilile teṉāṟ-

⟨4⟩ ṟuppokku niyamattuk kaṇṭaṉ uyyavantāṉāṉa kāṅkayaṉeṉ eṉ piṟantanāḷ puṇa-

⟨5⟩ r pūcattu nāḷ tiṅkaḷ tirunāḷ eḻuntaruḷukaikkum aṟṟai nāḷāl veṇṭu mamutupaṭi

⟨6⟩ viñjaṉaṅkaḷukkum nittaṟ tiruppatiyam viṇṇappañ cevvārkaḷuṭaṉ kūṭac cevik- ⟨Page 120⟩

⟨7⟩ [ku]dēvaraṭiyār ••• ••• •••• campāṉukkum mattaḷakkāraṉukkum tamiḻ pāṭu-

⟨8⟩ vāṟkum nittal nimantamāka candrādittavaṟ celkaikku muṉpe varakuṇap perumāḷ kūttāṭu

⟨9⟩ dēvaṟku dēvadāṉamākak kuṭutta kīḻ kuṇṭāṟṟu aticaiya pāṇṭiya nallūrāṉa kūtta-

⟨10⟩ kkuṭiyil koṇṭuvarukiṟa antarāyamum nellum maṟṟu meppeṟpaṭa nāṭup[ā]ṭu kuṭimai-

⟨11⟩ kaḷum ittaṉmaṅkaḷ celkaikku nirvārttuk kuṭutteṉ kaṇṭaṉ uyyavantāṉāṉa kāṅ-

⟨12⟩ kayaṉeṉ itu palmāheśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0100⟩ No. 100. (A.R. No. 100 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhº Kulaśīkhara year 9.

This inscription may be assigned to 12th Century on grounds of palaeography.

It records the grant of income from taxes kaḍamai and antarāyam on lands in Nārāyaṇamaṅgalam by Tiruvālanduṟaiyuḍaiyāṉ Tirukkoḍunguṉṟamuḍaiyāṉ alias Nishādha-rājaṉ of Poṉṉamarāpati in Puṟamalai-nāḍu, for the feeding of Śrīmāhēśvaras on festival days probably in the maṭha. The village was endowed as maḍappuṟam to Tiruchchiṟṟambalam [Tiru]vāchagartirumaḍam located at the western entrance in the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍanāyaṉār of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu.

Nishādharājan bearing the surname Tirukkoḍuṅguṉṟam-uḍaiyāṉ is probably identical with his namesake who figures in a record of the 25th year of the reign of Kulōttuṅga I (acc. 1070 A.D.) from Śivapuri who inturn is identical with Nishādharājar who held the office of Śrīkāryam of the temple at Śrīraṅgam. (See, S.I.I., Vol. XXIV, No. 83).

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⟨1⟩ § svasti śrī [||*] tribhuvanacakravattikaḷ śrī kulacekara tevaṟ-

⟨2⟩ ku yāṇṭu 9vatu puṟamalaināṭṭu poṉṉamarāpatit tiru-

⟨3⟩ vālantuṟaiyuṭaiyāṉ tirukkoṭuṅkuṉṟamuṭaiyāṉāṉa

⟨4⟩ niṣadharājaneṉ keraḷaciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyantirupput- ⟨Page 121⟩

⟨5⟩ tūrt tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyanār śrīkoyilil melait tiruvā-

⟨6⟩ calil tirucciṟṟampalam tiruvākar tirumaṭattukku tirumaṭa

⟨7⟩ ••• ••• •••• rāyaṇam

⟨8⟩ ••• ••• •••• paṭṭa iṟaiku-

⟨9⟩ ṭimaiyuṭpaṭa taṉ kaṭamai antarāya muṟṟum śrīmāhēśva-

⟨10⟩ raṟkut tirunāḷ tiruvamutupaṭiyāl cantrādityavaṟ cel[va*]

⟨11⟩ tāka nirvārttuk kuṭutteṉ tirukkoṭuṅkuṉ-

⟨12⟩ ṟa muṭaiyāṉāṉa niṣadharājaneṉ inta dhammam ra-

⟨13⟩ kṣippār śrīpāda meṉtalai melaṉa i

⟨SIIv25p0i0101⟩ No. 101. (A.R. No. 101 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartti Kulaśēkhara year: 4+1 (Jaṭāvarmaṉ Kulaśēkhara)

The record is dated in the 4+1st year of the king which with other details of date viz., Kaṟkaṭaka 27, Saturday, Rōhiṇi correspond to 1166 A.D, July 23.

The record do not contain any praśasti unlike the other inscriptions of Kulaśēkhara. It states that the Mūlaparishai-mahāsabhai of Tiruppattūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu met at the Āyiratt-eḻunūṟṟuvaṉmaṇḍapa in the Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār temple and declared the old dēvadāna lands of this temple as tax-free. The sabhai received 120 śōḻiyanaṟ-paḻaṅ-kāśu from the temple treasury as it required some money (śirududravyam) to go to Madurai to pay its respects to the king.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tribhuvanaccakravattikaḷ śrī kulaśēkharadē[vaṟku] yāṇṭu 4 vatineti[rāmāṇṭu kaṟ]kaṭaka [nā]yaṟṟirupatteḻāntiyati [ca]ṉik

⟨2⟩ [ki]ḻamaiyum peṟṟa rocaṇi nāḷ keraḷaciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyanti [pu]ttūr mula[pa]rṣai[ma]hā sabhaiyom tirut-

⟨3⟩ taḷi āṇṭa namāyaṉār śrīkoyilil āyiratteḻunūṟṟuvantirumaṇṭattuk kūṭṭak kuṟaivaṟak kūṭiyiruntu sa- ⟨Page 122⟩

⟨4⟩ bhaiyom perumāḷ kulaśēkharadaivarait tiruvaṭittoḻa maturaiye[ṟa] pokaikku ciṟutu dravam veṇṭiṉa-

⟨5⟩ maiyil kuṭinilaṅkaḷil tiruttaḷi āṇṭa nāyaṉār vilai koṇṭuṭaiya nilaṅkaḷilum dharmmattukku kuṭuttār kuṭutta

⟨6⟩ nilaṅkaḷilum ivvūr vaṭavāy vayal veppaṅ kuṭivāykkāl kīḻ veppaṅkuṭivayal pulli mukkāṇi muṟṟum iv-

⟨7⟩ vūrt teṉvāy vayal peruvāykkāl kīḻ centa[ṉ]kkuṟicci vayaṟkāñcinaṅkaṇṇāṟuḷḷiṭ ••• ••• ••••

⟨8⟩ jayantasvāmi paṭṭan muṟṟum pūticātta pāykkā ••••• ••• [vaya]kkali[l] pirivu nilam araikkāṇik kī[ḻa]

⟨9⟩ ye yorumāvarai muntirikaiyuṅkālum [ā]ka innilaṅkaḷ • •vantatū ḷ innilam orumāviṉ kīḻaraiyuminnāḷ [p]

⟨10⟩ paḻantēvatāṉappaṭi candrādityavaṟ iṟaiviḻavi[ṭ]ṭuk kuṭuttu i[n]nāyaṉār śrī paṇṭārattu sabhaiyom kaikko[ṇṭa co]

⟨11⟩ ḻiya na[ṟpaḻaṅ]kācu 120 ikkācu nūṟṟirupatuṅ kaikko[ṇṭu i]ṟaiviḻaviṭṭu ippaṭi kalveṭṭik kuṭutto •••••

⟨12⟩ m mahāsabhaiyom itu panmā[hēśvara] rakṣai

⟨SIIv25p0i0102⟩ No. 102. (A.R. No. 102 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartti Kulaśēkhara year: 15.

This inscription may be assigned to the 12-13th century on grounds of palaeography. The details of the record viz., Ṛishabha, 20th day are not sufficient for verification.

