SOUTH INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS VOLUME XXXII INSCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY CHOLA KINGS UPTO UTTAMA CHOLA

⟨SIIv32p1i0001⟩ No. 1. (A.R. No. 51 of 1936.) VĪRACHŌḺAPURAM, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a hero-stone now preserved in Madras Museum.

Parakēsarivarmaṉ, who took Tañjai (Vijayālaya) Year 3: C. 853 A.D.

Records that a certain Karambai Kalituḍaṉ Mukkaṉ of Attiyūr in Kaṟpūṇḍināḍu died while rescuing cattle from a raid launched by Aṇiyaṉ. The figure of a warrior aiming an arrow from a bow is carved in relief on the slab.

Published in A.R.Ep., 1935-36. Part II, Page 72. para 34.

Text.

⟨1⟩ ta[ñ]cai koṭṭa kopparake-

⟨2⟩ cari 1 pa[n]ma[r*]k-

⟨3⟩ ku yāṇṭu

⟨4⟩ 3vatu kaṟpū-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭi nāṭṭu a-

⟨6⟩ ttiyū[r] karam-

⟨7⟩ pai kali-

⟨8⟩ tuṭaṉ mu-

⟨9⟩ kkaṉ aṇiya-

⟨10⟩ ṉ toṟu

⟨11⟩ koḷa-

⟨12⟩ toṟu mīṭ-

⟨13⟩ ṭu paṭṭāṉ [||*] ⟨Page 2⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0002⟩ No. 2. (A.R. No. 266 of 1991.) EṆṆĀYIRAM, VILLUPURAM TALUK, VILLUPURAM DISTRICT.

On the surface of the natural cavern by the side of the Jaina beds in a hilock known as Mēlkuḍalūr-malai

Parakēsarivarmaṉ (Vijayālaya ?) Year 4: C. 854 A.D.

This inscription may be assigned to the early Chōḷa ruler Vijayālaya, not only on the grounds of palaeography but also due to the fact that it is found engraved in continuation of an inscription belonging to the second regnal year of the Pallava king Nṛipatuṅgavarmaṉ (846-872 A.D.)

It records that an individual Tāḻivaikuntaṉ alias Sembiyaṉ Kāvidiyaraiyaṉ, a native of Kuḷattūr in Maḻa-nāḍu had gifted five hundred sheep for burning lamps to the god, (called) Avaṉitilakattu-dēvar at Sēndamaṅgalam in Paṉaiyūr-nāḍu.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ kopparakecaripanma[ṟ*]ku yāṇṭu nālāvatu paṉaiūr nāṭṭuc ce[n]tama-

⟨3⟩ [ṅ]kalattu avaṉitilakattut tevaṟku(ti) tiruviḷakkukku maḻanā-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭu[k] kuḷattūruṭaiyāṉ ṟāḻi vaikuntaṉākiya cempiya-

⟨5⟩ ṉ(r) kāviti[yarai]yaṉ vaitta āṭaiññūṟu [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0003⟩ No. 3. (A.R. No. 69 of 1892.) ŚRĪRAṄGAM, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

Right of entrance into the threshing floor of the fourth prākāra of the Raṅganāthasvāmin temple.

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 4: 875 A.D.

On account of its archaic characters this record may be assigned to the early Chōḷa ruler, Rājakēsarivarman Āditya I. ⟨Page 3⟩

It records that the peruṅguṟi-sabhā of Śrīraṅgam met and resolved that from the fifth regnal year of the king onwards, those that had abandoned the village (and had gone elsewhere) would not be eligible to hold the dēvadāna and garden lands of the temple for management. In violation of this resolution the bhaṇḍāra-vāriyar and accountant who wrote the lease deeds would be fined 25 poṉ each such proceeds would be utilized for burning lamps at the temple.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. IV. No. 516.

Ibid Vol. XXIV No, 1.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ kovirācakecaripanmaṟku yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu 4 āvatu 89 ṉāl śrī-

⟨4⟩ [ra]ṅgattup peruṅkuṟi sabhai-

⟨5⟩ kūṭi emmilicainta javasthai-

⟨6⟩ yāva[tu] 1 nāṉkāmāṇṭukku me-

⟨7⟩ l aiñcāvatu mutal ivvū-

⟨8⟩ r yiṟantār tevatāṉamum pū-

⟨9⟩ ntoṭṭam [pū]cciyāḷavu [mu]-

⟨10⟩ ḷaippaṭavum peṟātārākavum

⟨11⟩ itaṟṟiṟampil aṭutta paṇ-

⟨12⟩ ṭāravārikaraiyu maṭaiyeḻu-

⟨13⟩ tiṉa naṅkaraṇattāṉaiyu-

⟨14⟩ maṭai koṇṭāraiyum ve-

⟨15⟩ vveṟṟu vakai tiruviḷak-

⟨16⟩ keṇṇaikku 25ø po-

⟨17⟩ ṉ taṇṭam koḷvatākavu-

⟨18⟩ m aṭutta vāriyaraiyum ka-

⟨19⟩ raṇattāṉaiyume kaṭamai

⟨20⟩ koḷvatāka ipparicu vyava-

⟨21⟩ stai ceyto[m*] ma(ā)hāsa-

⟨22⟩ bhaiyomitu vaiṣṇavarakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 4⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0004⟩ No. 4. (A.R. No. 38 of 1895.) TILLAISTHĀNAM, THANJAVUR TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 8: 879 A.D.

This inscription on grounds of palaeography can be assigned to the ninth century A.D. and hence the Rājakēsarivarman of this record may be identified with Āditya I.

Records that Ādittaṉ Kaṉṉaradēvaṉ, the son of the Chōḷa king (Sōḻapperumāṉaḍigaḷ) gifted 20 kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp to the god Mahādēvar at Tirunettānam. The sabhaiyār and the ūrār of the above village received the gold and undertook to burn the lamp.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. V. No. 595.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kōrāja[k]ēsarivarumaṟkku yāṇṭu 8 āvatu coḻa-

⟨2⟩ pperumāṉaṭikaḷ makaṉār ātittaṉ kaṉṉaradēvaṉ tirunettānat-

⟨3⟩ tu mahādēvarkku oru noṉtāviḷakku candrādityaval erippataṟku kuṭut-

⟨4⟩ ta poṉ [2]0ø irupatiṉ kaḻañcu ippoṉ koṇṭu erippomānom

⟨5⟩ tirune[t]tānattu sa[bh*]aiyārum ūromum ivviḷakku paṉmāheśvarara[kṣ*]ai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0005⟩ No. 5. (A.R. No. 12 of 1897.) SENDALAI, THANJAVUR TALUK, THANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the central shrine in the Sundarēśvara temple.

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 9: 880 A.D.

This inscription on grounds of palaeography can be assigned to the ninth century A.D. and hence it may be attributed to the period of Āditya I. ⟨Page 5⟩

It records that Kōyilān Nāganandhi sold his land share Bhārattappaṅgu (land earmarked for reciting Mahābhāratam), (situated) within the fifty third kūḍumbu (family-block), to the peruṅguṟi-sabhai of Chandralēkhai-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēyam in Ārkkāṭṭu-kkūṟṟam. The sabhaiyār in turn assigned this land share after permanently exempting it from the taxes to Siṅginandil Svarūpa-bhaṭṭan of Ātreya-gōtra and Vaikhānasa-sūtra, of Perumpuliyūr (Chidambaram) for expounding Śrībhāratam daily at the ambalam in the brahmasthānam of the village constructed by Vayiramēgha bhaṭṭaṉ of Veṇṇayil in Miyśeṅgiḷi-nāḍu. The record stipulates that the person who would inherit and enjoy this land share after him should also recite Śrībhāratam daily at the brahmasthānam of the village. The sabhā also got the record engraved on stone.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. VI. No. 12.

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⟨1⟩ korājakesarivanmarkku yāṇṭu 9- [āva]tu ār[k*]kāṭṭuk kūṟṟattu brahmadēyam

⟨2⟩ cantralēkhaicaturvvētimaṅkalattu peruṅkuṟisabhaiyom ivvūr ai-

⟨3⟩ mpattu munṟāṅ kuṭumpil bhāratapaṅku koyilān nākaṉanti viṟṟa paṅku 1 i-

⟨4⟩ vvoru paṅkum ivvūr brahmasthānattu miyceṅkiḷināṭṭu veṇṇāyiluṭai-

⟨5⟩ yāṉ vayira(m)meka(m)paṭāraṉ eṭuppitta ampalattu iruntu nicatiyum śrī-

⟨6⟩ bhāratam vācikka perumpuliyūr ātraiyagōttrattu vaikhānasa sūtrattu śi[ṅki]-

⟨7⟩ [nantil] śvarūpabhaṭṭanukku 1 iṟaii(l)liyāka kuṭuttom sabhaiyom ivanilp pi-

⟨8⟩ ṉpu ippaṅkuṇpār ivvūr brahmasthānatte iruntu nicatiyum śrībhāratam vāci-

⟨9⟩ ttuṇpatāka ippaṅkoṉṟum candrādittavat iṟaiiliyāka paṇittu kalmel

⟨10⟩ veṭṭi kuṭutto[m] peruṅkuṟi sabhaiyom [||*] ⟨Page 6⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0006⟩ No. 6. (A.R. No. 286 of 1991.) GUṆḌŪR, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On a stone sluice of the lake of the above village.

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 19: 890 A.D.

This record, on the grounds of palaeography may be assigned to Āditya I.

It records that the great goldsmith (peruṉ-taṭṭāṉ) of (the village) Guṇḍūr, by name Māṟaṅkuvāvaṉ had got this stone sluice to be constructed.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī korājake-

⟨2⟩ caripaṉmaṟku yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu 19 kuṇṭur-

⟨4⟩ peruṉ taṭṭāṉ mā-

⟨5⟩ ṟaṅ kuvāvaṉ ce-

⟨6⟩ vitta kaṟkumu-

⟨7⟩ ḻi [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0007⟩ No. 7. (A.R. No. 251 of 1894.) TIRUVAIYYĀṞU, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 20. 133rd day: 891 A.D.

This inscription on grounds of palaeography and internal evidence may be assigned to Āditya I.

It records that Kaḍamba Viḍari, a resident of Kāviri-maṅgalam in Kuṟukkaināḍu, the foster-mother (tādi) of Kaṉṉaradēva donated twenty kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp to the god Mahādēva at Tiruvaiyyāṟu with an uḻakku and a piḍi of oil by the measure Tiruvaiyyāṟaṉ. With this gold six mā and one kāṇi of land was obtained after reclamation, for the above purpose.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. V. No. 550. ⟨Page 7⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] korājakeśaripanmarkku yāṇṭu 20 āvatu nāḷ nūṟṟumuppattu muṉ[ṟu]

⟨2⟩ tiruvaiyāṟṟu mahādēvarkkuk kaṉṉaradēvar tātiyāyiṉa kuṟukkai nāṭṭu kāvirimaṅkalattu

⟨3⟩ k kaṭampa(pa)viṭari candrāti[t*]tavaṟ tiruvaiyāṟaṉā(l) luḻakkey orupi[ṭi] arai neyyā(l) lo-

⟨4⟩ ru nandāviḷakkerippataṟkku kuṭutta poṉ irupatiṉ kaḻañcu ippoṉṉāl mayakkik kuṭu-

⟨5⟩ tta [ni]lat[tu]kkellai aḻaci kā[ṭ*]ṭaṭikaḷ [vi]ḷakkuc ceykku vaṭakiḻa[k]kum vaṭapāṟkellai

⟨6⟩ • ḻaiyāṟ[ṟu] kuṭivāykkālukkut teṟkum kiḻpāṟkellai •• naṉtavana

⟨7⟩ māṉa pūṉtoṭṭattukku mekkum teṉpāṟkkellai ārkkāṭuk kiḻār mayakkiva-

⟨8⟩ ṭṭan[ni]l vaṭakkum ivi[cai*]tta peru nāṉkellaiyi[l*] akappaṭṭa nilam āṟu mākkāṇi [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0008⟩ No. 8. (A.R. No. 19 of 1893.) UKKAL, CHEYYAR TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 23: 894 A.D.

It records that the sabhaiyār of Śivachūḷāmaṇi-maṅgalam alias Aparājitachchaturvēdimaṅgalam received two hundred kaḷañju of gold from Sēdiyār Tiruvikrama bhaṭṭar alias Brahmādhirājar, one of the āḷuṅgaṇattārs of Uttaramēruchchaturvēdimaṅgalam, a taṉkūṟṟu in Kāliyūr-kōṭṭam and undertook to feed sumptuously. with the interest of the endowed amount, twelve brāhmaṇas who were well-versed in vēdas daily at noon, before the God of Bhuvanimāṇikka-Vishṇugriham at Śivachūḷāmaṇi-maṅgalam was offered food offering. The inscription also enumerates the dishes to be served to the brāhmaṇas.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. III. No. 1. ⟨Page 8⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] korājakesariva[r]mmaṟku yāṇṭu irupattu muṉṟāvatu kāliyūrkkoṭṭattup pākū-

⟨2⟩ r nāṭṭuc civacūḷāmaṇimaṅkalamākiya aparājitaccatu[r]vvētimaṅkalattu sabhaiyō-

⟨3⟩ (m)meḻuttu ikkoṭṭattut taṉkūṟṟu uttarameruc catu[r]vvētimaṅkalamiyā-

⟨4⟩ ḷuṅ kaṇattāruṭ ceti[yā]rt tiruvikramabhaṭṭarākiya brahmādhirājar pakkal koṇṭa poṉ irunūṟ-

⟨5⟩ ṟuk kaḻañcu ippoṉṉiṉ vṛddhiyālvu[me] emmurp puvanimāṇikka viṣṇagṛhattu perumāṉaṭika-

⟨6⟩ ḷ uccampoḻtu tiruvamirtu ceyvataṉ muṉṉam nicati paṉṉiruvar brāhmaṇar vēdam vallār uṇpa[tā]-

⟨7⟩ kavum ippaṉ[ṉi*]ruvaṟkum śariram prati āḻākku neyyum aintu kaṟiyum aivvuḻakkut tayirum ivviraṇṭu kāyumilaiyum

⟨8⟩ ivarkaḷukku[t*] tṛptiyāmaḷavum ipparicu ācāntratāramum ūṭṭuvatāka ippaṉṉiruvar brāhmaṇarkkum aṭuvārkkum viṟakiṭu-

⟨9⟩ vārkkum maṟṟum epperppaṭṭatum aṭaṅka ipparicu ūṭṭuvatāka ivviru nūṟṟuk kaḻañcuṅ koṇṭom ipparicu

⟨10⟩ ūṭṭā[m]ai vighnañcēytār gēṅgē iṭaik kumari iṭaic ceytār ceyta pāpamellāṅ koḷvārākavum ippari-

⟨11⟩ cu muṭṭil [mu]ntāñcēyta iṣṭapū[r*]ttam brahmāyirājanukke āvatākavum i[p*]paricu oṭṭi śilālēkhai ceytu [k]oṭut-

⟨12⟩ tom sabhaiyom |||— svastiśrī—

⟨SIIv32p1i0009⟩ No. 9. (A.R. No. 5 of 1897.) TAKKŌLAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 24: 895 A.D.

Records that Pridipadiyār (Prithivīpati), son of Māramaraiyar (ie Mārasiṁha) gifted a silver kettle with a spout weighing three hundred and seventeen kaḻañju to ⟨Page 9⟩ god of Māhādēvar at Tiruvūṟal, on the occasion of the solar eclipse in the month of Āṇi.

Published in Ep. Ind. Vol. XIX. pp. 87-88.

Also in S.I.I. Vol. V 1368.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kovirācake-

⟨2⟩ caripaṉma[r*]kku iyāṇṭu

⟨3⟩ irupattu nālāvatu ā-

⟨4⟩ ṉit talaippiṟaiyāl

⟨5⟩ tiṇṭiṉa sūryyagrahaṇat-

⟨6⟩ tināṉṟu tiruvūṟal māteva-

⟨7⟩ rkku māramaraiyar makaṉār

⟨8⟩ piritipatiyār kuṭutta ve-

⟨9⟩ ḷḷik keṇṭi niṟai muṉnū-

⟨10⟩ ṟṟu orupatteḻu kaḻañcu

⟨11⟩ itu paṉmāhēśva[ra*] rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0010⟩ No. 10. (A.R. No. 62 of 1936.) PARAṈŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a rock below the hill to the north of the village.

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year 24: 895 A.D.

This inscription is found clumsily engraved in bold characters. The stone had not been dressed properly before engraving, hence letters are not clearly visible in several places. The portion concerned of the rock was ruled before engraving the inscription.

It records that Ariñjigai Vembaṉ of Paralūr in Uḍaikāṭṭu-nāḍu had caused a tank (Puttēri) dug and endowed a quarter śey of land for providing a sluice (tūmbu) to that tank and stipulated that a kuṛuṇi of paddy per mā could be levied for its maintenance. ⟨Page 10⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kovirācakecariparmmakku yāṇṭu

⟨2⟩ irupattu [nā]lāvatu uṭaikkā[ṭ*]ṭu nāṭṭu

⟨3⟩ para[lū]r uṭaiya aṟiñcikai vempaṉeṉ ceyta put-

⟨4⟩ teri tirutti erikku tūmpiṭai vai[y]kkak kāṟ ceyyum

⟨5⟩ māt[tāṟ] kuṟuṇi nel[lu]m pūvil ēṟi vaitte[ṉ] itdha-

⟨6⟩ [r]mmam rakṣittāṉ [aṭi eṉṟalaikku] melatu ••• itiṟakkiṉāṉ e-

⟨7⟩ ḻ[ā*] narakattuk ki-

⟨8⟩ ḻā [nara]kam pukuvāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0011⟩ No. 11. (A.R. No. 214 of 1977.) SUṆḌAKKĀYMUTTŪR, COIMBATORE TALUK, COIMBATORE DISTRICT.

On a rock at a place called Pachchapaḷḷi.

Rājakēsari (Āditya I) In characters of the 9-10th century A.D.

This inscription is in verse in veṇbā metre and is engraved in vaṭṭeḻuttu characters, which happened to be popular local script of the region. The verse eulogises the Chōḷa king as a benevolent one affording shade, shelter and prosperity to his beloved subjects, as to one whom the prosperous country on the banks of the Kāvēri belongs, he is also known as Kaṇḍaṉ and Kōḻiyar ko (the lord of the Kōḻiyar.)

Published in Epigraphia Indica. Vol. XL. P. 18.

For different reading and interpretation of the text see Irāśakēsaripperuvaḻikkalveṭṭu by R. Poongunran in Varalāṟṟuk kalambagam. (1998) pp. 16.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koirācakecarip

⟨2⟩ peruvaḻi [|*] tiruniḻalu maṉṉu-

⟨3⟩ yiruñ ci[ṟun]ta- ⟨Page 11⟩

⟨4⟩ ḻaippa oru niḻal veṇṭi-

⟨5⟩ ṅkaḷ poloṅki iru niḻali

⟨6⟩ l vāḻiyar koccoḻaṉ vaḷaṅ-

⟨7⟩ kāviri nāṭaṉ koḻiyar kokkaṇṭa

⟨8⟩ ṉ [vaḻi]

⟨SIIv32p1i0012⟩ No. 12. (A.R. No. 286 of 1911.) TILLAISTHĀNAM, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Āditya I) Year: 9-10th Century A.D.

This inscription records a gift of 100 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to the god at Tiruneyttānam by Kaḍamba Mādēvi, the wife of Vikki Aṇṇaṉ who was the recipient of several royal honours and of the hereditary title Śembiyaṉ Tamiḻvēḷ from the Chōḷa king Kōkkaṇḍaṉ alias Rājakēsarivarman, who conquered Toṇḍaināḍu, and the Chēra king Sthāṇu Ravi.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. III No. 89.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] toṇṭaināṭu pāviṉa coḻaṉ pal-

⟨2⟩ [yā]ṉaik kokkaṇṭaṉā iṉa rājakēsaripatmaṉā-

⟨3⟩ luñ ceramāṉ kot[t]āṇu iraviyālun tavicuñcā-

⟨4⟩ maraiyuñ civikaiyun timilaiyuṅ koyilu[m p]oṉa[ka]-

⟨5⟩ muṅ kāḷamuṅ kaḷiṟṟu[ni]raiyuñ cempiyaṉ ṟamiḻ veḷe-

⟨6⟩ ṉṟuṅ kulappiyarum peṟṟa vikki aṇṇaṉ ṟeviyāṉa

⟨7⟩ kaṭampamātevi tiruneyttāṉattu mātevark koru nantā viḷak[ki]-

⟨8⟩ ṉukkuk kuṭutta āṭu [nūṟu] pa[tm]āhēśvararakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 12⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0013⟩ No. 13. (A.R. No. 226 of 1940.) TIRUNĀMANALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the Bhaktajanēśvara temple.

Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I ?) Year 2: 909 A.D.

This inscription may palaeographically be assigned to Parāntaka I's period.

It records the assignment of twenty-four cheṟuvu of land out of twentyfive designated as Iriṇīkkī Aḍaiyakoṉaṇkai cheṟuvu for the maintenance of five servants engaged for sweeping and cleaning the temple premises. The other remaining one cheṟuvu had been set apart as maintenance for the one who was blowing the kāḷam.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripanmaṟki yāṇṭu 2 āvatu tiruttoṇṭiśvarattāḻvārkkuc ceyta ipbhūmi nālu simaiyila-

⟨2⟩ kappaṭṭa nilam iriṇikki aṭaiyakoṉaṅkaiyāy ceṟuvu irupattaiñcil loru mākāṇik kāḷaṅkaikku nīkki niṉṟa ceṟuvu irupattu ṉālum

⟨3⟩ tirumeḻukkiṭum aṭikaḷmār aivarkku nivantamāka itu panmāhēśva rarakṣai |||—

⟨SIIv32p1i0014⟩ No. 14. (A.R. No. - of 2003.) OLIYAMAṄGALAM, ILUPPUR TALUK, PUDUKKOTTAI DISTRICT.

On a stone lying in the tank of the village.

Vīrachōḷa (Parāntaka I) Year 4: 911 A.D.

This inscription is in verse composed in kaṭṭaḷaikalittuṟai metre. This record may be assigned to Parāntaka I not only on account of its paleography but also due to the occurrence of the name Vīrachōḷa, an epithet assumed by him.

It records that when the peerless Virachōḷa was ruling (a person called) Chōḷakulanārāyaṇa Mūvēndavēḷ, caused a sluice built to the tank at Ollaiyūr in the fourth regnal year of the king. He (the builder of the sluice) is eulogized in this record as generous, he wore a fragrant flower garland and (he was also called) ⟨Page 13⟩ Kēśavan who belonged to Iḍaikuḍi where Māyavaṉ ie God Vishṇu was pleased to reside and bless.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] naṭaiyā-

⟨2⟩ r tanic ceṅkol vira-

⟨3⟩ coḻaṟki yāṇṭu nālā-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭil kuṭaiyār va-

⟨5⟩ ṇkai ollai ūr ku-

⟨6⟩ ḷattuk kumiḻi kuyiṟṟu[vi]-

⟨7⟩ tton toṭaiyārala-

⟨8⟩ ṅkaṟ coḻakula nārāya-

⟨9⟩ ṇa mūventaveḷ a[ṭ]ai-

⟨10⟩ yār ciyamiṭaikkuṭi mā-

⟨11⟩ yava nilavuṅ kecava-

⟨12⟩ ney [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0015⟩ No. 15. (A.R. No. 84 of 1947-48.) TIRUPPANDIYŪR, TIRUVALLUR TALUK, CHENGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On a stone-slab lying in the street.

Parakēsarivarmaṉ Year 3: 910 A.D.

This inscription may be assigned to Parāntaka I on grounds of palaeography.

Records that the ūrār of Paṉṟiyūr in Kāmakkōṭṭappuṟam received gold from Vimaḍigaḷ son of Paḷḷiyuḍaiyāṉ Tēvaḍi bhaṭṭaṉ of the same village and agreed to set-apart one kāḍi of paddy per paṭṭi for the maintenance of the big tank of the village. They undertook the responsibility of carrying out this arrangement, failing which they agreed to remit one thousand kāṇam daily as fine. ⟨Page 14⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripa[n]maṟ(k)ku [yā]-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu muṉṟāvatu [k]āmakoṭṭa-

⟨3⟩ ppuṟattup paṉṟiyūrrom 1 ivvūr-

⟨4⟩ p paḷḷiyuṭaiyāṉ ṟevaṭi paṭṭaṉ

⟨5⟩ makaṉ vimaṭikaḷ pa[k*]kalum viṭe-

⟨6⟩ lviṭuku vāparaṇa[n]taiy poṉ ma-

⟨7⟩ kaṉ ṟiṇṭaṉ pakkulum yāṅkaḷ ko-

⟨8⟩ ṇṭu kaṭava poṉṉāl emmur vaḷai-

⟨9⟩ yiṟ cuṟṟu uṭumpoṭiyāmai taviḻnta

⟨10⟩ til vāri meṟpaṭṭa nilattāl viḷai-

⟨11⟩ ñcatu paṭṭiyāloru kāṭinel emmurp-

⟨12⟩ pererikku aṭṭuvomāṉom cantr[ā]ti-

⟨13⟩ ttavaraiy maṭṭuvomāṉom paṭṭi-

⟨14⟩ yālo[ru] kāṭiy maṭṭuvomāṉo[m*] ūromita[ṟ*]ṟiṉ-

⟨15⟩ pil nicati āyiraṅ kāṇan taṇṭappiṭa 2 voṭṭi kkuṭu-

⟨16⟩ ttomi paṉṟiyūrurom [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0016⟩ No. 16. (A.R. No. 54 of 1948.) KĀKKALŪR, TIRUVALLUR TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On a stone-slab with a sculpture of a warrior on its back set up behind Āñjanēya temple.

Parakēsarivarmaṉ Year 6: 913 A.D.

This inscription on grounds of palaeography may be assigned to the Chōḷa ruler, Parāntaka I.

It records that the sabhā made a grant of a paṭṭi of land, freed from taxes, with its appurtenances (maṉaipaḍappai) and also a share in the tax collected towards providing protection to the village (pāḍikāval) to the son of Vaḷḷuvan Kaliviriya Muttaraiyan, a servant of the big men (perumakkaḷ) of the village, Kākkalūr. The latter (Vaḷḷuvan) bravely defended them when the robbers surrounded (vaḷaitu) ⟨Page 15⟩ them, and tried to seize their clothes. He fought and drove them. In the course of fighting he lost his life, and his son, who was also called Kalīvīriya Muttaraiyaṉ, was given the above compensation.

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⟨1⟩ [svasti]śrī [||*] para[k]ecari[ paṉ-

⟨2⟩ maṟ] ku yāṇṭu āṟāvatu kā-

⟨3⟩ [k]kalūrkkuḷ vaḷḷuvaṉ

⟨4⟩ [ka]liviriya muttaraiyan i-

⟨5⟩ [v]vūrp perumakkaḷukkuc

⟨6⟩ [c]evakam poṉāṉ perumak-

⟨7⟩ [ka]ḷaik kaḷḷar vaḷaittu ve-

⟨8⟩ [t]tuk kūṟai koḷḷappuka oṭ-

⟨9⟩ [ṭi]ṉa ñ[ā]ṉṟu kaḷḷaroṭu pi-

⟨10⟩ ṉaṅkip perumakkaḷ muṉ-

⟨11⟩ pe nāṉ niṟka oṭṭenenṟu

⟨12⟩ paṭṭāṉ ivaṉ makan kalivi-

⟨13⟩ riya muttaraiyaṉukku iṟ[ai]

⟨14⟩ ilippaṭṭi 1 nilamum maṉai-

⟨15⟩ yum maṉaipa[ṭai*]ppum pāṭikāva-

⟨16⟩ [lil] orukūṟu āḷanum kā • •

⟨17⟩ • kilum vaccom •••

⟨18⟩ sabhaiyom |||—

⟨SIIv32p1i0017⟩ No. 17. (A.R. No. 359 of 1903.) ANDANALLŪR, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

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

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 11: 918 A.D.

The date portion of this record has been read as 19. ⟨Page 16⟩

Begins with obeisance to Śiva (Namaśivāya). It records that Sembiyan Irukkuvēḷ alias Bhūtī Parāntakan had got a stone temple constructed for the god Tiruvālanduṟaipperumāṉaḍigaḷ at Āndavanallūr in Kiḷiyūr-nāḍu. He then petitioned the king Parakēsarivarman and obtained three vēli of wet land to be granted in the holdings of Andavanallūr as kuḍinīkkiya-dēvadānam. At 120 kalam per vēli the paddy per year to be measured out was 360 kalam of paddy to the temple. However, in the 18th regnal year (925 A.D.) the king Parakēsarivarman sent an order to Sembiyan Irukkuvēḷ to handover the said land as kuḍinīkkā dēvadāna kāṇikkaḍamai to Araiyan Vīrachōḷaṉ. Accordingly Sembiyan Irukkuvēḷ instructed his executor, the tiṇai (revenue official) of Uṟattūr to give effect to it. On this revised basis the paddy to be measued out was 180 kalam and 120 kalam in the shape of upādi as determined earlier or in all 310 kalam (But in summing up it is stated that 310 kalam were to be measured out to the temple. This is not understandable). The customary water rights were to be enjoyed without obligations of contributing free labour for the same. (seṉṉīrveṭṭi).

Published on S.I.I. Vol. VIII. No. 668.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] namaśśivāya [||*] kopparakesarivarmmaṟku yāṇṭu 11āvatu kiḷi-

⟨2⟩ yūrṉāṭṭu āṉtavanallūrt tiruvalāntuṟaip perumāṉaṭikaḷukkuc cempi-

⟨3⟩ ya ṉirukku veḷāyiṉa pūtiparāṉtakaṉ kaṟṟaḷi eṭuppittu ittevarkkut tevatā-

⟨4⟩ ṉañ ceyvataṟkup parakēsariparmmaṟku viṇṇappañ ceytu antavana-

⟨5⟩ llūrk kāṇippāl ṉilattil [p]eṟṟa nirnilam mu[v]eli iṉnilaṅ kuṭini-

⟨6⟩ kkiya tevatāṉamākac ceytu kuṭutteṉ cempiyaṉirukku veḷāyiṉa

⟨7⟩ pūti parāṉta[ka*]ṉeṉ iṉnilattāl 120kalam veli ṉūṟṟirupatiṉ kalamāka āṇ-

⟨8⟩ ṭu varai aḷa[k*]ku nel cūlak kālāl 1800- kalam iṉṉilam 18 āṇṭu parake-

⟨9⟩ caripaṟmar aruḷuppaṭṭāl araiyaṉ viracoḻaṉukkuk ku[ṭi]nikkā tevatā-

⟨10⟩ [nak] kā[ṇi]k[ka]ṭamaiyākac ceytu kuṭukka eṉṟu cempiyaṉ irukku veḷāṉu- ⟨Page 17⟩

⟨11⟩ kku śrīmukamvara ivar taṅ kaṉmi uṟattūrt tiṇaiyai ipparicu ceytu kuṭu-

⟨12⟩ kka eṉṟu eva ivaṉum ipparicu ceytu kuṭuttu innilattāl catti muṟṟat-

⟨13⟩ tu ka ••• •••• l 180- kalam mu[ṉpilāṉa] opāti 120- kalamum ākac cūlakkālā[l*] aḷakka-

⟨14⟩ k kaṭava pūrinel 310- kalam innilattāl ceṉnir veṭṭi ceyyātey aṉnir

⟨15⟩ koṇṭu pāccik koḷḷap peṟuvatākak kāṇi ceytatu [||*] itu panmmāyēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0018⟩ No. 18. (A.R. No. 231 of 1926.) KĪḺAPPAḺUVŪR, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the central shrine in the Vaṭamūlēśvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 12: 919 A.D.

Records that Nakkaṉ Sāttaṉ, a military official ? (paḍaippēraraiyaṉ) of Paradūr made a gift of ninety sheep for burning a perpetual lamp with an uḻakku of oil daily, to the God Tiruvālanduṟai-Mahādēvar at Śiṟupaḻuvūr in Kuṉṟak-kūṟṟam to propitiate god to secure victory for Kaṇḍaṉ Amudaṉār, the Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar, in the battle at Veḷḷūr, where the Pāṇḍya king brought the army of Īḻam and fought against the king (Perumāṉaḍigaḷ ie Parāntaka).

He made another gift of ten sheep for providing five nāḷi of ghee (to conduct offerings) on the occasion of Ayaṉasaṅkarānthi.

He further made a gift of 24 sheep for supplying two nāḻi of ghee (to provide for the bath) every month on the occasion of puṇarpūśam, the natal star of the above Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar chief.

