Tirunaṟaiyūr, Siddhanāthasvāmin temple, no king, no year

Editors: Nicolas Cane, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCempiyanMahadevi00060.

Hand description:

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cempiyaṉ Mahādevī (tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy).

Version: (6bae2ea), last modified (7b9e425).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […]ṉa śrī-Uttama-cōḻa-devarai-t tiru-vayiṟu vāytta Uṭaiya-pirāṭṭiyār śrī-pirāntakaṉ mā-tēvaṭikaḷār-ā(ṉa) (śrī)-(cempiyan) mā-tēviyār tiru-(naṟai)yūr-nā(ṭṭu) (brahma)(tē)yam tiru-naṟaiyūr siddheśvaram-uṭaiya-mahā-(tē)varkku tiru-v-amutukkum ti⟨2⟩[…]ta nila (6) vēli

Itaṉāl ceyyum pala nivantamā(vatu) muṉṟu potiṉukku tiru-v-amut-arici […] p(o)ti(ṉu)kkuṅ ka(ṟiyamu)tinukkum […] muṉṟu {po}poti(ṉu)kkum neyy-amutu ṉā […] mu(ṉṟu) potiṉukku Aṭai-k-kāy ⟨3⟩ […] ṇamukkaiciṉā […] muṉṟu potum Amutu-ceyya vāḻai-p-paḻam 13ṉā […] muṉṟu […] (kkum) caṟkarai […] Ārātikkum (pirāma)ṇaṉ 1-kku kappaṭa-mutal uḷpaṭa (8) pati nāḻi nel tiru-nuntā-vi(ḷa)kku […] citārikku kaṟ‡⟨4⟩[…] taṉa […] ney […] pāl […] tayi[r*] […] pori […] tiru […] vaiyiṟṟu (koṇṭu) snapaṉa-¡t!⟨d⟩ravyaṅkaḷukku […] jala-pavitramu ṭpaṭa maṟṟu vēṇṭum […] kalaca⟨5⟩[…]m […] maṟṟum vēṇṭum kalacamu⟨ñ⟩ cey⟨yuṅ⟩ kucavanukku […] tiru-c-cuṇṇamiṭikkum potu […] cuṇṇam iṭi[…] ku […] ṉaiyaṭṭum […] pālikaik kiḻaṭṭa […] muḷaiyk(ki) vēṇṭu⟨m⟩ vastukkaḷuk(ku) […] puṇyāha⟨ñ⟩ ce⟨y⟩yum brāhmaṇa⟨6⟩[…] caṟkarai 5 palattiṉāl […] vāḻai-p-paḻam 3 10+ 5 Aṭai-k-kāy-amutu […] kku […] ṟukku-p pala-kāyam Āka […] saṅkirānti{r}¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ukku […] Āka samkirānti […] ṉā […] Uttama- […]⟨7⟩ Eḻunt-aruḷu(m) tēvaṟkku-c ciyampotaikku tiru-v-amuti¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ukku Arici […] Iv-vaṇṇattāl (10) 5 kaṟi-Amuti¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ukku ⟨8⟩ Āka Ōr āṇṭu […]kku […] tiru-viḻā-ṉāḷāl Uṇṭaḻivinukku […] Āka nittallaḻivukkum saṃ(kirā)⟨9⟩n=ti 12-¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ukkum pariccaṭṭam irāṇaiyinukkum tiru-viḻā Eḻunt-aruḷun tēvarkkum tiru-viḻā Uṇṭaḻivinukkum āka celav-āṉa ⟨10⟩ […] Itu¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ukku nivantam āvatu

tiru-naṟaiyūr-nāṭṭu mēlaṭavāy tēva-tāṉam-āka Iṟai-Ili ceytu ⟨11⟩ Uṭaiyār kuṭutta nilam ā(va)tu

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Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1908-1909 (ARIE/1908-1909/B/1908/159).

Edited in Krishna Sastri 1920 (SII 3.149); edited in Swaminathan 2012 (SII 32.2.219); edited in Cane 2017 (no. 60), based on autopsy (2012-09), for the available portions, and on previous editions.

This edition based on Cane 2017, encoded by Emmanuel Francis (2024).

Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1920. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume III: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil country. Part III: Inscriptions of Aditya I, Parantaka I, Madiraikonda, Rajakesarivarman, Parantaka II, Uttama-Chola, Parthivendravarman and Aditya-Karikala and the Tiruvalangadu plates of Rajendra-Chola I. South Indian Inscriptions 3.3. Madras: Government Press. Item 149, page TBC.

[S] Swaminathan, S. 2012. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXII: inscriptions of the early Chola kings upto Uttama Chola. South Indian Inscriptions 32. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Part II, page TBC, item 219.

[C] Cane, Nicolas. 2017. “Cempiyaṉ-Mahādevī, reine et dévote : un « personnage épigraphique » du Xe siècle.” These de doctorat, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE). No place. [URL]. Pages 883–884, item 60, figure TBC.

Secondary

ARIE 1908-1909. G.O. No. 538, 28th July 1909. Epigraphy. Issuing orders on progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1908-1909. Edited by V. Venkayya. No place, 1909. Page 21, appendix B/1908, item 159.