It records the allotment of dēvadāṉa lands of the deity by the mūlaparishai of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśinga-vaḷanāḍu after receiving 50 śōḻiyanaṟ-paḻaṅ-kāśu deposited in the temple treasury by Taḷiyilā[ḷi] Nakka[ṉ Pāṇḍiyakkō]li, a resident of Niyamam in Tēṉāṟṟuppōkku for maintaining a perpetual lamp to the deity Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār. It also refers to the gift of five tulā (material not known ?) for a standing lamp, probably in the same temple. ⟨Page 123⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tribhuvanacakravattikaḷ śrī kulacekaratevaṟku yāṇṭu 15vatu ṛṣabhanā-

⟨2⟩ yiṟṟu 30tiyati nāḷ keraḷaciṅka vaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyan tiru[p]puttūr mulapariṣaiyō-

⟨3⟩ m ceyaṅkoṇṭa coḻa viṇṇakarāḻvār tiruvācalil kūṭiyi[ru]kka teṉāṟṟu pokku ni-

⟨4⟩ ya mattu irukkuntaḷiyilāḷi nakkaṉpāṇṭi ••••• tiruttaḷi yāṇṭa nāyanāṟku vaitta tiru-

⟨5⟩ nontāviḷakku 1 oṉṟukku śrī paṇṭārattoṭukkiṉa coḻiya naṟpaḻaṅkācu 50 ikkācu aympatu-

⟨6⟩ m ināyaṉār tevatānam vaṭavūr viḷākattu cikaṇṭavayakkalum vaṭakkiṟkiṇaṟumin lattālit tiru—

⟨7⟩ nontā viḷakkuc cantirātittavaṟ celvatāka kalveṭṭik kuṭuttom mulapariṣaiy[o]-

⟨8⟩ m itu śrīmāheśvara rakṣai [|*] meṟpaṭiyāḷ ayntu lāt tāliṭṭa tarātirunilaivi[ḷa*]kku oṉṟu

⟨SIIv25p0i0103⟩ No. 103. (A.R. No. 103 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravarttin Kulaśēkhara year: 2+1=1165 A.D.

The record may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 12th century. It is dated in the year 2 opposite to 1 Mithuna 5, Sunday corresponding to 1165 A.D., May 30.

It records that the mūlaparushai-mahāsabhai of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu after purchasing the tax paying lands of god Kailāsamuḍaiya-nāyanār, declared it as tax-free dēvadāṉa and received in lieu of 30 śōḻiya-naṟ-paḻaṅ-kāśu which the sabhai wanted to spend at the place where the king (perumāḷ) is staying. The above declaration is said to take effect from the year opposite the 3rd year of the king (i.e., the 4th year). ⟨Page 124⟩

In a record from Kōḍaganallūr (No. 205 of 1932-33) the king is stated to have stayed at Kuruvittuṟai in the month of November 1165 A.D. It does not refer to the place where he was camping. Obviously, the king must have arrived at Śōḻakulāntaka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, the same as Kuruvittuṟai about 6 months prior to the date of Kōḍaganallūr record. He is later known to have moved to the city of Madurai, 30 miles to the east of Kuruvittuṟai sometime before July 1166 A.D. (vide No. 101 discussed above) which was visited by the mahāsabhai of Tirupputtūr for paying respects to the said king.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī tribhuvaṉac cakkaravattikaḷ śrī kulacekaratevaṟkku yāṇṭu 2 āvatiṉ etirāmāṇṭu mituṉa nā-

⟨2⟩ yiṟṟu añcāntiyati peṟṟa tirunāyiṟṟukkiḻamai nāḷ keraḷaciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyam tiruppu-

⟨3⟩ ttūr mulaparuṣai mahāsabhaiyom nammun śrī kayilāsa muṭaiya nāyaṉārkuṭi nilattil vilai koṇṭu iṟai

⟨4⟩ iṟuttu varukiṟa ivvūr vaṭavāy vayal mutteruvāyk kālkkiḻvāy vayal comāccivayakkal mu-

⟨5⟩ ṟṟulum vantatū nilam muṟṟum na[ri]kkorai icceyk kuṟucciyāl vantatū nilamuṟṟum pa[ḻa]ntevatāṉappaṭi

⟨6⟩ itaṉ etirāmāṇṭu mutal menokki cantrādityavaṟ iṟaiviḻa viṭṭukkuṭuttu perumāḷ eḻuntaruḷi iruntaṭattu [va]-

⟨7⟩ [ra] viṉiyokattukku koṇ coḻiya naṟppaḻaṅkācu 30 ikkācu muppatum samvatsaravāri ••••• m

⟨8⟩ kuṭuppiccu iccomācci vayakkalālvantatū nilam muṟṟum kuṟucciyālavantatū nilam muṟṟum paḻan

⟨9⟩ tevatāṉappaṭi iṟaiviḻa viṭṭukkuṭuttu ippaṭik kalveṭṭik kuṭuttom śrīkayilā

⟨10⟩ sa muṭaiya nāyanārkku mulaparuṣai mahāsabhaiyomitu panmāhēśvara rakṣai ⟨Page 125⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0104⟩ No. 104. (A.R. No. 104 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartti Kulaśēkhara year: 13.

This record may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 12th13th century. The record is dated in the year 13, Vṛiśchika 23. These details do not admit verification.

It states that a certain Poṉṉanāgaraṉ who was guilty of having killed a brahman (brahmahatyai-paṇṇi) was in punishment therefore, tied upto the legs of a he-buffalo (kiḍā) and dragged along the place. To meet the expenses to be incurred at the place where the above punishment is meted out, a merchant named Tiruchchiṟṟambala-muḍaiyār-uttamaṉ of Neḍuvāyil purchased and made a gift of land as maḍappuṟam to the Tiruttaṇḍattogaiyaṉtirumaḍam situated at the southern entrance of the Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍār temple at Tirupputtūr and the mūlaparushai-mahsabhai of Tirupputtūr in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu which met in the ambalam (hall) called Dayāpañjaram received from Uttamaṉ a lump-sum amount of 75 śōḻiya-naṟ-paḻaṅ-kāśu and made the land endowed by him, free from the payment of taxes.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tribhuvana cakravattikaḷ śrī kulacekarateva[ṟ]ku yāṇṭu 13 vṛścikanāyaṟṟu 23ntiyati nāḷ

⟨2⟩ keraḷaciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyantiruputtūr mūlapa[ru]ṣai mahāsabhaiyom nammuram pa-

⟨3⟩ lam dayāpañjaranil kūṭakkuṟaivaṟakkūṭi iruntu muṉpu ivūril brahmahatyai paṇṇip po-

⟨4⟩ ṉa poṉṉannakaraṉaikkiṭāviṉ kāliṟkaṭṭi iḻutta vaṭattu veṇṭum viniyokattukku

⟨5⟩ tiruttaḷiyāṇṭār śrī koyil teṟkil tiruvācalil tiruttoṇṭat tokaiyaṉ tiru-

⟨6⟩ maṭattukku tirumaṭappuṟamāka viyāpāri neṭuvāyiluṭaiyāṉ tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyā-

⟨7⟩ ṉ uttama vilaikoṇṭuviṭṭa nilam ivūr vaṭavāy vayaṟpūti cāttavāykkāṟ kiḻ makiḻum ⟨Page 126⟩

⟨8⟩ ••• nila[m] mākāṇi uḷḷiṭṭa tirunārāyaṇa vayakkal rūpāy 9m ciṟucey kīḻaivayakkal kiṇaṟṟaṅ

⟨9⟩ karaiyilum • ṭṭi loṉṟuṭpaṭa vanta nilam 1kāṇi (1/4)kaḥm āka nilam innilam oru māvaraikkāṇi munti-

⟨10⟩ rikai kiḻaraiye nālumākkāṇiyāl vantatū nilattāl vanta epperppaṭṭa iṟaikaḷum

⟨11⟩ candrādityavaṟ paḻantevatāṉappaṭi iṟaiviḻa viṭṭukkuṭuttu ivuttamaṉ pakkal koṇṭa c[o]-

⟨12⟩ ḻiya naṟpaḻaṅkācu 75 ikkācu eḻupattañcum koṇṭu innilattāl vanta epperppaṭṭa

⟨13⟩ iṟai[yum] viḻaviṭṭu kuṭuttom mūlapariṣai mahāsabhai yom itu śrī māhēśvara rakṣai

⟨SIIv25p0i0105⟩ No. 105. (A.R. No. 105 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Rājarājakēsari Rājarāja I year: [8]

This fragmentary record commences with the praśasti Tirumagaḷ-pōla, etc., of the above king. The first digit of the regnal year is lost. It may be either 1 or 2, in which case it may correspond to 1002-03 or 1012-13 A.D.

It seems to record that the sabhai of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu met at uṟaṅgāppuḷi on the northern bank of Kaṟkuḷam and sold 1(1/4) śey, of land in favour of the deity Śrītaḷiparamēśvara.