The donor further made two gift of four sheep one for anointment of god and the other for the burning of a lamp on the day of Kārttigai in the Kārttigai month.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ maturai ko-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭa koppara-

⟨4⟩ kecaripanmaṟ-

⟨5⟩ ku yāṇṭu ⟨Page 18⟩

⟨6⟩ 12 āvatu iv-

⟨7⟩ vāṇṭu perumāṉaṭikaḷoṭu pā-

⟨8⟩ ṇṭiyaṉār īḻap paṭai kuṇantu ve-

⟨9⟩ ḷur astikaṭaicey[ta] nāṉṟu paḻu-

⟨10⟩ veṭṭaraiyar kaṇṭaṉ amutaṉār viraśrī

⟨11⟩ uṇṭāvateṉṟu poykai kuṟuviṭat-

⟨12⟩ tu paratūruṭaiyāṉ paṭaippe[ra]rayaṉ nakkaṉ c[ā]-

⟨13⟩ ttaṉ kuṉṟakkūṟṟattu ciṟupaḻuvūrt tiruvālantu-

⟨14⟩ ṟai mahādēvarku candrādityaval i-

⟨15⟩ ravum pakalum oru tiru(v)viḷakku eriya nicatap-

⟨16⟩ paṭi nārāyattāl uḻakku ne[y*]kku [v]aitta cāvāmuv[ā]-

⟨17⟩ p perāṭu 90m ayaṉasa[ṅ*]kirāntika[ḷ] ṭoṟum āṭiya-

⟨18⟩ ruḷa ney aññāḻikku vaitta āṭu 10m paḻuve-

⟨19⟩ ṭṭaraiyar kaṇṭaṉ amutaṉār tirunakṣattirik[ai]

⟨20⟩ [pu]ṇarpūcatti nāṉṟu tiṅkaḷṭoṟum

⟨21⟩ iru nāḻi ney āṭiya[ru]ḷa vetta āṭu 24 k[ā]-

⟨22⟩ ttikai kāttikai nāḷaṉṟu āṭi aruḷa ney nāḻik-

⟨23⟩ ku vaitta āṭu 4m kāttikai viḷakku eriya vait-

⟨24⟩ ta ney kku vaitta āṭu añcu itu

⟨25⟩ panmāhēśvararakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0019⟩ No. 19. (A.R. No. 1 of 1898.) UTTIRAMĒRŪR, MADHURANTAKAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the Vaikunthaperumāḷ temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 12: 919 A.D.

For a detailed description on these two inscriptions.

See: V. Venkayya, Two Chōḷa inscriptions at Uttiramallūr

Published in the Annual Report of the Director-General of Archaeology in India for 1904-1905 pp. 131 ff.

K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, Studies in Chōḷa history and administration (1932), pp. 163-75. ⟨Page 19⟩

K.V. Subrahmanya Aiyer, Historical sketches of Ancient Dekhan (1967) pp. 262 ff.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecaripammarkku 1 yāṇṭu pa[ṉ*]ṉira[ṇ*]ṭu āvatu uttirameruccatu[r]vvēdimmaṅkalattu 2 sabhaiyom ivvāṇṭu mutal eṅkaḷur śrīmukappaṭi ājai-

⟨2⟩ yiṉālt tattanūrmuventaveḷāṉ iruntu vāriyam[ā]ka āṭṭorukk[ā*]lum sammavātasaravāriyamun 3 toṭṭavāriyamum erivāriyamum iṭuvataṟku vyavastaiy [cey]-

⟨3⟩ ta paricāvatu kuṭumpu mup[patāy] muppatu kuṭumpilum avvav kuṭumpilārey kūṭi kāṉilattukku mel iṟai nilam uṭaiy[ā*]rai taṉ maṉaiyile a-

⟨4⟩ kam eṭuttu koṇṭu irup[pāṉai] aṟupatu [pi]rāya(ā)ttukku uḷmuppatu pirāyattukku melpaṭṭār vēda[t*]tilum śāstrattilum kāryattilum nipuṇareṉṉappaṭṭi-

⟨5⟩ ruppārai a[r*]tdhaśauśamum atma[ś]auśamum uṭaiy[ā]nay muvāṭṭiṉ ippuṟam vāriyañ ceytilāttār vāriyañ ceytoḻinta perumakkuḷukku 4

⟨6⟩ aṇiya bandukkaḷ allātatā[raik] kuṭavolaikkup per tiṭṭic ceri vaḻiyey tiraṭṭi paṉṉiraṇṭu ceriyilum ceriyāl oru perāmāṟu etu muruvaṟiyāttāṉ oru

⟨7⟩ bālaṉaik koṇṭu kuṭavolai vāṅkuvittup paṉṉiruvarum samvatsaravāriyamāvitākavum 5 atiṉ miṉpey toṭṭavāriyattukku meṟpaṭi kuṭavo-

⟨8⟩ lai vāṅkip paṉṉiruvarum toṭṭavāriyamāvatākavum niṉṟa aṟukuṭavolaiyum erivāriyamā-

⟨9⟩ vatākavum muppatu kuṭavolai paṟiccu vāriyam(ñ) ceykiṉ[ṟa*] muṉṟu tiṟattu vāriyamum munnuṟ aṟupatu nāḷum niram[pa*] vāriyam oḻinta aṉantaram iṭum vāriyaṅkaḷ ivyavasdhaiyo[lai*]ppaṭiyey kuṭumpukkuk kuṭavolai iṭṭukkuṭavolai paṟiccuk koṇṭey vāriyam iṭuvatākavum vāriyañ ceytār[k*]ku bandukkaḷum cerikaḷil aṉnnānyam ••• •••• ⟨Page 20⟩

⟨10⟩ m kuṭavolaiyil per eḻuti iṭappaṭātārākavum pañcavāra vāriyattukkum poṉvāriyattukkum muppatu kuṭumpilum muppa(t)tu kuṭavolai iṭṭu ceriyāl oruttaraik kuṭavolai paṟittu paṉṉiruva(ā)rilum aṟuva(ā)r pañca[vāra*]vāriyam[ā*]vitākavum aṟuvar poṉvāriyam[ā]vatākavum samvatsaravāri[ya*]m allā(t)ta

⟨11⟩ vāriyaṅkaḷ orukkāl ceytārai piṉṉai avvāriyattukku kuṭavolai iṭappeṟāta(ti)tāka[vu*]m ipparice yivvāṇṭu mutal cantrātivat eṉṟum kuṭavolai eṉṟum kuṭavolai vāriyamey iṭuvatāka dēvēntraṉ cakravatti śrīviranārāyaṇaṉ śrīparāntaka dēvarākiya parakesariva[r*]mmar śrīmukam aruḷuc ceytu varakkāṭṭa-

⟨12⟩ śrī ājaiyiṉāl tattanūr muventaveḷānuṭaṉirukka namgrāmattu tuṣṭar keṭṭu śiṣṭar varddhi(tti)ttiṭuvārāka vya[va]sthai ceytom uttarame[ru*]ccaturvētimaṅkalattu 1 sabhaiyom [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0019A⟩ No. 19A. (A.R. No. 2 of 1898.) UTTIRAMĒRŪR, MADHURANTAKAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the Vaikunthaperumāḷ temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) year 14: 921 A.D.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭakoparakesaripanmakku 2 yāṇṭu patiṉālāvatu nāḷ patiṉāṟu kāliyūrkoṭṭattu taṉkuṟṟu 3 uttaramēruccaturvvētimaṅkalattu sabhaiyom ivvāṇṭu mutal eṅkaḷukku perumāṉ aṭikaḷ emperumāṉ śrīviranārāyaṇan śrīpa(ā)rantaka dēvan śrīparakesaripanmaruṭaiya śrīmukham varakkāṭṭa śrīmukhappaṭi ā-

⟨2⟩ jaiyiṉāl coḻanāṭṭup puṟaṅkarampaināṭṭu śrīvaṅkanakark kāñcai koṇṭayakramavitta bhaṭṭanākiya comāci perumān iruntu vāriyamāka āṭṭorukk[ā]lum samavatsaravāriyamu toṭṭavāriyamum erivāriyamum iṭuvataṟku vyavasthai ceta paricāvatu kuṭumpu muppatā[y*] muppatu kuṭumpilum avvav kuṭumpilā- ⟨Page 21⟩

⟨3⟩ re kūṭik kā nilattukkumel iṟai nilamuṭaiyāṉ taṉmaṉaiyile akammeṭuttuk koṇṭiruppāṉai eḻupatu pirāyattiṉ kiḻ muppattaintu pirāyattiṉ meṟpaṭṭār mantrabrāhmaṇam vallan otuviyattaṟiyavāṉaik kuṭavolai iṭuvitākavum araikkā nilame uṭaiya nāyilu oru vetam vallanāy nālu bhāṣyattilum oru bhā-

⟨4⟩ ṣyam vakkāṇittaṟiyavāṉ avaṉaiyuṅ kuṭavolai eḻutippuka iṭuvatākavum avarkaḷilum kāryyattil nipuṇarāy ācāramuṭaiyarāṉāṉayey koḷuvitākavum atdhaśōśamu[m*] ānmaśōcamum uṭaiyarāy muvāṭṭiṉippuṟam vāriyañ ceytilāttārai koḷvatākavum epperppaṭṭa vāriyaṅkaḷum cetu kaṇakku kāṭṭāte iruntāraiyum ivarkaḷukkuc ciṟṟavaipper avai ma-

⟨5⟩ kkaḷaiyum ivarkaḷukku attai māmāṉ makkaḷaiyūm 2 iva[r]kaḷukkut tāyoṭu uṭappiṟantāṉaiyum ivarkaḷ tamappaṉoṭuṭap piṟantāṉaiyum taṉṉoṭuṭap piṟantāṉaiyum ivarkaḷukkup piḷḷai kuṭutta māmaṉaiyum ivarkaḷ brāhmaṇiyoṭap piṟantāṇaiyu 3 taṉṉoṭuṭap piṟaṉtāḷai veṭṭāṉaiyu uṭappiṟaṉtāṉ makkaḷaiyum taṉmakaḷai veṭṭa marumakaṉaiyum taṉ tamappaṉaiyum

⟨6⟩ taṉ makaṉai[yum] āka iccuṭṭa ••••• bandhukkaḷaiyum kuṭavolai eḻutippuka iṭappeṟātatārākavum agamyāgamaṉattilum mahāpātaṅkaḷil muṉpaṭainta nālu mahāpātakattilum meḻuttup paṭṭāraiyum iva[rka]ḷukkum mun cuṭṭappaṭṭa ittiṉai bandhukkaḷaiyum kuṭavolai eḻutippuka iṭappeṟātā[rā]kavum samasargga[va]tikarai prāyacittañ ceyyumaḷavum

⟨7⟩ kuṭavolai iṭātatākavum •••• tiyum sāhasiyarāyirupparaiyum kuṭavolai eḻutippuka viṭappeṟātārākavum paradrāvyam 4 apaharittāṉaiyum kuṭavolai eḻutippukaviṭap peṟātārākavum eppeṟpaṭṭa kaiyyūṭṭuṅ koṇṭāṉ krataprāyaścittañcaiytu śuddharāṉāṉaiyum avvavar prāṇāntakam

⟨8⟩ vāriyattukkuk kuṭavolaiyeḻuti pukaviṭap peṟātatākavum ••• pātakam(ñ) ceytu prāyaccittañ 5 ceytu śyaddhārāṉāṉaiyum grāmakaṇṭakar[ā]y prāyaścittam ñcētu śuddharāṉāraiyu agmyā[ga]maṉam cētu prāya[ści]tta(m) ñcēytu śuddharāṉāraiyum āka iccuṭṭappaṭṭa aṉaiyvaraiyum prāṇāntikam vāriyattukkuk kuṭavolai eḻutippuka viṭap peṟātatāka- ⟨Page 22⟩

⟨9⟩ vum āka iccuṭṭappaṭṭa ittaṉaiy [p*]ēraiyum nikki immuppatu kuṭumpilum kuṭavolaikkup per tiṭṭi ippaṉṉiraṇṭu ceriyilumāka ikkuṭumpum vevveṟey vāyolai pūṭṭi muppatu kuṭumpum vevveṟe kaṭṭik kuṭam puka iṭuvatākavum kuṭavolai piṟikkum potu mahāsabhait tiruvaṭiyārai sabālavirundham 6 nirampak kūṭṭi koṇṭu aṉṟuḷḷuril irunta nampimār oruvaraiyum oḻiyā-

⟨10⟩ me mahāsabhaiyile uḷmaṇṭa 7 kattiley iruttik koṇṭu anampimār naṭuvey akkuṭattai nampimākil 8 viddharāy 9 iruppā(r)ṉoru nampimel nokki ellā jjaṉamuṅ 10 kāṇumāṟṟā(l)leṭuttuk koṇṭu niṟ(k)ka pakaleyntaramaṟiyātā(ṉ) ṉoru pālaṉaik koṇṭu oru kuṭumpu vāṅki(ya) maṟṟoru kuṭattukkey pukaviṭṭu kulaittu akkuṭatti(l)lorolai vāṅki madhyasthaṉ kaiyile

⟨11⟩ kuṭuppatākavum akkuṭut[ta*] volai madhyasdhaṉ vāṅkum potu añcu viralum akala vaittu uḷḷaṅ kaiyile eṟṟuk koḷv[ā*]ṉākavum āvveṟṟu vāṅkiṉa volai vāśippāṉākavum vāśitta avvolai aṅkuḷḷa pāṇṭakattirunta 11 nampimār ellārum vācippārākavum vāśitta apper tiṭṭuvatākavum ippariśē muppatu kuṭumpilum oroper koḷvatākavum ikkoṇṭa muppatu perilum toṭṭa vāriyamum erivāriyamum ceytāraiyum vijyavraddharaiyum

⟨12⟩ vayōviddharkaḷaiyum samvatsaravāriyaraiyum koḷvatākavum mikku niṉṟāru[p] paṉṉiruvarait toṭṭavāriyaṅ koḷvitākavum niṉṟa aṟuvaraiyum(m) eri vāriyamākak koḷvatākavum ivviraṇṭu tiṟattu vāriyamum karai kāṭṭi koḷva 12 tākavum i[v*]vāriyam ceykiṉṟa muṉṟu tiṟattu vāriyap perumakkaḷum muṉnūṟṟu aṟupatu nāḷum nirampac ceytu oḻivatākavum vāriyañ ceyyākiṉṟārai 13 aparātaṅ ⟨Page 23⟩

⟨13⟩ kaṇṭapotu avaṉaiyoḻittuvatākavum iva[r*]kaḷ oḻinta aṉantara(m) miṭum vāriyaṅkaḷum pa[ṉṉiraṇ]ṭu ceriyilum dhanmakrattyaṅ 1 kaṭaikkāṇum vāriyare madhyastharaik koṇṭu kuṟi kūṭṭik kuṭuppārākavum ivyasthai yolaippaṭiyey ••• kkuk kuṭavolaiy paṟittuk koṇṭe vāriyam iṭuvatākavum pañcavāra [vāri]yattukkum poṉvāriyattu-

⟨14⟩ kku mup[pa](t)tuk kuṭumpi(yi)lum kuṭavolaikku per tiṭṭi muppatu vā[yo]lai kaṭṭum puka iṭṭu muppatu kuṭavolai paṟittu muppatilum paṉniraṇṭu per paṟittuk koḷvatākavum paṟitta paṉniraṇṭilum aṟuvar poṉ vāriyam aṟuvar pañcavāravāriyamum āvanavākavum piṟṟai āṇṭum ivāriyaṅkaḷ kuṭavolai paṟikkum potu ivvāriyaṅkaḷukku muṉṉam ce-

⟨15⟩ yta kuṭumpaṉṟi[k]ke niṉṟa kuṭumpile karaipaṟittuk k[o]ḷuvatākavum kaḻutai eṟiṉāraiyum kūṭalekai ceytāṉaiyum kuṭavolai eḻutippuka iṭappeṟātatākavu madhyastharum artdhaśōśam muṭaiyarai kaṇakkeḻutuvāṉākavum kaṇakkeḻutiṉāṉ kaṇakkup peruṅkuṟip perumakkaḷoṭu kūṭak kaṇakkuk kāṭṭi śuddhan āccitiṉpiṉnaṉṟi maṟṟuk kaṇa-

⟨16⟩ kkup pukap peṟātāṉākavum tāṉ eḻutiṉa kaṇakkut tāṉe kāṭṭuvāṉākavum maṟṟuk kaṇakkar pukku oṭukkap peṟātār ākavum ipparicai ivvāṇṭu mutal cantrādittavaṟ eṉṟum kuṭavolai vāriyame iṭuvatāka dēvēntran cakravatti paṇḍitavatsalan kuñcaramallaṉ cūracūḷāmaṇi kalpakaśaritai śrīparakēsaripanmar(ka) śrīmukhamaruḷuc cetu varakkāṭṭa śrīāñaiā-

⟨17⟩ l coḻanāṭṭup puṟaṅkarampai nāṭṭu śrīvaṅkanakark kāñcai koṇṭaya kramavitta bhaṭṭa[ṉ]ṉākiya comāci perumāṉuṭaṉ iruntu ipparicu ceyvikka na[m*] grāmattukku abhyatayamāka duṣṭarkeṭṭu viśiṣṭar va[r*]ddhippatāka vyavasthai ceytom uttaramērucaturvvētimaṅkalattu sabhaiyom ipparicu kuṟiyuḷ iruntu perumakkaḷ paṇikka lavyavasthai eḻutiṉeṉ madhyasthan

⟨18⟩ kāṭṭip pottaṉ civakkuṟi irājamalla maṅkalapriyaneṉ [||]- ⟨Page 24⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0020⟩ No. 20. (A.R. No. 167 of 1910.) ERODE, ERODE TALUK, COIMBATORE DISTRICT.

On the door jamb of the entrance into the central shrine in the Raghunāthasvāmi temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 15: 932 A.D.

Records that the resident of Ēḻukarai Tiruvāyppāḍī-nāḍu had agreed to contribute a voluntary fee for the conduct of the food offerings worship and other ceremonies to the god, Veṇṇaikkūtta-nāyanār (Kṛishṇa) at the Paḷḷikoṇḍ-āḻvār temple at Erode on auspicious occasions. The fees specified are as follows:

Half-a-paṇam on each tenant or family (kuḍi) 1/8 paṇam on bride and bridegroom each and also a kuṉṟi and mañjāḍi as tax towards suḍukāṭṭuppāṭṭam (fees for cremation). They also undertook to have these arrangements engraved both in stone and copper-plate.

Published in Indian history and Epigraphy.

Dr. G.S.Gai felicitation volume (1990). p. 75 Plate XI.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ma-

⟨2⟩ turai ko-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭa koppa-

⟨4⟩ rakecari panmaṟ-

⟨5⟩ ku yāṇṭu pati-

⟨6⟩ ṉaiñcāvatu-

⟨7⟩ īroṭṭip pa-

⟨8⟩ ḷḷikoṇṭā-

⟨9⟩ ḻvār koyi-

⟨10⟩ lil eṅkaḷ-

⟨11⟩ veṇṇaik-

⟨12⟩ kūttar nāyi-

⟨13⟩ ṉāṟku eḻukarai-

⟨14⟩ t tiruvāyp-

⟨15⟩ pāṭi nāṭṭa-

⟨16⟩ varom tiru-

⟨17⟩ vārātaṉai a-

⟨18⟩ mutupaṭi cā-

⟨19⟩ ttupaṭi ti-

⟨20⟩ runāṭpaṭi

⟨21⟩ kkum kuṭi o-

⟨22⟩ ṉṟukkum pa-

⟨23⟩ ṇam arai-

⟨24⟩ yum kaṇṇā- ⟨Page 25⟩

⟨25⟩ lap poṉ

⟨26⟩ āṇ talai

⟨27⟩ araikkā-

⟨28⟩ l poṉ-

⟨29⟩ ṉum pe-

⟨30⟩ ṇtalai a-

⟨31⟩ raik kāl

⟨32⟩ poṉṉu-

⟨33⟩ m muṉ[ṉa]-

⟨34⟩ raiyil na-

⟨35⟩ lliyum cu-

⟨36⟩ ṭu kāṭṭup-

⟨37⟩ pāṭṭam ku-

⟨38⟩ ṉṟi mañ-

⟨39⟩ cāṭi • yu-

⟨40⟩ [m] ippa-

⟨41⟩ ṭikku

⟨42⟩ cantirāti-

⟨43⟩ ttavarai

⟨44⟩ celvitā-

⟨45⟩ ka cempi-

⟨46⟩ luñ cilai-

⟨47⟩ yiluñ

⟨48⟩ ceytu ku-

⟨49⟩ ṭutto-

⟨50⟩ m eḻukarai

⟨51⟩ t tiruvāy

⟨52⟩ ppāṭi nā-

⟨53⟩ ṭṭavaro-

⟨54⟩ m itu

⟨55⟩ kāttāṉ

⟨56⟩ aṭiye-

⟨57⟩ ṅkaḷ

⟨58⟩ talai me-

⟨59⟩ liṉa itu

⟨60⟩ iṟakkuvā-

⟨61⟩ ṉ vaḻiye-

⟨62⟩ ḻeccam o-

⟨63⟩ [ḻiy]āmal

⟨64⟩ aṟuvāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0021⟩ No. 21. (A.R. No. of 2004-05.) PAḺAIYAŚĪVARAM, KANCHIPURAM TALUK, KANCHIPURAM DISTRICT.

On the west and south walls of jagati of the ruined Vaikuṇṭa-perumāḷ temple.

Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 15: 922 A.D.

Records that the sabhā of Viṇṇapuram in Ūṟṟukkāṭṭu-kōṭṭam met in full strength at (the hall) Śīrkkuṭṭi-ambalam and passed a resolution relating to the performance of (the duties of) committees (vāriyam). ⟨Page 26⟩

It was laid down that only those persons who were amenable both to the sabhā and kuḍumbu were to perform vāriyam. And while entering to discharge duties (of vāriyam) they should swear that they would not receive any levies such as ēri-āyam (levies on account of lake), sōṟumāṭṭu (feeding). āñārasam, brahmasvam except two kaḻañju of gold per year as expenses of vāriyam (vārpalam). It is also stated that these (members who were thus selected) should render accounts annually to the sabhā and declare on both the days of assuming and relinquishing their offices to that effect. They were also enjoined to do vāriyam only for two years. They should not do any alteration to the kuḍumbu. It is also laid down that they were entitled to take food from the villages on those days when they were on (tour from their native places) to attend (deliberations of the) committee (vāriyam).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakeśari[va]nmakku yāṇṭu 15 āvatu nāḷ 12 ūṟṟukkāṭṭuk koṭṭattu viṇṇapurattu peruṅkuṟi ssabhaiyom innāḷāl cīrkkuṭṭi ampalattile kūṭṭak kuṟaivaṟak [kū]-

⟨2⟩ ṭi iruntu ippatiṉaintāvatu mutal vāriyañ ceyyum vyavastaiyāvatu āvvav kuṭumpiṟkottārum sabhaikkottom vāriyañ cevārākavum vāriyam pukum potu satyañ ceytu vārpalam

⟨3⟩ [i]ru kaḻañcu poṉaṉṟi maṟṟu epperppaṭṭitum ēri āyamum coṟumāṭṭum mutalāka maṟṟum āñjārasamum 1 brahmasvam epperpaṭṭitum koḷḷomeṉṟu āṇṭaṟuti ceytu sabhaiy-

⟨4⟩ kku okka kaṇakku kāṭṭi viṭunāḷum satyañ ceyvārākavum pukum potum satyañ cetu pukuvārākavum ivvāriyam vārpalaṅ kuṭuttup pokku kāṭṭap peṟātārākavum vāriyam pukkarallātār

Phase II.

⟨5⟩ vasdharan toṟum vārpalaṅ koḷvatākavum itaṉ mel vārpala[m]eṉṟu koḷḷap peṟātārākavum vāriyam iraṇṭāṇṭaṭuttu vāriyañ ceyyap peṟātārākavuṅ kuṭumpaḻikkap peṟātārākavum

⟨6⟩ ku[ṟai] avvav kuṭumpukku ottārey vāriyañ ceyvāre ••• •••• [vār]palamaṭṭi ceytu icaiya kuṭumpumaṭṭi okka aṭaittuk koḷvatākavum maṉṟāṭa ūr niṉṟum puṟappaṭṭa nāḷ mutal ūr coṟu

⟨7⟩ [uṇ]patākavum ū[r*]travyaṅ koḷvomāka [eppe]rppaṭṭa ••• nyānya sahavāsañ ceyyap peṟātom ākavum ivyavastaiy aṉṟeṉṟāre sabhaiyilum [ vyavastaiy] •••• vāṟu ā[ka*]- ⟨Page 27⟩

⟨8⟩ vum satyañ ceyyātār vāriyañ ••• ••••• satyañ ceytom peruṅkuṟi sabhaiyom [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0022⟩ No. 22. (A.R. No. 226 of 1915.) BRAHMADĒŚAM, CHEYYAR TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 16: 923 A.D.

This inscription records a resolution passed by the aindashṭaśattu-sābhā of Rājamalla-chaturvēdimaṅgalam to pay to the madhyastha who wrote the accounts of the tank, four nāḻi of paddy as koṟṟu every day and seven kaḻañju of pure gold every year and one aṇai (pair) of kūṟai (clothes) per year as his remuneration. It is also mentioned that in presenting accounts for audit by the assembly, the one who wrote the accounts would undergo the ordeal of holding the red-hot iron in his hand. If he came out unscathed and thus was declared pure he would be presented with a bonus of one-quarter of the surplus (pādasēsham). If he got his hand burnt and thus failed to establish his purity he would be fined ten kaḻañju of gold but however he would be exempted from corporal punishment.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa

⟨2⟩ ko[p*]parakeśarivam[ma*]ṟku yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu patiṉā(ā)ṟāvatu

⟨4⟩ rājamallacaturvēti maṅ-

⟨5⟩ kala[t*]tu ayntaṣṭaśattu

⟨6⟩ sabhaiyom oṭṭiya vya-

⟨7⟩ vastaiyāvatu eṅkaḷ ma-

⟨8⟩ dhyastar erikkaṇakku eḻutu-

⟨9⟩ vār[k*]ku oṭṭik kuṭutta paricāva-

⟨10⟩ tu niśati koṟṟu nel nāṉ (na)-

⟨11⟩ ṉāḻiyum āṇṭu varai cem-

⟨12⟩ poṉ eḻuka[ḻa*]ñcum oraṇai

⟨13⟩ kkūṟaiyum kuṭuppomākavu- ⟨Page 28⟩

⟨14⟩ m ikkaṇakku eḻutiṉāṉ o-

⟨15⟩ ruvaṉum kaṇakku kāṭṭi maḻu-

⟨16⟩ veṟpāṉākavum maḻuve-

⟨17⟩ ṟu veṉṟāṉ śuddhaṉāka pa-

⟨18⟩ da śēṣam kuṭuppomākavu-

⟨19⟩ m maḻuveṟṟu toṟṟāṉai

⟨20⟩ erimutal peritāka il-

⟨21⟩ lāmaiyil idōṣat-

⟨22⟩ tukku āka patiṉ ka[ḻañ*]cu p[o*]-

⟨23⟩ ṉṉai taṇṭamkoḷv[o*]-

⟨24⟩ mā[ka*]vum oṭṭi ••• m śurira ta-

⟨25⟩ ṇṭam cey[ya]p peṟā[to]-

⟨26⟩ māṉom ayn[ta]ṣṭaśattu

⟨27⟩ sabhaiyom sabhai

⟨28⟩ paṇip-

⟨29⟩ pa eḻuti-

⟨30⟩ ṉeṉ

⟨31⟩ ••••

⟨32⟩ ••••

⟨33⟩ śiva

⟨34⟩ ṉ |||

⟨SIIv32p1i0023⟩ No. 23. (A.R. No. 252 of 1944.) VĀLIKAṆḌAPURAM, PERAMBALUR TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the south walls of the central shrine in the Vālikaṇḍēśvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 18: 925 A.D.

Records that BhUtam Paṇḍāri residing at Maṅgalapuram 1in Pāṇḍi-nāḍu entrusted seven kaḻañju of gold with the nagarattār for burning a perpetual lamp to the god ⟨Page 29⟩ Mahādēva of TiruvālIśvaram at VAlikaṇḍapuram in Vaṉ-nāḍu. with the interest of one uḻakku oil daily by the standard measure of VAlikaṇḍapuram (VAlikaṇḍapurattu nārāyattāl).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraiko-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉ-

⟨3⟩ maṟku yāṇṭu 18- āva-

⟨4⟩ tu vaṉṉāṭṭu vālikaṇ-

⟨5⟩ ṭapuṟattu tiruvāliśva-

⟨6⟩ rattu ma(ā)hadēvark-

⟨7⟩ ku oru nontā viḷakkoṉṟu-

⟨8⟩ kku pāṇṭiñāṭṭu maṅkala-

⟨9⟩ purattiruntu vāḻum pūta-

⟨10⟩ m paṇṭāri nakarattār kaiva-

⟨11⟩ ḻi vaitta poṉ eḻu kaḻa-

⟨12⟩ ñcu ippoṉṉukkup pa-

⟨13⟩ licai vālikaṇṭapuṟattu

⟨14⟩ nārāyattāl nicati u-

⟨15⟩ ḻak keṇṇai ney aṭṭak

⟨16⟩ kaṭavār nakarattāritu panmā-

⟨17⟩ hēśvararrakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0024⟩ No. 24. (A.R. No. 176 of 1930.) PIḶḶAIPPĀKKAM, SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On a slab lying in front of the ruined Perumāḷ temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 19: 926 A.D.

This inscription along with the other one found at Tiruniṉṟavūr, a village in the above taluk and district, throw welcome light on the local administration of (Tiru)niṉṟavūr during the time of Parāntaka I. ⟨Page 30⟩

This highly damaged inscription is in two pieces. At the commencement of the tenth line onwards, a few letters are missing consistently as the slab is broken at the proper left.

It registers a regulation made by the assembly consisting of the great men (perumakkaḷ) of the sabhā of Niṉṟavūr in Palkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam, the great men representing the wards (kuḍumbināl maṉṟāḍugira perumakkaḷ) of the village and a certain officer named Pakūr-Tiruvaḍi, probably representing the crown. The clauses of this regulation which are pieced together from the extant portion of the record may be summed up as follows:

1. With effect from the 20th regnal year (927 A.D.) two persons (pēr) who had no previous experience (ariyādār) as members of the assembly shall represent each ward. (kuḍumbil).

2. That the taxes on lands shall thence-forward be paid through the wards (kuḍumbin vaḻīyē iṟai iṟuppadāgavum).

3. It is also stated here that the lands on which taxes had not been paid shall be sold and the amount due on them realized.

4. That persons acting against the stipulated conditions of this resolution shall be liable to a daily fine one mañjāḍi of gold and the fine so imposed shall be duly collected.

5. The remuneration for the services rendered by the madhyastha shall be given at the rate of one kaḻañju of gold per month and cloth (kūṟai) every six months.

6. That the two of the great men (perumakkaḷ) and one another individual (oruvanukku) shall be paid half kaḻañju per month and a cloth every six months (as in clause 5).

Published in Indian History and Epigraphy Dr. G.S. Gai felicitation volume (1990) pp. 80-81.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ matirai koṇṭako-

⟨3⟩ pparakecaripanmaṟku yā-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭu 19 āvatu palku-

⟨5⟩ [ṉṟa]k koṭṭattu niṉṟa-

⟨6⟩ vūr sabhai perumakkaḷum ku-

⟨7⟩ ṭumpiṉāl maṉṟāṭukiṉṟa pe- ⟨Page 31⟩

⟨8⟩ rumakkaḷum [nam]pān teyva

⟨9⟩ teyākiya •• r tiruvaṭimā[ru*]ṅ

⟨10⟩ [kū]ṭi iruntu ce[y*]ta javastha • •

⟨11⟩ •• tu 1 irupatāvatu mutalāka pa[ṇ]-

⟨12⟩ • ṉa[pa]ṭi aṟiyātār kuṭum[pil]

⟨13⟩ •• iraṇṭu per maṉṟāṭu

⟨14⟩ •• vum 2 [pa]ṇṇiṉa maṇi

⟨15⟩ •• kkuṭumpiṉ vaḻiye iṟai i-

⟨16⟩ ••• tākavum 2 kuṭumpil iṟai •

⟨17⟩ •• bhumi pā[ka*]ṅ koḷpatā[ka]

⟨18⟩ •• ṉṟāṭum veṇṭi • •

⟨19⟩ •• p per maṉṟāṭuvāṉ

⟨20⟩ tuku povārākavum va

⟨21⟩ •••• sabhaiyārey •••

⟨22⟩ ••• r[ā]kavum puṟappova-

⟨23⟩ ••• r nicati mañcāṭi poṉ

⟨24⟩ ••• ṭam paṭuvatākavum ni

⟨25⟩ ••• ya taṇṭam taṇ[ṭu]-

⟨26⟩ ••• tom ākavum taṇṭat

⟨27⟩ ••• ye taṇṭippār āka[vu]

⟨28⟩ ••• kuṟṟa muṟaiyāṉa kuṟṟa[t*]tu[k*]ku

II Piece.