There is a mutilated record adjascent to the above inscription of the reign of Rājēndrachōḷa. It may be assigned to Rājēndra I on the basis of a portion of the prāśasti which is available here.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tirumakaḷ pola perunilac celviyum [taṉa]ceka urimaipūṇṭa maṉakkoḷa kāntaṉūr cālai kalamaṟuttaruḷi veṅkai nāṭum kaṅkapāṭiyum nuḷampa pāṭiyum taṭikai [va]ḻiyum [kuṭamalai] nāṭum kollamum kaliṅkamum eṇṭicai ⟨Page 127⟩

⟨2⟩ iraṭṭapāṭi eḻarai ilakkamum tiṇṭiṟal veṉṟi taṇṭāl koṇṭataṉṉeḻil vaḷaryūḻiyuḷ[e]lla yāṇṭum toḻutaka viḷaṅkum yāṇṭe ceḻiṉārait tecukoḷ śrī kōvirājarāja kēcariparmarāṉa śrī rāja [rāja*] dēvaṟkkuya •••

⟨3⟩ [t]eṭṭāvatu ivvāṇṭu keraḷaciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahmatēyantirupputtūr sabhaiyom vāyiṟccāvūk [kūṭ]ṭikkuṟaivaṟaikaṟkuḷattu vaṭakarai uṟaṅkāppuḷil kūṭiiruntu sabhaiyom śrītaḷipa •••••-

⟨4⟩ ṭuttabhūmiyāvatu nam vaṭa paṭākai pāṟke ••••• kāle ••• ••• •••• m itaṉ [kiḷ]karai muṉ ••••• taṭi uṭpaṭa aḷavupaṭi ikkāl ceyum viṟṟukkuṭuttom sabhaiyom śrī taḷippa-

⟨5⟩ viṟṟa nilattukku perunāṉkellai kiḻel[lai] (kiḻellai) putukkuḷattātukku me[y] niṟkiṉṟa kuṟuppuḷikkunta[rku] nokki cempaikku mekku teṉṉellai sabhainilattukku vaṭakkum melel—

⟨SIIv25p0i0106⟩ No. 106. (A.R. No. 106 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

[Parākra*]ma-pāṇḍya year 14••••

This fragmentary record may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 12-13th Century. The exact date is not clear as the year opposite the 14th year is lost.

The record seems to mention the money deposited into the temple treasury by a lady Śaṅkaranārāyaṉaṉ Tirunaṅgai for the purpose of some offerings to the deity in the temple of Tirultaḷiyāṇḍār at Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya village. The donatrix mentioned here is identical with her namesake referred to in another record of Parākrama-pāṇḍya discussed below. (vide. No. 107 below) The details are not clear because the beginning and the end of the lines are lost. Since the donatrix of this record also figures in a record of the 20th regnal year of Parākrama-Pāṇḍya, the king of the present inscription may be identified with him. ⟨Page 128⟩

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⟨1⟩ —māyāṇṭiyadēvaṟkku yāṇṭu 14 āvatiṉ 1

⟨2⟩ —brahmadēyan tirupputtūrt tiruttaḷiyāṇṭāṟ-

⟨3⟩ —ṣṇuviṉ brāhmaṇi caṅkara nārāyaṇa ntirunaṅkai

⟨4⟩ —[k]oṉṟukkum indēvar śrī paṇṭārattile nittam cūla uḻa-

⟨5⟩ —śrīpaṇṭārttu ivviruvarum oṭukkiṉa coḻiya naṟpaḻaṅkācu

⟨6⟩ —ṭiyāle innimantañ celluvatākka kalveṭivittom mula-

⟨SIIv25p0i0107⟩ No. 107. (A.R. No. 107 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravarti Parākrama-pāṇḍya year 19+1: 1162-63 A.D.

This record may be assigned to 12(13th century on palaeographical grounds.

The record states that a certain Śaṅkaranārāyaṇaṉ Tiruvāṇḍāḷ, the wife of Mōri Vishṇu Vishṇu, son of the kiḻār of Arugandūr, a hamlet of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu and her younger sister Kuḻali deposited 56 śōḻiya-naṟ-paḻaṅ-kāśu to redeem some dēvadāna lands from Maruṅgūr of the deity that had been probably pledged to the mūlaparishai-mahāsabhai and to assign them in lieu of the said value for the purpose of daily food offerings to the goddess paḷḷi-aṟaināchchiyār of the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍār. It is mentioned that the rice supplied for the food offerings is measured by śūla-nāḻi.

The Parākrama Pāṇḍya of this record may be identified with Māṟavarmaṉ Parākrama-Pāṇḍya of accession 1143 A.D. with the praśasti Tirumagaḷ Puṇara, etc., whose 12th year record is found at Tirupputtūr (No. 131 of 1908). ⟨Page 129⟩

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⟨1⟩ § svastiśrī [||*] tribhuvanaccakravatti[kaḷ] śrīparākrama pāṇṭiya dēvaṟku yāṇṭu 16 vati netirāmāṇṭu keraḷaciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahma-

⟨2⟩ dēya ntiruppattū rarukantūr kiḻār makaḷ moriviṣṇa viṣṇaviṉ brāhmaṇi caṅkara nārāyaṇaṉ tiruvāṇṭāḷu mivaṭaṅkai-

⟨3⟩ kuḻaliya miviruvom tiruttaliyāṇṭār tiruppaḷḷi aṟainācciyāṟku nittañ cūlanāḻiyā lirunāḻi tiruvaḻutarici-

⟨4⟩ yu mitaṟku veṇṭum vyaṉjanaṅkaḷu candrādityavaṟ celvatāka ittevatevatānam maruṅkūrvayal nāḷutikkum veṉṟāṉuḷ-

⟨5⟩ ḷiṭṭa nilaṅkaḷoṟṟi cora oṭukkiṉa coḻiya naṟpaḻaṅ kācu 86 eṇpattāṟukkum ivūr vaṭavāy vayaṟ pacitāṅki erikkiḻite-

⟨6⟩ var tevatānam karuṅkuḻi [|*] iddharmma celvatāka kalveṭṭik kuṭuttom mulavakai mahāsabhaiyom [||*] itu śrīmāhēśva

⟨7⟩ rarakṣai

⟨SIIv25p0i0108⟩ No. 108. (A.R. No. 108 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartin Śrīvallabha (Jaṭāvarmaṉ Śrīvallabha) year 20: 1120-21 A.D.

This record may be assigned to c. 12th century on palaeographical grounds.

It records the gift of 25 cows and a bull for maintaining a perpetual lamp to the deity Śrītaḷi-Paramēśvara of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu by Tirukkāḍikuḍidēvan, a veḷḷāḷa of Kūṟṟalūr in the same nāḍu. The cowherd Vēndan-bhaṭṭan alias Tiruvīdikkōṉ took the above gift and undertook to measure out a uḻakku ghee by śūla-uḻakku to maintain a perpetual lamp in the above temple. The king of this record may be identified with Jaṭāº. Śrīvallabha with Tirumaḍanḍaiyum praśasti ⟨Page 130⟩ whose accession has been placed in 1101 A.D. He was a predecessor of Māṟavarmaṉ Parākrama Pāṇḍya of accession 1143 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 246.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tribhuvaṉac cakkaravattikaḷ śrī vallava dēvaṟku yāṇṭu 20 āvatu

⟨2⟩ keraḷaciṅka vaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēcan tirupputtūr śrītaḷip paramēśvaraṟku innāṭṭuk kaṭaṟṟalūr-

⟨3⟩ veḷḷāḷaṉ tirukkāṭikkuṭi tevan vaitta tirununtāviḷakku 1 oṉṟukku nittañ cūla uḻaikkāl uḻa-

⟨4⟩ kku ney cantirātittaval aṭṭuvatāka ittevar iṭaiyuḷ ventaṉ paṭṭarāṉa tiruvitit koṉkai-

⟨5⟩ k koṇṭa cāvāmuvāp perum pacu 25- m eṟute 1- m [|*] itu śrī māhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0109⟩ No. 109. (A.R. No. 109 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartin Śrīvallabha (Jaṭāvarmaṉ Śrīvallabha) year 20; = 1120-21 A.D.

This record is dated in the 20th year of the reign of Śrīvallabha. It may be assigned to c. 12th century on palaeographical grounds.

It records the gift of 25 cows and a bull by Amudiṟpiṟandāḷ, wife of Mahāmātra Periyāḻvāṉ of Būdanūr in Marugal-nāḍu in Gēya-māṇikkavaḷanāḍu in Śōḻa-maṇḍalam for maintaining a perpetual lamp to the deity Śrītaḷi-Paramēśvara of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu. Śūlanāḻikkāl is referred as the temple measure by which the cowherd Chēramāṉ Jayaṅgoṇḍāṉ had agreed to measure out one uḻakku of ghee to maintain the above endowment.