⟨29⟩ ••• ivve •••

⟨30⟩ •••• makkaḷukku ••••

⟨31⟩ •• piramāṇa[ñ*] cetu[vi]ṭu •••

⟨32⟩ • madhyastaṉ ••••

⟨33⟩ •• yāṉākavum ••••

⟨34⟩ [madhya] staṉu[k] ke • ka ⟨Page 32⟩

⟨35⟩ [ḻa]ñcum [āṟu] tiṅkaḷ kūṟ[aiyu]-

⟨36⟩ m iraṇṭu [poṉṉu]m kuṭu[ppa]tā[ka]

⟨37⟩ vum perumakkaḷ vārita[p*]eruma

⟨38⟩ •••• oruva[nu*]kkumāka muvarkku

⟨39⟩ m tiṅkaḷ kaḻañcaraiyum ā[ka]

⟨40⟩ tiṅkaḷ kūṟaiyum iraṇṭu p[o*]

⟨41⟩ ṉṉum kuṭuppatākavum • pā

⟨42⟩ • m tiruvaṭiyārkkup paṇi cey

⟨43⟩ • [tiruvaṭi] ṉāṉa kaṇa[kku]

⟨44⟩ •• piramāṇa ce[y*]tu viṭṭa

⟨45⟩ [eri]vāriyap perumakkaḷu[m]

⟨46⟩ [toṭṭa]vāriya perumakkaḷu[m]

⟨47⟩ •••• vāriya perumakka

⟨48⟩ ḷu •• poṉ [vā]riyap peru

⟨49⟩ ••• ••• •••••

⟨50⟩ pa • ṭa peru ••• •••

⟨51⟩ ••• ••• 1

⟨SIIv32p1i0025⟩ No. 25. (A.R. No. 476 of 1925.) PAḶḶIKOṆḌAI, VELLORE TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the left door jamb of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Nāganāthēsvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 19: 926 A.D.

Records that Karuvili Muttaraiyaṉ had caused the aradha-maṇḍapa to be built.

Text.

⟨1⟩ matirai koṇṭa ko-

⟨2⟩ pparakecariva[r]mma kku

⟨3⟩ śrī yāṇṭu pa-

⟨4⟩ t toṉ(m)patā-

⟨5⟩ vatu karuvili mu- ⟨Page 33⟩

⟨6⟩ ttaraiyaṉ cey-

⟨7⟩ vitta arddhamaṇ-

⟨8⟩ ṭapam ||

⟨SIIv32p1i0026⟩ No. 26. (A.R. No. 444 of 1904.) VĒDĀRAṆYAM, TIRUTTURAIPPUNDI TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the third pillar in the maṇḍapa of the central shrine in the Vēdāraṇyēśvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 20: 927 A.D.

It records the gift of 60 kaḻañju of gold to god Mahādēva of Tirumaṟaikkāḍu, a perundēvadāṉa in Umbaḷa-nāḍu, for the maintenance (jīvitam) of one brāhmaṇa well versed in the vēdas and archchanāvidhi serving the god during the 3 sandhis, by Vasan Dē[var]. Kaḍambaṉ of Māṉanilainallūr, a brahmadēya in Kaḷakkuḍi-nāḍu in Pāṇḍi-nāḍu. The sabhā of Naṟukaḍambīḍu-chchaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in the same nāḍu, received the amount and agreed to provide paddy for the purpose, as interest, on the amount endowed.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. XVII. No. 475.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ma-

⟨2⟩ tiraikoṇṭa kop-

⟨3⟩ parakecaripanma[r*]kku iyā-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭu irupatāvatu

⟨5⟩ umpaḷa nāṭṭup perun-

⟨6⟩ tevatāṉam tiruma-

⟨7⟩ ṟaikkāṭṭu mahādē-

⟨8⟩ varkkup pāṇṭi nāṭṭu

⟨9⟩ kkaḷakkuṭi nāṭṭu brahma-

⟨10⟩ dēya māṉanilainal

⟨11⟩ lūr va • san te[var]

⟨12⟩ • kaṭampaṉ itteva-

⟨13⟩ rai muṉṟu sandhiyu[m]

⟨14⟩ candrādityaval ārā-

⟨15⟩ tippāṉoru brāhmaṇan ⟨Page 34⟩

⟨16⟩ [vēda]mum arccināvidhiyu-

⟨17⟩ m vallāṉoruvaṉu-

⟨18⟩ kku jivitamāka vaitta

⟨19⟩ [poṉ] aṟupatiṉ kaḻañ-

⟨20⟩ cu ippoṉ aṟupatiṉ

⟨21⟩ kaḻañcum iññāṭṭu me-

⟨22⟩ ṟ[ṟuṇi] brahmadēyam [naṟu]ka-

⟨23⟩ ṭampiṭu[cca]turvvēti ma[ṅkalat]-

⟨24⟩ [tu] sa[bhai]yom [koṇṭu ip]-

⟨25⟩ poṉ aṟupatiṉ kaḻañcum

⟨26⟩ poliyūṭṭāka āṭ[ṭai vaṭṭam a]-

⟨27⟩ ṟupatiṉ kala nellu ••• ••••

⟨28⟩ patakku nellāka pūvil •••••

⟨29⟩ kalanellu e[ṇ*]ṇāḻik kālāl e-

⟨30⟩ [ṅkaḷur a]mpalatte aḷantu ku-

⟨31⟩ ḷattilu nikkik kūṭṭi •••••

⟨32⟩ ••• •••• āṇṭuvarai aṟupa-

⟨33⟩ tiṉ kala nellum aṟa aḷa-

⟨34⟩ ntu kuṭuppatākavum t[e]vaka-

⟨35⟩ [n]mikaḷum paṉmāhēśvararum

⟨36⟩ pati[pā]ta[mu]lattārum sabh[ai]-

⟨37⟩ yomukku vetamum arccinā-

⟨38⟩ vithiyum vallaṉāy yo-

⟨39⟩ gyaṉāy uḷḷāṉ[o]ru brāhmā

⟨40⟩ ṇarait teṭi nāṅkaḷey [p]o-

⟨41⟩ ṣittiṭuvatākavum ipparic[o]

⟨42⟩ [ṭ]ṭiya poṉ aṟupatiṉ kaḻañ-

⟨43⟩ cu •••• cai ••• cella [aṟu]

⟨44⟩ patiṉ kala-

⟨45⟩ mum āṇṭu varai aḷa-

⟨46⟩ ntu kuṭuppomāṉom

⟨47⟩ naṟukaṭampi caturvēti-

⟨48⟩ maṅkalattu sabhai[yom]-

⟨49⟩ panmāhēśva[ra*] rakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 35⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0027⟩ No. 27. (A.R. No. 195 of 1994-95.) OḺUGAIYŪR, WALAJAPET TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a stone slab set up in the lake of the village.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 21: 928 A.D.

Damaged at the end. Records that Sembiyan Māvalivāṇarāyaṉ had caused a sluice made to the lake at Oḻugaiyūr in Oḻugai-nāḍu (a sub-division) of Paḍuvūrkōṭṭam, after his name as Pṛithivīpati-pperumtūmbu. The nāṭṭār of Oḻugaiyil-nāḍu undertook to contribute a kuṭṭai of paddy per paṭṭi obviously for the maintenance of the sluice for the merit of Sembiyaṉ Māvalivāṇarāyar.

Published in the Quarterly journal of the Mythic Society. Vol. XCI (2000) p. 69.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa koppara-

⟨2⟩ kecaripaṉmaṟki yāṇṭu irupatto-

⟨3⟩ ṉṟāvatu paṭuvūrk koṭṭattu o-

⟨4⟩ ḻukai yiṉāṭṭu oḻukaiyūr eri-

⟨5⟩ prathipatip 1 perun tūmpe-

⟨6⟩ ṉṟu taṉpeyarāl cempi-

⟨7⟩ yaṉ māvali vāṇarāya

⟨8⟩ ṉ ceyvi(y)ttatu ḥ§ |

⟨9⟩ oḻukaiyil nāṭṭomum eṅ-

⟨10⟩ kaḷḷaviṉālāccu 2 nāṅkaḷu-

⟨11⟩ m paṭṭiyāl kuṭṭai nel

⟨12⟩ vaiccom cempiyaṉ

⟨13⟩ māvali vāṇarāyar dha-

⟨14⟩ rmmamāka vaiccom in-

⟨15⟩ nel[li]ḻaccavar keṅkai i- ⟨Page 36⟩

⟨16⟩ ṭaik kumari iṭai eḻu[nū]-

⟨17⟩ ṟṟuk kātamu ceyta •••

⟨18⟩ ta pāvam koḷvā •••••

⟨SIIv32p1i0028⟩ No. 28. TIRUNIṈṞAVŪR, SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On two pieces of stone, one a stone pillar fixed into the ceiling of the circumambulatory maṇḍapa (western side) of the Āṇḍāḷ shrine in the Bhaktavatsalaperumāḷ temple and another, a loose stone lying near the temple's car.

(Parāntaka I) Year 23, Kumbha: 930 A.D.

These two stone fragments (found at Tiruniṉṟavūr) contain writing in characters of about the tenth century A.D. They are apparently parts of a single inscription. The contents of these inscriptions, the palaeography of writing and the high regnal year (23) as cited suggest that just as the Uttiramērūr and the other Piḷḷaippākkam inscription, this inscription also belongs to the reign period of Parāntaka chōḷa I.

It refers to the assembly of the mahāsabhā including maṉṟāḍugiṉṟa-sabhā, ērivāriyapperumakkaḷ (tank committee). tōṭṭavāriyapperumakkaḷ (greatmen of the garden comittees). bhaṭṭapperumakkaḷ (priests), visishṭapperumakkaḷ (body of eminent people) met in the pērambalam (big hall) without the distinction, of the youth or elders, in position and functioning from the kumbha month in the regnal year 23 (of the reign of the king) and the passing of the resolution for the welfare of the village. Accordingly for electing members for the task of writing the minutes of the proceedings and the resolutions passed in the meetings of the maṉṟāḍus and vāriyams, the ballot-chits would be prepared after ensuring that the aspirants satisfied the following norms. (Or the resolution passed by them was to the following effect:) while conducting the elections to the maṉṟāḍu (advisory committee) and vāriyams it should be ensured that the names of only those who fulfilled the following conditions were entered in the chits. (ballot papers).

1. Those persons were congenial to the sabhā.

2. Prior to that date they had not been the members of the maṉṟāḍus and vāriyams during the preceding five years.

3. Their relatives ie uterine brothers and sisters, their fathers and their children had not functioned in the same vāriyam and maṉṟāḍu in the preceding two years. ⟨Page 37⟩

Those that were thus selected would be presented in the mahāsabhā in its open session. Those retiring from the duties in the maṉṟāḍu and vāriyam committees would show to the sabhā the accounts for the period they were functioning in the said comittees and (satisfy them). Those transgressing the above arrangement would pay a fine of 25 kaḻañju of gold daily in the dharmāsanam (court of justice).

Published in Āvaṇam No. 7 (1996) pp. 165-167)

Text.

⟨1⟩ mahāsabhaiyō-

⟨2⟩ mum yāṇṭu i-

⟨3⟩ ru pattu muṉṟā-

⟨4⟩ vatu kumbhanāyaṟu

⟨5⟩ mutal maṉṟāṭuki-

⟨6⟩ ṉṟa sabhaiyomu-

⟨7⟩ m erivāriyap pe-

⟨8⟩ rumakkaḷun toṭṭavā-

⟨9⟩ riyap perumakkaḷum

⟨10⟩ bhaṭṭap perumakkaḷum

⟨11⟩ viśiṣṭap perumakkaḷu-

⟨12⟩ m uḷḷiṭṭa mahāsa-

⟨13⟩ bhaiyom innā(ḷ)ḷā-

⟨14⟩ l emmurp perampa-

⟨15⟩ lattey sabāla

⟨16⟩ vṛddhi 1 kuṟaivaṟak kū-

⟨17⟩ ṭiyiruntu nammurkku

⟨18⟩ grāmahitārtdhamāka

⟨19⟩ cceyta vivyavasthai-

⟨20⟩ yāvatu [|*] ivvāṇṭu

⟨21⟩ mutal maṉṟāṭṭum

⟨22⟩ vāriyaṅkaḷum e-

⟨23⟩ ḻutum poḻutu ma-

⟨24⟩ hāsabhai kuṟaivaṟa ⟨Page 38⟩

⟨25⟩ brahmasthānatte ku 1-

⟨26⟩ ṭiyiruntu mahāsa-

⟨27⟩ bhaikku ottārai-

⟨28⟩ ye aṟṟaikku[ṇ*]ṭā-

⟨29⟩ ṉa aiyyāṭṭai

⟨30⟩ nāḷ maṉṟāṭiyu-

⟨31⟩ m vāriyañ cey-

On another stone lying near the chariot, probably in continuation of the above inscription.

⟨32⟩ yyātāraiye ma-

⟨33⟩ ṉṟāṭṭum vāriyamu-

⟨34⟩ [m] iṭuvatākavum

⟨35⟩ [v]āriyameḻutu

⟨36⟩ māṇṭiṉ muṉ i-

⟨37⟩ [ra]ṇṭāṇṭu vāriya-

⟨38⟩ ñ ceytārkkum ma-

⟨39⟩ ṉṟāṭunārkkum u-

⟨40⟩ [ṭa]p piṟantāruntamma-

⟨41⟩ [pa]ṉum makkaḷum o-

⟨42⟩ ḻiyave eḻutuva-

⟨43⟩ [t]ākavum ippari-

⟨44⟩ [cu] eḻutappaṭṭārai [mahā]-

⟨45⟩ sabhai naṭuveyirunte ku-

⟨46⟩ ṭimai elvārākavum

⟨47⟩ ipparicaṉṟik kuṭimai

⟨48⟩ eṉṟār ūrkkup piḻai-

⟨49⟩ ttārākavum vārppalaṅ-

⟨50⟩ kuṉṟiye koḷvārākavu-

⟨51⟩ maṉṟāṭiyum vāriyañ ce- ⟨Page 39⟩

⟨52⟩ ytu viṭṭārkaḷ pukka sabhai-

⟨53⟩ yārkku kaṇakkuk kāṭṭi oṭpi-

⟨54⟩ ttu viṭuvārākavum ippari-

⟨55⟩ tu 1 vyavasthai ceytom ma-

⟨56⟩ hāsabhaiyom ivyava-

⟨57⟩ sthaiyilantarittārai nam

⟨58⟩ mur śrāva[ṇ]ai bhāgikaḷ

⟨59⟩ veṇṭināre dharmmāsanat-

⟨60⟩ tu nicati irupattaiñ[ka]ḻa-

⟨61⟩ ñcu poṉ daṇḍamiṭap pe-

⟨62⟩ ṟuvārākavum ivyavasthai

⟨63⟩ ceppeṭṭil veṭṭi • • 2

⟨SIIv32p1i0029⟩ No. 29. (A.R. No. 360 of 1903.) ANDANALLŪR, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

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

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 25: 932 A.D.

Records that three vēli of dēvadāna land at Andavanallūr, which Araiyaṉ Vīrachōḷaṉ obtained (as tenant-cultivator) gave it up in favour of the ūrār of Andavanallūr.

Note: The individual Araiyaṉ Vīrachōḻan obtained the right to cultivate the land as kuḍinīkka (unextinguishable tenant) from the king himself and the land dues assigned to the temple was reduced to 310 kalam from 360 kalam. He in his turn, had conveyed his rights of inextinguishable tenancy to the ūrār.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. VIII No. 669. ⟨Page 40⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ kopparakeca[ri]panmarkku yāṇṭu 25 āvatu araiyaṉ viracoḻaṉeṉ iv[vū]-

⟨2⟩ rt tevatāṉam muveli ṉilamum nāṉ peṟṟuṭaiya paricey aṉtava nallūr ru-

⟨3⟩ [rā][r*]kku viṭṭuk kuṭutteṉ aṉtavanallū [ru]rārkku araiyaṉ viracoḻaṉeṉ [|*] itu

⟨4⟩ panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0030⟩ No. 30. (A.R. No. of 2004-05.) SĪYAMAṄGALAM, WANDIWASH TALUK, TIRUVANNAMALAI DISTRICT.

On a pillar in the mahamaṇḍapa of the cave temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 26: 933 A.D.

Records that Porimaiyaṉ son of Koṇḍi Araiyar, the brother-in-law of Seya Mukkaraiyar (Seya Muttaraiyar ?) had raised it probably (mahāmaṇḍapa).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ matirai koṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭa koppara-

⟨4⟩ kecaripanmak-

⟨5⟩ ku yā[ṇ*]ṭu irupa-

⟨6⟩ ttāṟāvatu ce-

⟨7⟩ [ya] mukkaraiyar

⟨8⟩ maccun[āna]

⟨9⟩ koṇ-

⟨10⟩ ṭi arai-

⟨11⟩ yar maka-

⟨12⟩ ṉ po-

⟨13⟩ rimai-

⟨14⟩ yaṉ

⟨15⟩ eṭup

⟨16⟩ [pittatu] [||*] ⟨Page 41⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0031⟩ No. 31. (A.R. No. 335 of 1902.) TIRUNĀMANALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 28: 935 A.D.

This inscription records a gift of one Īḻa lamp and ninty sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to the god of Tiruttoṇḍīśvaram, at Tirunāvalūr by Chittirakōmaḷam, a maid-servant of the queen Kōkkiḻānaḍīgaḷ, the mother of Rājādittadēvar who had caused the temple built in stone.

Published in Ep. Ind., Vol. VII pp. 133-134

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] [mati]raiko[ṇ]ṭa kopparakesa-

⟨2⟩ ripa[ṉ]ma[r*]kki [yāṇ]ṭu irupatteṭṭāvatu [ti]rumu-

⟨3⟩ ṉaippāṭit tirunāvalūr tiruttoṇṭi(ṇṭi)svara[n]

⟨4⟩ tirukkaṟṟaḷi ce[y*]vitta rājādittadēvar tā[y]ār nam pirāṭṭiyār

⟨5⟩ ko[k]kiḻā[ṉa]ṭikaḷ paripārattāl 1 cittirakomaḷam [v*]aitta n[o]ntā viḷak-

⟨6⟩ koṉṟukku [v*]ai[tta c]āvāmuvāp perā[ṭu] toṇṇūṟu īḻa(ḻa)viḷa-

⟨7⟩ k koṉṟu [|*] itu paṉ[m]āyesvarar irakkṣai ||—

⟨8⟩ meṟpaṭiyāḷ cittirak[o]maḷam vaitta viḷakkoṉṟu īḻa(ḻa)-

⟨9⟩ viḷakku ||—

⟨SIIv32p1i0032⟩ No. 32. (A.R. No. 384 of 1913.) EṞUMBŪR, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the central shrine, Kadambavanēśvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 28: 935 A.D.

This inscription records the raising of the śrī-vimānam (central shrine) in stone and the construction of the eight attendant gōpurams for the god (Perumānaḍigaḷ) of the small temple (chiṟu-ttirukkōyil) at Urumūr, a dēvadānam in Nalvayalūrkkūṟṟam on the northern bank (of the river Koḷḷiḍam ?) by Iruṅkōḷaṉ Guṇavaṉ Aparājitaṉ. The latter also endowed three and a quarter vēli of land duly freed ⟨Page 42⟩ from taxes as the capital for maintaining the services in that temple (uṇṇāḻigaippuṟam), after duly supplicating the overlord (perumāṉaḍigaḷ) Chōḷa Parāntaka. The three and a quarter vēli of land was composed of three vēli, in the village Kārai Vāḻkkaiyilāṉpāḍi and one quarter chey (vēli) in the village Charukkai. The inscription also records that besides this, the donor made a grant of another three and quarter vēli of land apparently freed from taxes, in two plots with the customary water rights, in two villages. Out of this, three vēli of land was in Āḷpāḍi and a quarter vēli of land in Dugaiyāḷ. They were earmarked for the following purposes.

1. One and a quarter vēli of land for meeting the expenses of the entire worship (tiruchchennaḍaippuṟam).

2. One chey (one vēli) for the livelihood of the worshipping priests (archaṉābhōgam).

3. One chey for the maintenance of the drummers (tiruppalipuṟam).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraiko[ṇ]ṭa kopparakesarivanma[r*]kku yāṇṭu [28] irupatteṭṭā-

⟨2⟩ vatu vaṭakarai nalvayalū[r*]kkūṟṟattut tevatānam uṟumurc ciṟut tirukkoyil

⟨3⟩ perumānaṭikaḷukku śrī vimānaṅ kaṟṟaḷiyeṭu[p*][pi]t[tu] aṣṭaparivāra kopurañ

⟨4⟩ ceyvittu uṭaiār coḻapperum[ā*]ṉaṭikaḷ parāntakadēvarkku iruṅkoḷa-

⟨5⟩ ṉ kuṇavaṉa [pa]rājitaṉ viṇṇappañ ceyya aruḷuppaṭṭāṟ uṇṇāḻikaippuṟa[ñce]-

⟨6⟩ [y*]ta nilam innāṭṭuk kāraivāḻkkaiyilāṉ [p]āṭiyeṉnum perāl nila muveli • •

⟨7⟩ [o]rāttiyark[ku] veliyennum co[rvu]m iṉnu minnāṭṭuc caru[k]kaiyāṉ kuṭikkāṟc ceyyum[ā*]ka mu[ṉ]ṟe k[ā]-

⟨8⟩ l immuṉṟe k[ā]lumiṟaiyiḻitti iṟaiyiliyāka udakapurvañ ceytu kuṭutteṉ ciṟuttiru[k*]koyil bhaṭṭārarkku iruṅkoḷaṉ ku-

⟨9⟩ ṇavaṉaparājitanen innila muṉṟe kā[lu*]m candrādityavaṟ iṟaiyili yākavum i[n*]nam [āḷpā]ṭiyāṉa nilattukkellai kiḻ- ⟨Page 43⟩

⟨10⟩ pāṟkkellai veḷiya[k*]kuṭi ellaikku me[ṟ*]kkum te[ṉ*] pāṟkkellai piṭavūr nāṭṭu ve[ṇ]ṭalaiyūr e[l*]laikku vaṭakkum kiḻa[k]-

⟨11⟩ ku nokkic ciṟṟalai veḷūrkke pāynta vāykkāliṉ vaṭakku me[l] pā[ṟ*]kellai pūtaṉkuṭiyellaikkuk kiḻa[k]-

⟨12⟩ [ku]m vaṭapāṟkkellai veḷiyakkuṭikke kiḻakkup pā[y]nta vāykkāliṉ nerkkum ivvicaitta perunāṉke[l*]laiyilu makappaṭṭa ni-

⟨13⟩ la mikitikkuṟaivuḷḷoṭuṅka muveliyum tukkaiyāḷ kuṭikkāṟc ceyyumāka [mu]ṉṟe kāl immuṉṟe kāṟ ceyyilum tirucenna[ṭai]

⟨14⟩ ppuṟam oṉṟe kālum accaṉā(o)bhōgam velic ceyum tiruppalipuṟam uvaccarkaḷukku veli(c)ceyum tiruppalipuṟamākavun nila-

⟨15⟩ ttukku nir pāyum vāykāliraṇṭālum(ñ) cuṭṭappaṭṭa vāykkāl innila muvelikku nirkkintavāṟup pāyccavu miṟaikkavum peṟuvatākavu minni[la*]

⟨16⟩ muḻutu kuṭikaḷuk kotoṭṭuḷḷa vuṭaiyi epperpaṭṭatun tevare tāvukavum muḻuta kuṭikaḷ paṭṭiyuṅku •• vai-

⟨17⟩ yum amaiñca potipa •• kaṭṭātatākavu mipparitu parih[ā]ramum vyava[sta]yumākac ceytu kuṭut[teṉ](k) kuṇavan aparājitaneṉ nivai [eṉ eḻu]ttu ivai pa[ṉ]m[ā]hesvararakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0033⟩ No. 33. (A.R. No. 739 of 1905.) GRĀMAM, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west wall of the central shrine in the Śivalōkanātha temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 29: 936 A.D.

Records a gift of 100 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp with an uḻakku of oil daily for God Śrī Āṟṟuttaḷi Śrī Mūlasthānattu-Mahādēvar in Tirumuḍiyūr by Veḷḷaṅkumaraṉ, a native of Nandikaraiputtur in Malaināḍu, the commander of the big army of the prince Rājāditta.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakeca-

⟨2⟩ ripaṉmaṟki yāṇṭu 29 āvatu ti-

⟨3⟩ rumiṭiyūr śrī āṟṟuttaḷi śrī mulasthā- ⟨Page 44⟩

⟨4⟩ ṉattu māhādēvarkku piḷḷaiyār rājādi-

⟨5⟩ ddar 1 perumpaṭai nāyakaṉ malaināṭṭu nantik[ka]-

⟨6⟩ raipputtūr veḷḷaṅkumaraṉ can-

⟨7⟩ tirātittavaṟ eri(y)ya vaitta nantā

⟨8⟩ viḷakku oṉṟu [|*] oṉṟukkum nicati

⟨9⟩ uḻakku ney āṭṭa vaiytta cāvā

⟨10⟩ muvāp perāṭu nūṟu 2 erikka 3

⟨SIIv32p1i0034⟩ No. 34. (A.R. No. 1 of 1896.) KĪḺ-MUṬṬUGŪR, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a stone slab set up in a field.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 29: 936 A.D.

It records that when cattle were lifted at Mukkuṭṭūr by Perumānaḍigaḷ, Vadunavāraṉ Varadaṉ Tāṇḍaṉ recovered the cattle but died.

Published in Ep. Ind., Vol. IV. p. 179.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī [||*] matiraikoṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭa kopparakecaripaṉ-

⟨3⟩ maṟṟiyāṇṭi 4 rupat to-

⟨4⟩ ṉpatāvatu perumāṉa-

⟨5⟩ ṭikaḷāṉ mukku-

⟨6⟩ [ṭ]ṭur toṟuk

⟨7⟩ [koḷ]ḷa miṭ-

⟨8⟩ [ṭup] paṭṭā-

⟨9⟩ ṉ vatu[ na-

⟨10⟩ v] āraṉ-

⟨11⟩ varataṉ tā-

⟨12⟩ [ṇ]ṭaṉ [||*] ⟨Page 45⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0035⟩ No. 35. (A.R. No. 180 of 1921.) PERIYAVĀRIKKAM, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a slab fixed in the tank weir.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 29: 936 A.D.

Records the sabhā of Vārikkayam alias Chandrāditya-maṅgalam granted five hundred kuḻi of land as nettal paṭṭi to the wife and children of Sāmaṉāyakan Sāttaṉ Tāḻi, the bodyguard (aṇukkili) of the prince Rājakēsari-panma bhaṭṭakēsari, who died in the skirmish during a raid for seizing buffaloes at the above place.

Published in Quarterly Journal of Mythic Society. LXXVI (1985) pp. 149-150.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraik[o]-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭa kopparakecaripanmaṟkku yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu 28 āvatu varikkayamākiya

⟨4⟩ cantrātityamaṅkalattu erumai

⟨5⟩ toṟu k[o]ḷḷa piḷḷaiy[ā]r [i]rāca[ke]-

⟨6⟩ caripanma[paṭ]ṭa(keca)kecari aṇu[k]-

⟨7⟩ kili cāmaṉāyakaṉ cāttaṉ ṟāḻi eru-

⟨8⟩ mai toṟuk [k]oḷil paṭa ivūr sabhai

⟨9⟩ yom [eṅ] ••• ••• ••••

⟨10⟩ letattatil ai[ñ*]ñūṟu kuḻi iva[ṉu]-

⟨11⟩ kku nettalpaṭṭi vaittom ivaṉ

⟨12⟩ maṇavāṭṭikku[m*] makkaḷukkum cantrāti-

⟨13⟩ tya prasiddham vai[t*]tom sabhai-

⟨14⟩ yom itu aḻippāṉ kaṅ[kai] ku-

⟨15⟩ mari iṭai ceytāṉ ceyta p[ā]-

⟨16⟩ vattil paṭuvāṉ ||— ⟨Page 46⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0036⟩ No. 36. (A.R. No. 186 of 1921.) KUMĀRAMAṄGALAM, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a hero-stone set up in the west of the village.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 30: 937 A.D.

It records the death of Maṉukulaṉ Siṅgaperumāṉ, son of Iḷakāmuṇḍaṉ of Mēlaḍaiyūr-nāḍu, in a cattle-raid after the recovery of the buffloes.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ma[ti*]raikoṇṭa kopparake-

⟨2⟩ caripa[ṉ*]makki yāṇṭu muppatāvatu melaṭai-

⟨3⟩ ya[rai] nāṭṭu 1 aṭuppar manakka iḷakāmuṇṭa-

⟨4⟩ n makaṉ manukulaṉ ciṅkaperumāṉ e-

⟨5⟩ rumai-

⟨6⟩ t to-

⟨7⟩ ṟu ko-

⟨8⟩ ḷil

⟨9⟩ poru-

⟨10⟩ tu mi-

⟨11⟩ ṭṭuppa-

⟨12⟩ ṭṭāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0037⟩ No. 37. (A.R. No. 91 of 1995-96.) TIRUVĒNDIPURAM, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a pillar in the prākāra of the Dēvanāyagapperumāḷ temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 31: 938 A.D.

Damaged at the end. This inscription records a gift of ninety sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to the god of Tiruveyintirapuram by Vāṉavaṉmādēviyār, the daughter of the Pāṇḍyaṉ ruler, Rāsasiṅgaperumāṉār (Rājasiṁha).

Published in Āvaṇam., No. 7 (1996) p. 21. ⟨Page 47⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ śrī mati-

⟨3⟩ rai ko-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭa

⟨5⟩ koppa

⟨6⟩ rakeśari[pa]-

⟨7⟩ ṉmaṟku yā-

⟨8⟩ ṇṭu muppat-

⟨9⟩ toṉṟāvatu

⟨10⟩ tiruventi-

⟨11⟩ rapurattu te-

⟨12⟩ varkku pāṇ-

⟨13⟩ ṭiyaṉār irā-

⟨14⟩ caciṅka[p*]erumā-

⟨15⟩ ṉār makaḷār vā-

⟨16⟩ ṉavaṉmātevi-

⟨17⟩ yār cantirāti-

⟨18⟩ ttaval •••

⟨19⟩ erippatāka vai-

⟨20⟩ tta nontā vi-

⟨21⟩ ḷakku oṉṟu

⟨22⟩ kku vaitta ā-

⟨23⟩ ṭu toṇṇū-

⟨24⟩ ṟṟaiyntu iv-

⟨25⟩ viḷakku ••••• 1 ⟨Page 48⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0038⟩ No. 38. VEṆMANDAI, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a rock in the tank of the village.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 33: 940 A.D.

Records that Kaśuvaraṉ Tiruppaḻaṉaśeydāṉ, the Kiḻavaṉ (head man) and the leading citizen (talaimagaṉ) of Karuvūr who was given the charge of the headmanship of Karuvūr in Veṅgala-nāḍu took over the ērippaṭṭi (land granted for the maintenance of the reservoir) at Veṇpaḻandai in Vādavūr-nāḍu (a sub-division) of Veṇkuṉṟakōṭṭam after it had been measured and had the sluice for the lake constructed and set apart the rest of the land as ērippaṭṭi.

Published in Āvaṇam., Issue No. 7 July 1996 p. 161.

Text.

⟨1⟩ matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉmaṟki yāṇṭu muppa[t*]tu muṉṟāvatu-

⟨2⟩ veṇkuṉṟakoṭṭattu vātavūrnāṭṭu veṇpaḻantai erikku erippaṭ-

⟨3⟩ ṭi nilamaḷantu vanta nilam cuṭṭi iṭṭukoṇṭu ittūmpum erip-

⟨4⟩ paṭṭiyum(ñ) ceytāṉ veṅkālanāṭṭu karuvūr talaimakaṉ karuvūr kiḻamai pe-

⟨5⟩ ṟṟa karuvūr kiḻavaṉ kacuvaraṉ tiruppaḻaṉa[ce]ytāṉ ivai rakṣi[t*]tāṉ [pā]ta tū-

⟨6⟩ ḷi eṉṟalai melaṉa 1

⟨SIIv32p1i0039⟩ No. 39. (A.R. No. 63 of 1905.) ĀṈAIMALAI, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT.