The king of this record can be identified with Jaṭāvarmaṉ Śrīvallabha of accession 1101 A.D.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 247. ⟨Page 131⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tirupuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīvallavatevaṟku yāṇṭu [2]0- āvatu keraḷaciṅkavaḷa nāṭ-

⟨2⟩ ṭu brahmadēyan tirupputtūr śrītaḷi paramēśvaraṟku coḻamaṇṭalattuk keyamāṇikkavaḷanāṭṭu maruka-

⟨3⟩ l nāṭṭup pūtanūr mahāmāttiraṉ periyāḻvāṉ akamuṭaiyāḷ amutiṟ piṟantanāḷ vaitta tirununtāvi-

⟨4⟩ ḷakku oṉṟukku cūlanāḻikkāl uḻakku n[e]y cantirātittiyaval aṭṭuvatāka iṭaiyaṉ ceramāṉ jayaṅ-

⟨5⟩ koṇṭāṉ kaikkoṇṭa cāvā muvāp perum pacu 25- m eṟuce 1- m ivviḷakku eriya iṭṭa tarā nilai viḷakku 1- m [|*] itu

⟨6⟩ •• hēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0110⟩ No. 110. (A.R. No. 110 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Vīrarājēndra year 3: 1065-66 A.D.

This fragmentary bilingual record engraved in two scripts refers to the king as the last son of Rājēndra of the Chōḷa dynasty.

It states that while the king was seated on his throne Abhimānarāmaṉ in the western hall called Rājādhirājaṉ at Gaṅgaikoṇḍachōḷapuram, he made a gift of the tax income from the villages Pottikkuḍi and Viḷakkamaṅgalam, both in Chōḷa-Pāṇḍya-nāḍu in Rājēndrachōḷa-vaḷanāḍu in Rājarājappāṇḍināḍu to the deity Tiruttaḷi-mahādēva of Tirupputtūr. The gift was made on the advise of his mother when he saw the god in his dream.

The throne of this Chōḷa king is in all probability identical with its namesake at Tiruvāṉaikkāval which has figured in the record from Uyyakkoṇḍān Tirumalai (No. 462 of 1908). The hall Rājādhirājaṉ seems to be otherwise unknown. ⟨Page 132⟩

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⟨1⟩ —pālamaulīratnaprabhārctitam [|*] virarājēndra bhūbharttu śśāsanantrāsanam []ṣām ||— vamś[ō]dinēśūsya ja 1 gatiprasi 2 ddhē cō 3 ḷāṅayo bhūjjita śatru samghaḥ [|*] tatrābhavanmānadhanāssa[mra] • ••• ••• •••• khilabhūvalayaika nādhō rājēndracōḷa § pardditaśatrusamghaḥ [|*] ētēna yō gaśivapāda varāyaṇēna svarggan sa 4 śakradhanadāda tirisitēbhūḥ ||—yaddantigaṇḍataṭani[ḥ] sratadānavāriyārā malīmasamabhūt surasindhūvāri [|*] tasyātmajā ānupamā mragarāja trdhyāḥ śśūrā babhūpuravanīpataya ssamraddhāḥ [||*] tēṣāṅkanīyāndhātmārājyam pragha kramāgatam [|*] abhiṣēka tēmā cakrē virarājēndra ityaya m [||*] kōllāpura pramukhaśatru

⟨2⟩ —pararājabhītvā 1 sarvvān pratiṣṭhāghajakānsvadharmai māndhātravat bhu 2 va ttadivākarōjāḥ kavarāṣa 3 cchristhalīśam sassvapnēha ndraṣṭavānim [|*] mātaram prāsasanmādhajitam sāvapraha [||*] ••• ••• •••• ••••• kvamākkraja [|*] āyu[ḥ] śrījayasiddhyarttham pradēhi bhuvamādarāt ||—ḷaktham bhūpavara ssavakīya jananī vātyēna vijñāpitaḥ śrīsthalyāvasathāya manmathamathēdātsāntarāyā karām [|*] kliptim 4 pūrvvakratām vihāgha matimān svābdē tritīyēpuri svāsthānēhyamāna rāmagaditē kratvāsanam sādaram ||—cōḷapāṇḍyavaḷanāṭamathya gēlṛpōttikudyabhihitam ca pārkthivaḥ [|*] grāma miritaviḷakkamaṅgalam śristhaliśavibhavēdiśattēlṛ [||*] gōṣṭhigrāma grāmaṭikēkṣa

⟨3⟩ ••• ••• •••• jalaprāyam sīmā pratyaksīmā pōtti kuṭēssāmi bhaisai ••• ḷi kṣētram sōttarasīmē tyavavōbyam [|*] paralūruṇimārabhya prāksīmā ⟨Page 133⟩ prāpya bhairavīm [|*] tatōraṇḍa ramāgnēdhyāntitaḥ • ••••• digupaśritā pratyak dakṣiṇabhāgatu saivatārā maṇittaḥ [||*] cōḷa mārttāṇḍa viprāṇām kṣētram pra[tyaksi]mābhyavi [|*] mamrūrkulaḷa [ttū]rmatyam^5^ syāmadīpyam calaṣabhyam ciram [||*] sam jñāyam matām viḷakādyām mabhaḷāntām sanātanām [|*] bibhratō bhūmibhāgasya sīmāsyāt paritaḥ kramāt ētsat sīmabhyarūrjjitaḥ parivratō grāmau madra(nra)vēndrābalī nasyagrāma nivāsibhūsura [mu]niprabtū mānām [ghra]yē [|*] lakṣmisthalya thanāyakāyadiyōdhāddi

⟨4⟩ ••• ••• •••• rāyasyatēlṛ sarvvēśvarāyākarau villavādhivati simbhala candrabhūṣaṇabuyapramukhastē ātra karmabhiśu?bhēdhi kratāsta yaccakāra dra(nra)patiḥ parabhatō [||*] yāṇṭu [3] nāḷ ••• ••• •••• ••• ••• •••• coḻapāṇṭiyavaḷanāṭṭu pottikkuṭiyum viḷakkamaṅkalamum iṉṉāṭṭut tirupputtūr tiruttaḷi mahādēva[r]kku veṇṭu nivantaṅkaḷukku yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu mutal iṟuppatāka dēvatāṉa iṟaiyiliyāka variyiliṭṭapaṭi yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu nāḷ nūṟṟorupatiṉāl virame tuṇaiyākavum tiyākameyaṇiyākavuñ ceṅkolāccik karuṅkali kaṭintu kūṭal(ā) caṅkamattirākomallaṉai añcuvittaruḷi vikkaṉaiyañ ciṅkaṇa[ṉai*]yu

⟨5⟩ m uṭaipuṟaṅkoṇṭu maṟṟavaṉ mātaviyaroṭu vastu vāhaṉaṅkoṇṭu vijayasiṅhāsaṉattu • ulaka[mu]ḻutuṭai yāroṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya kovirājakesaripaṉmarāṉa uṭaiyār śrī virarājendradēvar kaṅkai koṇ⎯⎯ melai maṇṭapam rājādhirājaṉil abhipāṉa rāmaṉil eḻuntaruḷiyiruntu rājarājap pāṇṭi nāṭṭu rājendracoḻavaḷa nāṭṭuc coḻapāṇṭiya nāṭṭup pottikuṭiyum viḷakkamaṅkalamum veḷḷāḷ vakaiyil mutal yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatiṉ mutal tavirntu ivvūrkaḷil pottikuṭi nilam eḻeoṉpatiṉmāvaraiyiṉāl kāṇikkaṭaṉ kācu nūṟṟirupat tañcaraiye nālumāka kāṇiyum nellu irunūṟṟut toṇṇūṟṟeḻukalaṉe tū⎯⎯ ⟨Page 134⟩

⟨6⟩ ⎯⎯lu mākkāṇi muntirikaiyiṉālk kāṇik kaṭaṉ kācu nūṟṟu irupattiraṇ[ṭe] eḻumākkāṇi muntirikaiyum uṭpaṭa pūrvvadēśamum kaṅkaiyu[m] kiṭāramum koṇṭaruḷiṉa [ayyar kekaṟṟiṉa] vāṇṭu⎯⎯nellu aññūṟṟeḻukalaṉe patak[ku nā]ṉāḻiyum muṉṟāvatu mutaliṟai kaṭṭi ivviṟaiyum ivvūrkaḷāl vaṉta ūrkkaḻañcuṅkumarakakaiccāṇamum [••• tamu teṟiyiṟai] taṭṭārppāṭṭamum uḷḷiṭṭa kiḻiṟaip pāṭṭamum uḷḷiṭṭa kiḻiṟaippāṭṭamum miṉpāṭṭamum pāṭikāvalk kūliyā[ḷ] tiṅkaḷ moca • mum valaṅkai makaḻmaiyum miṭaṅkai makaḻmaiyum velikkācuñ cevakkācu muḷḷiṭṭa antarāyaṅkaḷum innāṭṭut tiruppattūr tiruttaḷi mahātevarkku ve⎯⎯

⟨SIIv25p0i0111⟩ No. 111. (A.R. No. 111 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in the Tirutaḷīśvara temple.

Chaḍaiyavarmaṉ Śrīvallabha Regnal year 10:

This epigraph dated in the tenth year and 205th day of the king registers remission of taxes amounting to 43. māḍai on two hamlets for providing worship to the god Tirutaḷi-Mahādēva at Tiruppattūr a brahmadēya in Kēraḷasiṅga-vaḷanāḍu. At the request of Kāliṅgarāyaṉ the king is stated to have issued this order while he was seated in the Paḷḷikkaṭṭil called Pāṇḍiyaṉ in the hall Aḻagiyapāṇḍiyaṉ in the inner precincts of the palace at Madurai.

An officer named Parākramapāṇḍiya-Uttaramantri figures in the record and so a certain Parākrama-Pāṇḍya must have been a predecessor or atleast a contemporary of this Śrīvallabhadēva.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tirumaṭanjaiyunjayamaṭa-

⟨2⟩ ntaiyun tiruppuyaṅkaḷi ṉiṉitiruppu iruni-

⟨3⟩ lamum perumai ye[y*]ta veṇṭicaiyuṅ ku-

⟨4⟩ ṭainiḻaṟṟa maṉṉavarellām vantiṟaiñca varu-

⟨5⟩ māpil muṭicūṭi teṉ(ṅ)kumariyum vaṭakeṅkaiyu-

⟨6⟩ ntiraikkaṭalume yellaiyākap pārmuḻutuṅ kayalā- ⟨Page 135⟩

⟨7⟩ ṇai parantu ceṅkoluṭaṉ vaḷara maṉṉiya virasiṅhāsaṉat

⟨8⟩ tu ulakamuḻutuṭaiyāroṭum viṟṟiruntaruḷiya māmutal mati-

⟨9⟩ kkulam viḷakkiya komutaṟk koccaṭaiyapanmarāṉa tribhuvaṉa

⟨10⟩ ccakravattikaḷ śrīvallabhadēvaṟkku yāṇṭu pattāvatu nāḷiru-

⟨11⟩ nūṟṟaiñciṉāl māṭakkuḷakkīḻ maturai yuḷḷālai aḻaki-

⟨12⟩ ya pāṇṭiyaṉ kūṭattiṟ paḷḷikkaṭṭil pāṇṭiyaṉi leḻunta-

⟨13⟩ ruḷiyiruntu ceyyat tiruvāy moḻintaruḷiṉapaṭi [|*] keraḷaciṅ

⟨14⟩ kavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyan tirupputtūrt tiruttaḷi mahā-

⟨15⟩ dēvaṟkkut tiruppaṭimāṟṟuḷḷiṭṭa 1 veṇṭu nimantaṅkaḷukku i-

⟨16⟩ ṟuppatāka iṉṉāṭṭu maṇṇāṇimaṅkalamāṉa meṟtiru-

⟨17⟩ maṅkalam māṭai patiṉeḻaraiye orumāvum kiḻmuḷ-

⟨18⟩ ḷivayal māṭai irupattaiñce mukkāle muṉṟumā-

⟨19⟩ vum āka māṭai nāṟpattu muṉṟe yoṉpatu māvum-

⟨20⟩ yāṇṭu pattāvatu mutal dēvadāṉam iṟaiyiliyā[y*]

⟨21⟩ iṟuppatākap peṟaveṇṭumeṉṟu kāliṅkarāya-

⟨22⟩ ṉ namakkuc coṉṉamaiyil keraḷaciṅkavaḷanāṭṭu bra-

⟨23⟩ hmadēyan tirupputtūrt tiruttaḷi mahātevaṟkkut tiruppa-

⟨24⟩ ṭimāṟ ṟuḷḷiṭṭu veṇṭu nimantaṅkaḷukku iṟuppa-

⟨25⟩ tāka iṉṉāṭṭu maṇṇāṇimaṅkalamā-

⟨26⟩ ṉa meṟttirumaṅkala māṉṭa patiṉeḻarai-

⟨27⟩ ye yorumāvum kiḻmuḷḷivayal māṭai-

⟨28⟩ irupattaiñce mukkāle muṉṟumāvum āka- ⟨Page 136⟩

⟨29⟩ māṭaiya nāṟppattu muṉṟeyoṉ(m)patu-

⟨30⟩ māvum yāṇṭu pattāvatu mutal iṟaiyiliyākak kuṭu-

⟨31⟩ ttomeṉṟu tiruvāymoḻintaruḷinār [|*] ivai parā

⟨32⟩ kramapāṇṭiya utta(manti)ramantiri yeḻuttiṉāl muṭittu

⟨33⟩ ivvūrkaḷukkup perunāṉṅkellai kīḻellai āṟṟu-

⟨34⟩ kku meṟkkum ceṉṉellai cuvaramaṅkalattukkum po-

⟨35⟩ ttikuṭik kaṟkuḷattukkum peruṅkuḷattukkum vaṭak-

⟨36⟩ kum mele[l*]lai melmuḷḷi vayalukkum tulaiyāni-

⟨37⟩ lai vayakkal varampu vaṭakku nokkippoṉa cevvai-

⟨38⟩ kkuk kiḻakkum vaṭavellai miṟai vayalukkum u-

⟨39⟩ ḷaikkuṭikkum āṟṟukkut teṟkum āka ilvicai-

⟨40⟩ tta perunāṉṅkellaik kakappaṭṭa ivvūrira-

⟨41⟩ ṇṭum vaḷaiyiṟ(c) cuṟṟumuṟṟum uṇṇila

⟨42⟩ moḻiviṉṟi tiruttaḷi mahādēvuṟkku iṟaiyili-

⟨43⟩ yākak kuṭuttom 1

⟨SIIv25p0i0112⟩ No. 112. (A.R. No. 112 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

South wall of the Agastyēśvara shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Achyutadēvarāya Śaka 1452: 1530 A.D.

The details of the date of the record viz., Śaka 1452, Vikṛiti, Dakshiṇāyana śu 8, Monday, Viśākha regularly correspond to 1530 A.D., August 1.

It records the sale of one mā of land made in the presence of the mūlaparushai-mahāsabhai of Tiruppattūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅgavaḷanāḍu by a certain Bhāskara-śarman, son of Śrīsthalīśa-śarman, after receiving the land value of 20 paṇam from Tiruvaraṅgapperumāḷāvuḍaiyār, the kiḻār of Viḷaṅguḍi in Kulaśēkharapaṭṭaṇam, the city of Aruviyūr in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu. The person who sold these lands is stated to have received the same as gift from a certain Veṅgaḷa-nāyaka on the occasion of a solar eclipse. ⟨Page 137⟩

The kiḻār is stated to have invested the money on the purchase of the lands for providing two sandhi lamps to god Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār and goddess Śivakāmasundari and also for providing food-offerings to god Vijayavanda-piḷḷaiyār of the temple. The purchaser is said to have set up these two lamps for his own merit.

The donor Veṅgaḷa-nāyaka figuring in this record is probably identical with his namesake who is mentioned as the father of Śiṅgama-nāyaka in a record of Kṛishṇarāya from the same place (vide No. 91 of 1908).