On a rock at the entrance into the central shrine in the Narasiṅgapperumāḷ temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 33 Aslēsha, Kaṟkaṭaka, Friday, 939 A.D. July 19. ⟨Page 49⟩

This inscription is in vaṭṭeḻutu characters. It records an agreement given by the members of the assembly of Narasiṅga-maṅgalam, a brahmadēya and a dēvadāna included in the Kiḻ-Iraṇiyamuṭṭam, to Marudūr-uḍaiyāṉ Aruṇidi Kaliyaṉ of Marudūr in Puṟaṅkaṟambai-nāḍu, an official of the Chōḷa king. The temple of Narasiṅgapperumāṉaḍigaḷ of Tiruvāṉaimalai had to remit 18 īḻakkāśu to the sabhā on account of taxes on its land. To realize a part of this amount, six īḻakkāśu, fifteen īḻakkāśu had been deposited by the official with the sabhaiyār. To meet the balance of twelve īḻakkāśu, the above official (again) deposited tax-money (Iṟaikkāval) and obtained the possession of the land (with a tank therein) called Ūruḍaiyāṉkuḷam alias Kaliyaṉēri with the right to utilize the water. He then purchased two vēli of land adjacent to the tank. The produce 300 kalam of paddy from this (plot of) land were to be utilized, half ie 150 kalam for providing food offerings to the god thrice a day and the other half to feed five brāhmaṇas wellversed in vēdas, commencing from the day of solar eclipse in the month of Kaṟkaṭaka on Friday when the star Aslēsha was current. It is mentioned that the śrīkāriyam (the temple official), Tiruvāyppāḍi-Nārāyaṇaṉ and the members of the above assembly gave an undertaking to conduct this feeding ceremony without fail. They also agreed to remit a fine of two kāśu daily if they failed to carry out this charity. Other details relating to the fines are given.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. III No. 106.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu muppattu muṉṟāvatu ivvāṇṭu [te]va[tā]ṉaṅ kiḻiraṇiya muṭ[ṭat]tuppaṭum [pi]-

⟨2⟩ rammateya[m*] naraciṅkamaṅkalattuc cavaiyo(m)ñ coḻap perumāṉaṭikaḷatikārikaḷ coḻanāṭṭup puṟaṅkarampai ṉāṭ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu marutūr marutūruṭaiyāṉaruṇiti kaliyaṉukku oṭṭik kuṭutta 1 paricāvatu [|*] eṅkaḷūrt tiruvā[ṉai]malai naraciṅkapperumāṉaṭikaḷ ta-

⟨4⟩ [m*]muṭaiya nilattālc cavaiyomukku [ā]ṇṭeṭuttu iṭakkaṭava īḻakkācu patiṉeṭṭu ikkācu pataṉeṭṭilum 2 muṉṟat t[o*]ṉ[ṟu] ī

⟨5⟩ ḻakkācu āṟu ivvāṟu īḻakkācukkum palicaiyākac cavaiyār kaiyvaḻi kuṭutta īḻakkācu patiṉaiṉtu [pa*]tiṉaiñciṉālum vanta pali-

⟨6⟩ caiyāvatu īḻakkāciṉ vā[y*]t tiṅkaḷ kāṟ putta[kka*]māka oro tiṅkaḷā[l*] vanta puttakka muṉṟe mukkāl muṉṟe mukkālu orāṇṭu panniraṇṭu ti- ⟨Page 50⟩

⟨7⟩ ñkaḷāl vanta puttakkam nāṟpa[t*]taiñcuṉāloru īḻakkācukkup puttakkam ēḻarai āka [ī]ḻakkācu [ā]ṟu ivvāṟu [ī]ḻa-

⟨8⟩ kkācum iṟai nikkit tevar cavaiyārkku iṭakkaṭava 12 paṉṉiraṇṭum nikki atikā[ri]kaḷ marutūruṭaiyāṉ aruṇiti kaliyaṉ iṟaikāvalā[ka*] kātta

⟨9⟩ kāci[ṉā]l vanta nilaṉ ūruṭaiyāṉ[ku]ḷamāṉa kaliyaṉe[ri]yum ikkuḷantā[me]ṇṭumāṟu kallik karai niḷam aṭṭappeṟuvatākavum [i]-

⟨10⟩ kkuḷaṅkarai ucara aṭṭappeṟuvatākavum ikkuḷatti ṉir [tā]ṉ veṇṭu aḷavuṅ kokkappeṟuvatākavu mikkuḷam itiṉkiḻ nir nilaṉiruve-

⟨11⟩ liyu marutūruṭaiyāṉaruṇiti kaliyaṉ vilaikkuk koṇṭu ikkuḷattiṉ kiḻ nīrnilaṉiru veliyiṉāl vanta pokam aññāḻikkālāl nel[lu] 300 kalam

⟨12⟩ ivaiyiṟṟiṉ pāti 150 nelluṅ koṇ[ṭu i]varkku muṉṟu cantiyun tiruvamirtu cevatākavum niṉṟa 1[50] nelluṅkoṇṭu tiruvamirtu u-

⟨13⟩ ttama akkiramāt tevar amitu ceyyumpoḻutu vetappirāmaṇar nicatam ayvar amitu ceyvatākavum vacca[pa]ṭi patteṭṭukkuttal oruvaṉu-

⟨14⟩ kku arici [iru] nāḻiyuṅ kaṟi mu[ṉṟum] tayir nā[ḻi*]yum neyiru ceviṭum kāyyilai iraṇṭum tālamañcum vaṭṭilaiñcum oṭṭuṭṭi oṉṟu-

⟨15⟩ [m] caṭṭuvam oṉṟu aṭuvā(ṉ*) ṉoruva[ṉu][k*]ku nicati ne[l*]lu aññāḻi aṟu tiṅka[ḷoru] puṭavai vaiccu ipparicu ik kalamuṭṭuvatāka iv-

⟨16⟩ vvāṭṭai kaṟkaṭakanāyiṟṟu veḷḷikkiḻamai peṟṟa āyile[ya]ttiṉāṉṟu cū(ṟ)ṟiyakkiraṇavelaik [kurai]kirāṇam paṟṟiṉa aṉṟu mutalāka

⟨17⟩ i[p*]paricey ūṭṭuvatāka ni[ṉ]ṟu ciṟiyakāṟiyamārāykiṉṟa 3 tiruvāyppāṭi nārāyaṇaṉum ivvūrccavaiyārum ipparicey akkiramuṭṭāmey ca[n*]tirā-

⟨18⟩ tittavalam 4 ūṭṭuvippomāṉom tiruvāṉaimalai naraciṅkap perumāṉaṭikaḷukku cirikācciya 5 ārāyvārum cavayomum 6 itiṟṟirampi[ṉo]maic cavaiy 7 ⟨Page 51⟩

⟨19⟩ yālum [ci]rikā(ṟ)ṟiyamārāyvāṉun 1 tiṟamiṉāṉ nicati iṟu 2 kācu aṉṟāḻ koviṉukkut taṇṭampaṭṭu akkācu koṇṭu tevarkkut tiruviḷakku erivatākavum cavaiyār

⟨20⟩ [t] tiṟampil [ā]ṟukācu taṇṭappaṭuvatākavu[m] oṭṭik kuṭuttom cavaiyomum cirikācciyamārāyvāṉum 1 marutūruṭaiyāṉaruṇiti kaliyaṉukku ittaṇṭamiṟu-

⟨21⟩ ttu mittaṉ[mam*] muṭṭāme ayvarai[yum] cantirāticcar uḷḷaḷavum ūṭṭuvippomāṉoñ cavaiyyum 3 cirikārcciyam 1 ārāyum vayiṣṇavarum [|*] itaṉ

⟨22⟩ [ma][m*] rakṣittāṉ 4

⟨SIIv32p1i0040⟩ No. 40. (A.R. No. 230 of 1903.) TOṆḌAIMĀNĀḌ, CHITTOOR TALUK, CHITTOOR DISTRICT.

On a base of the central shrine in the Kōdaṇḍaramēśvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 34: 941 A.D.

Records that the sabhā and the nagarattār of Toṇḍaimāṉpērāṟṟūr in Āṟṟūr-nāḍu in Tiruvēṅkaṭa-kōṭṭam received one hundred and five kaḻañju of gold duly tested for purity as also four thousand kāḍi of paddy (by the measure Vāgīśvara-paṇḍittaṉ) from the pontiff paḷḷippaḍai Vāgīśvara-paṇḍita bhaṭārar for conducting seven day festival commencing on the day of asterism of kēṭṭai and ending with sadaiyam in the puraṭṭādi month at the temple Śrī Kōdaṇḍarāmēśvaram alias Ādityēśvaragrihm as well as for providing food offerings on that occasion. The sabhaiyār and the nagarattār were to apportion the interest of one thousand kāḍi of pady accrued annually out of the endowed four-thousand kāḍi for feeding the mendicants, brāhmaṇas and devotees on those seven days at the temple of various faiths. Reference is also made to the festival, Indra-viḻa. The manner in which these benefaction were intended to be carried out is laid out in detail. It was also enjoined on the mahāvṛattins of the temple Ādityēśvaram, the pṛithiviṭaṅkakgaṇapperumakkaḷ of Tiruppaṉṟīśvaram at Kāvirippākkam and panmāhēśvarak-kaṇkāṇi were to oversee the prompt supply of paddy and proper execution of the charity by the two bodies, the sabhaiyār and the nagarattār. It is interesting to note that if these two bodies defaulted in the carrying out of these benefactions as detailed above, they could be tortured and coerced by the above three bodies and got them to carry out the benefaction for which they had given an undertaking.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. VIII. No. 529. ⟨Page 52⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] maturaikoṇṭakopparakecariparmmakku yāṇṭu muppattuṉālāvatu tiruveṅkaṭakkoṭṭattu āṟṟūrṉāṭṭu toṇṭaimāṉperāṟṟūr sabhaiyomu[m*] nakarattomum paḷḷipaṭai vāgīśvarapaṇḍitabhaṭārar śrīkotaṇṭarāmiśvaramākiya ādityēśvarakarattu āḷvārkkup puraṭṭātit tiṅkaḷ tirukkeṭṭaimutal eti reḻu nāḷun tirunakṣattirammākiya tiruccataiyattuṉṟun tiruutsavañ ceyvataṟkum bhōjaṉattukkum paḷḷipaṭai vāgīśvarapaṇḍitabhaṭārar toṇṭaimāṉ perāṟṟūr sabhaiyomu[m*] nakarattomum vaḻi cantrādityavaṟ idharmmañ ceyvatāka eṅkaḷvaḻi vaitta poṉ cuṭṭu veṭṭic cūṭu[k*]ka[ṭu]ttu tippokki ūrkkaṟce[m*]mai mutal nūṟṟaiṅ kaḻañcum vāgīśarapaṇḍitaṉeṉṉum pūṇṭūmpiṉāl niṟaittaḷavu tūnel nālāyirak kāṭiyum iṉnel nālāyirak kāṭikkum ā[ṇ]ṭuvarai aiṅkāṟ palicaiyāl vanta nel āyirakkāṭi yinnel āyirakkāṭikkun tiruviḻāveṭukkum eḻu nāḷum nicatippaṭi śrīmahāvratikaḷuḷḷiṭṭa āṟusamayattuttapasvikaḷum āka irunūṟṟuvarum brāhmaṇar munnūṟṟuvarumāka aññūṟṟuvarum bhaktarāyiṉa palacamai[ya*] aññūṟṟuvarumāka āyiravarkkum patte[ṭṭukku]ttal meyyā larici nāṭuriyāka nicata marici muppatteḻu kāṭi aintūmpāka eḻunāḷum ūṭṭi[c] celavupeṟu marici iru nūṟṟaṟupattiru kāṭi aintūm[pi]ṉāl aintiraṇṭu vaṇṇa nellākki aṟu nūṟṟaimpattaṟu kāṭi irutūm piru nāḻiyum tiruviḻāppo-

⟨2⟩ tun te[ varkkut] tiruvamirtarici nica[ti] •••• [ḻi]yāka eḻunāḷaikku nel iru kāṭi aṟutūmpu nāḻiyun tirttattu nāḷāl tirukkāḷatti āḷvārkkup peruntiruvamirtukkuk kaṟikkun tayirkkum [ne]ykkum uḷḷiṭṭu nāṟkāṭi oru [tū]mpi[ru] nāḻiyum cālaikkuk kaṟikku nicati iru kāṭiyāka neṟ patiṉaṟu kāṭiyum morkku nel nicati patinaiṅ kāṭiyāka eḻupatteḻu k[ā*]ṭiyum uppukku nicati nellu oru kāṭiyāka eḻukāṭiyum puḷippaḻavaṭai 7-kku nellu eḻukāṭiyum ilai iṭuvāṉukku nellu eḻukāṭiyum nīraṭṭuvāṉukku nellup patiṉkāṭiyum kalamiṭuṅ kucavaṉukku nel muppatiṉ kāṭiyum cālaikkuk kaṟikkuk koḷḷu nicati iru kāṭikku nel mukkāṭiyāka eḻu nāḷaikkum nellu irupattorukāṭiyum pūviṭu mālaikāraṉukku eḻu kāṭiyum viṟakiṭuvāṉukku nellu eḻukāṭiyum ippaṭi panmāhēśvarak ⟨Page 53⟩ kaṇkāṇiyoṭu niṉ[ṟi]vvaḻivu kaṇakkaṟuttu kkuṭu[ kku*] kaṭava ivvūr madhyastaṉukku nellu irupatiṉkāṭiyum cālaikkaḷanta variciyiley ivaṉukku nicata marici nāṉāḻiyum tiruccuṇṇattukku mañcaḷukku nellu irukāṭi oṉpatiṉ ṟūmpu muṉṉāḻiyum āka nel eṇṇūṟṟeḻupattu muk kāṭi nīkki niṉṟa nel nūṟ ṟirupatteḻu kāṭiyālp poṉ mukkaḻañce muṉṟumañcāṭiyuṅ kuṉṟiyum poṉ ṉūṟṟaiṅ kaḻañciṉālum āṇṭuvarai palicaiyāl vanta poṉ patiṉmuk kaḻañce araikkālum ākap poṉ patiṉaṟukaḻañce āṟumañcāṭiyil nicatippaṭi uṇṇum āyiravarkkum eḻu nāḷaikku uṇṇa ••••• ṇkāṭi iru tūmpu āḻākku [i]ntiraviḻāviṉukkumāka viḷak[ kiṉukkun] ey melppaṭi nāḷaikku [nāṟkkāṭi] eḻutūmpu muṉṉāḻi muḻākakku āḻākkumāka ney patiṉmukkāṭikku ••• •••• ṟu kaḻa ••••• ṭu māṇikaḷ patiṉma •• •• ḻañce kālum palakāyattukku araik kaḻañcum veṟuṅkāy patiṉāyirattukku kaḻañcum veṟuvi-

⟨3⟩ laip paṟṟu muṉṉūṟṟukku kaḻañcaraiyuñ cuṇ ••• ••• •••• [ru] kaḻañcum araṅkaḻivu coṉṟuṭaṉuṉṟicakkun taccaṉukku ••• •••• parṣaiyār kūttāṭiṉārkkum pāṭiṉārkkumāka pū(j)aiṉaikku mukkaḻañ ••• ••• ṉ patiṉaṟu kaḻa ••• ••• ṉakavu mippoṉṉu ••• ••• •••• vat celuttuvomākavu mivvaḻi vipparicu vaḻuvāmey ivvādityēśvarakat tirukkum śrī mah[ā]vratikaḷum kāvirippākkattut tiruppaṉṟīśvarattup pirativiṭaṅkak kaṇapperumakkaḷum panmāhēśvarak kaṇkāṇiyum immuṉṟu tiṟattārum niṉṟu eṅkaḷait tāṅkaḷ veṇṭina ko[cce]ytu idharmmam celuttuvikkappeṟuvarākavum mippati idharmmañcandrādityavat vaittamaiyi lippaṭi vaḻuviṉa nāṉṟu aṉṟāḷkoviṉukku nūṟṟu kkaḻañcu poṉ taṇṭamumpaṭṭu itdhanmami[ppa]ṭi vaḻuvāme celuttuvomākavu mittiruviḻāc cuṭṭip paṇiceymakkaḷukkuc coṟṟāl vanta aḻivellā mivveḻāyiravarilumey celavu peṟuvatākavu mipparicoṭṭic celuttuvomākap paḷḷippaṭaiyuṭaiya vāgīśvarapaṇṭitabhaṭārarkku oṭṭukkuṭuttom toṇṭaimāṉperāṟṟūr sabhaiyomum nakarattomum idharmmattukku ahita[m] niṉaittār gaṅgaiyiṭai kumariiṭai eḻunūṟṟuk kātattiluñ ceytār ce[y*]ta pāvattuppaṭuvār idharmmattai vaḻuvāme(c) celutti rakṣittār aśvamēdham ceyta palam peṟuvā[r] [||*] ⟨Page 54⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0041⟩ No. 41. (A.R. No. 46 of 1923.) PUḶḶALŪR, KANCHIPURAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On stone built indifferently into the walls of the Kāmākshi Amman shrine in the Kailāśanātha temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 34: 941 A.D.

Records that the queen Seyya(Jaya ?)bhuvanasundaramaṇiyār donated a lampstand as well as ten kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp, to the god Śrī Rāghavar, who is pleased to stand at Tiruvayōdhi, at Pulvēḷūr in Eyiṟ-kōṭṭam with the interest of one uḻakku of oil daily. The Gaṇapperumakkaḷ undertook to have the lamp burnt.

It is also recorded that the sabhaiyār of Pulvēḷūr took over the gold entrusted to the gaṇapperumakkaḷ by the queen and undertook the responsibility of burning the lamp perpetually. The sabhaiyār also agreed to pay a fine of eight and half-akāṇam daily by the officials of dhanmāśanam if they defaulted.

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⟨1⟩ svasti 1 śrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu muppattu nālāvatu ivvāṇṭu nampirāṭṭiyār ceyya 2 puvana śuntramaṇiyār eyiṟkkoṭṭattu pulveḷur tiruvayodhi niṉṟaruḷina [śrī]rāgavaṟkku cantrādittavaṟ e[rip*]patāka [vai*]tta nilaiviḷakku oṉṟu ivviḷa 3 kku(k)kkuṭutta poṉ patiṉ kaḻa[ñ*]cu-

⟨2⟩ m patiṉ kaḻañcālum vanta policai 4 nicatam uḻakkeṇṇai erivatākavum it[ta]rmmam rakṣittār aśvamedham ceyta 5 palam 6 peṟuvatākavum itu vilakki(na)nār 7 ga[ṅ*]kai iṭaikkumari iṭai ceyta [pāvam] koḷvār ipparicū 8 oṭṭi kuṭuttom kaṇapperumakkaḷom ||—i[ppo]ṉ ceyya bhu- ⟨Page 55⟩

⟨3⟩ vaṉa [śu]ntra maṇiyār [i]ppulveḷur tiruvai[y]oddhip perumāṉaṭikaḷukku kaṇapperumakkaḷ vaḻi oru tiruviḷakku erippatākak kuṭutta poṉ pulveḷur sabhai[yom ko]ṇṭu ittiruviḷakkuc cantr[ā*]dittaval sabhaiyome erippomāṉom

⟨4⟩ itaṟku ivvūrom virodham pannomai 1 śrīkoyil kaṭaik kāṇpāre meyiv veṟ[ṟu]vakai dhanmāsaṉattā[r*] nicati eṭṭaraik kāṇa[m*] taṇṭamiṭuvat[ā*]ka oṭṭik ku[ṭu*]ttom pulveḷur sabhaiyom |||—

⟨SIIv32p1i0042⟩ No. 42. (A.R. No. 96 of 1892.) UYYAKKOṆḌĀṈ-TIRUMALAI, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On a pillar in the verandah of the Ujjivanātha temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 34: 941 A.D.

Records that Pirāntakaṉ Madēvaḍigaḷ, the wife of Pirāntaka Gaṇḍarādittadēvar and daughter of Maḷapperumāḷ, made a gift of ninety sheep for burning a perpetual lamp with one uḻakku of oil to be supplied daily by the measure śūla-uḻakku to the god Paramēśvara of Tirukaṟkuḍi in Nandipanmamaṅgalam, a brahmadēyam on the south bank (of the river Kāvēri).

Pulished in S.I.I. Vol, IV No. 543.

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⟨1⟩ matiraikoṇṭa koppara-

⟨2⟩ kecaripanmarkku yāṇṭu mu-

⟨3⟩ ppattu nālāvatu ten-

⟨4⟩ karai brahmateyam nantipanmama-

⟨5⟩ ṅkalattu tirukaṟkakuṭi para-

⟨6⟩ mēsvaraṟku pirāntakan kaṇ-

⟨7⟩ ṭāratittatevar teviyār

⟨8⟩ maḻaperumāḷ makaḷār pirā-

⟨9⟩ ntakaṉ mātevaṭikaḷār

⟨10⟩ oru tirunontāviḷakku i- ⟨Page 56⟩

⟨11⟩ ravum pakalum erivatāka nica-

⟨12⟩ tam cūla uḻakkāl uḻakku

⟨13⟩ neya[ṭ*]ṭi cantirātittava-

⟨14⟩ l erippatāka vaitta cāvā

⟨15⟩ muvāpperāṭu toṇṇū-

⟨16⟩ ṟu panmāhēśvara[ra*]kṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0043⟩ No. 43. (A.R. No. 68 of 1890.) SŌMŪR, KARUR TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the Sōmēśvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 34: 941 A.D.

Records the donation of the paḍai (lower stratum) of the temple vimāna by Mummaḍikkīṟaṉ Irāmi of Kēraḷapaḷḷi.

Published in S.I.I. Vol, IV No. 392.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉma-

⟨2⟩ kku yāṇṭu 34 āvatu keraḷapaḷḷi [mum]ma[ṭi]kkiraṉi[rā]-

⟨3⟩ mi iṭuvitta paṭai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0044⟩ No. 44. (A.R. No. 735 of 1905.) GRĀMAM, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 36: Kali 4044, 1477037 day, Makara, Sunday, star Rēvati = 943 A.D. 14th January

This inscription is bilingual ie Sanskrit and Tamil. ⟨Page 57⟩

The Sanskrit portion records that Veḷḷaṅkumara, a native of Puttūr, was bold and invincible in battles and he was the best of the Kēraḷites. He was a general of (Prince) Rājāditya and built a stone temple for the god Mahādēva at the village Mauligrāma, situated on the bank (of the river) Peṇṇai.

The Tamil portion repeats the some fact. It records that Veḷḷaṅkumaraṉ, a native of Nandikkaraiputtur in Maḷai-nāḍu was a chief servant of the Chōḷas and was a great general of Rājāditya, the son of Parāntaka alias Vīrasōḻa perumāṉaḍigaḷ. It further mentions that he consecrated (an image of) Āṟṟuttaḷi-perumāṉaḍigaḷ which was sixteen feet in height, inside the stone temple, with libation of water.

Published in A.S.I. Annual Report 1905-06, pp. 182-184.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] mauliḥ putturaja[nm]āka[lī]

⟨2⟩ balajayinā muttamaḥ kēraḷānā[m]

⟨3⟩ rājādittyasya sākṣā davicalita[ca]-

⟨4⟩ mūnāyakō mādhurāntēḥ mauligrā[m]ē-

⟨5⟩ dhi pēṇṇātaṭa dharaṇi śilāmandira[m*]

⟨6⟩ mandarābham ma(ā)hādēvam mahāśrīsthi[ra]

⟨7⟩ tara makarō datra vēḷḷaṅkkumāraḥ [||*]

⟨8⟩ nadu sthalīkrataniratē śśivāspadam

⟨9⟩ śilāsthalī mabhiratayē puradviṣaḥ

⟨10⟩ nijā mimā ndhiya miva supratiṣṭhatām

⟨11⟩ kumāra ityakrata navāgrahārajaḥ [||*]

⟨12⟩ viśvāśarmmavyāprati cārā[t*] tritayantat

⟨13⟩ bhasmī 1 cakrē daityapurām yēna nimēṣ[ā]

⟨14⟩ [t] [|*] mārārāti [r*]ddhāma kumārēda mayantē bō

⟨15⟩ bhūṣītā dāyuśa 2 mantaḥ karaṇañca [||*]

⟨16⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kaliukava[ru*]ṣam nālāyirattu nāṟ[pa]- ⟨Page 58⟩

⟨17⟩ ttu nālu matiraikoṉṭa 3 kopparakecaripaṉma[k] 4-

⟨18⟩ ku yāṇṭu 36 āvatu kaliu[k koṭṭu] nāḷ

⟨19⟩ patiṉāṉku nūṟāirattu eḻupa •••• yirattu 5

⟨20⟩ muppattu eḻu āka tirumu[ṭiyūr āṟṟut]taḷi

⟨21⟩ perumāṉaṭikaḷ uṭaiya •••• m ti-

⟨22⟩ [ruk]kaṟṟaḷiyāka amaip[pi]ttu i[v]vāṭ[ṭ]ai ma-

⟨23⟩ [kara nā]yaṟṟuc caṉikkiḻa[mai] peṟṟa irevati nā[ṉ]-

⟨24⟩ [ṟu] kumbha ōraiyāl 6

⟨25⟩ mūṉṟucci patiṉāṟu

⟨26⟩ aṭiyil śrī āṟṟut

⟨27⟩ taḷipperumāṉaṭika[ḷai]-

⟨28⟩ t tirukkaṟṟaḷiyiṉ uḷ

⟨29⟩ ṇay 7 puka eḻuntaruḷu-

⟨30⟩ vattu 8 pra[di]ṣṭai 9 [ce]yvi-

⟨31⟩ ttār coḻarkkaḷ mula

⟨32⟩ bhratyar śrīpi[rā]ntakadē[varā]ṉa

⟨33⟩ śrīviracoḻap perumāṉaṭikaḷ

⟨34⟩ makaṉār rājādittadēvar perum

⟨35⟩ paṭai nāya[ka]r malaināṭṭu nan-

⟨36⟩ tikkaraipputtūr veḷḷaṅ-

⟨37⟩ kumaraṉ [||*] itu paṉm[ā*]hēśvara-

⟨38⟩ [rakṣ]ai [|*] rakṣippār śrīpātam ta[lai]

⟨39⟩ melaṉa [||*] ⟨Page 59⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0045⟩ No. 45. (A.R. No. 99 of 1929.) LALGUDI, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

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

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 37: 944 A.D.

Records the endowment of thirty kaḻañju of gold for the purpose of paying the remuneration of 2 brāhmaṇas reciting tiruppadiyam on all the three twilight periods daily by Śivakōsari Piḍāraṉ Dēśaviṭaṅkaṉ, a priest of temple (ittaḷippaṭṭuḍaiyāṉ) of Mahādēva of Tiruttavattuṟai, a dēvadāna village in Iḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu. Against this gold Kiḍāmbil Ichchuvara Naḍuppaya kramavittaṉ of Kuṇdina-gōtrā (Kauṇdinya-gōtra) of the dēvadāna-brahmadēya village, Anuttiramaṅgalam sold (set apart) two mā of his share-land in two plots (to be retained and administered by him) and agreed to contribute thirty nāḻi of oil per year for the stated purpose.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa koppara-

⟨2⟩ kecaripaṉmaṟki yāṇṭu 37 āvatu

⟨3⟩ iṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭu tevatānam tiru-

⟨4⟩ ttavattuṟai mahādēvaṟku itta-

⟨5⟩ ḷippaṭṭuṭaiyāṉ civakocari piṭāraṉ

⟨6⟩ tecaviṭaṅkaṉ cantrādittavaṟ nicata muṉ-

⟨7⟩ ṟusandhiyum brāhmaṇar tiruppatiyam pāṭu-

⟨8⟩ vāriruvataṟku [v*]aiytta poṉ 32 m ippoṉmu-

⟨9⟩ p[pa*]ttiru kaḻañcum i[v*]vūr tevatāna piramateyamanu[t]tirama-

⟨10⟩ ṅkalattu kuṇṭina kottirattu kaṭāmpiccuvara naṭuppayakramama-

⟨11⟩ [vit]taneṉ koṇṭu iddēvaṟku tiruppatiyam pāṭuvāriruvaṟ-

⟨12⟩ ••••1 ka viṟṟu kuṭutta nilam eṅkaḷ [pit] 2 rukkaḷ śāsanabaddhampa-

⟨13⟩ •••• [t]tuṭaiya bhumiyil ippoṉnukku viṟṟa nilattukku

⟨14⟩ • ḻ [ellai] iddēvar nilattukku mekkum kāviti nilattuk ⟨Page 60⟩

⟨15⟩ kum [talaivāy] nilattukku vaṭakkum ippiṭāraṉ tecaviṭaṅ-

⟨16⟩ kanukku nāṉ viṟṟa nilattukku kiḻakkayyaṭi akalam teṉ

⟨17⟩ maṭal oḻu[k]kaikkuk kiḻakkum kāviri niroṭu kālukku teṟ-

⟨18⟩ kkum ivvicaitta perunāṉkellaiyil akappaṭṭa nila muṇ-

⟨19⟩ ṇilam oḻiviṉṟi iññilattil nāṉuṭaiyatellāmakappaṭa vi-

⟨20⟩ ṟṟu iññilattāl nānaṭ[ṭa]k kaṭava eṇṇai āṇṭu varai patiṉ

⟨21⟩ ññāḻiyum ittiruppatiya[m] pāṭuvāre aṭṭuv[ā]rāka ippoṉ 32m

⟨22⟩ koṇṭu iññilam vilaikkaṟa viṟṟu kuṭu[t*]teṉ cuvara naṭuppaya kramavit-

⟨23⟩ ta[neṉ] iññilatt[āl] ittiruppatiyam pāṭuvārkkāka i[vv]e[ṇ]ṇai

⟨24⟩ 30- yum ippiṭāraṉ tecaviṭaṅkaneṉ nāṉ iccuvaranaṭuppaya kra-

⟨25⟩ mavittaniṭai nāṉ vilaikoṇṭa mekkaṭaiyaṉta pāti nilattiluma-

⟨26⟩ ṭṭak kaṭava 30 yumāka 32yu māṇṭu varai nāṉ koṇṭa ṉilattile tirumāvukku 3

⟨27⟩ ivveṇṇai eṟṟi koṇṭu candrātittavaṟ aṭṭuven[ā]ka tiruppatiyam pā-

⟨28⟩ ••• •••• m 4 ceytu kuṭutteṉ piṭāraṉ tecaviṭaṅkaneṉ itu

⟨29⟩ pa[nmā]hēśvarat tiruvaṭi uṭaiya irakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0046⟩ No. 46. (A.R. No. 143 of 1925.) TIRUVĀḌUTUṞAI, MAYAVARAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

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

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 38: 945 A.D.

Records that when the King worshipped the deity at Tiruvāvaḍutuṟai in Śāttaṉūr, a brahmadēyam in Tiraimūr-nāḍu, on seeing that the shrine was being constructed in stone he donated five hundred poṉ to cover the shrine from Kuḍappaḍai upwards, in gold. ⟨Page 61⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakeca-

⟨2⟩ rivaṟma[ṟ]kku yāṇṭu 38 āvatu [ kaṉṉi nā-

⟨3⟩ yaṟṟu] tiraimurnāṭṭu brahmateyam cāttaṉūr

⟨4⟩ śrī tiruvāvaṭutuṟai āḷvārai perumāḷ

⟨5⟩ tiruva[ṭi]t toḻutu tirukkaṟṟaḷi ceykiṉṟatu ka-

⟨6⟩ ṇṭaruḷi tirukka[ṟ]ṟaḷi ceyya udakapurvañ [ceyta]

⟨7⟩ ••••• aiññūṟṟuk kaḻañcu ippoṉ

⟨8⟩ koṇṭu kuṭappaṭaiye piṭittu melcey-

⟨9⟩ kiṉṟatu śrīparāntakatevar poṉṉāl cey-

⟨10⟩ kiṉṟa paṇi [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0047⟩ No. 47. (A.R. No. 430 of 1922.) ĀNANDAMAṄGALAM, MADHURANTAKAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On a rock near the Jaina image.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 38: 945 A.D.

This inscription is clumsily engraved in bold characters. It records a gift of five kaḻañju of gold for feeding perpetually one devotee at the monastery Jinagirippaḷḷi by Varddhamāṉap-periyaḍigaḷ, a disciple of Viṉaiyābhasūrakkuravaḍigaḷ, the pontiff of monastery (paḷḷi) at Śēvūr. It also records the setting up of (an image) Paḷḷiyāṉ by Śāntiśēnakkuravaḍiyaḷ.

Another interperation is that it registers a gift of five kaḻañju of gold by Śāntiśēnakkuravaḍiyaḷ for feeding perpetually one devotee at the monastery, Jinagirippaḷḷi by Varddhamāṉap-periyaḍigaḷ, a disciple of Viṉaiyābhasūrakkuravaḍigaḷ, the pontiff of monastery at Śēvūr to whom the gold endowed was entrusted.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraiko-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭa kopparakecaripanma[ṟ]-

⟨3⟩ kki yāṇṭu 38- āvatu ⟨Page 62⟩

⟨4⟩ cevūrppaḷḷi uṭaiya viṉai-

⟨5⟩ yābhacūrakuravaṭikaḷ māṇā-

⟨6⟩ kkar vartthamāṇap periyaṭi[ka]-

⟨7⟩ ḷ jinagiri[p*] paḷḷiyil oraṭiyārkku jandrāti-

⟨8⟩ [tya]valaikku 1 nilaiūṭṭu vaitta poṉ

⟨9⟩ aiñ kaḻañcu śānti-

⟨10⟩ śēnak kuravaṭiyaḷ paḷḷiyā-

⟨11⟩ [ṉai] niṟka vaittatu

⟨SIIv32p1i0048⟩ No. 48. (A.R. No. 220 of 1937.) KARAḌI, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

South side of a boulder near the ruined Śiva temple in the fort.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 40: 947 A.D.

Records a gift of ninty-six sheep by Vīranāraṇiyār, the wife of the prince Gaṇḍarādittar, the son of the queen, Chōḷamādēviyār, for burning a perpetual lamp to the god Tirumāḍappāṟai-Mahādēvar at Ravikulaśūḷāmaṇi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam (situated on the) south (bank) of the (river) Peṇṇai with an uḻakku of oil daily. The gift was entrusted to the sabhaiyār of Ravikulaśūḷāmaṇi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. It is also stated that this charity was put under the supervision of Puduvūr-uḍaiyāṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraiyum īḻamuṅkoṇṭa

⟨2⟩ kopparakecaripaṉmaṟki yāṇ[ṭu] 40āva-

⟨3⟩ tu nampirāṭṭiyār coḻamāteviyār makaṉā-

⟨4⟩ r piḷḷaiyār kaṇṭarātittar teviyār vi-

⟨5⟩ ranāraṇiyār vāṇakoppāṭi peṇṇai

⟨6⟩ teṉkarai iravikulacūḷāmaṇi caturvvē-

⟨7⟩ timaṅkalattu tirumāṭappāṟai mahātē-

⟨8⟩ varkku nicatam uḻa[k*]ke(ka)ṇṇaiyāl nantā viḷa[k*]- ⟨Page 63⟩

⟨9⟩ koṉṟu cantirātit[ta*]val erippataṟku iravikulacū-

⟨10⟩ [ḷā]maṇicaturvvētimaṅkalattu sabhaiyār vaḻi

⟨11⟩ vaitta cāvāmuvā perāṭu toṇ[ṇū]ṟṟāṟu itu paṉmā-

⟨12⟩ hēśvar i[ra] 1 kṣai itu irakṣittāraṭi eṉ ṟalai mela-

⟨13⟩ ṉa itu putuvūruṭaiyāṉ atikārattil vait[ta*]tu [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0049⟩ No. 49. (A.R. No. 82 of 1896.) SUCHĪNDIRAM, KANYAKUMARI TALUK, KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT.

On a boulder in the Sthāṇunātha temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 40: Kumbha, (Jan-Feb): 947 A.D.

Records that Oruṁgai Araṅgaṉ, a merchant of Karavandapuram in Kaḷakkuḍināḍu donated a lamp-stand weighing thirty palam and seventy-five sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to the god of Tiruchchivindiram with one and half uḻakku of ghee daily. Further he donated twenty-five sheep for burning another perpetual lamp at Tiruvēṅkaṭanilai with one āḻākku of ghee daily. These 100 sheep (75+25) were entrusted to the paraḍaichchavaiyār (parishad-sabhā-temple assembly).

Published in E.P. Ind., vol. V p. 43.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] mati[rai]yum īḻamumkoṇṭa kop-

⟨2⟩ parakecarivaṉmarkku yāṇṭu nāṟpatu i-

⟨3⟩ vvāṇṭu kumpanāyiṟṟut tirucci-

⟨4⟩ vintirattu emperumāṉukkuk kaḷak-

⟨5⟩ kuṭi nāṭṭuk karavantapurattu viyāpāri oru

⟨6⟩ ṅ[k]ai aramkaṉ 2 vaitta tirunontā viḷakku o-

⟨7⟩ ṉṟu niṟai pulattu 3 muppatu itu nicatam

⟨8⟩ uḻa[kkarai] ney muṭṭāmal pakalum iravum

⟨9⟩ cantirātitta[vaṟ] erivatāka [vi]ṭ[ṭa] cāvāmu- ⟨Page 64⟩

⟨10⟩ vā[p]perā[ṭu] [eḻu]patta[ñcu] ivaṉe tiru-

⟨11⟩ veṅkaṭa[nilai]kku [vaitta ti]ri[non]tāviḷak-

⟨12⟩ ku oṉṟi[ṉuk]ku [ni]catam āḻākku ney meṟ-

⟨13⟩ [pa]ṭi [e]ri[va]tā[ka] viṭṭa āṭu irupattai-

⟨14⟩ ñcu āka āṭu nū[ṟum pa]riṭaiccavai[yār]kku

⟨15⟩ [kāṭ]ṭik kuṭuttaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0050⟩ No. 50. (A.R. No. 156 of 1969.) TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On a pillar stone supporting Nandi, Ādhipurīśvara temple (west face).

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 40: 947 A.D.

It records that Nakkaṉ Parāntakaṉ alias Brahmaśrīrājaṉ (a resident) of Alaiyūr a brahmadēyam in Mipilāṟu in Poygai-nāḍu on the northern bank (of the river Kāvēri) in Chōḷa-nāḍu made a gift of ninety sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to the god of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr.

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⟨1⟩ parakecari[pa]mmakku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu nāṟppatā-

⟨3⟩ vatu coḻanāṭṭu va-

⟨4⟩ ṭakaraip poykai

⟨5⟩ nāṭṭu mipilāṟṟu pira-

⟨6⟩ mateyam alaiyūr

⟨7⟩ nakkaṉ pi-

⟨8⟩ rāntakaṉ

⟨9⟩ ṉākiya 1 bra

⟨10⟩ hmaśrīr[ā]-

⟨11⟩ jaṉ tiruv[o]- ⟨Page 65⟩

⟨12⟩ ṟṟiyūr ma-

⟨13⟩ hādēva-

⟨14⟩ rk(k)oru nand[ā]

⟨15⟩ viḷakku ā-

⟨16⟩ candrakāla-

⟨17⟩ merip-

⟨18⟩ pataṟkku vaitta cā-

⟨19⟩ vāmuvāp perāṭu to-

⟨20⟩ ṇṇūṟu [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0051⟩ No. 51. (A.R. No. 386 of 1924.) MĒLAPPAḺAUVŪR, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the Choḷēśvara shrine in the Āgastyēśvara temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 40: 947 A.D.

This inscription records an undertaking given by the seven officials of the temple of Avanigandharva-Īśvaragṛiham to Nakkaṉ Aiyyāṟṟaḍigaḷ, a dancing-girl of the temple. She purchased four mā of waste land at Uṟagaṉkuḍi, a dēvadāna village of Poygai-nāḍu. She reclaimed it converted it into wet-land and donated back to the temple for burning a perpetual lamp out of the produce of the land.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecaripanmakku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu 40 āvatu kuṉṟak kūṟṟattu dēvadāṉam avanikandharvva ī

⟨3⟩ śvaragrahattu daṇḍiīśvarapaṭārariṭai ittaḷik kūttappi[ḷ*]ḷai

⟨4⟩ nakkaṉ ayyāṟṟaṭikaḷit taḷi dēvadānam poykaiy nā-

⟨5⟩ ṭṭu urakaṉkuṭi apohaṉaṅ kiṭaṉta bhumiyai vilaikku koṇ-

⟨6⟩ ṭu kalli iraṇṭu pūvum viḷaiya nirnilam nāṉku māvum ⟨Page 66⟩

⟨7⟩ itiṉ poṉta hōgaṅ 1 koṇṭu cantrātittavat oru no-

⟨8⟩ ṉtā viḷakku iravum pakalum erippomānom ittaḷi-

⟨9⟩ ppaṭṭuṭaiyom eḻuvom itu panmāhēśvararakṣai ||*

⟨SIIv32p1i0052⟩ No. 52. (A.R. No. 149 of 1937.) KUMĀRAVAYALŪR, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa infront of the central shrine in the Agnīśvara temple.

M.Ī.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year 41: 948 A.D.

It records that Nālāyirattu Muṉṉūṟṟuvaṉ alias Chandraśēkharaṉ Aramaiyindaṇ, the madhyasthan (the arbitrator) of Nandipanma-maṅgalam, a brahmadēyam on the southern bank (by the river Kāvēri) had dedicated his maid servant, whom he had acquired in the 35th year (i.e. 942 A.D. of the ruling king) Ūraṉ Śōlai, her daughter Veḷḷāḷa Pirāṭṭi and the latter's daughter Aramaiyindaṉ Kaṇḍi with the libation of water to the god, Paramēśvarar of the stone temple at Vayalūr for serving as chauribearers as well as for reciting tiruppadiyam.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraiyum [īḻamu]mkoṇṭa kopparakecaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu 41 āvatu teṉkarai brahmateyam nantipanmamaṅkala[ttu]

⟨2⟩ madhyattaṉ nālāyirattu muṉṉūṟṟuvaṉ āṉa cantiraśēkaraṉ aramaiyintaṉeṉ nāṉ [3]5 āvatu kūḻḻāḷ koḷḷa •••

⟨3⟩ eṉ aṭiyāḷ ūraṉ colaiyaiyyum ivaḷ makaḷ veḷḷāḷapirāṭṭiyaiyum ivaḷ makaḷ aramaiyiṉtaṉ kaṇṭiy[ai]yum uḷḷiṭṭārai u ••••

⟨4⟩ k kūṟṟattu vayalūrt tirukkaṟṟaḷi paramēśvara[r]kku kavarippiṇāvākavum tiruppatiyam pāṭavum ni(r)roṭu aṭṭik kuṭutteṉ cantiracekaraṉ aramaiyiṉtaṉe[ṉ*] ⟨Page 67⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0053⟩ No. 53. (A.R. No. 345 of 1903.) NAṄGĀVARAM, KULITTALAI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the base of the central shrine in the Piḍāri temple.

M.K. Parakēsarivarman (Parāntaka I) Year—

Records that 12(1/2) kalam of paddy per annum accrued by way of interest at the rate of two nāḻi per kalam per month, on the fifty kalam of paddy gifted by an individual named •••• teḍakki ulagaṉ (apparently for providing offerings and worship) to the goddess Araṇaḻippa Mākāḷattukkāḷa-bhaṭāri alias Sāttaṉūr Naṅgai for the prevalence of peace, prosperity and well-being of Ariñjigaich-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a dēvadāna-brahmadēya on the southern bank (of the Kāvēri).

Published in S.I.I. Vol. VIII No. 654.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu teṉkarai tevatā-

⟨2⟩ ṉappiramateyam aṟiñcikaiccaturvvēdi maṅkalamāṉa i-

⟨3⟩ grāmattukku sarvvaśān-

⟨4⟩ tikaramāy sarvvābhyudaya samraddhyartthamāka iruntaruḷi irunta araṇaḻi-

⟨5⟩ ppa mākāḷattuk kāḷābhaṭāriyāṉa cāttaṉūr naṅkaikku vaṭakarai •• • •

⟨6⟩ teṭakki ulakan vaitta nel aimpatin kalam kalattuvāyt tiṅkaḷ irunāḻi palicai

⟨7⟩ yāl āṭṭu pannirukala varai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0054⟩ No. 54. (A.R. No. of 1998-99.) VĀYALŌGAM, KULATTUR TALUK, PUDUKOTTAI DISTRICT.

On broken stones (three pieces) kept at the Saptamātrikā temple near the tank.

Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 3: 960 A.D. ⟨Page 68⟩

Records the gift of two plots of land amounting to three mā, nāṭṭār-peruñchey and nāṟṟukkāl tuḍarchchey for the maintenance of the tank (kuḷappaṭṭi) at Vayalōkam in Vayalaka-nāḍu by the sword regiment Vīrachōḷa Ilaṅgōvēḷār (Vīrachōḻa Ilaṅgōvēḷārvāḷpaḍai) and the body-guard unit uḍanilai-chēvagar. It is also stated that these two plots of land were made over to the tank perpetually.

Published in Āvaṇam Vol. No. 10 (1999) p. 15.

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⟨1⟩ śvattiśrī [||*] koirācakeca[ri]pa[ṉ]-

⟨2⟩ makki yāṇṭu 3 āvatu ivvāṇṭu

⟨3⟩ va[ya]la[ka n]āṭṭu vayalakattu kuḷattu[k*]ku

⟨4⟩ kuḷappaṭṭi ceyta nilam ivūr nāṭṭ[ā]-

⟨5⟩ r peruñceyyum nāṟṟukkāl [tuṭarc]-

⟨6⟩ ceyum ivai iraṇṭum nilan ikkuḷa-

⟨7⟩ ttukku cantirā[ti]tya(tta)val ni[ṟ*]ppatāka ce-

⟨8⟩ ytom viracoḻa iḷaṅ[ko]veḷār vā-

⟨9⟩ ḷpaṭaiyum uṭanilai[ceva]karum i-

⟨10⟩ [c*]aintu itu irakṣi[p*]pāṉ pātam eṅka-

⟨11⟩ ḷ talai melatu i[tu*] panmāhēśvara[ra*]kṣai- [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0055⟩ No. 55. (A.R. No. 243 of 1944.) VĀLIKAṆḌAPURAM, PERAMBALUR TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 4: 961 A.D.

This record on the grounds of palaeography may be assigned to the tenth century. Possibly it belongs to the reign period of Rājakēsarivarmaṉ Sundarachōḷa.

It records that Maṟavaṉ Tuṅgāṉaiyān Pirāntaka-Vāḷanāḍuḍiyāṉ and his brotherin-law Vāṇarāyaṉ Araviñjaṉ Rājādittan had a contest (koḻiporutti) in which the latter ⟨Page 69⟩ was defeated and that he entrusted 7 pure gold (sempoṉ) to the body, Saṅkarapāḍinagarattār in Vālikaṇḍapuram for burning a perpetual lamp to the deity Tiruvālīśvarattu-Paramēśvarar for the merit of Pirāntaka-Vaḷanāḍuḍiyāṉ, with an uḻakku of ghee daily. Araviñjaṇ Irājādittaṉ seems to have presented a copper-lamp for the purpose.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kovirācakecaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu 4 āvatu maṟavaṉ tūṅkā-

⟨2⟩ ṉaiyāṉ pirāntaka vaḷaṉāṭuṭaiyāṉum ivaṉ maittuṉaṉ vāṇara-

⟨3⟩ yaṉ araviñcaṉ irācātittaṉun taṅkaḷiṟ koḻiporutti araviñ-

⟨4⟩ caṉ irācātittaṉ ṟoṟṟu pirānta vaḷaṉāṭuṭaiyāṉukkākat tiru-

⟨5⟩ vāliśvarattu paramēśvararkku vaiytta nontāviḷakku oṉṟu

⟨6⟩ ivviḷakkukku vālikaṇṭapurattuc caṅkarapāṭi nakarattār vacam ku-

⟨7⟩ ṭutta cempoṉ ippoṉ 7ø ippoṉ koṇṭu nicatam uḻakkeṇṇai

⟨8⟩ cantirātittaval aṭṭuvomāṉom caṅkarappāṭi nakarattom

⟨9⟩ ceppuviḷakku oṉṟu ivviḷakki(l)le iravum pakalum erikka panmāhēśvarara rakṣai ||—

⟨SIIv32p1i0056⟩ No. 56. (A.R. No. 238 of 1944.) VĀLIKAṆḌAPURAM, PERAMBALUR TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 4: 961 A.D.

It records an undertaking given by the body called Saṅkarapāḍi-nagarattār of the village Vālikaṇḍapuram to contribute one uḻakku of ghee measured by nārāyam to burn a perpetual lamp for god Paramēśvara in the temple of Tiruvālīśvaram in Vālikaṇḍapuram in Vaṉnāḍu after accepting 7(1/2) kaḻañju of pure gold weighed by the nagarakkal deposited for the purpose by Mādaṉ Vaikunthan alias Raṇaraṅgarāgappallavaraiyaṉ of Puliyūr in Vaṉ-nāḍu. ⟨Page 70⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kovi[rā]cakecaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu 4 āvatu vaṉṉā-

⟨2⟩ ṭṭu vālikaṇ[ṭapura]ttu tiruvāliccurattu parameśvarark-

⟨3⟩ ku innāṭṭuppuḷi[yū]ruṭaiyāṉ mātaṉ vaiykuntaṉāyiṉa ira-

⟨4⟩ ṇaraṅkarākap pallavaraiyaṉ vaitta nontā viḷakku o-

⟨5⟩ ṉṟukku ivvūril nakarakallāl cempoṉ eḻu kaḻai-

⟨6⟩ ñcaraiyum koṇṭu nārāyattāluḻak keṇṇai iravum paka-

⟨7⟩ lum aṭṭuvomivvūr caṅkarappāṭi nakarattom itu cantirā-

⟨8⟩ tittavaṟ eriya 1 paṉmāheśvara rakṣai ||— ceppuviḷakku oṉṟu

⟨SIIv32p1i0057⟩ No. 57. (A.R. No. 246 of 1944.) VĀLIKAṆḌAPURAM, PERAMBALUR TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

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

Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 4: 961 A.D.

This inscription on the grounds of palaeography may be assigned to the tenth century A.D. It may belong to the reign period of Rājakēsarivarman Sundarachōḷa.

It records that Achchaṉakkaṉ, a servant belonging to the sword regiment called Iḷaiya-Koṅga-vāḷ (of Vālikaṇḍapuram) made a gift of seven kaḷañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp to the god Mahādēva of Tiruvālīśvaram in Vālikaṇḍapuram in Vaṉ-nāḍu. The gift-gold was entrusted to the Saṅkarappāḍi-nagarattār, with the stipulation that they should supply one uḻakku (of oil) daily by the measure nārāyam (for burning the lamp).

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kovirācakecaripanma[ṟ*]ku yāṇṭu 4 āvatu vaṉṉāṭṭu vālikaṇṭapura-

⟨2⟩ ttu tiruvāliśvarattu m(ā)h[ā*]dēva[r*]kku ivūr iḷaiya k[o]ṅkavā[ḷi]l cevakaṉ

⟨3⟩ accaṉakkaṉ vaitta nontā viḷakku+itiṉukku poṉ eḻu kaḻañcu

⟨4⟩ ippoṉṉā[l*] nārāyattāl nica[ti*] uḻakku aṭṭakkaṭavar caṅkarapāṭi nakara[t*]tā[r*]

⟨5⟩ itu canti[rā]tittavalam pamhēśvarakṣa 2[||*] ⟨Page 71⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0058⟩ No. 58. (A.R. No. 12 of 1896.) KARIKAL, ARAKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a slab which forms a roof of the Ponni-Amman temple.

M.K. Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 5: 962 A.D.

Records that Āchchan Veṇṇāyi Naṅgai, of Eṟupāḍi in Kiḻār-kūṟṟam, the wife of Vīravaḷañjiyaṉ of Maṟiyāḍi in Pulivala-nāḍu, had caused the construction of the temple for Piḍāri (Bhaṭṭāraki).

Published in Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 331.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī (śrī) [||*] 1 matiraikoṇṭa kovirājakesaripa-

⟨2⟩ ṉmaṟ[k*]ki yāṇṭu añcāvatu pulivalanāṭṭu

⟨3⟩ maṟiyāṭi [vi]ravaḷañciyaṉ miṇāṭṭi kiḻār kū-

⟨4⟩ ṟṟattu ēṟupāṭi āccaṉ veṇṇāyi na-

⟨5⟩ ṅkaiyeṉ ce[yvi]cca piṭāri koyil [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0059⟩ No. 59. (A.R. No. 315 of 1911.) VĒḶACHCHĒRI, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine in the Daṇḍīśvara temple.

M.K. Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 5: 962 A.D.

This inscription has been assigned to Sundarachōḷa. It records that Dēvakumāra Kramavittan of Teṉṉūr, one of the āḷuṅgaṇattār of Vēḷichchēri in Kōṭṭūr-nāḍu (a sub-division) of Puliyūr-kōṭṭam made a gift of ninety sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to Tirutaṇḍīśvara-dēvar of the above village.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. III. No. 114. ⟨Page 72⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kovirājakesaripanma[rk*]ku yāṇṭu

⟨2⟩ 5 cāvatu puliyūr koṭṭa[t*]tu ko[ṭ*]ṭur nāṭṭu veḷi[c*]ceri yāḷuṅka-

⟨3⟩ ṇa[tt]āruḷ [te]nṉūr dēvakumārakramavittannivūr 1 tirutaṇṭiśva-

⟨4⟩ radēvarkku candrātittaval oru[na]ndāviḷa[k*]kerippataṟkku vaitta

⟨5⟩ cāvāmuvā perāṭu toṇṇūṟu indhamma 2 rakṣi[p*]pār [pa]nmāhēsaśvarar |||—

⟨SIIv32p1i0060⟩ No. 60. (A.R. No. 246 of 1912.) TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On a pillar lying to the south of the Ādhipurīśvara temple.

M.K. Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 5: 962 A.D.

This inscription though belonging to Sundarachōḷa refers to Uttamachōḷa. It records that an individual Kaḍuttalai Nāgamaiyaṉ, son of Śiṅgamaiyaṉ, a Kalēśi perundaram official, who had accompanied uḍaiyār Uttamachōḷa, donated ninety sheep for burning one perpetual lamp and also an Īḻa-lamp to Tiruvoṟṟiyūr Mahādēva.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. III. No. 115.

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⟨1⟩ [svasti]śrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kovirācake-

⟨2⟩ caripanma[r*]kku yāṇṭu aiñcāvatu uṭaiyār

⟨3⟩ śrī uttamacoḻateva(r)ruṭaṉ vanta

⟨4⟩ kaleci peruntara[t*]tuc ciṅkamaiyyaṉ

⟨5⟩ makaṉ kaṭuttalai nākamayyaṉ tiruvoṟṟi[yū]r

⟨6⟩ mah[ā*]dēvarkku ācantriratā[ra]mum 3 oru nantā-

⟨7⟩ [vi]ḷakkerippataṟkku vaitta cāvāmuvāp perā-

⟨8⟩ ṭu toṇṇūṟu īḻaviḷakku onṟu itu panmā-

⟨9⟩ hēśvara rakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 73⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0061⟩ No. 61. (A.R. No. 274 of 1978.) TIRUMALAI, POLUR TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

Rock near the steps leading to the temple.

M.K. Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 6: 963 A.D.

This registers a gift of 95 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to the god of Tirumalai, a hamlet of Vaigavūr in Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu by Ēkavīraṉ Daṉmasaṅgātiyār alias Malaiyamahādēviyār, the wife of Malāḍu-uḍaiya Nāṭṭāṉ Sittavaḍattaḍigaḷ of Bhārgava gōtra and the daughter of Nāḍāḷvār Iḷaṅgōṉaḍigaḷ.

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⟨1⟩ [svasti]śrī [||*] matiraikoṇṭa kovirājakesa ••• ••• ṇṭu 6 āvatu

⟨2⟩ paṅkaḷa nāṭṭu vaikavūrt tirumalaidēvarkku bhārggava g[ō]ttrattu malāṭuṭaiya nāṭṭāṉ citta-

⟨3⟩ vaṭattaṭikaḷ dēviyār nāṭāḷvār iḷaṅkoṉaṭikaḷ makaḷār ekavīraṉ taṉmacaṅkātiyā-

⟨4⟩ rākiya malaiyamahādēviyar candrādityavaṟ nandāviḷakkukku vaitta cāvāmuvāp perāṭu to-

⟨5⟩ ṇṇūṟṟaiñcu idharmmaṅ keṭuppāṉ kaṅkaiiṭaik kumariyiṭaic ceytār ceyta pāvaṅ koḷvā-

⟨6⟩ ṉ ||

⟨SIIv32p1i0062⟩ No. 62. (A.R. No. 291 of 1908.) TIRUKKAḶITTAṬṬAI, KUMBAHKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

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

Sundarachōḷa, who drove the Pāṇḍya into the forest Year 7: 964 A.D.

It records that Pirāntaka Siṟiyavēḷān alias Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Pichchaṉ, who was serving as a general of the king purchased a plot of land called taḷi-viḷāgam, half-a-vēḷi in extent, and also got it freed from taxes with 156 kaḷañju of gold, he had endowed for providing ritualistic offerings of food for the god Śrī Kuḍittiṭṭai uḍaiyār at Vembaṟṟūr on the northern bank of the (river Kāvēri).

Published in Ep. Ind. Vol. XII. p. 126. ⟨Page 74⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] pāṇṭiyaṉ cura(m)miṟakkina perumāḷ śrīcuntracoḻa dēvaṟku yāṇṭu 7 vatu vaṭakarai vempaṟṟūr

⟨2⟩ śrīkuṭittiṭṭai uṭaiy[ā*]ṟku ipperumā(ḷ)ḷukku senāpatyam cekiṟa pirāntakan ciṟiyaveḷā-

⟨3⟩ nanā[na*] tirukkaṟṟaḷi piccanne(n) itdēvaṟku tirumantraponakattukku nān cempoṉ 156 kaḻa-

⟨4⟩ ñcuṅ kuṭuttu koṇṭu iṟaiyili cetu koṭutta nilamāvatu itdēvar śrīkoyilukku vaṭakku tirukkuḷa-

⟨5⟩ ttukku vaṭakku taḷiviḷākam [e*]nṟu per kūvappaṭṭa nilam araiyum itdēvaṟku tirumantraponaka-

⟨6⟩ ttukku cantrādityavaṟ celvatāka iṟaiyiḻicci kuṭutten pirāntakan ciṟiya veḷāna(n)āna tirukkaṟṟaḷi piccananeṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0063⟩ No. 63. (A.R. No. 232 of 1942.) TIRUKKAṆḌIYŪR, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On a pillar lying in the compound of the ruined Īśvara temple.

Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) 7: 964 A.D.

This inscription on the grounds of palaeography may be assigned to the tenth century A.D., as it may belong to the reign-period of Rājakēsarivarmaṉ Sundarachōḷa.

It records the definition of the boundaries of a plot of land, 1/8 of a vēli in extent, belonging to the god who was pleased to keep standing. Among the boundaries of the land two plots of strīdhana land owned by the wife of Sāvāndi Śrīkaṇṭaṉ, is mentioned.

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⟨1⟩ [svasti]śrī [||*] korājakesarivamakku yāṇṭu 7 āvatu āṟkāṭ-

⟨2⟩ ṭuk kūṟṟattu brahmadēyan tirukkaṇṭiyūr niṉṟaruḷina dē- ⟨Page 75⟩

⟨3⟩ var nilam a[sa] vākūrāṉa kaṉaka[vā]ttiyāpakaraṉ śrīvāsudēva-

⟨4⟩ • macakkalukku kiḻpā[rk]ellai cāvānti śrīkaṇṭaṉ

⟨5⟩ cerumaṉ brāhmaṇi stridhaṉattukkum tāṉaiñcaṉ co-

⟨6⟩ ti divākaraṉ kalamāḷkiṟa nīlattukku 1 mekku teṉpā[ṟ]-

⟨7⟩ kellai cāvānti śrīkaṇṭan cerumaṉ brāhmaṇi stri-

⟨8⟩ dhaṉattukkum āṉaivāykkālukkum vaṭakku[m]

⟨9⟩ (m) mipākkellai kuṇṭuvāykku kiḻakkum vaṭap[ā]-

⟨10⟩ kkellai ārakaṉ tirumaḻapāṭi ceṭṭāṉ kala-

⟨11⟩ māḷkiṉṟa nilattukku teṟkum ivvicaitta 2 perunā-

⟨12⟩ ṉkellaiyilakappaṭṭa nilam araikkāl [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0064⟩ No. 64. (A.R. No. 382 of 1924.) MĒLAPPAḺUVŪR, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the south wall of the Chōḷēśvara shrine in the Agastyēśvara temple.

Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa ?) 3Year 9: 964 A.D. Uttamachōḷa year 16: 987 A.D.

This inscription refers to an endowment made in the 9th regnal year of Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) but it was given effect in the subsequent period ie during the reign of Uttamachōḷa.

It records that Vīrachōḻa Aṇukkaṉ Śiṟiyappi Maḻapāḍi of Avanigandharvvapuram made a gift of ten kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp with one uḻakku of ghee daily to the shrine (situated) to the north of the temple of Mahādēva of Avanigandharvva-Īśvaragriham, a dēvadāna in Kuṉṟa-kkūṟṟam. During the sixteenth regnal year of Uttamachōḷa on the orders of Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Kaṇḍaṉ Maṟavaṉ, the two nagarattārs who were examining the śrīkāriyam of the temple received the ⟨Page 76⟩ gold for interest (ie supplying ghee for burning the lamp). Probably later, when the śrīkāriyam of the temple was being checked by Kauśikan Nakkan Māṟapirāṉ, the gold was taken over by the paṭṭuḍiyār-eḻuvar (seven priests, possibly of Avanigandharvva-Īśvaragriham), for arranging to burn the perpetual lamp.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. XIII No. 201.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] koirācakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 9 ā-

⟨2⟩ vatu kuṉṟakkūṟṟattu dēvadāṉam avaṉikandharvva

⟨3⟩ īśva[ra*]gra[ha*]ttu mahādēvar vaṭavāy śrīkoyilukku a-

⟨4⟩ vaṉikandharvvapurattu viracoḻa aṇukkaṉ ciṟiyappi maḻapā-

⟨5⟩ ṭi cantrātittavallum vaitta no[n*]tāviḷakku oṉṟinik-

⟨6⟩ ku paṭiyuḻakkiṉāl nicatamuḻakku ne[y*]yeriya vaitta poṉ-

⟨7⟩ 10 patiṉkaḻañcum śrīkopparakecaripaṉmarkku yāṇṭu uttamacoḻa[r*]kku 1[6]āvatu a-

⟨8⟩ ṭikaḷ paḻu-

⟨9⟩ veṭṭaraiyar kaṇṭaṉ maṟavaṉār aru[ḷi*] ceyya śrī kāryyam ārāyā niṟkka iraṇṭu nakarattārum ciṟi-

⟨10⟩ yappi maḻa-

⟨11⟩ vāṭi vaitta poṉ patiṉkaḻañcum koṇṭu iraṇṭu nakarattārum palicai iṭṭuvārā niṟkiṉṟa poṉ patiṉkaḻa-

⟨12⟩ ñcum śrīkāryyam ārāyāniṉṟa kauśikan nakkan māṟapirāṉ ārācciyil ippoṉ patiṉkaḻañcum vāṅki koṇṭu

⟨13⟩ cantrādittaval iravum pakalum oru nontāviḷa-

⟨14⟩ kku erippom ānom ittaḷip pa-

⟨15⟩ ṭṭuṭaiyom eḻuvom itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai ||§ ⟨Page 77⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0065⟩ No. 65. (A.R. No. 267 of 1911.) TILLAISTHĀNAM, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the south wall in the Central shrine in the Ghritasthanēśvara temple.

Rājakēsarivarman (Sundarachōḷa) Year 13: 970 A.D.

Records two gifts of 25 kaḻañju of gold each by Teṉṉavan Pritimārāśan alias Kaṭṭi Ūraṉ and Varaguṇa Perumaṉār, the queen of Parāntaka Iḷaṅgōvēḷār for burning two perpetual lamps with two uḻakku of oil daily to the god, Mahādēva at Tiruneittānam in Poygai-nāḍu. With the 50 kaḻañju of gold the sabhaiyār of Tiruneittānam and pādamūlattār agreed to burn the two perpetual lamps daily by reclaiming ten chey of temple land (earmarked for this purpose). Among the boundaries of land, a plot of land owned by a Vishṇu temple is mentioned.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. III No. 113.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] korājakesarivarmaṟku yāṇṭu 13 āvatu poykai ñāṭṭut

⟨2⟩ tevatāṉan tiruneyttāṉattu mahādēva[rk]kut teṉṉavaṉ piru-

⟨3⟩ timārācaṉāyiṉa kaṭṭi oṟṟiūraṉ nicati uḻakku neyyāloru nontāviḷa-

⟨4⟩ kkerivatākak kuṭutta poṉ 25øum parāntakaviḷaṅkoveḷār teviyā-

⟨5⟩ r varakuṇaperumāṉār oru nontāviḷakkiṉukkuk kuṭutta poṉ 25ø 2 mākap po-

⟨6⟩ ṉ 50ø ñciṉālum tevar [nilaṅ]kaṟai[yu]n tiṭaluṅ kalli nirnilamāka macakkiṉa [nilat]-

⟨7⟩ tukkellai karaikkiḻ viṣṇubhaṭṭarā[ka]r tuṭavaikku me[r*]kkuṅ karikālak karaikku vaṭakkun tevaruṭai-

⟨8⟩ ya puṉceykkaṟāykkuk kiḻakku mantaṉūr [vā]ykkālukku[t] teṟku mivvicaiytta perunā-

⟨9⟩ ṉkellaiyuḷ[ḷa*]kappaṭṭa nilam ce pattuc ceyuṅ [k*]oṇṭu nicatiyiraṇṭu nontā viḷa- ⟨Page 78⟩

⟨10⟩ kku candrādittaval erippomāṉon tiruneytāṉattu sabhaiyum pātamulamitu panmāhēśvarar ra[kṣai] ||—

⟨SIIv32p1i0066⟩ No. 66. (A.R. No. 557 of 1920.) UḌAIYĀRKUḌI, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 2: 962 A.D.