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī manmamahāmaṇḍaliśvaran hariyarāya vibhāḍan [śrīvi]rapradāpa accu[ta]dēva

⟨2⟩ mahārāya[ rpra] dhivirājyam paṇṇiyaruḷāniṉṟa śakāpdam 1452 itan

⟨3⟩ mel cellāniṉṟa vikiṟiti samvatsarattu dakṣaṇāya nattu siṅha nā-

⟨4⟩ yiṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu aṣṭamiyum sōmavāram viś[ā]ka nakṣatramum pēṟṟa puṇya-

⟨5⟩ kālattu nāḷ kēraḷaciṅkavaḻuṉāṭṭu brahmadēśam ciṅkavaḻuṉāṭṭu brahmadēyam tirupputtūr mulavaruṣa mahā

⟨6⟩ sabhaiyil ātraiya gōtrattu āgnēvaiśya sūtra[ttu] śrī sdhaliśśarmman putran bhāskaraśśa-

⟨7⟩ rmman iṉṉāṭṭu ariviyūr nakaramāṉa kulacekarapaṭṭaṇattu viḷ[ā]ṅkuṭikiḷavaṉ

⟨8⟩ tiruvaraṅkap perumāḷ āvuṭaiyār iṉṉāṭṭu tirupputtūr tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyaṉār

⟨9⟩ caṉṉatiyilum civakāma [ca]vuntariyār caṉṉatiyilum taṉṉuya taṉmamāka vaitta cantiyā-

⟨10⟩ tipamiraṇṭukku nāṉmuṉṉāḷ sūryyagrahaṇa puṇṇiya kālattilē kaiyil taṉmatāṇa-

⟨11⟩ māka peṟṟuṭaiy ivvūr vaṭapiṭākai neṭumarattu vayalil vāḷaiyamāṇikkam 2 tmakha itaṉ vaṭameṟ-

⟨12⟩ ku [parutti cey] va[rai]yil rūpāy āka rūpāy ¿ iṉ nilam orumāvum ivaṟku vilaiyāka viṟṟu nāṉ ivar kaiyil ⟨Page 138⟩

⟨13⟩ paṟṟikoṇṭa aṉṟāṭu naṟkā[cā]l vācipaṭāta cakkaram ø 20 ippaṇam irupatum paṟṟikoṇṭu iṉṉila[m*]

⟨14⟩ vāḷaiyamāṇikkattile ivar iṭṭa tiruviḷakku iraṇṭukkum veṇṭum eṇṇai mutal celvatā-

⟨15⟩ katirunāmattuk kāṇiyāk kalveṭṭikuṭutteṉ ituvum parutti ceyvaraiyil rūpāy ¿ nattatu

⟨16⟩ ••• ••• •••• tarai uyyavanta piḷḷaiyāṟku tiruvamutukku ivar viṭṭapaṭiyāle

⟨17⟩ cantirātittiyavaṟcela [ka]lveṭṭi kuṭutteṉ bhāskara bhaṭṭaṉeṉ iṉṉila-

⟨18⟩ ttukkup perunāṉkellai āvaṉa kiḻpāṟkellai pu[ḷi]yañ ceykku meṟkum teṉpāṟkellai toṭṭac ceykku vaṭakkum

⟨19⟩ melpāṟkellai ••• ••• •••• kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai vaṭakku paṭuttac ceykku teṟkum āka icaitta perunāṉ kellaikkuḷ p-

⟨20⟩ paṭṭa iṉṉilaṅkaḷ ittiruviḷakku iraṇṭukkum mutalākavum piḷḷaiyāṟku tiruvamutupaṭi mutalukkum tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka •••[ntyā]dityavaṟcella

⟨21⟩ aṉupavittukkoṇṭu iṉṉimantaṅkaḷ cellap paṇṇuvatākak kalveṭṭik kuṭutteṉ ittiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyaṉāṟkum civa[kā]ma saundayyārkkum

⟨22⟩ ippiḷḷaiyāṟkum āvuṭaiyāṉeṉ u ••••• [hē]śvara rakṣai § idharmmattai rakṣippār śrī pādaṅkaḷ eṉtalaimele śubhamastu

⟨23⟩ svadattā [d*]biguṇam puṇyam paradattānu pālanam [|*] •• ttāpahā[rē]ṇasva ••••• bhavēt ||§ ⟨Page 139⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0113⟩ No. 113. (A.R. No. 113 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

West wall of the Agastyēśvara shrine in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Achyutadēvarāya Śaka 1457: 1534 A.D.

The details of the date of the record viz., Śaka 1457, Jaya, Dakshiṇāyana, Kaṟkaṭaka, Amāvāsya, Saturday, Pushya-nakshatra, Vajra-yōga, Nāganakaraṇa regularly correspond to 1534 A.D., Jully 11.

It records the grant of the wet and dry lands in the village Varaguṇapputtūr, a dēvadāṉa village belonging to the deity Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyanār of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu, as kuḍinīṅgādēvadāna and kaḍamai-kāṇi, to Pāṇḍipperumāḷ Kāliṅgarāyar, son of Śaravaṇaip-perumāḷ, the accountant of the temple at Tirupputtūr. The village Varaguṇapputtūr was originally granted as a dēvadāṉa to the deity Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyanār by Gaṅgā-nāyakkar. Pāppukumma-nāyakkar, the agent (kāryattuk-kaḍavar) of Viśvanātha-nāyakkar, son of Nāgamanāyakkar, the ūḻiyam of the ruling king, for the merit of Viśvanāthanāyakkar. The shepherd of the place Pōttukuḍi by the name Aḻagukōṉ Pirayān had to collect the taxes from the settlements of the village which is to be maintained as a dēvadāṉa-kuḍi of the deity Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyanār and carry out the orders of the tānattār of the temple. The measure called kūttāḍi is mentioned to measure out the 15 kalam of paddy for one mā of land as per the Tirupputtūr measure for the wet lands in the aforesaid dēvadāṉa village.

The boundaries of the gift village Varaguṇapputtūr Vēlaṅguḍi-kuḷam and Vāṭpālaiṅgāḍu of the old dēvadāṉa village of the deity in the east, Śēṉāvaraiyaṉ canal in the south and Vēḷārpaḷḷam in the east.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrīman mahāmaṇṭaleśvaran ariyarāya vibhāṭan bhāṣaikku tappuva-

⟨2⟩ [rā]ya kaṇṭan muvarāyara [ka]ṇḍan kaṇḍa nāṭu koṇṭu koṇṭa nāṭu kuṭātān

⟨3⟩ rājā[dhi]rājan rājaparame[śvara]n pūrvvadakṣiṇa paścima uttarasa mudrādhipa[ti]

⟨4⟩ śrīmat acyutadēvamahārāyar [pradhi]vir[ā]jyam paṇṇi ••• ••• •••• [śa]kābdam

⟨5⟩ 1457 itaṉ meṟcellāni[ṉṟa] jayasamvatsarattu dakṣi •••••ttu kaṭaka nāyaṟṟu ⟨Page 140⟩

⟨6⟩ amāvāsyaiyum mandavāramum puṣya nakṣatramum vajrayōgamum nāgavakaraṇamum peṟṟa •••

⟨7⟩ ṉāḷ ūḻiyattu nākama nāyakkar [pu]tran viśvanātha nāya kkar kārittukkaṭavār ālar kaṅk[ā]

⟨8⟩ nāyakkar parappu kummanāya[k]kar keraḷaciṅ kavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyan [ti]rupputtūr nā-

⟨9⟩ yiṉār tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa [nā]yanāṟkku tevatāṉamāka viṭṭa varakuṇaputtū[ṟ]ku perun[ā]ṉ

⟨10⟩ kellai āvatu kīḻpāṟkellai iṉṉāyi[ṉā]r paḻanteva t[ā]ṉamāṉa kṣētra vela[ṅ]kuṭi kuḷattukkum veṭ-

⟨11⟩ pālaiṅkāṭṭukkum meṟkum teṉpāṟkellai ceṉāvaraiyaṉ kālukkum vaṭakkum meṟpā-

⟨12⟩ ṟ ke[l]lai veḷār paḷḷattu[kku] kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟ ke[l]lai kāvuṭaiyāḷukkum kaṟukkāy e[l*]lai[kku*]m teṟkum

⟨13⟩ āka peru nāṟkellaikkuḷ paṭṭa nañcai puñcai nidhi nikṣēpam mutal aṣṭabhōgaṅka[ḷu]m

⟨14⟩ tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyanār tevatāṉam āka viśvanātha- nāyakkar puṇṇyamāka varakuṇa-

⟨15⟩ puttūr tevatāṉamāka anubhavittukoḷḷavum tiruputtūṟ koyil kaṇakku cāvaṇaip perumāḷ putra[n] pā[ṇ]

⟨16⟩ ṭip perumāḷ kāliṅkarāyaṟku kuṭiniṅkāt tevatāṉa[m] kaṭaḷamakāṇiyāṭci āka nañcai tirupputtūṟpaṭi oru mānilattukku kūt-

⟨17⟩ tāṭiyāl patiṉañcuṅkapaṭi kalamāka nellu aṟukalamum puñceykku nālattoṉṟākavum pāṇṭip perumāḷ kāli[ṅ]karāya

⟨18⟩ ṟku varakuṇa puttūr muṟṟum nañcey muṟṟum puñcai muṟṟum kuṭi nīṅkāt tevatāṉam āka kaṭamai kāṇiyāka cantrāditya va- ⟨Page 141⟩

⟨19⟩ ṟ santatipravēśam anubhavittu koḷḷavum pottu kuṭi[yi]l irukkiṟa iṭaiyaṉ aḻaku koṉpirayāntiruttaḷi yāṇṭa-

⟨20⟩ nayiṉār tevatāṉa kuṭiyāka koyil kuṭiyāka eṉṟeṉṟaikkum iṟaikaram iṟuttu koyil tāṉattār coṉṉatu keṭṭu-

⟨21⟩ koyil kuṭiyarāyirukkavum

⟨SIIv25p0i0114⟩ No. 114. (A.R. No. 114 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the kitchen in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartin Vikramapāṇḍya Year 13: 1261-62 A.D.