Records an undertaking given by the temple officials (dēvakanmigaḷ) to Araiyaṉ Gēyaviṭaṅkaṉ, a member of (kaikōḷa) regiment, Siṅgaḷāntaka-tteriñja-kaikkōḷar to provide a pair of cloth-wreaths (tirupparisaṭṭam) to the god Mahādēva who is dancing in the stone temple, Tiruvanantiśvaram at Śrī Vīranārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēyam on the northern bank (of the river Kāvēri), with the interest of three kāśu received from him.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] virapāṇṭiyaṉ talai[k]o-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉmaṟ[k]-

⟨3⟩ ku yāṇṭu 2vatu [uṭaiyār]

⟨4⟩ ciṅkaḷāntakat teri[ñ]ca

⟨5⟩ kaikkoḷaril kai •• [kāḷa]

⟨6⟩ ṉ araiyaṉ keya viṭaṅ-

⟨7⟩ kaṉeṉ vaṭa(āk)airai [bra]-

⟨8⟩ hmateyam śrīviraṉārāyaṇa-

⟨9⟩ ccaturvvēti maṅkalattu

⟨10⟩ tiruvaṉantiśvarattu

⟨11⟩ tirukkaṟṟaḷi

⟨12⟩ āṭi arukiṉṟa m[ ādēvar]

⟨13⟩ kkut tirupparicaṭṭattu[k*]ku iṭṭa kā-

⟨14⟩ cu muṉṟu immuṉṟu kā[ci]ṉ pali- ⟨Page 79⟩

⟨15⟩ yālum u ••• ñ cantirāti-

⟨16⟩ ttaval oraṇai paricaṭṭamuñ cār-

⟨17⟩ ttuvippomānom dēvar śrī-

⟨18⟩ kāryyañ ceyyum [dē]var kanmi

⟨19⟩ kaḷom itu pa[n]māhēśva-

⟨20⟩ rar rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0067⟩ No. 67. (A.R. No. 223 of 1915.) BRAHMADĒSAM, CHEYYAR TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

Mahārāja, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 2: 962 A.D.

Records that an individual Iḷanāṅgūr alias Alaṅkāracheṭṭi, the son of Maṅgalapriyaṉ Kalivilaṅgi, a merchant of Tiruvēgambachchēri in Rājamalla-chaturvēdimaṅgalam endowed fifteen kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp to Śrī Pōndaipperumānaḍigaḷ. The gaṇapperumakkaḷ of the temple (who were entrusted with the gold gifted) were to burn the lamp out of the interest on the gifted amount.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] virapāṇṭiyaṉait-

⟨2⟩ talaikoṇṭa koma(ā)hārājaṟku yāṇṭu 2āvatu rājamalla ccaturvētimaṅkalattu

⟨3⟩ tiruvekampacceri vyāpāri maṅkalapriyaṉ kalivilaṅki makaṉ iḷanāṅkūr ākiya ala-

⟨4⟩ ṅkāra ceṭṭi śripontaip perumāṉaṭikaḷukku oru nuntāviḷakkukku vaiytta poṉ pati-

⟨5⟩ ṉaiṅ kaḻañcu ippoṉ patiṉaiṅ kaḻañcālum vanta vraddhip poṉ koṇṭu śriko- ⟨Page 80⟩

⟨6⟩ yil kaṇapperumakkaḷe cantrātityavarai erippatāka vaiytteṉ alaṅkāra ceṭṭi-

⟨7⟩ yeṉ iddhammam rakṣippār śripātam eṉṟalai melaṉa aṟam veṟka aṟamallatu tu-

⟨8⟩ ṇaiyillai || §

⟨SIIv32p1i0068⟩ No. 68. (A.R. No. 215 of 1985.) BĀHŪR, PONDICHERRY.

On the east wall, ardhamaṇḍapa in front of the central shrine, in the Mūlasthānēśvara temple.

Parakēsari, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 3: 963 A.D.

It records a gift of ninetysix sheep by Kaliyaṉ Maṉṟāḍi Aiyyaṉ alias Āchārakāntappallavaraiyaṉ of Karai in Nerumūr-nāḍu in Chembūr-kkōṭṭam for burning a perpetual lamp to the god Śrī-Mūlasthānattu Mahādēva at Vāgūr. He also donated a lamp-stand for burning this lamp.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] virapāṇṭiyaṉ talaikoṇṭa ko-

⟨2⟩ [p*]parakesarivanma[r*]kku yāṇṭu 3vatu vākūr śrī mu-

⟨3⟩ stāṉattu ma(ā)hādēva[r*]kkuc cempūrkkoṭṭattu

⟨4⟩ nerumurnāṭṭuk karai uṭai[yaṉ] kaliyaṉ maṉṟāṭi aiyya-

⟨5⟩ ṉṉākiya ācārakāntap palla[va]-

⟨6⟩ raiyaṉ cantrātit[ta*]val vaitta na-

⟨7⟩ ntā viḷakkoṉṟiṉukku vaitta cāvā

⟨8⟩ muvāpperāṭu toṇṇūṟṟāṟu

⟨9⟩ eriya vaitta nilai viḷakko-

⟨10⟩ ṉṟu ivai paṉmāye[ha]śva-

⟨11⟩ ra irakṣai [||*] ⟨Page 81⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0069⟩ No. 69. (A.R. No. 246 of 1969.) BĒLŪR, SALEM TALUK, SALEM DISTRICT.

On a stone set up outside the Tāṉtoṉṟīśvara temple.

Parakēsari, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 3: 963 A.D.

Records that Milāḍudaiyāṉ Akaḷaṅkaṉ Malaiyar Ādittan alias Sēmbiyaṉ Milāḍuḍaiyāṉ of Bhārghava gōtra has authorized the administrators of Tuṟivi-nāḍu (Tuṟivi-nāṭṭuūrāḷigaḷ) to collect four and quarter kaḻañju of gold as tax towards ūrāḷittiṟai.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ virapāṇ[ṭi*]ya

⟨3⟩ ṉ ṟalaikoṇ-

⟨4⟩ ṭa kopparakecari

⟨5⟩ paṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 3

⟨6⟩ āvatu bhārggavagō

⟨7⟩ trattu milāṭuṭaiyā-

⟨8⟩ ṉ akalaṅkaṉ ma-

⟨9⟩ laiyarātittaṉāṉa ce-

⟨10⟩ mpiyaṉ milāṭuṭai-

⟨11⟩ yāṉeṉ tuṟivi nā-

⟨12⟩ ṭṭurāḷikaḷai ūrāḷittiṟai

⟨13⟩ nāṟ kaḻañce kāle ko-

⟨14⟩ ḷvatāka pūvilai cey-

⟨15⟩ tu kuṭutteṉ cempi-

⟨16⟩ yaṉ milāṭuṭaiyā-

⟨17⟩ ṉeṉ itu mā- ⟨Page 82⟩

⟨18⟩ ṟṟuvāṉ

⟨19⟩ eḻā naraka-

⟨20⟩ m pukuvāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0070⟩ No. 70. (A.R. No. 380 of 1938.) ŚĪṞUPĀKKAM, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a rock near the Śekkaḍippāṟai.

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 3: 960 A.D.

The inscription is ruled between the lines. Records that the ūrār and the kō (the land lord) assigned a plot of three mā of land as ērippaṭṭi (evidently for the maintenance of lake of the village).

Text.

⟨1⟩ [śrī]virap 1 āṇṭiyaṉ ṟa-

⟨2⟩ lai koṇṭa koppara-

⟨3⟩ kecaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu mu-

⟨4⟩ ṉṟāvatu ivvūruṅ kovumirun-

⟨5⟩ tu eri 2 paṭṭiyaṭṭi ceṟuvu virace

⟨6⟩ (ce)y muṉṟu māvumaṭṭiṉom i[tu*]

⟨7⟩ i[ṟa]kkuvāṉ eḻā narakattiṟ kiḻā na-

⟨8⟩ rakam pukuvāṉ ce[ṟu]ppā[l]okariyu-

⟨9⟩ m vaccom ūrom [||*] ⟨Page 83⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0071⟩ No. 71. (A.R. No. 233 of 1911.) KUMBHAKŌṆAM, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

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

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Pāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 3: 963 A.D.

Records that the mūlaparuḍai perumakkaḷ (members of the temple committe) of Tirukkūḍamukkil, a dēvadāna in Pāmbūr-nāḍu on the northern bank (of the river Kāvēri), sold two mā of land out of 24 vēli which they obtained as gift from the king on the occasion of (his) coronation ceremony, to Kōyil Mayilai alias Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Siṟṟiṅgaṉ in Iṅganāḍu. The latter set apart the land, (thus purchased) as bhaṭṭavritti for the person who expounds prabhākaram. One person named Parānṭakan figures as signatory.

Published in S.I.I. Vol. III No. 200.

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⟨1⟩ [svasti]śrī [||*] pāṇṭiyaṉṟalaikoṇṭa koppara-

⟨2⟩ [keca]rivarmaṟkku yāṇṭu 3 āvatu vaṭakaraip pāmpūrnāṭṭu

⟨3⟩ tevatānam tiruk 1 kaṭamukkil mulapaṟaṭaipperumak[ka]-

⟨4⟩ ḷom iṅkaṇāṭṭuc ciṟṟiṅkaṇ ciṟṟiṅkaṇuṭ[ai]-

⟨5⟩ yān koyilmayilaiyāna parāntakamuventa-

⟨6⟩ veḷānukku iṉnampar nā 2 ṭṭu meṟkāviri nā 2 ṅkaḷ u[ṭ]ai-

⟨7⟩ yāriṭai abhiṣēkadatṣi[ṉai] 3 peṟṟuṭaiya nilam

⟨8⟩ 24 veliyilum prabhākaram vakk[āṇi]ppārkku [bha]-

⟨9⟩ ṭṭavrattiyāka ivvūrile viṟṟukkuṭutta [nilam] iraṇ[ṭu]

⟨10⟩ iraṇṭu māvukkum ellai kiḻpāṟke[l]lai śā[lā]-

⟨11⟩ bhōgamāka viṟṟu[k*] kuṭutta nilattu[k*]ku meṟkum t[e]-

⟨12⟩ ṉpāṟkellai meṟkāviri nilattukku va[ṭa]-

⟨13⟩ kkum melpāṟkellai viṟṟoṅkaḷ ni-

⟨14⟩ lattukku kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai vi[ṟ*][ṟo] ⟨Page 84⟩

⟨15⟩ ṅkaḷ nilattukku t[eṟku]m āka ivvicaitta

⟨16⟩ perunāṉkellaiyuḷ akappa[ṭ*]ṭa nilam mū-

⟨17⟩ lapaṟaṭaiyāriṭai vilaikoṇṭaparice candr[ā]-

⟨18⟩ dittavat bhaṭṭavṛttiyāka vaicceṉ parāntakamuventa-

⟨19⟩ veḷāṉeṉ itu āyirantiruvaṭiyuṭaiy[ ār ra]-

⟨20⟩ kṣai ||—idam parāntakēṇa lēkhā [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0072⟩ No. 72. (A.R. No. 57 of 1995-96.) VEṄKAGAṬṬŪṚ, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a hero-stone set up in a mango groove owned by Doraisamy Naidu.

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 3: 963 A.D.

Records that when the village Chōḷaṉūr was destroyed and its cattle was seized, Śāttayaṉ, the son of Vikramādittan alias Diṉmacheṭṭi, a sluice operator at Cheṅguṉṟam fought with that cattle lifter and died while rescuring the cattle.

Text.

⟨1⟩ virapāṇṭiyaṉait talaikoṇṭa kopparakecaripa-

⟨2⟩ ṉmaṟku yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu ceṅkuṉṟattu tūmpa-

⟨3⟩ ṭaippār vikkiramātittaṉākiya tiṉmaceṭṭi makaṉ

⟨4⟩ cāttayaṉ coḷaṉūr ūraḻiñcu toṟuk ko-

⟨5⟩ ḷḷak koṭṭu pūcal poyt toṟu mi-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭup paṭṭāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0073⟩ No. 73. (A.R. No. 58 of 1995-96.) VEṄKAGAṬṬŪṚ, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On another hero-stone set up in the same place.

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 3: 963 A.D.

Records that when the village Tiruvūṟal Chōḷaṉūr was destroyed and its cattle were lifted Śāttayaṉ, the sluice-operator at Cheṅguṉṟam fought with that cattle lifter and died while rescuing the cattle. ⟨Page 85⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ virapāṇṭiyaṉait talaikoṇṭa kopparakecari

⟨2⟩ [pa]ṉmaṟku yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu ceṅkuṉṟattu

⟨3⟩ tūmpaṭaippār cāttayaṉ tiruvūṟal coḷa-

⟨4⟩ nūr ūraḻi[ñci]toṟuk koḷḷa koṭṭup pū-

⟨5⟩ cal poy toṟu miṭṭup paṭṭāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0074⟩ No. 74. (A.R. No. 610 of 1920.) UḌAIYĀGUḌI, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

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

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 4: 964 A.D.

Records the endowment made by Kāḷaiyaṉ Kōḍaṉ, who was a sāma-nāyakaṉ in the military unit, mūtta paḻaiya vāḷ, on the day of Kārttigai in the month of Makara coinciding with Monday in the year cited, for feeding a brāhmaṇa at uttamāgram (daily). For this purpose he had entrusted to the gaṇapperumakkaḷ, who were administering the temple, thirty five and half kaḻañju of gold. He had also donated vessels, taḷigai and vaṭṭil for preparing the food. Details of the items of food to be provided are given in this record.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] pāṇṭiyaṉ talaikoṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉmakku yāṇṭu 4 (mu)vatu vaṭakarai brahmadēyam śrīviranārāyaṇa caturvvēdimaṅgalattu tiruvanantaśvarattāḷvār koyilile mūtta paḻaiya vāḷin cāmayanāyakaṉ kāḷaiyaṉ koṭan

⟨2⟩ ivvāṭṭai makaranāyaṟṟut tiṅkaṭkiḻamai peṟṟa kārttikai nāṉṟu uttamāgrattukkuk kalamoṉṟu candrādityavat nicati nellum patiṉāḻiyum kaḻañcu poṉṉāl kalanellup poli koṇṭu

⟨3⟩ uṇpārkkuk kaṟi kummāyamum kāykkaṟiyum puḷiyaṅkaṟiyum porikkaṟiyum neyyāḻākkum tayir nāḻiyum pākku nālum pattu veṟṟilaiyumiṭṭuṭṭuvataṟkuk kuṭuttapoṉ kaḻañciṟ perttatu muppat- ⟨Page 86⟩

⟨4⟩ taiṅ kaḻañcaraiy taḷikaiyoṉṟu muppattaṟu palam vaṭṭiloṉṟaim palam vaṭṭiṟ kāloṉṟu ippoṉkoṇṭu paramasvāmi śrīkāryyamārāyum kaṇapperumakkaḷom uttamāgramoṉṟu candrāditya[va*]-

⟨5⟩ t ūṭṭuvikkak kaṭav[o]māṉom itu paṉmāhēśvararakṣai ivai kaṇapperumakkaḷ paṇiyāl neṟkuppaiyuṭaiyāṉāṉa tiruvanantaśvarap peruṅkāviti veḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv32p1i0075⟩ No. 75. (A.R. No. 574 of 1971.) TAÑJĀVŪR, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

Stray stones collected and kept in the south-east verandah of the first prākāra in the Brihadīśvara temple.

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Vīrapāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 4: 964 A.D.

Seems to record the investigation (ārāchchi) of the affairs of the Taḷikkuḷa-dēvar temple by Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷār. In the course of this investigation it appears to have been found that 12 kāśu endowed by Pichchaṉ Vikramābharaṇi, a servant (peṇḍāṭṭi) residing at Ponnamaraiyar-aṅgaḍi for a perpetual lamp during the 11th regnal year of Rājakēsarivarmaṉ (Sundarachōḷa) still remained unallotted for earning interest to maintain the lamp. This amount was now entrusted to Nāgarāśaṉ Tiruvaḍigaḷ of the same aṅgaḍi after obtaining a hand receipt.

Text.

⟨1⟩ pāṇṭiyaṉ talaikoṇṭa kopparakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 4 āvatu parāntaka muventave-

⟨2⟩ ḷāṉārācci taḷikkuḷatevarkku poṉṉamaraiyar aṅkāṭi irukkum poṇṭāṭṭi piccaṉ vikkiramāparaṇi

⟨3⟩ k[o*]virācakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 11 āvatu [v*]aitta nontā viḷakku oṉṟiṉuḷ poṉṉama[r]aiyaraṅkāṭi

⟨4⟩ nākarācaṉ tiruvaṭikaḷ kaiyyeḻuttolai iṭṭu koṇṭa kācu 12 [||*] ⟨Page 87⟩

⟨SIIv32p1i0076⟩ No. 76. (A.R. No. 248 of 1937.) TIMMICHCHŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On a boulder known as Taḍaṅgal near the Śiva temple.

Parakēsarivarman, who took the head of Pāṇḍya (Āditya II) Year 5: 965 A.D.

Seems to record the gift of two plots of land as ambalappaṭṭi by Munmuḍi chōḻa Kāḍupaṭṭi of Timiśūr in Timiśūr-nāḍu for cleaning and also for providing firewood to the firehearth (tīppātti) in the hall constructed by himself. He also donated sheep for burning a perpetual lamp in the same hall. The inscription further records that he also constructed a shrine for Piḍāriyār and consecrated the goddess, images there.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] pāṇṭiyaṉ ṟalai koṇṭa ko[pparakeca]ripaṉmaṟkku yāṇṭu 5 āvatu

⟨2⟩ timicūrnāṭṭut timicūr mummuṭi ••• •••• ṭu paṭṭi 1 yeṭuppitta ampa-

⟨3⟩ lam ti[k]aiāyirattaiññūṟṟuvakke ••• ••• ṅkaṉum paṉaiyātūruṭaiyā-

⟨4⟩ nerik kiḻerip 2 paṭṭiyum ceṅkuḷat[tu] • ṭa kaṟṟūm poreḻacciyumerippa-

⟨5⟩ ṭṭiyum ampalattukkut tūrukkavumeḻakavu ntippāttikku viṟakiṭavum ceyta ampala

⟨6⟩ ppaṭṭiyum ampalattukku nantāviḷakkukku vaitta āṭum ivai kāppāṉaṭi yeṉṟalai me-

⟨7⟩ laṉa ivai māṟ[ṟu]vāneḻā narakattuk kiḻānarakattu niṟppāṉ aṟamaṟa vaṟkka aṟamallatu tuṇaiyillai

⟨8⟩ mummuṭic coḻak kāṭupaṭṭikaḷe yeṭuppitta piṭāri

⟨9⟩ koyilum piṭārikaḷaiyuñ ceyvittār [||*] ⟨Page 88⟩

⟨SIIv32p2i0001⟩ No. 1. (A.R. No. 287 of 1917.) KŪHŪR, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the west and south walls, central shrine, Amaravanēśvara temple.

Year 2: 973 A.D.

This inscription appears to be a later copy (engraved in Rājarāja I's period). It is damaged in several places and the writing is also not very clear. It seems to refer to the grant of several plots of land to the god of Kūrur in Tirunaṟaiyūr-nāḍu in Kshatriyasikhāmaṇi-vaḷanāḍu. It is enjoined to apportion the yield of land for paying wages to several service personnel of the temple. A piece of land earmarked for conducting offerings and worship (archanābhōgam) to the god Tiruveḷḷarukkīsvaramuḍaiyār is mentioned.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] uttamacoḻatevaṟku yāṇṭu 2 āvatu [kṣa]triya[ci] kāmaṇiva[ḷa] nāṭ[ṭu]t tiruna[ṟai]yūr nā[ṭṭu] kūrur ••• itte[va]ramuṭaiyāṟku •••• kku

⟨2⟩ kūruruṭaiyāṉ kūttan [ā] nattanāṉa mum ••• ••• •••• kup pallavarai[yaṉ] i[ṟ*]aiyi •• [yāna] » 3likku ataku i401 » 100taha

II Piece.

⟨1⟩ kku ni[pa]nta māvil uṭaiyārkkut tiruvamutu 2m ci • tu ••• ••••• ••••• yārku ••• ••• •••• cantikku oru sandhikku 6••• umāsahitar tra ira •••• sandhikku

⟨2⟩ m āka vrakkum acca nel m āvāṟkku ney[ya]mutukku nel 3m vaṟkku ••• ••• •••• vaṇṇata •••ina •••••ykku nitta nel aṭaikkāyamutukku nitta • •

III Piece.

⟨1⟩ abhiṣē •••• ce[yyum] nampikku [ni]tta nel m uṭaiyāṟkku parihāram ceyum māṇikaḷḷiruvarkku nitta nei ••• •••••paṭikku māṇikaḷiruvaṟkku nittaiçm āka nitta ḷa 100 ••• •••• abhiṣēkañ ceyyun nampikku kkaṭa • vacam kācu 2kku [nel][lu]m kācu 2kku

⟨2⟩ nel saka mā • llukku • kappaṭa vicam 4kku i uram vitāṉaṅ koḷḷa āṇṭu nellu [uram] ••• vantatukku dakṣaṇa [va]ntatu snaṅ ⟨Page 92⟩ •••• t tākkaḷ ••• ••• ••• tukku i ••• ••• ••• āṇṭuvarai vanta i ••• ••• ••••uṭaiyārkkup putiya ta •••• ceyum nilaṉ cāttaṉkuṭi maṟuvāyiṉ mu tiruveḷḷarukkiśvaramuṭaiyār arccanāpokam kuḻiccey nilam

IV Piece.

⟨1⟩ ••• ••• •••• [n]el ••• ••• ••• pil poli kuṭuttu iṟaiyili ceytum ••• ••• ni ••••• llai ••• ••• ••• kkat tellaikku kiḻakkum [mu]m maṭi ••• ••• •••• kum tenpāṟkellai ellaikkarampalan [nen*]ṟup per kūvappaṭṭa ••• •••• ṉṟu māvukku vaṭakku

⟨2⟩ ••• ••• •••• nilaṉ 4 cuṟṟu viḷakku ••• ••• •••• nilaṉ 4m ukaccar ā •••••kku ••• ••• •••• toṭṭattiṉ teṟkil nilaṉ ••••• ṭṭār •••• vaṭakkil nilan ••• ••• •••• vaṭakkil nilaṉ [teva] tāṉam i ••• pāṉukku paṉaiyūr vāy ••• •••• ca koṭṭa aṭṭak kaṭavaḷayyum timalaic cey nilaṉ vacam ••• •••• kum teṟkum āka ivva ••• ••• ••••

⟨3⟩ caṅku kāḷamāṟṟi yūtuvār nālvaṟkku nilaṉ paṉaiyūr vāyiṉ vaṭakkil ni •••• tiṉa kuṭi maṟuvāyiṉ kiḻai ••• ••••• kaṇaccaṉ •••• ••••• tiruppati[yam] pāṭuvāriruvaṟkku ivvākkāṉ karai nilaṉ ivarkaḷukke paṉaiyūr vā ••• •••• yaṉ tekkil nilaṉ m ivarka[ḷuk]ke paṉaiyūr vā ••• •••• yaṉ tekkil nilaṉ m ivarka[ḷuk]ke paṉaiyūr vā •••• vaṭakkil nilaṉ [ 1m] vāykkeḻviyuṭaiya kaṭikayāṉukkuppa ••••• nāṉkellaikku naṭuvapaṭṭa nilam kāl inni •••

⟨4⟩ ṉaiyūr vāyiṉ vaṭakki nilaṉ naṉtavānattil melainilaṉ m •• • karāṉa uṭaiyāṟkku nittam paḷḷittāma nittamañcu vaṭamāṉa puṭai ••• ••• [paṉai]yūr vāyiṉ [ṟe]kkilk ko[l*]laiyuṭaṉ maṭa ūrk kuḷattu kiḻakaraiy maṉaiyum toṭṭamum iva(na)ṉukkey tiruviḻāṉāḷaikkum nica •••• k kaḻañcu citāriyum ōrāḷ pūṟai ṉīlu ••• ••• rup paṇiyumiṭap paṉaiyūr vāyin teṟkil maṉaiyum toṭṭamu araṭṭan teṟki nilaṉ idēvarkku ve •• kālukkum māttāl kācu on[ṟu*] ik kācu añcum •••• kkuppaṭṭu ittiru vitimaṭappuṟam ceyvittukkoṇṭu ⟨Page 93⟩

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⟨1⟩ ṇṭum kucappaṇi ceyakaṭava veḷkovarku kāṭiyvāyir vaṭakkil nilam ūr kuḷa[t]tiṉ vaṭakkil nila ••• ••• •••• kaṭṭani vāyin irāśrībaliyiṉ minpūcuṟṟu viḷakkonṟe ••• ••••• ṟaṭṭa

⟨2⟩ ivvūr marakulavaṉukku kaṭampaṉ •• yiṉa vaṭakaṭai [ni]rnilaṉ m tirumer ••••• kāliśvaramuṭaiya ••• •••• kkut tiruvamutuk[ku] •• ••• ••• ••• p pallava ir[ā*]yaneṉ teva ••• svastiśrī ••••• • dēvarkku yāṇṭu 14 āvatu ivūr kuṭutta nilaṉ kiḻpāṟke[l*]lai tevar ••••• ūr [maliṟṟu] kuṭutta nilaṉ kiḻpāṟke[l*]lai tevar kuḷamaṭaikku meṟkkum tenpāṟ ••• •••••

⟨3⟩ lai putukku puṟa[t]tu[k*]kum kaṭikaiyānṉilattukkum vaṭakkum melpāṟkellai kūruvāy ••••• nṟum teṟku nokkippo[ṉa] vāykkālukku kiḻakkum vaṭa[pārk] ke[l]lai •••• vāykku ••••• mikuti kuṟaivuḷḷaṭaṅka nilaṉ ••• ••• ••• vāykkeḻvi ••••• ••• ••• yiṉ ūromukku a ••• ••• •••• kaumār ūromukku aṭṭa [kaṭava] i cāpa mūn_ṛumā āṇṭuvarai patiṉmukkalane tūṇi patakku nilaṉ 4 viṟṟu iṟaiyi

⟨4⟩ ••• •••• nāṅkaḷ koṇṭa kācu 25 in nilattālum innellālum vālamañ[ci*] kuṭimai eppeṟpaṭṭatum ūrome ivaṉukku kuṭuppomāṉom [ivar]kaḷ colla eḻuti ••• ••••• madhyasthaṉ ••• •••• yaṉā •••• 80 civabrāhma ••••• kadhya ••• •••• viyeṉṉeḻuttu [||*] 1

⟨SIIv32p2i0002⟩ No. 2. (A.R. No. 540 of 1920.) UḌAIYĀRKUḌI, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Anantēśvarasvāmi temple.

King: Parakēsarivarman Year 2: 973 A.D.

This might be assigned to Uttama chōḷa 2. This records a gift of ninety-six sheep and a ram for a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruvanantēśvarattāḻvār at ⟨Page 94⟩ Vīranārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam by Parāntakan Mādēvaḍigaḷ alias Sembiyan MAdēviyār, the daughter of Maḻavaraiyar, and queen of Gaṇḍarādityadēvar, who was pleased to go west ie deceased.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX. No. 11.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kōparakēsarivarmmarkku yāṇṭu 2 āvatu meṟ-

⟨2⟩ keḻuntaruḷiṉadēvar gaṇḍarādityadēvar dēviyār maḻavarai-

⟨3⟩ yar makaḷār parāntakaṉ mātevaṭikaḷāṉa cempiyaṉ māte-

⟨4⟩ viyār viranārāyaṇaccaturvvēdimaṅgalattut tiruvanantēśvarattāḷ-

⟨5⟩ vārkku vaiytta nonta viḷakku 1- kku vaitta vāṭu 96 takar 1 [||*]-

⟨SIIv32p2i0003⟩ No. 3. (A.R. No. 552 of 1920.) UḌAIYĀRKUḌI, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Anantēśvaraśvāmi temple.

Year 2: 973 A.D.

Records that Aiyyāṟaṉ Śēndaṉ Nikaḷaṅga Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Sāttappāḍi in Vēśālippāḍi gifted 12(1/2) kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp to the god, Tiruvanantēśvaratt-āḷvār at Śrī Vīranārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. The shepherds who received the gold agreed to burn the lamp with one uḻakku of oil daily after acquiring 96 sheep and a ram.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 14.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 2 āvatu-

⟨2⟩ śrī viranārāyaṇaccaturvvēdimaṅgalattut tiruvanantē-

⟨3⟩ śvarattāḷvārkku candrādityavat oru nontaviḷakkeri- ⟨Page 95⟩

⟨4⟩ ppataṟku vecālippāṭic cāttappāṭiyuṭaiyāṉ ai-

⟨5⟩ yyāṟaṉ centaṉāṉa nikaḷaṅkamuventaveḷāṉ kuṭutta

⟨6⟩ poṉ paṉṉiru kaḻañcarai ippoṉ koṇṭu cāvā

⟨7⟩ muvāpperāṭu 94- m takar 1- m koṇṭu nicatam uḻa-

⟨8⟩ kku ney yaṭṭuvomāṉom maṉṟāṭikaḷom [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0004⟩ No. 4. (A.R. No. 558 of 1920.) UḌAIYĀRKUḌI, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Anantēśvaraśvāmi temple.

Year: 2, Tula, Sunday, Jyēshṭha: 972 A.D. Oct. 13 MUla is wrong for JyesTha 1. 1

This records a gift of 12(1/2) kaḻañju of gold for a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruvanantīśvaram-Paramasvāmi by Echchil Sadurākaraṉ alias Teṉṉavaṉ Miṟaināṭṭu Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Dēvaṉguḍi in Miṟai-kkūṟṟam on the northern bank. The amount was left in charge of the mahāsabhā of the village. The last line which is damaged seems to have recorded some other gift by the same donor to the deity Kūttaperumāḷ (Naṭarāja).

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 16.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakēsarivarmmarkku yāṇṭu 2 āvatu vaṭakarai

⟨2⟩ śrī viranārāyaṇaccaturvvēti maṅkalattut tiruvaṉanantiśvarattu paramasvā-

⟨3⟩ mikku vaṭakarai miṟai kūṟṟattu tevaṉkuṭi tevaṅkuṭaiyāṉ eccil[c] ca-

⟨4⟩ turākaranāṉa teṉṉavaṉ miṟai nāṭṭu muventaveḷār candrādittavaṟ

⟨5⟩ eriya vaiyt[ta] tirunontā viḷakku- 1- kku vaiytta poṉ 12ø5 paṉṉiru-

⟨6⟩ kaḻaiñcarai ippoṉṉukku ivvāṭṭai tulānāyaṟṟu nāyaṟṟuk kiḻa- ⟨Page 96⟩

⟨7⟩ mai peṟṟa tirukkeṭṭaimutal oru nontāviḷakku erippatāka vaiytta itu

⟨8⟩ masāsabhaiyār rakṣai [|*] ivaṉe kūttaperumāḷukku cāttina ma 1• •••••

⟨SIIv32p2i0005⟩ No. 5. (A.R. No. 144 of 1928.) TIRUPPAḺANAM, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the north wall, central shrine, Āpatsahāyēśvara temple.

Year 2: 973 A.D.

Incomplete. Damaged in several places. It records that an individual Kaṟṟaḷi Bhaṭṭālagaṉ, a member of the (regiment) Arumoḻidēva-teriñja kaikōḷar purchased several plots of dry-crop land at Pēraṅgālakkuḍi, a dēvadānam in Miṟai-kkūṟṟam from the Ādichaṇḍēśvarar (the god-secretary of the temple) and padipādamūlattār (the worshipping priest of the sanctum) and endowed the same after reclaiming them, for feeding four brāhmaṇas daily, in the temple at Tiruppaḻanam, a dēvadānam in Miṟai-kkūṟṟam.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 29.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakēsaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 2 āvatu miṟaik kūṟṟattu dēvatāṉam tiru[ppaḻaṉa]muṭaiyār koyilile nicati nālvar brāhmaṇar-

⟨2⟩ candrātitaval uṇṇa ivvūr tevatāṉam peraṅkālakkuṭi eliyūtu puṉcey tiṭal ivā[ti]caṇḍēśva[ra]riṭaiyum patipātamula[t*]tāriṭaiyum u-

⟨3⟩ ṭaiyār arumoḻiteva teriñcakaikoḷaril kaṟṟaḷi paṭṭālakaṉ vilai koṇṭu mayakkiṉa nilattukku kiḻpār[k*]kellai peṟṟāṉmayakkalukkum naṅ-

⟨4⟩ kāriy mayakkalukku meṟkku teṉpār[k*]ke[l*]lai naṅkāri mayakkalukku vaṭakkum melpāṟke[l*]lai mātevimayakkalukku pā[y*]ñca uḷ[ciṟu]vā[y*]kkālukku [kiḻa]-

⟨5⟩ kku kiḻpārkkē ••••ttiṭalakkā ••••• kālukku meṟkkum teṉpā •• ya ciṟuvā[y*]kkālu- ⟨Page 97⟩

⟨6⟩ kku vaṭakkum melpā[ṟ*]kke ••••• kkum vaṭapār[k*]ke[l*]lai cātti mayakkalu ••••• iv[vicaitta] pe-

⟨7⟩ runāṉkellai ••• ••• ••• [ṉu]m ivaṉu[k*]ke viṟṟukkuṭutta nilattukku kiḻpārkke[l]-

⟨8⟩ lai mūṉ ••• ••• •••• lai oru māvarai[k*]ku vaṭakkum melpāṟke[l*]lai ciṟu vāykkā-

⟨9⟩ lukku kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟke[l*]lai nā-

⟨10⟩ ṟṟukālukku teṟkkum ivvicaitta

⟨11⟩ perunāṉke[l*]laiyuḷ akappaṭṭa nila-

⟨12⟩ mum ituva[l*]latu iṉṉum i[va]ṉu[k*]ke viṟṟuk kuṭut-

⟨13⟩ ta nilam ki[ḻ*]ppār[k*]ke[l*]lai kiḻāṉ kāṇikka ••••

⟨14⟩ •• y[k*]kum meṟkum teṉpār[k*]kellai pa[ḻa]ṅ ceyk-

⟨15⟩ ku vaṭakku melpār[k*]ke[l*]lai toṭi muṉṟumāvukku kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟke[l*]lai oru māvaraikkum tiṭa-

⟨16⟩ [lu*]kkum tiruvaṭi mayakkalukkum teṟkkum ivvicaitta perunāṉke[l*]laiyuḷḷakappaṭṭa nila-

⟨17⟩ mum itu vallatu i[ṉ*]ṉum ivaṉu[k*]key maṇṇilaiyāka

⟨18⟩ viṟṟuk kuṭutta puṉcey tiṭal iraṇṭumāvum i

⟨SIIv32p2i0006⟩ No. 6. (A.R. No. 136 of 1926.) TIRUVIḶAKKUḌI, MAYURAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Maṇavāḷēśvara temple.

Year 2: Mēsha, Sunday, Tiruvōṇam, Sunday is wrong for Monday 130th March 973 A.D.

The inscription is built in at the right end. It records the remission of taxes on some plots of land belonging to the temple at Tiruvēḷvikkuḍi, which had been purchased from several persons by the peruṅguṟi-pperumakkaḷ of Viḍēlviḍugu- ⟨Page 98⟩ chchaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēyam in Kurukkai-nāḍu on the northern bank of the river, on receiving a lump-sum of 50 īḻākkāśu from a member of the Karikālachōḷa-teriñja-kaikkōḷar. As a post-script to this inscription the land called Śrī-Karaṇaperuviḷāgam reclaimed by madhyastha of Viḍēlviḍugu-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and the specific services for which the yield from that land was to be utilized are mentioned.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 27.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakēsaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu iraṇṭāvatu vaṭa-

⟨2⟩ karaik kuṟukkaiñāṭṭu brahmadēyam veṭalviṭukuteviccatūrvēti maṅ-

⟨3⟩ kalattu peruṅkuṟiperumakkaḷom ivvāṭṭai mēṣanāyaṟṟu nāyaṟṟuk kiḻamai

⟨4⟩ peṟṟa tiruvoṇattiṉāṉṟu tiruveḻvikkuṭi śrī koyilile peruṅkuṟi kūṭi iruntu paṇitta ••••

⟨5⟩ ḻuttu tiruveḻvikuṭi caṇḍēśvarapperumāḷ tirunāmattāl vilaikoṇṭa [nilam] ••• ••••

⟨6⟩ [karu]māṇikkavāy[kkāli]ṉ tenpakkattu kavaṉ ••• kovinta •••• • nārāṇa ••• •••••

⟨7⟩ [ttaṉ] pakkal vilai koṇṭa nila[m*] āṟu mākkāṇiyum itiṉ melaippakkattu itiṉoṭum aṭaiya ••••

⟨8⟩ paṉūruṭaiyāṉ koṉ vempaṭikaḷ pakkal vilai koṇṭuṭaiya nila[m*] araikkālum catinntaṉ ••• ••••

⟨9⟩ ttu [kū]vaṉṉūr nārāṇakramavittan pakkal vilaikoṇṭuṭaiya nila mākāṇiyum caṇḍēśvarap

⟨10⟩ perumāḷ tirunāmattāl vilai koṇṭuṭaiya pattu mācceykkum kiḻpāṟke-

⟨11⟩ [llai madhya] sdharkaḷ kuḷattukku meṟkum tenpāṟkellai peruvaḻikku vaṭakkum mel ••••

⟨12⟩ ••• ••• •••• kāṇikku kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai

⟨13⟩ ka[ru*] māṇikkavā[ykkā]lukku teṟkum āka ivvicaitta peru nāṉkellaiyilum akappa ••• •••

⟨14⟩ ttuc ceyyālu[m] tara[t]tāl vanta nilam āṟu mākkāṇi araikkāṇi nilamum peruvaḻikku ••• ••• •••• ⟨Page 99⟩

⟨15⟩ irācūrt tāmoti[ra]paṭṭan pakkal caṇḍēśvarapperumāḷ vilaikoṇṭa nilattu •••••

⟨16⟩ pāṟkellai sabhaippotuvukku meṟkum teṉpāṟkellai kāvirimaṅkalattār ••• •••

⟨17⟩ kku vaṭakku melpāṟkellai tirumañcuṇakkuṟaiyāṉa nilattukkuk kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai ••• •••

⟨18⟩ ḻikku teṟkum ivvicainta perunāṉkellaiyilum naṭuvupaṭṭa nilam tarattāl va ••• •••••

⟨19⟩ m iccuṭṭappaṭṭa nilam iṟaiyiliyāk[ka] vitiṉukku karikālacoḻat teriñca kaikko ••• •••

⟨20⟩ ṉ araiyaṉ pakkal [ī]ḻakkācu aimpatu aimpatu kācu koṇṭu iṉṉilam cantirāti ••• ••• ••••

⟨21⟩ yili ceytu kuṭut[tom] viṭelviṭukutevi[ ccaturvvētimaṅkalattu] sabhaiyō ••••

⟨22⟩ peruṅkuṟi iruntu paṇikka eḻutiṉeṉ ivvūrk kiṭakkai madhyasthaṉ irāmaṉ i ••• •••

⟨23⟩ tiya brahmapriyaneṉ emperumāṉaṭiyārāṭiyeṉ tiruveḷvikkuṭi tiruveviḷkkuṭi śrīkaraṇattu ••• ••••

⟨24⟩ ppiccaneṉ nāṉ kalluvicca śrī karaṇapperuviḷākattu nel melvāram tiruccuṟṟum ••• ••• •••

⟨25⟩ yum gōpuramum nicati nālāḷukku mukkuṟuṇi nellu ••••• ḷukku aṭṭavum ma(ā)ṭaiyarkaḷu[c] cey[yi]l pokam •••••

⟨26⟩ ru viḻāppuṟam ponta varici kuṟuṇiyum kuṟavaṟu ••• ••• ceyyak kaṭavarākac ceyta

⟨27⟩ iddhanmam śrīkaraṇap paṉmāheśvararakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0007⟩ No. 7. (A.R. No. 602 of 1920.) UḌAIYĀRKUḌI, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall, central shrine, Anantēśvarasvāmi temple.

Year 3: 974 A.D.

This records a gift of 12(1/2) kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp before the deity Chandraśēkhara perumāḷ by Pañchavanmādēvi, the consort of ⟨Page 100⟩ Araiyan Mahimālayaṉ alias Parāntaka Muttaraiyaṉ. The shepherd community (maṉṟāḍikkalaṉai) of the place received the amount and undertook to supply an uḻakku of ghee daily for the purpose.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 61.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripaṉmaṟkku yāṇṭu 3- āvatu vaṭakarai brahmadēyam śrīviranārāyaṇaccaturvvēdimaṅgalattu tiruvanantaśvarattu candraśēkharapperumāḷukku araiyaṉ mahimālayaṉāṉa [parānta]ka muttaraiyaṉ araici[yāṉa] pañcavaṉ mātevi ca-

⟨2⟩ ndrādityavat oru nontaviḷakkiṉukkuk kuṭutta poṉ 12ø(1/2) ippoṉ paṉṉirukaḻañcaraiyum koṇṭu ivvūr maṉṟāṭik kalaṉaiyom nitta muḻakku ney yaṭṭuvomāṉom ||—

⟨SIIv32p2i0008⟩ No. 8. (A.R. No. 42 of 1995-96.) TIRUVIŚALŪR, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the west wall, central shrine, Śivayōganāthaśvāmin temple.

Year 2+1: 974 A.D.

Incomplete. Records that (the king) Parakēsarivarman alias śrī Gaṇḍarādittan Madhurāntakan donated kāśu in order to conduct the sacred bath every month on saṅkrānthi day with 108 pots (of water) to the god, Mahādēvar of Tiruviśalūr in Avaṉinārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a dēvadāna-brahmadēyam on the northern bank. With that kāśu plots of land were purchased from several individuals in the name of the god (for conducting the above ceremony).

Published in Varalāṟu issue No. 5, August 1995. PP 5-6.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakesaripanma[rk*]ki yāṇṭu 2- vatiṉ etir ām

⟨2⟩ [māṇ]ṭu vaṭakarai tevatāṉabrahmadēyam avaṉinārāyaṇaccaturvēdi ma-

⟨3⟩ [ṅka]lattu [tiruvica]lūr mahādēvaṟkku ik kopparakesaripanmarāṉa śrīkaṇṭa-

⟨4⟩ rāti[tta]ṉ madhurāntakaṉ cantirā[tit][ta*]valt tiṅkaḷ [saṅgarāndhi]kaḷ [toṟum] nūṟṟeṭṭu kala[ca] ⟨Page 101⟩

⟨5⟩ m snapanamāṭṭuvataṟkku kācukaḷ varakkāṭṭi idēvar perāley vilai koṇṭa nilam

⟨6⟩ ivvūr vaṅkippuṟattu sikataiyat tiruvaraṅkadēvabhaṭṭaniṭaiyum makkaḷiṭaiyu-

⟨7⟩ m [k]aik koṇṭa nilam kiḻmuḻaiyūr eḻu māvaraiyum kuñcipāvir [kal]ā nārāyaṇa bha-

⟨8⟩ [ṭṭaṉi]ṭai vilai koṇṭatu tiruvicallūriṉ vaṭapakkattu araiykkā(l)lum māvaṇṭu-

⟨9⟩ r attāṇi [kiramavi]ttaṉum tampiymārum iṭaiy vilai koṇṭatu ittiruvicallūr

⟨10⟩ riṉ vaṭapakkattu kā[lcey]yu [va]ṅkiypuṟattu tiruvicalūr dēvacaṉmaṉṉiṭai vi-

⟨11⟩ laiy koṇṭatu iy śirikoyiliṉ teṉpa[kka]ttu a[rai]ykkālum iruṅkaṇṭi bhaṭṭa nampibha-

⟨12⟩ ṭṭaṉiṭai vilai koṇṭatu tiruvicalūriṉ vaṭapakkattu mākāṇiyum velveṭṭiy tiruvicallūr a-

⟨13⟩ ṭiyaṉ bhaṭṭaṉiṭai vilai koṇṭatu it tiruvicallūriṉ vaṭapakkattu araiyk kā(l)lum

⟨SIIv32p2i0009⟩ No. 9. (A.R. No. 165 of 1928.) TIRUPPAḺANAM, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Āpatsahāyēśvara temple.

Year 3: 974 A.D.

This records a gift of 30 kaḻañju of gold for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva with the interest thereon, by Nakkaṉ Ariñjigai alias Parāntaka-Pallava[raiyaṉ]. The gold was taken over by the nagarattār of Tiruppaḻaṉam.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 70.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ko[p*]parakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu tiruppaḻa[ṉa*]ttu mahā- ⟨Page 102⟩

⟨2⟩ dēvaṟku nicati ••• •••• ḻākku neyyāl noṉtāviḷakkerivataṟkku nakkaṉ a[ṟi]-

⟨3⟩ ñcikaiyāyiṉa [parān]takap pallava ••• •••• vatta poṉ 30ø ippoṉ muppa-

⟨4⟩ tiṉ kaḻañcum koṇṭu itaṉ palicaiyāl [cantrādi]ttaval lerippom āṉom

⟨5⟩ tiruppaḻaṉattu nakarattom itu panmā[hē*]śvararakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0010⟩ No. 10. (A.R. No. 330 of 1958-59.) CHIDAMBARAM, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

Broken stones in the nandavana of Anantēśvara temple in the same town.

Year 3: 974 A.D.

Fragment. In characters of the tenth century A.D. Seems to refer to the gift of sixty kaḻañju of gold for feeding at the Tiruvanantēśvara temple.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecariparmmakku yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu tiruvanatanti[śva]-

⟨2⟩ • rkku candatrādittava ūṭṭuvatāka ku(ku)ṭutta poṉ aṟupatiṉ kaḻañ 1

⟨SIIv32p2i0011⟩ No. 11. (A.R. No. 226 of 1940.) TIRUNĀMANALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine, Bhaktajanēśvara temple.

Year 3: 974 A.D.

Records that twenty-four śeṟuvu of land (spreading) in four territorial divisions (sīmai) donated by Iruṇīkki Aḍaiyakkōṉ to the deity Tiruttoṇḍīśvaratt-āḻvār, is set-apart for maintaining five persons, cleaning the floors and walls of the temple. ⟨Page 103⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripanmaṟki yāṇṭu 3 āvatu tiruttoṇṭi śvarattāḻvārkkuc ceyta ipbhumi nālu simaiyila-

⟨2⟩ kappaṭṭa nilam iriṇikki aṭaiyakoṉ vakaiyāy ceṟuvu irupattaiñcil loru mākā[ṇi]k kāḷaṅkaikku nikki niṉṟa ceṟuvu irupattu ṉālum

⟨3⟩ tirumeḻukkiṭum aṭikaḷmār aivarkku nivanta(ta)māka itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai ||| §

⟨SIIv32p2i0012⟩ No. 12. (A.R. No. 134 of 1916.) MĪÑJŪR, PONNERI TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Varadarāja-perumāḷ temple.

Year 3: 974 A.D.

This inscription is in verse. It states that the temple of Sōḻakula sundara-viṇṇagar was constructed at Miññūr by an individual Kēśavaṉ Karukaikkōṉ for the god Āḻivalak-Kēśava.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] coḻakula cuntaraviṇṇaka-

⟨2⟩ raittoṉ mīñcūr vāḻ maturāntakanu-

⟨3⟩ [k*]ku muṉnāṇṭil āḻivalak kecavaṟ kiṭa-

⟨4⟩ māc ceyviyttāṉ vaṇmaikkulak ke-

⟨5⟩ cavaṉ karukaik ko |§

⟨SIIv32p2i0013⟩ No. 13. (A.R. No. 417 of 1993.) GŌPURAPPAṬṬI, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the south wall, mukha-maṇḍapa of Tirumēṟṟaḷīśvara temple.

Year 4: 975 A.D.

Damaged. Seems to refer to some gift made to the deity, Tirumēṟṟaḷi uḍaiyār, at Pāchchil in Maḻa-nāḍu by a dancing girl (talaikkōli) of Karaipputtūr. ⟨Page 104⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu nāṉkāvatu maḻa nāṭṭup pāccil ti⎯⎯

⟨2⟩ ḷārum tirumeṟṟaḷi uṭaiyārkku ittaḷi tevaṉārmakaḷ kaṟaip puttūrt talaik ko⎯⎯

⟨3⟩ nila iru⎯⎯ 1

⟨SIIv32p2i0014⟩ No. 14. (A.R. No. 114 of 1926.) TIRUVIḶAKKUḌI, MAYURAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the north wall, central shrine, Maṇavāḷēśvara temple.

Year 4: 975 A.D.

Records a gift of a silver plate weighing 400 kaḻañju as weighed by the ūrkkāl to god Tiruvēḻvikkuḍi-Mahādēva, by Ayyaṉ Mārasiṅgaṉ alias Vīraśēkhara-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Guṇamalaippāḍi in Nallāṟṟūr-nāḍu on the northern bank of the river Kāvēri. The body śrī-karaṇattār was entrusted with the protection of this benefaction.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 107.

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⟨1⟩ kopparakesaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu 4- vatu

⟨2⟩ vaṭakarai nallāṟṟūrnāṭṭu kuṇamala-

⟨3⟩ ppāṭi uṭaiyāṉ ayyaṉ mā-

⟨4⟩ raciṅkanāṉa viracekara muventaveḷā-

⟨5⟩ neṉ tiruveḻvikkuṭi mahādēvarkku

⟨6⟩ candrādityava[ṟ] amutu ceyya vaitta

⟨7⟩ veḷḷittaḷikai niṟai ūrkkallāl

⟨8⟩ nāṉūṟṟu kkaḻaiñcu itu śrīkaraṇattār ra-

⟨9⟩ kṣai [||*] ⟨Page 105⟩

⟨SIIv32p2i0015⟩ No. 15. (A.R. No. 124 of 1926.) TIRUVIḶAKKUḌI, MAYURAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Maṇavāḷēśvara temple.

Year 4: 975 A.D.

This records a gift of 36 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp to god Tiruvēḷvikkuḍi-uḍaiyār by Koṟṟaṉ Kūttaṉ alias Sembiyaṉ Ārkkāṭṭuvēḷāṉ of Ārkkāḍu in Ārkkāṭṭu-kūṟṟam.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 108.

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⟨1⟩ kopparakesari(va)panmaṟku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu 4- vatu ārkāṭṭukkūṟ[ṟa*]t-

⟨3⟩ tu āṟkāṭṭukiḻāṉ koṟṟaṉ

⟨4⟩ kūttanāṉa cempiyaṉ ā-

⟨5⟩ rkkāṭṭu ve[ḷā]neṉ tiruve-

⟨6⟩ ḻvikkuṭi uṭaiyārkku candrāditya-

⟨7⟩ vaṟ vaitta tirunontā viḷa-

⟨8⟩ kku 1 āṭu 36 | itu śrī ka-

⟨9⟩ raṇattār rakṣai |—

⟨SIIv32p2i0016⟩ No. 16. (A.R. No. 125 of 1926.) TIRUVIḶAKKUḌI, MAYURAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Maṇavāḷēśvara temple.

Year 4: 975 A.D.

Incomplete. Records a gift of two kāśu by an individual, Paṉaiyaṉ Kōdaṇḍaṉ, a kaikkōḷa of Iḷaiya-vāḷ army unit to the god of Tiruvēḷvikkuḍi. ⟨Page 106⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripa[ nmak] ku yāṇ[ṭu*]

⟨2⟩ uttamacoḻarkku 4 āvatu tiruve[ḷ*]-

⟨3⟩ vikkuṭi uṭaiyā[r*]kku iḷaiyav[āḷ]

⟨4⟩ paiṟṟa kaikkoḷara(li)l 1 paṉaiyaṉ

⟨5⟩ kotaṇṭaṉ cattrarātittaval 2 iṭṭa kācu

⟨6⟩ m iraṇṭum niṟai 24 aḻivu ce[yya]

⟨7⟩ kaṭavār [st]ānam arakaya • • 3

⟨SIIv32p2i0017⟩ No. 17. (A.R. No. 373 of 1924.) MĒLAPPAḺUVŪR, UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT.

On the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the Agastyēśvara shrine, Agastyēśvara temple.

Year 4: 975 A.D.

Much damaged. It seems to record a gift of ten kaḻañju of gold for a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva of Avanigandharva-Īśvara-gṛiham, a dēvadāṉam in Kuṉṟa-kkūṟṟam by Atiśūraṉ •••• of Maḻapāḍi in [Vā]ṇagoppāḍi. He deposited the amount with two nagarattār each with five poṉ. The inscription also refers to a later order, the nature of which is not known, of Aḍigaḷ Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Kaṇḍaṉ [Amuda]nār made in the [13]th year of Uttamachōḻa, evidently about the utilization of this amount.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 105.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripaṉmakki [yāṇ]-

⟨2⟩ ṭu 4 ā[va]tu kuṉṟak kūṟṟattu tevatāṉam ••••• ⟨Page 107⟩

⟨3⟩ avaṉi ••• īśvaragrahattu mah[ā*]tevar •••••

⟨4⟩ ••••• tu perumpaḻuvū[r] ••••

⟨5⟩ ••••• kāppāṭi maḻapāṭi aticūraṉ [na] [tiruno]-

⟨6⟩ ṉtā viḷakku cantrātittavalam i[ravu]m [pa*]kalum nicata-

⟨7⟩ muḻakku ney erikka vaitta po[ṉ]pattu ippoṉ

⟨8⟩ [pa]ttilum ivvūr iraṇṭu nakarattārum koṇṭu [ka]ṭava[tā]ṉa poṉ » ø4m ko-

⟨9⟩ ṇṭu palicai iṭṭu v[ā*]rā niṟkka śrī uttamacoḻa ••• r koppara kecaripa-

⟨10⟩ [ṉma]kku yāṇṭu [13] āvatu aṭikaḷ pa[ḻuveṭṭara]yar kaṇṭaṉ-

⟨11⟩ [a] • [ta]ṉār aruḷic ••• ••••• nel •••••

⟨12⟩

⟨13⟩ ••• •••• ru no ••• ••• ntrā •••••

⟨14⟩ ••• •••• m ittaḷippaṭ[ṭuṭ]ai

⟨15⟩ ••• •••• itu panmāhēśvara[rakṣai]

⟨SIIv32p2i0018⟩ No. 18. (A.R. No. 404 of 1903.) TIRUVĀMĀTTŪR, VILUPPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the west wall, central shrine, Abhiramēśvara temple.

Year 4: 975 A.D.

Records that Gaṇḍarādittan alias Vānavaṉ Mahārājan of Vāṇagōppāḍi gifted a perpetual lamp for God Mahādēvar of Tiruvāmāttūr. For burning this lamp one uḻakku of ghee was stipulated to be contributed half by sabhaiyār and ūrār of Tiruvāmāttur and the other half by the managers of the temple-out of the interest on the total of twelve kaḻañju of gold endowed by (the above stated) chief which had been shared equally by the two classes of administrative bodies mentioned above.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. VIII No. 720. ⟨Page 108⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ko[p*]parakecaripaṉmar(ṟ)kku

⟨2⟩ yi yāṇṭu 4 āvatu aruvānāṭṭu [mi]-

⟨3⟩ yvaḻi vāvalūr nāṭṭu tevatāṉat tiru-

⟨4⟩ vāmāttūr ūruṭaiya ma(ā)hādēvarkku vā-

⟨5⟩ ṇakappāṭi kaṇṭarātittanāṉa vānava[ṉ]

⟨6⟩ ma(ā)hārājaṉ tiruvāmattūr āḷvā-

⟨7⟩ rkku cantirātit[ta*]valamāka vaitta no-

⟨8⟩ ntāviḷakku oṉṟu [|*] itaṉukku nicatam uḻa-

⟨9⟩ kku ney yaṭ[ṭak*] kaṭavār tiruvāmattūr sa-

⟨10⟩ bhaiyārum ūrārum pākamum ittiru-

⟨11⟩ kkoyiluṭaiyārkaḷ pātiyum iṉne-

⟨12⟩ ykku ivviraṇṭu tiṟavar vaḻiyum vaiy-

⟨13⟩ [t*]ta poliyūṭṭukku vaiy[t*]ta poṉ paṉni-

⟨14⟩ [ru ka]ḻañcu [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0019⟩ No. 19. (A.R. No. 245 of 1911.) KUMBHAKŌṆAM, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the West and South walls, central shrine, Nāgēśvarasvāmin temple.

Year 4 Mēsha, Thursday, Navami Maghā = 975 A.D., April 22.

Damaged in several places. Registers a sale of quarter chey of land by the temple-administrative body, Mūlaparaḍai-perumakkaḷ of Tirukkuḍamukkil in Pāmbūrnāḍu, to a lady, Kaṟṟaḷippirāṭṭi Aṟivāḷaṉmitravalli, a resident of Tañjāvūr in Tañjāvūrkūṟṟam for 25 kaḻañju of gold. The lady in turn endowed the land to the temple, for burning a perpetual lamp to the deity Tirukkīḻkkōṭṭattu-paramasvāmi, for the merit of her son Kārikoḻambaṉ, a member of Gaṇḍarāditta-teriñja-kaikkōḷar. The land sold by the mūlaparuḍai-perumakkaḷ to the lady is said to have been the abhishēka-dakshiṇai received by the assembly evidently on the occasion of the king's coronation. The mūlapparuḍaipperumakkaḷ had authorized the temple śrīkāriyam to burn the perpetual lamp with the amount of paddy received as bhōgam for the land.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 95. ⟨Page 109⟩

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⟨1⟩ kopparakēśaripatmaṟkku yāṇṭu 4- āvatu vaṭakaraip pām-

⟨2⟩ pūrnāṭṭu tevatāṉa[m*] tirukkuṭamukkil [mu]laparaṭai perumakkaḷom iyāṇṭu mēṣaṉāyaṟṟu viyāḻakkiḻamaiyum navamiyum peṟṟa makattiṉṉāṉṟu tirukkuṭamukkil mulaparaṭaip perumak[ka*]ḷom tañcāvūrkkūṟṟattu tañcāvūrk kaṟṟaḷippirāṭṭi • •

⟨3⟩ aṟivāḷa ṉamittiravalli taṉ [ma]kaṉ kaṇṭarātittat teriñ[ca*]k[ai]yk koḷaril kāri koḻampaṉaic cāttit tirukkiḻk koṭṭattup paramasvāmikku vaiytta tirunontāviḷakku oṉṟiṉukku ivaḷukku viṟṟukkuṭutta nilamāvatu • •

⟨4⟩ ṣekadakṣaṇai peṟṟa caṉṉa •••• meṟ kāviri ••• t tirukkiḻk koṭṭattu paramasvāmikku viṟṟuk kuṭutta nilattil aḷantu mekāṟcey viṟṟukkuṭuttataṟ kellai idēvar nilattukkey meṟkun teṉpāṟkellai paḷḷikoṇṭaruḷukiṉṟa paramasvāmi nilattukku vaṭakku melpāṟkkellai [i]nnilattukku pāyūm vāykkālukkuk kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai ipperumāḷ nilattukkey teṟkumāka iv ••• ••• ••••

⟨5⟩ ṭṭa nilam aḷantu (1/4) kāṟce ••••• k kuṭuttu ik kāṟceyyiṉ bhōga ne[l] koṇṭu cantrādittaval i ••• nontā viḷakku erippatāka ivaḷiṭaik koṇṭa poṉ 25 ippoṉ irupattaiyṅkaḻaiñcu āvaṇakkaḷatte kaikkellak koṇṭu ippoṉ irupattaiyṅ kaḻaiñcum emp[erumā]ṉ śrībhaṇṭārat •• ••• ppittu ittirunontāviḷakku oṉṟum avvav āṇṭu śrī kāryyañce ••• ••••

⟨6⟩ ppak kaṭavarākavum ipparicup paṇitto mulaparaṭaip perumakkaḷom mula ••• ••• perumakkaḷ paṇiyāl i ••••• ṉeṉ ivvūr taccaṉ pirāntakaṉ ari •••• ṉeṉ ivai [eṉ*] eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0020⟩ No. 20. (A.R. No. 243 of 1911.) KUMBHAKŌṆAM, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the West and South walls of the central shrine, Nāgēśvara temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

Damaged and incomplete. It seems to record the distribution of the sheep which had been presented to the temple of Tirukkīḻkōṭṭattu-paramasvāmi at Tirukkuḍamukkil in Pāmbūr-nāḍu, among several shepherds, for the supply of the necessary ghee by them for burning perpetual lamps in the temple.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 132. ⟨Page 110⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecari-

⟨2⟩ [pa]nmaṟku yāṇṭu 5- āvatu vaṭa-

⟨3⟩ karaip pāmpūrnāṭṭut teva-

⟨4⟩ tāṉan tirukkuṭamukkil tiru-

⟨5⟩ [k] kīḻkoṭṭattup parama-

⟨6⟩ svāmikku tirunontāvi-

⟨7⟩ ḷakkukku maṉṟāṭi cātta

⟨8⟩ ṉ māteva[ṉiṭai] viḷakku mu

⟨9⟩ ṉ ••• ••••

⟨10⟩ nanti ••• •••

⟨11⟩ āvatā •••• ṟum āka

⟨12⟩ viḷakku ••• ••••

⟨13⟩ ṟil ivaṉiṭaiyil niṉṟu

⟨14⟩ vāṅki aṭutta āṭu maṉ-

⟨15⟩ ṟāṭi kāri •••• tta

⟨16⟩ āṭu 32 maṉṟāṭi ciṅkaṉ •••••

⟨17⟩ ṉmel aṭutta ivvā[ṭu]

⟨18⟩ āṭu 32 maṉṟāṭi cāttāṉ [a]-

⟨19⟩ calañci melaṭutta āṭu 32 ma-

⟨20⟩ ṉṟāṭi acalañci puttaṉ mela-

⟨21⟩ ṭutta āṭu 32 maṉṟāṭi pukaḻa ṉā-

⟨22⟩ cca[ṉu]m tampimār melaṭutta

⟨23⟩ āṭu 32 maṉṟāṭi celvaṉ te-

⟨24⟩ vaṉ mel aṭutta āṭu [32]

⟨25⟩ maṉṟāṭiy pālai nārāyaṇa[ṉ]

⟨26⟩ melaṭutta āṭu [a] maṉṟāṭi

⟨27⟩ [nallūr nā]rāyaṇaṉ me-

⟨28⟩ [la]ṭutta āṭu 8 āka ā

⟨29⟩ ṭu ••• ••• •••• ⟨Page 111⟩

⟨SIIv32p2i0021⟩ No. 21. (A.R. No. 244 of 1911.) KUMBHAKŌṆAM, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the West and South walls of the central shrine, Nāgēśvara temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

Records a gift of 97 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tirukkīḻkōṭṭattu-Mahādēva by a shepherd named Dēvaṉ Nakkaṉ.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 133.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu [5]- āvatu

⟨2⟩ tirukkiḻkkoṭṭattu mah[ā*]dēvarkku maṉṟāṭi

⟨3⟩ tevaṉ nakkaṉ vaitta tirunontāviḷakku

⟨4⟩ oṉṟerikka kuṭutta āṭu 9[7] toṇṇū-

⟨5⟩ ṟṟeḻu itu canti[rāti]ttaval panmāhēśva[ra*]

⟨6⟩ rakṣai ||—

⟨SIIv32p2i0022⟩ No. 22. (A.R. No. 234A of 1911.) KUMBHAKŌṆAM, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the north and west walls of the central shrine, Nāgēśvara temple.

Year 5, Āni, [su] 5 Mūla, Friday: = 975 A.D. June 16.