This inscription may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 13th Century.

It records the gift of 2 nāḻi of rice daily to the deity Aḻaguḍaipiḷḷaiyār in the temple of Kayilāsmuḍaiya-ṉāyaṉār of Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu by a certain Veṇṇivēlāṇ of Mutikaṭṭinallūr alias Prathimādēvinallūr in Madurōdaya-vaḷanāḍu. The donor is stated to have deposited 30 śōḻiya-naṟ-paḻaṅ-kāśu in the treasury of the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār to meet the above endowment and the expenses connected with the repairs of the prākāra (tirunaḍai-māḷigai) in the temple.

The king has been identified with his namesake who ascended the throne in 1401 A.D. But the palaeography will miltilate against this identification. Of the three Vikrama Pāṇḍyas who had the accession dates 1249, 1269 and 1283, the first date on which Vikrama Pāṇḍya I with the praśasti Tirumalarmādu, etc., may be the king to whose 13th regnal year our record can be assigned.

TEXT.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tribhuvaṉaccakravattikaḷ [śrī] vikramapāṇṭiya dēvaṟku yāṇṭu 12vatu keraḷa-

⟨2⟩ [ci]ṅkavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyan tiru[ppu]ttūr śrī kayilāsamuṭaiya ṉāyaṉārkku

⟨3⟩ [ma]turai utayavaḷa[nā]ṭṭu kā[ru] ••••• mutti kaṭṭi nallūrāna prathi[m]ātē ⟨Page 142⟩

⟨4⟩ [vi] nallūr aṭikaṇ ••• ••• •••• [ve*]ṇṇi veḷāṉ eḻuntaruḷuvitta aḻa-

⟨5⟩ [ku]ṭaiya piḷḷaiyāṟku nittam irunāḻi arici candrāditya vaṟ celvatāka ivveṇ-

⟨6⟩ [ṇi]veḷāṉ tiruttaḷiyāṇṭaṉāyanā ••••• toṭikkiṉa coḻiya naṟpaḻaṅkācu 30

⟨7⟩ [i]kkācu muppatum tirunaṭaimāḷikai tiruppaṇikku ••••• ••••• i śrī pa[ṇ]ṭāratte celvatāka ••• ••• ••••

⟨SIIv25p0i0115⟩ No. 115. (A.R. No. 115 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the kitchen in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartin Śrīvallabhadēva Year 20.

The record may be assigned to c. 12th Century on palaeographical grounds.

It states that the kitchen (tirumaḍaippaḷḷi), on the wall of which the present inscription has been engraved was caused to be constructed in the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍār at Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅgavaḷanāḍu by the queen Ulagamuḻuduḍaiyār, who is called muḍikkīḻnambirāṭṭiyār of the said king.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 248.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tripuvaṉac cakkaravaṟtikaḷ śrīvallabhadēvarkku yāṇṭu 20ā[vatu] keraḷaciṅ

⟨2⟩ kavaḷanāṭṭu brahmadēyan tirupputtūr tiruttaḷi yāṇṭārkku ittiru[ma]ṭaippaḷ

⟨3⟩ ḷi ceyvittār ittevar muṭikkīḻ nampirāṭṭiyār ulakamu[ḻu]tuṭaiyār [||*] ⟨Page 143⟩

⟨SIIv25p0i0116⟩ No. 116. (A.R. No. 116 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the kitchen in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

This epigraph may be assigned to c. 13th Century on palaeographical grounds.

It records an order (ōlai) issued by the mūlaparushan-mahāsabhai exempting the maḍappuṟam lands of the maṭha called Tiruttuṇḍaittugaiyaṉtirumaḍam from taxes (i.e., as iṟaiyili) like antarāyam, etc and for the utilisation of this income as sabhāviniōgam for the reconstruction of the same maṭha. It is said that the maṭha raised by Uttamaṉ, grandson of Paḷḷikoṇḍāṉ Tirumuṇḍamaḻagiyār of Neḍuvāyil in Aḷagāpuram alias Sōḻiya-Nārāyaṇapuram was caused to be reconstructed by the latter. Also it is mentioned that the mahāsabhai purchased the timber and tiles removed from the maṭha during its stone construction for the price of 20 paḻankāśu fixed for the materials for the purpose of repairing the hall called Dayāpañjaraṉ. A certain Neḍuvāyiluḍaiyāṉ Paḷḷikoṇḍāṉ. Tirumuṇḍamaḻagiyāṉ of Aḷagāpuram alias Śōḻiya-Nārāyaṇapuram is referred to have arranged for the removal of the wood in the above maṭha situated in the southern wing of the southern street in the tirumaḍaiviḷāgam of the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār of Tirupputtūr. For the maṭha referred to in this inscription, a merchant named Tiruchchiṟṟambalamuḍaiyāṉ-uttamaṉ of Neḍuvāyil is stated to have endowed some lands as maḍappuṟam in the 13th year record of Kulaśēkahara. These lands given as maḍappuṟam in the record of Kulaśēkhara seem to have been declared as iṟaiyili once again in the 17th year of the reign of Vīra Pāṇḍya. This gives us a clue to suggest that the taxes seem to have been collected before the 17th year of the reign of Vīra Pāṇḍya, for the reasons not known. The sequence thus quoted helps us to fix this record latter to that of Kulaśēkhara. From the palaeographical grounds and the mention of old maḍappuṟam lands in the present inscription, the king may be identified with Jaṭāvarmaṉ Vīra Pāṇḍya of accession 1281 A.D., whose records are found in Tiruppattūr region. (Vide: A.R.Ep., 1936, para 56).

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī mulapaśuṣan mahāsabhaiyom olai [|*] aḷakāpuramāṉa ceḻiya nārāyaṇapurattu neṭuvāyi-

⟨2⟩ [lu]ṭaiyāṉ paṟṟikoṇṭāṉ tirumuṇṭamaḻakiyān kaṇṭu uṭaiyārtiruttaḷi yāṇṭa nāyaṉār tirumaṭa-

⟨3⟩ [vi]ḷākattu teṟkil tiruvitiyil teṉciṟakil taṅkaḷ peraṉār uttama ceyattiruttoṇṭattu ⟨Page 144⟩

⟨4⟩ k[ai]yaṉ tirumaṭammāka koppu vāṅka kallāletama muṭaiya dharmmamākac ceykaiyāl itil vāṅ-

⟨5⟩ [ki]ṉa maraṅkaḷum ōṭum ampalan tayāpañcāṉ aḻivucora immaraṅkaḷukku vilai niccayitta paḻaṅk[ā]-

⟨6⟩ cu 20 ippaḻaṅkācu irupatukkum immaraṅkaḷum oṭuṅkaik koṇṭu itukku immaṭattukku

⟨7⟩ muṉpu maṭappuṟamā[ṉa] maka[ta]m paḷḷattu ciṟucaiy nilamuṟṟu muka •• cca tevanila muṟṟum śrī vira-

⟨8⟩ pāṇṭiya tevaṟku 17vatu mutal in nilaṅkaḷāl vanta kaṭamai nellum antarāyam paḻaṅkā-

⟨9⟩ cum tavirntu kuṭuttu sabhāviṉiokamāka ampalam aḻivu cora paḻaṅkācu irupatukkum immara-

⟨10⟩ ṅkaḷum oṭuṅkaik koṇṭu innilaṅkaḷ ivvāṇṭu mutal paṭṭolai meṟpaṭṭa nilamuṟṟu-

⟨11⟩ m candrādityavaṟ iṟaiyiliyākap piṭippāṭu paṇṇik kuṭuttom mulavaruṣan mahāsabhai-

⟨12⟩ yom ippaṭikku uṭaiyār tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyaṉār śrī koyilile kalveṭṭikkoḷ[ka]

⟨13⟩ aruḷāl sabhai kaṇakku ••• ••• •••• yaṉ kuḻaiñcāṉāṉa kulacekara muventa veḷā[n] §

⟨SIIv25p0i0117⟩ No. 117. (A.R. No. 117 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the kitchen in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Tribhuvanachakravartin Vikrama Pāṇḍya (Māṟavarmaṉ Vikrama-Pāṇḍya) Year 12: 1281-82 A.D.

This epigraph may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 13th Century.

It records the gift of money (dravyam) deposited into the treasury of the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār by Villiuḍaiyanāchchi alias Māṉatilatavalli, a dēvaraḍiyāḷ of Rājēndram for the daily food-offerings to the deity Tirunāvukkaraśudēvar set up by her in the temple of Kayilāsamuḍaiya-nāyanār at Tirupputtūr, a brahmadēya in Kēraḷaśiṅgavaḷanāḍu. ⟨Page 145⟩

The śrībhaṇḍāram has to supply 2 nāḻi of rice daily for the said purpose. This was caused to be engraved on stone by the Śrīmahēśvarasabhai.

The place Rājēndram is mentioned elsewhere in a record of the 7th year of the reign of Māṟavarmaṉ Vikrama-pāṇḍya with the praśasti, Tirumagaḷ Jayamagaḷ, etc. and of accession date 1269-70 A.D. This record refers to him as seated on his throne called Maḻalaiyadaraiyaṉ in his palace at Rājēndram, east of Rāśiṅgaṉkuḷam. Also it is stated to be the place of Kaṇḍiyadēvar. (vide A.R.Ep., 1924, part II, p. 109). On account of the palaeography and the mention of the palace. Rājēndram in our record, the king may be identified with Māṟavarmaṉ Vikramapāṇḍya of acc. 1269 A.D.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] tribhuvanacakravarttikaḷ śrī vikrama pāṇṭiya dēvaṟku yāṇṭu 12āvatu keraḷaciṅkavaḷa nāṭ-

⟨2⟩ ṭu brahmadēyan tirupputtūr śrī kayilāsamuṭaiya nā[yanā*]rkku irājendrattu

⟨3⟩ tevaraṭiyāḷ villi uṭaiya nācciyāṉa [mā]ṉa tilativalli eḻuntaruḷuvit[ta]

⟨4⟩ tirunāvukkaracu dēvaṟku amutupaṭikku veṇṭu ndravyam ivaḷ tiruttaḷi-

⟨5⟩ yāṇṭa nāyanār śrīpaṇṭārattile oṭikkiṉamaiyil i śrīpaṇṭāratte ||—

⟨6⟩ nittamiru nāḻi arici candrādityavaṟ celvatāka kalveṭṭi kuṭittom śrīmāheśvara sabhayom

⟨7⟩ itu śrīmāheśvara rakṣai

⟨SIIv25p0i0118⟩ No. 118. (A.R. No. 118 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

North wall of the kitchen in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Kulaśēkhara (Jaṭāvarmaṉ Kulaśēkhara) Year 3: 1165 A.D.

The record may be assigned on palaeographical grounds to c. 12th Century. The details of the date of the record viz., year 3, Mithuna 12, Sunday may correspond to 1165 A.D., June 6.

It records the gift of 32 paḻaṅ-kāśu deposited into the treasury of the temple for maintaining a five-eighth (araiyē-araikāl) of a perpetual lamp to the deity Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār by a lady Uyyakkoṇḍāḷ, the wife of a brāhmaṇa named Mōśi-Gaṇapati Vishṇu, son of the kiḻār of Arugandūr in Kulaśēkhara-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Śōḻapāṇḍiya-vaḷanāḍu. ⟨Page 146⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī kulaśēkharadēvaṟku yāṇṭu 3 vatu mithu

⟨2⟩ na nāyiṟṟu paṉṉiraṇṭāntiyati nāyiṟṟukkiḻamai nā-

⟨3⟩ ḷ coḻa pāṇṭiya vaḷanāṭṭu kulaśēkharaccaturvvēdimaṅ-

⟨4⟩ kalattu arukantūrkiḻār makaṉ mocikaṇapativiṣṇu-

⟨5⟩ viṉ brāhmaṇi uyyakkoṇṭāḷ cāṉiyeṉ tiru-

⟨6⟩ ttaḷi yāṇṭa nāyaṉāṟkut tirunontāviḷakkuc celva-

⟨7⟩ tāka śrī paṇṭārattoṭukkiṉap paḻaṅkācu 3[2]kku arai

⟨8⟩ ye araikkāl viḷakku candrādityavaṟ celvatāka sabhaiyār ra[kṣai] [|*]

⟨SIIv25p0i0119⟩ No. 119. (A.R. No. 119 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT.

East wall of the first prākāra in the Tiruttaḷīśvara temple.

Jaṭāvarmaṉ Vīra-Pāṇḍya Year 46: 1342 A.D.

This record may be assigned to c. 14th century on grounds of palaeography. It is dated in the regnal year 46, Kaṟkaṭaka 14. śu 5, Monday, Uttiram (Uttara-Phalguni) which details may correspond to 1342 A.D., July 8. However, the calculated date was actually the 11th solar Kaṟkaṭaka and not the 14th as given in the record.

This epigraph records the declaration made by the mūlaparushaimahāsabhai of Tirupputtūr in Kēraḷaśiṅga-vaḷanāḍu, agreeing to give annually a specified quantity of corn on each mā of the land and to confer certain privileges in the temple of Tiruttaḷiyāṇḍa-nāyaṉār to a certain Periyanāyaṉār alias Vīrālayadēva, a member by the village assembly (avai) of Śūraikkuḍi in Tēṉāṟṟuppōkku in Adaḷaiyūr-nāḍu in order to show their gratitude to him. This Viśālayadēvar is stated to have reconsecrated the deity of the temple and saved the people at the time when the temple was occupied by the encamped Muhammadans (tuḷukkar) ‘whose time it was’ and the village and the temple have been ruined. In consequance of this, the inhabitants of Tirupputtūr become unsettled. ⟨Page 147⟩

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⟨1⟩ [svastiśrī ko] ccaṭaiya[paṉ]marāṉa tribhuvaṉac cakravattikaḷ śrī virapāṇṭiya tevaṟku yāṇṭu 46vatu kaṟkaṭakanāyaṟṟu 14lā tiyati

⟨2⟩ [pūṟuvapakṣa]ttu pañcamiyum sōmavāramum peṟṟa uttirattu nāḷ keraḷaciṅkavaḷa nāṭṭu brahmadēyan tirupputtūr mula pa[rṣa]ma[rma]hāsa

⟨3⟩ bhaiyom atalaiyūr nāṭṭut teṉāṟṟuppokku cūraikkuṭi avaiyaṉ periyanāyaṉārāṉa vicālayatevaṟku piṭipāṭu pa[ṇ]

⟨4⟩ ṇikkuṭutta paricāvatu uṭaiyār tiruttaḷiyāṇṭa nāyanār koyilile tulukkar iruppār yūruṅ koyilum aḻikaiyāl iṉāḷile nā[ya]nā

⟨5⟩ raiyum ēṟiyaruḷappaṇṇi eṅkaḷaiyum rakṣikkaiyil eṅkaḷ priyattāle candrādityavaṟcelvamāka nāṅkaḷ kuṭuttapaṭi eṅka

⟨6⟩ ḷur mukkātavaṭṭa[ttu]kku [u]ḷḷum viḷainta nilattukku vāymaṭaippaṭi kol kuṭitāṅkiyāl nilam orumāvukku [ta]laiyatu

⟨7⟩ cumaiyāka oru kūṭṭuc cūṭum māttāl varakukku talaicumai kaṭṭa oṉṟum varicaipaṭi viḷainta eḷḷukkum tiṉaikkum

⟨8⟩ māttāl eḷḷu patakku māttāl tiṉai mukkuṟuṇiyum ceytoṟum kuruppatāka candrādityavaṟ cella kal

⟨9⟩ veṭṭi kuṭuttom mula pa[rṣa]mahāsabhaiyom aruḷāl āyiratteḻunūṟṟuvamuventiraveḷān eḻuttu [||*]