Records that the Mūlaparaḍai-perumakkaḷ of Tirukkuḍamukkil, a dēvadānam, in Pāmbūr-nāḍu on the northern bank (of the river Kāvēri) received 20 kāśu from a lady Madēvan Kaṇḍi, a servant maid of the Palace-establishment of (the queen) Kaṟṟaḷi-Pirāṭṭiyār of Tañjāvūr in Tañjāvūr-kūṟṟam and sold a quarter vēli of land for the maintenance of a person including his clothing who was appointed to bring a pot of water from the (river) Kāvēri thrice a day for the sacred bath of the deity. The ūr-kaṇakku wrote the sale-deed at the behest of mūlaparuḍaipperumakkaḷ.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 131. ⟨Page 112⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakesaripanma[r*]kku yāṇṭu [5]- āvatu ivvāṇṭānit tiṅkaḷ matināṭpakkam pañcami nāḷ mūlattu kiḻa[m]ai veḷḷi poḻutu muṉkoḷkuṟi ituvāṇṭitu tiṅkaḷitu pakkam itu poḻu(tu) titu paruvamāka vaṭakaraip pāmpūr nāṭṭut tevatāṉan tirukuṭamukkil mulaparaṭaipperumakkaḷoṅ keṭṭa nila vilaiyāva[ṇan*] tanta ivvūrk kuṟṟattu 1 t tañcāvūrk ka-

⟨2⟩ ṟṟaḷippirāṭṭiyār veḷattup peṇṭāṭṭi mātevan(ṅ) kaṇṭi tirukkiḻkkoṭṭattup paramasvāmikku vaitta tiruma(ā)ñcaṇattukku ivaḷiṭaik koṇṭa kācu 20 ikkācu irupatuṅ koṇṭu em perumāṉukkuk kāviriyiṉiṉṟum potu kalanir koṇṭu muṉṟu sandhi[yu]n tirumañ[ca]ṉaniraṭṭuvāṉukku bhōgamāka āvaṇañ ceytu kuṭutta nilamāvatu kaḻaniyil ariyalūp patiṟṟu veli-

⟨3⟩ yil nāṉmāk kūṟiṭṭil aḷantu kāṟcey viṟ[ṟukkuṭut]tataṟ kellai kiḻpār[k*]kellai i[ppara]masvāmi nilattukkey mē[ṟ*]kkun [teṉpāṟ]k kellai ••• •••• ṟuk key vaṭakku[m me]lpārkkellaiyum parama •••• tta •••• ḻa[k*]ku ••• ••••• llaiyum paramasvāmik •••• teṟkumāka i •••• tta perunāṉke[l*]laiyuḷḷaka •••• aḷantu vantapaṭi kāṟceyyum viṟṟu vilai •••

⟨4⟩ ñ ceytu kuṭuttu ikkācirupatu māvaṇakkaḷatte •••• cellap poruḷaṟak koṇṭu candrādittaval tirumañcaṉamuṭṭāme tiru ••• •••• ikkācu irupatum emperumāṉ śrībhaṇḍarattey vait •••• •••• poṉta svāmibhōga(m)ñ tirumañcana ni[raṭṭu]vāṉukkuk kappaṭattukkuṅ ko ••••• kumāka innilaṅkālum āvaṇañ ceytu vi ••• •••

⟨5⟩ kkuṭuttom meṟcollappaṭṭa kaṟṟaḷippirāṭṭiyār veḷattup peṇṭāṭṭi •••• ṇṭikku mulaparaṭaipperumakkaḷom ••• ••• ••• tuḷ ḷāvaṇak kiḻa[va]ruḷ mulaparaṭaipperumakkaḷ paṇiyāl innilavilaiyāvaṇa meḻutiṉeṉ ivvūr ūrkkaṇakkuc ceykinṟa 2 ⟨Page 113⟩

⟨SIIv32p2i0023⟩ No. 23. (A.R. No. 407 of 1903.) TIRUVĀMATTŪR, VILLUPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT.

On the north wall, central shrine, Abhirāmēśvara temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

Records a gift of land after purchase by Nandipputtaṉ alias Śembiyaṉ Mūvēndavēḷāṉ, a resident of Paṉaippākkam in Kīḻāṉmūr-nāḍu, a division of Tirumuṉaippāḍi for burning one and a quarter perpetual lamp to the God of Tiruvāmāttūr, a dēvadānam in Vāvalūr-nāḍu. The tiruvuṇṇāḻigai-sabhaiyār, received the land from the donor. The donor purchased the land required from a lady Perumāṉaṅgaichchāṉi, the wife of Āridaṉ Nandi Nārāyaṇaṉ of Tiruvāmāttūr. It is also recorded that the said land had come to her possession as her maintenance and now she sold it through her guardian (mudukaṇ) Atiyā Saṉmadi^1^ to the above donor.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. VIII No. 723.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparake[sa]ripanmar-

⟨2⟩ kku yāṇṭu 5- āvatu vāvalūrnā-

⟨3⟩ ṭṭut tevatāṉan tiruvāmāt-

⟨4⟩ tūr uṭaiya paramasvāmikaḷukku

⟨5⟩ t tirumuṉaippāṭik kiḻāṉmurnāṭṭu

⟨6⟩ •• cattup paṉaippākkattu [i]ru-

⟨7⟩ nta nanti puttaṉāṉa [c]empiyaṉmu-

⟨8⟩ ventaveḷāṉ vaitta nantā viḷakku oṉ-

⟨9⟩ ṟekāl ivvoṉṟekālukku ittevatāṉa[m*]

⟨10⟩ tiruvāmāttūr āritaṉ nanti nārāyaṇaṉ brā-

⟨11⟩ hmaṇi perumāṉa[ṅ]kaiccāṉi taṉakku atiyā ca-

⟨12⟩ [ṉ]maṉtiyai mutukaṇṇāka viṟṟa pūmi taṉ brā-

⟨13⟩ hmaṇaṉai ekkiṟa epperppaṭṭa pūmiyilu-

⟨14⟩ maṭamāṉa pu[la]ttiluṅ kaḷam ma ••• ••• pilum kā-

⟨15⟩ ṟṟitam puḷiyaṅkollaiyilum aḻiñcil ⟨Page 114⟩

⟨16⟩ [k] kollaiyi[lu]m vaṭaveḷḷai [ce]vi[lu]m mutā-

⟨17⟩ ttatti[lu]m puṟattiluṅ kuṭṭieriyilu-

⟨18⟩ ṅk[ā]ri[lu]ṅ kuḷacce[vviluṅ] kāṭṭakatti[lu]m 1

⟨19⟩ pākka[ṅ]kā[ṇi]yiluṅ kuḷa[ne]lluḻāttiyilum pa-

⟨20⟩ [ḻai] putiyilum maṟ[ṟu]m ivvūrkku vanta nilam ep-

⟨21⟩ perppaṭṭa pūmiyum ivaḷu[k]kuc co[ṟu]kūṟṟukku

⟨22⟩ itu [ik]kuṭi [ā]ri[ta]ṉ nanti[cā]tta[ṉu]m vaṭukaṉ ti • •

⟨23⟩ • teva ••• riyum tevaṉ kovintaṉun tevaṉ va • •

⟨24⟩ yaṉumāka ivvaṉaivar vacca viḷakku oṉṟe kā •

⟨25⟩ •• neyattuk kurittāka viṭṭa •••••

⟨26⟩ nantinārāyaṇaṉ brāhmaṇi perumāṉaṅkai

⟨27⟩ ccāṉi canmaṉ[ti]yai mutukaṇṇāka viṟ-

⟨28⟩ ṟa vi •• nanti puttaṉākiya cempiyaṉmuve-

⟨29⟩ ntaveḷāṉe nā[ṉ] vilaikoṇṭavaṇṇame ippūmi koṇṭu i[t]tevatāṉantri-

⟨30⟩ ruvāmattūrt tiruvuṇṇāḻi[kai] sabhaiy[om] ivvoṉṟe kāl viḷakkuc canti(ra)ā[ti]ttaval erikkakkaṭa-

⟨31⟩ vārāka [kku]ṭutteṉ nanti puttiṉāki-

⟨32⟩ ya cempiyaṉmuve[n*]taveḷāṉ vacca

⟨33⟩ viḷakku pa[nma](ma)āheśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0024⟩ No. 24. (A.R. No. 259 of 1923.) KŌYIL-TĒVARĀYAṈPĒṬṬAI, PAPANASAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the south wall, central shrine, Matsyapurīśvara temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

This inscription records the grant of three pieces of land after purchase by an individual Tiruvaḍigaḷ Aiyanaḍi of Śiruvēḷūr in Iḷaiyūr-nāḍu on the southern bank of the river (Kāvēri) and endowed the same for various purposes to the god, Tiruchchelūr Mahādēvar at Rājakēsari-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. ⟨Page 115⟩

He purchased the first piece from several individuals of Maṉōramachchēri in Rājakēsari-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and endowed the same for supplying an uri of oil daily for burning a perpetual lamp and also for providing food offerings during the early morning and midday services to the god.

The second piece of land had been purchased during the eighth regnal year of Rājakēsarivarmaṉ (Sundarachōḷa ?) for maintaining a garden for the temple.

The third plot of land had been purchased from Sāvandi Nārāyaṇaṉ and gifted for the sake of providing flowers in exchange for a plot of four mā which was probably already in the enjoyment of the temple for the same purpose.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 139.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakesaripanmaṟki yāṇṭu 5 āvatu teṉkarai brahmadēyam śrīrājakēsaricaturvētimaṅgalattu

⟨2⟩ tiruccelūr mahādēvarkku vecālippāṭit teṉkarai iḷaiyūr nāṭṭuc ciṟuvelūrc ciṟuvelūruṭaiyāṉ tiruvaṭikaḷ aiyyaṉaṭi

⟨3⟩ tirunontā viḷakku [ 1- ṟu] kku cantirātittavaṟ nittam uriy eṇṇaikkum ciṟukālait tiruvamutu nānāḻiyaricikkum uccam[po]tu nānāḻikkum neyyamutukkum ta-

⟨4⟩ yiramutum kaṟiyamutum aṭaikkāyamutukkumāka ivvirāja kesariccaturvēdimaṅgalattu maṉoramacceri aruvalattu vārakkiyaṉ ī-

⟨5⟩ śvaraṉ centaṉum ivaṉ tampi īśvaraṉ nakkaṉum icceri ātaṉūr pālāciriyaṉ nārāyaṇaṉ tattaṉum ivaṉ tampi nārāyaṇaṉ tattaṉum ivaṉ tampi nārā-

⟨6⟩ yaṇaṉ kāṭaṉum marutūr pālāciriyaṉ tāyaṉ k[ā*]ḷiyum ivvaṉaivar pakkalum nāṉvilai koṇṭuṭaiya nilam kāmatevavati-

⟨7⟩ kkuk kiḻakku iraṇṭāṅ kaṇṇāṟṟu maṉoramavāykkālukku vaṭakku muta[l*]catirattu īśvaraṉ centaṉ tattapirāṉbhaṭṭar pakka-

⟨8⟩ lum ivvaṉaivar pakkalumāka vilai ¬4vum kovirājakesaripanma[r*]kku yāṇṭu 8 vaṭakarai brahmadēyam śrīviranārāyaṇacca[tu*]rvēti maṅka- ⟨Page 116⟩

⟨9⟩ lattu cūracūḷāmaṇicceri aruvalattu vārakkiyaṉ ātittaṉ sūryaṉṉiṭai vilaikoṇṭuṭaiya nilam ¿4yumāka [i]ccatiram vum itutiruva-

⟨10⟩ ṭikaḷ(ṭi) aiyyaṉaṭiye [va]cca tirunantavāṉam tirupaḷḷittāmattukkut tirumañcuṇavaḻi-

⟨11⟩ kku me[r*]kkum peruvaḻikkut teṟkum nārāyaṇaṉ kāṭaṉ nilattukkuk kiḻakkum śrīrvvatattiṉ nila[t*]-

⟨12⟩ tukku vaṭakkum naṭuvupaṭṭa nilam pūnantavāṉat teṟkaṭaiyak kiṇaṟuṭpaṭa nāṉmāvukkum nāṉ pariva-

⟨13⟩ rttaṉaiyāl kuṭutta nilamāvatu ivūr naratoṅkavatikku me[r*]kkum eḻāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu cikaṇṭavāy[k*]kālukku teṟku 1- catirattu vaṭakkaṭaiñca muṟṟumāvi-

⟨14⟩ l meṟkaṭaiya nān iṭaiyāṟṟukkuṭi cāvānti tattanārāyaṇan pakkal vilai koṇṭuṭaiya nilam ṅa4yum ma(ā)hāsabhaiyārum panmāhēśva[rarum*] rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0025⟩ No. 25. (A.R. No. 165 of 1925.) ĀRUPĀDI, MAYURAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On two stone slabs lying on the south side of the 2nd prākāra Tuṟaikāṭṭumvaḷḷalār temple, Viḷanagar a hamlet of Arupādi.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

It records an endowment of some pieces of land made after purchase by Ōraṭṭaṇaṉ Śōrabbaiyār, the chief queen (agramahādēvi) of Uttamachōḷa, for offerings during the mid-night service in the temple of Tirunāḷarkōyil-Mahādēva at Viḷañagar, a brahmadēya on the southern bank. These lands are stated to have been got freed from taxes ūrkkīḻ-iṟaiyili by the peruṅguri-sabhā of the place. The accountant of the ūr Viḷainagar-uḍaiyāṉ and others figure as signatories.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 141.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] ko-

⟨2⟩ pparakecaripa- ⟨Page 117⟩

⟨3⟩ nmaṟkku yāṇṭu

⟨4⟩ 5- āvatu teṉ-

⟨5⟩ karai brahmatēya-

⟨6⟩ m viḷaiñakart ti-

⟨7⟩ ru nāḻaṟkoyil

⟨8⟩ mahādēvar[kku]

⟨9⟩ uṭaiyār ut[ta]ma-

⟨10⟩ coḻar agramah[ā*]

⟨11⟩ dēviyār oṟaṭṭaṇa-

⟨12⟩ ṉ corappai-

⟨13⟩ yār a[r*]ddhayāmattu

⟨14⟩ kkut tiruvamurtu pa-

⟨15⟩ ḻavarici nānāḻi

⟨16⟩ kkum aṭaikkā-

⟨17⟩ yamutukkumāka

⟨18⟩ [k] koṇṭu kuṭut-

⟨19⟩ ••• •••• vāna

⟨20⟩ ••• •••• la -

⟨21⟩ ••• •••• ye

⟨22-24⟩ damaged

First Side. 2nd Side.

⟨25⟩ vilai ko 1

⟨26⟩ ṇṭa nilam

⟨27⟩ mukk[ā]l ni-

⟨28⟩ lam eḻumā-

⟨29⟩ kkāṇi mun-

⟨30⟩ tirikaiyu-

⟨31⟩ m caṅkirān-

⟨32⟩ tippuṟam ni-

⟨33⟩ lam kāle

⟨34⟩ kāṇiyum

⟨35⟩ civakāmacu-

⟨36⟩ ntariviḷāka-

⟨37⟩ m nilam e-

⟨38⟩ ḻu māvarai-

⟨39⟩ [a]raik kā-

⟨40⟩ ṇiyum ka-

⟨41⟩ ṇṇālavā-

⟨42⟩ y kiḻtalai

⟨43⟩ villivāy-

⟨44⟩ kku teṟku

⟨45⟩ nilam iru

⟨46⟩ māvaraiyu-

⟨47⟩ m kaṇṭakār

⟨48⟩ maṟukku vaṭa-

⟨49⟩ kku nilaka-

⟨50⟩ ṇṭaṉ tiru-

⟨51⟩ varaṅkamu-

⟨52⟩ ṭaiyā[ṉ*] ni-

⟨53⟩ lam irumā-

⟨54⟩ varaiyum

⟨55⟩ pāppāku-

⟨56⟩ ṭi [a]ka[m]

⟨57⟩ nilam nā- ⟨Page 118⟩

⟨58⟩ ṉmāvarai-

⟨59⟩ yum caṅ[ka*]ran

⟨60⟩ puruṣo[t]ta-

⟨61⟩ ma[nni]lam

⟨62⟩ nālu mā

⟨63⟩ vum ā[ka*]ni-

⟨64⟩ lam nāle-

⟨65⟩ mukk[ā*]le

⟨66⟩ muntirikaiyum

⟨67⟩ kollai pāppa-

⟨68⟩ rkuṭi paṭṭavirutti

⟨69⟩ nilam kālum co-

⟨70⟩ [kka]ṉ kollai

Second Slab.

⟨71⟩ ••• ṭukkuk

⟨72⟩ ku meṟk-

⟨73⟩ ku nilam

⟨74⟩ nālu māva-

⟨75⟩ raikkāṇi

⟨76⟩ yum neṟi

⟨77⟩ yuṭaic

⟨78⟩ coḻap pe-

⟨79⟩ rāṟṟukku

⟨80⟩ vaṭakku

⟨81⟩ nāyakka

⟨82⟩ koyiluṭai-

⟨83⟩ yān ko-

⟨84⟩ llai kiḻa

⟨85⟩ kkaṭaiya

⟨86⟩ nilam a-

⟨87⟩ ṟu māvarai-

⟨88⟩ yum cen-

⟨89⟩ tapirān ko-

⟨90⟩ llai kulai-

⟨91⟩ kku teṟk-

⟨92⟩ kum vaṭak-

⟨93⟩ kum nila[m*]

⟨94⟩ kālum

⟨95⟩ kāri nārā-

⟨96⟩ yaṇanuk-

⟨97⟩ ku teṟkku

⟨98⟩ vāykk[ā]-

⟨99⟩ l niro-

⟨100⟩ ṭu kālil

⟨101⟩ uṟa nilam

⟨102⟩ oru māvum

⟨103⟩ āka nilam

⟨104⟩ iraṇṭarai-

⟨105⟩ ye mu-

Second Slab II Side.

⟨106⟩ k kāṇiyum tirutturu-

⟨107⟩ ttic coṉṉavāṟaṟivār

⟨108⟩ tevatānattukku ki-

⟨109⟩ ḻācaṟutikku meṟkku ū- ⟨Page 119⟩

⟨110⟩ [ru]ṇṇik kuḷattukku

⟨111⟩ kiḻakku akalam kol

⟨112⟩ eṭṭukku niḷam kol u-

⟨113⟩ ḷḷutu oṭaiyāyk kiṭan-

⟨114⟩ ta civatāyapirāṉ vaṭa vel-

⟨115⟩ laikku vaṭakku uḷḷutu ūrkki-

⟨116⟩ ḻiṟaiyili ceytu kuṭut-

⟨117⟩ tom peruṅkuṟi mahāsa-

⟨118⟩ bhaiyom ||—paṇiyāl

⟨119⟩ ūrkkaṇakku viḷainaka-

⟨120⟩ ruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu

⟨121⟩ pālā[ śriyaṉ ci] riḷaṅko

⟨122⟩ aruḷā[ḷa paṭṭa s]omayā-

⟨123⟩ [ji]yār eḻuttu cāvānti

⟨124⟩ akki citarapaṭṭa somayā-

⟨125⟩ ciyā[r e]ḻuttu cāvā-

⟨126⟩ nti •••• tava paṭṭar eḻu-

⟨127⟩ ttu c[āvān]ti poṟkoyi-

⟨128⟩ lnampi [e]ḻuttu pālā-

⟨129⟩ śriyaṉ ci[vat]eva paṭṭaṉ e-

⟨130⟩ ḻuttu pālāśriyaṉ

⟨131⟩ tevakaḷtevan māte-

⟨132⟩ var eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0026⟩ No. 26. (A.R. No. 332 of 1973.) BŪDALŪR, TANJAVUR TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the west wall, central shrine, Nāchchiyammaṉ temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

Records a gift of 70 sheep by the association of temple-devotees (panmāhēśvaras) after the scrutiny of temple accounts, to the goddess of bhaṭṭāraki of Tiruchcheṅguḷam adjacent to Būdalūr in Ēri-nāḍu. The shepherds Aiṉōvaṟiyagaṉ and Aiṉōkambaṉ received the sheep and agreed to measure out daily three piḍi of ghee (obviously for burning a perpetual lamp).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripanmaṟku yā-

⟨2⟩ ṇṭu 5 vatu erināṭṭu pūtalūr tirucceṅkuḷattu bha-

⟨3⟩ ṭṭārakikku panmāhēśvarar ārāyntu vaitta āṭu 70

⟨4⟩ i[v]veḻupatāṭuṅ koṇṭu nicatam muppiṭi ne- ⟨Page 120⟩

⟨5⟩ y cantrātitavaṟ aṭṭuvomāṉo[m] maṉṟāṭi aiṉo[va]-

⟨6⟩ ṟiyakaṉum aiṉokampaṉum [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0027⟩ No. 27. (A.R. No. 60 of 1913.) TIRUCHCHEṄGĀṬṬĀṄGUḌI, NANNILAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the north wall, Gaṇapatīśvara shrine, Uttarapatīsvara temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

Records a sale of two pieces of land at Mēlūr after making them tax-free by the sabhā of Marugal in Tirumarugal-nāḍu, to the temple of Paramēśvara at Tiruchcheṅgāṭṭāṅguḍi for the gold received by them from the temple and also from an official named Gōdukulavaṉ Vīrachōḷan alias Uttama-chōḷa Neṉmali-nāṭṭu Mūvēndavēḷāṉ. There is a reference to a provision made for the maintenance of two perpetual lamps in the temple.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 134.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripaṉma-

⟨2⟩ ṟku yāṇṭu 5- āvatu tirumarukal

⟨3⟩ nāṭṭu marukal sabhaiyom tirucceṅ-

⟨4⟩ kāṭṭaṅkuṭi paramēśvaraṟku nāṅkaḷ

⟨5⟩ poṉkoṇṭu iṟaiyiliyāka can-

⟨6⟩ tirātittaval viṟṟu iṟaiyili cey-

⟨7⟩ tu kuṭutta nilamāvatu melūr nāṅka-

⟨8⟩ ḷ viṟṟu iṟaiyili ceytu kuṭutta nila-

⟨9⟩ m » (1/4)¿ añce yaṟumāvukku kiḻ-

⟨10⟩ pāṟkellai eṅkaṇilattu-

⟨11⟩ kku meṟkum teṉpāṟkellai

⟨12⟩ eṅkaṇilattukkey vaṭakkum me- ⟨Page 121⟩

⟨13⟩ lpāṟkellai tirucceṅkāṭṭa-

⟨14⟩ ṅkuṭi paramēśvara nilattukku ki-

⟨15⟩ ḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai eṅkaṇi

⟨16⟩ lattukkey teṟkum iccatu-

⟨17⟩ kaiyāṉa-

⟨18⟩ k[o]tukulava-

⟨19⟩ ṉ [vira]coḻanā-

⟨20⟩ kiya uttama

⟨21⟩ coḻa neṉma-

⟨22⟩ lināṭṭu muve-

⟨23⟩ ntāveḷāni-

⟨24⟩ ṭai nāṅkaḷ

⟨25⟩ poṉ koṇ-

⟨26⟩ ṭu iṟaiyiliyā-

⟨27⟩ kac cantirātit-

⟨28⟩ taval niṟka vi-

⟨29⟩ ṟṟu iṟaiyili

⟨30⟩ ceytu kuṭut-

⟨31⟩ ta nilaṉ eṅ-

⟨32⟩ kaḷūr melūr

⟨33⟩ muḻaiyūr vā-

⟨34⟩ yt teṉka-

⟨35⟩ rai eṟukāl

⟨36⟩ mukattiṉ teṟ-

⟨37⟩ kil vati nāṅka-

⟨38⟩ [ḷ] poṉ ko-

⟨39⟩ [ṇ]ṭu viṟṟu i- ⟨Page 122⟩

⟨40⟩ ṟ[aiyi]li ceytu ku-

⟨41⟩ [ṭut]ta nilattu-

⟨42⟩ [kk]ellai iṟaiyā-

⟨43⟩ [ṉ]kuṭi nilattu-

⟨44⟩ [kku] meṟkun te-

⟨45⟩ [ṉ]pārkkellai ti-

⟨46⟩ rucceṅkāṭṭa-

⟨47⟩ ṅkuṭi nilattu-

⟨48⟩ kku vaṭakku me-

⟨49⟩ [l]pāṟkellai-

⟨50-55⟩ ••• •••••

⟨56⟩ kellai

⟨57⟩ eṅka-

⟨58⟩ ḷaṟu kā-

⟨59⟩ mukattu

⟨60⟩ kku teṟkum

⟨61⟩ cantra[cekara]-

⟨62⟩ vati •••

⟨63-67⟩ damaged

⟨68⟩ ḷaṭaṅka

⟨69⟩ ••• •••

⟨70⟩ m iṭṭa [pa]-

⟨71⟩ ricut tiru-

⟨72⟩ nontā vi-

⟨73⟩ ḷakku ira-

⟨74⟩ ṇṭukkuñ-

⟨75⟩ cantirāti-

⟨76⟩ ttaval

⟨77⟩ ceytu ku-

⟨78⟩ ṭuttom

⟨79⟩ sabhai

⟨80⟩ [yom] [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0028⟩ No. 28. (A.R. No. 46 of 1910.) TIRUKKARUGĀVŪR, SIRKALI TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the north wall, central shrine, Madhuvanēsvara temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

This records an endowment of 3 vēli of land (by the king) out of the total of 40 vēli of land in Tirukkarugāvūr as iṟaiyili on the occasion of Aippigai-vishu, at the request of Siṅgaṉ Kaliyaṉ alias Uttamaśōḻa-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Kommaipākkam. The total annual produce of 710 kalam of paddy from that land was specifically allotted for the various requirements of worship in the temple of Tirukkarugāvūr-Mahādēvar. This apportionment was made by a committee which was headed by Siṟṟiṅgaṇ uḍaiyāṉ Kōyil Mayilai alias Madhirāntaka-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ and which consisted of other officials, panmahēśvarar and mūlaparuḍai.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 130. ⟨Page 123⟩

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakesaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 5-

⟨2⟩ āvatu tirukkarukāvūr mah[ā*]dēvar ittirukka-

⟨3⟩ rukāvūr pottaka ••••• ttuva •

⟨4⟩ 5 nilam nāṟpati[ṉ v]elikkiḻ i-

⟨5⟩ •••• i[ṉi]laṉ [mu]veli [mu]veliyum-

⟨6⟩ uṭaiyār tiru[vala]ñcuḻi śrīkoyi-

⟨7⟩ •• vaittu ayppikai viṣu saṅki-

⟨8⟩ rānti yelvaiyiṟ tāṉañ ceyyā vi-

⟨9⟩ •• k kommaipākkamuṭaiyāṉ ciṅkaṉ

⟨10⟩ kaliyaṉāṉa uttamacoḻamuventaveḷāṉ [viṇ]-

⟨11⟩ ṇappattāl yā[ṇ]ṭu 5- āvatu mutal iṟaiyiliyāka

⟨12⟩ kkuṭutta nilaṉ muveliyiṉā laṭaippaṭi n[e]llu

⟨13⟩ ūṟk[ā]lāl eḻunūṟṟorupatiṉ kalamum atikāri[kaḷ]

⟨14⟩ •••• ṟṟiṅka[ṇ uṭaiyā]ṉ koyilmayilaiyāṉa mati[r]ān-

⟨15⟩ takamuv[enta]veḷāṉum cāttāṉ pacuvatiyāṉa kaliya-

⟨16⟩ n taṇ[ṭe]śvaraṉum panmāhēśvararum mulaparuṭai-

⟨17⟩ rum •••• āḷvārkku veṇṭu nivanta maṭaittapaṭi ā-

⟨18⟩ •••• amitu ceyya nittaṅkuṟuṇi nāṉāḻi yariciyuṅ kuṟu-

⟨19⟩ •••• yuṭpaṭa nitta[nel]lu tūṇiyāka [o]rāṭṭaikku

⟨20⟩ nellu ••• ••• •••• ḷakku pattiṉu-

⟨21⟩ kku nittam nellu iru ••• ••• ••• ṭai nā-

⟨22⟩ ḷaikku nellu muṉṉūṟṟukku ••• ••••• viḷakke-

⟨23⟩ ṇṇaikku nellu pati ••• ••••• pā riruvark-

⟨24⟩ ku kappaṭa mutaluṭpaṭa orāṭṭaikku nellu eḻupatiṉ ka-

⟨25⟩ lam tiruccantaṇam nicatam [oru] palamāka orāṭṭaikku ne-

⟨26⟩ llu muppatiṉkalaṅ kuṅkiliyattukku orāṭṭaikku

⟨27⟩ nellu patiṉ kalaṅ karumāṇikkatevarkku tiruvamirtukku ⟨Page 124⟩

⟨28⟩ nicatam nellu patakkāka orāṭṭaikku nellu aṟupa-

⟨29⟩ tiṉ kala mittevarkku nontāviḷak koṉṟiṉukku nel-

⟨30⟩ lu mup[pa]tiṉ kalaṅ kaṇavatiyār •••• mirtukku nitta ne-

⟨31⟩ llu aññāḻiyāka orāṭṭaikku nellu •••• patiṉeṉ kalaṉe yi-

⟨32⟩ ru tūṇik[ku]ṟuṇi itu panmāhēśvararakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0029⟩ No. 29. (A.R. No. B of 2003-04.) BĀHŪR, PONDICHERRY.

On the upapīṭha (north), Mūlashtānēśvara temple.

Year 5: 490th day.

Incomplete. Seems to refer to some benefaction made by Viḻupparaiyar Ayyakkuṭṭi Kōdaṇḍarāma to the god, Śrī Mūlasthāṉattu-dēvar of Vākūr.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakecaripanma[ma*]ṟkki yāṇṭu 5 āvatu nāḷ [4]90ṉāl vākūr śrīmulastāṉattu tevarkku vi[ḻu]pparaiyar aiyyakkuṭṭi kotaṇṭarāma

⟨SIIv32p2i0030⟩ No. 30. (A.R. No. 147 of 1907.) PŪVĀLAIKKUḌI, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE.

On the south wall of the maṇḍapa infront of the rock-cut cave.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

The letters of this inscription are clumsily engraved. It states that the maṇḍapa in the temple of Paramēśvara at Pūvālaikkuḍi was built by the temple official, Vāduḷi Ūraṉ Tuṟṟiṉṉai.

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 123. ⟨Page 125⟩

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

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu 5 āvatu pūvālaikkuṭi paramē-

⟨3⟩ śvara[r*] koyil maṇṭakam me[ṭu]-

⟨4⟩ ppiccāṉ ivūr śrī koyi(l)luṭai[yā]-

⟨5⟩ ṉ vātuḷi ūraṉ tuṟṟi[ṉ]ṉai itu

⟨6⟩ panmāhēśvararakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv32p2i0031⟩ No. 31. (A.R. No. B 44 of 1995-96.) TIRUVIŚALŪR, KUMBHAKONAM TALUK, TANJAVUR DISTRICT.

On the west kumuda portion, Pichchadēvar shrine, Śivayōganāthasvāmin temple.

Year 5: 976 A.D.

Damaged and incomplete. Records that Aḍigaḷ Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Maravaṉ Kaṇḍaṉ endowed one thousand vāśi paḍāda-Īḻakkāśu for dānam for chaturvēdi-bhaṭṭar into the temple of Tiruviśalūr-Paramasvāmigaḷ in the dēvadāna-brahmadēyam, Avaṉinārāyaṇachchaturvēdimaṅgalam on the northern bank (of Kāvēri). It appears that the amount was lent out probably to a sabhā and the interest on the endowed amount 2000 kalam of paddy per annum was to be defrayed at the rate of ten nāḻi of paddy to each of the such chaturvēdi-bhaṭṭas, who were blemishless, daily. Also it seems that a service to be named dāna-vinōdan was to be conducted in the same temple every month on the day of Uttiraṭṭādi, the asterism of the donor, from the interest.

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⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||*] kopparakesaripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 5- āvatu vaṭakarai tevatāṉabrahmadēyam avaninārāyaṇacaturvvēdimaṅkalattut tiruvicalūr

⟨2⟩ paramasvāmikaḷ koyilil aṭikaḷ paḻaveṭṭaraiyar maṟavaṉ kaṇṭaṉ ivvūr caturvvētibhaṭṭatāṉam vaitta paricāvatu it-

⟨3⟩ tāṉattukku bhōgamāka vaitta poṉ 1 mṉāl vācipaṭāta īḻakkācu āyiraṅkācum ittāṉaviṉodaṉ caturvvētibhaṭṭatāṉap perumakkaḷukku ⟨Page 126⟩

⟨4⟩ tāṉamāka niroṭu aṭṭi kuṭutta ikkācukaḷukkup pū vaḻi kāciṉvāy ••• ••• nellu virutti aṭṭuvārkkut tanicukkāka kuṭuttu ivviruttiyāl vanta ira-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭāyirak kalam iṉṉellut tiruvicalūrparama ••• •••• paḻuveṭṭaraiyar maṟavaṉ kaṇṭaṉu muḷḷiṭṭu ayma ••• •••• caturvvētibhaṭṭakaḷ meṟpaṭu kuṟṟamillātār

⟨6⟩ nicatam patiṉāḻi nellu perāl koḷḷappeṟuvatākavum ikkācu tanicu koṇṭa ••• •••• ṟuti pūvaṟuti ittāṉa sabhaiyārkke kuṭuttu tam perāl ••• •••• peṟuvārākavum ivar piṟanta nāḷ

⟨7⟩ uttirāṭṭātināṉṟu māsan toṟum iśrī koyilile dānaviṉodaṉ ṉeṉṉun tiru ••• •••• ikkācu mutalilaḻikkap peṟā(ā)tatākavum • ••• māṭa peṟātārākavum grāmadrōhikaḷāy irupat-