Tiruveḷḷaṟai, Jambunāthasvāmin temple, time of Māṟaṉ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 4 + 9

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPandya00012.

Summary: Jambunāthasvāmin temple, Tiruveḷḷaṟai, Maṇṇaccanallūr taluk, Trichy district. On the rock in front of the cave temple. Valérie Gillet could not locate the inscription which seems to have disappeared, perhaps under recent cement additions.

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Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-māṟañ caṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu nāl-ā⟨2⟩vataṟk’ etir Oṉpat-āvatu

vṛścika-ñāIṟṟu ti⟨3⟩ṅkaṭ-kiḻamai peṟṟa Aśvati mutal-āka tēvatāṉan ti⟨4⟩ru-veḷḷaṟai-t tiruvāṉaikkaṟ perumāṉaṭika⟨5⟩ḷukku pāṇṭi-mārācar-āIṉa kō-mārañ caṭai⟨6⟩yaṉ y-iraṇṭu nontā-viḷakk’ iravum paka⟨7⟩lum erikka Aṇṭanāṭṭu vēḷāṉ kaiy⟨8⟩yil viṭutta poṉ nūṟṟ’ irupatiṉ kaḻa⟨9⟩ñcu

Ip-poṉ mutal keṭāmai poliyāl ⟨10⟩ (nārāca)nāḻiyāl Iru-nāḻi ney Erippō⟨11⟩m āIṉōm mulaparuṭaiyōm

Translation by Gillet 2017

Hail! Prosperity! This is the 9th year opposite the 4th year of king Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ. From (mutal āka) aśvati obtained on Monday in the month of vṛścika, for Tiruvāṉaikkaṉ Perumānaṭikaḷ of the devadāna Tiruveḷḷaṟai, Pāṇṭi Mahāraja alias king (kō) Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ, for burning (erikka) two perpetual lamps night and day, sent (viṭutta) into the hands (kayyil) of Aṇṭanāṭṭu Vēḷāṉ 120 kaḻañcus of gold; with the interests without diminishing the capital of this gold, we, the Mūlaparuṭai, will burn (erippōmāiṉōm) 2 nāḻis of ghee by the nārācanāḻi (measure).

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1909-1910 (ARIE/1909-1910/C/1910/84), in Mahalingam 1991 (Tp 489).

Edited in by Ramanatha Ayyar 1962 (SII 14.12). Text in Krishnan 2002 (IEP 39). Edited and translated in Gillet 2017, based on Ramanatha Ayyar 1962.

This revised edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Ramanatha Ayyar, A. S. 1962. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XIV: The Pāṇḍyas. South Indian Inscriptions 14. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Pages 7–8, item 12.

[IEP] Krishnan, K. G. 2002. Inscriptions of the early Pāṇḍyas (from c. 300 B.C. to 984 A.D.) New Delhi: ICHR & Northern Book Centre. Page TBC, item 39.

[G] Gillet, Valérie. 2017. “Devotion and Dominion: Ninth-Century Donations of a Pāṇḍyan King in Temples along the River Kāvēri.” IIJ 60 (3), pp. 219–283. DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06003002. [URL]. Pages 256–257, item 5.

Secondary

ARIE 1909-1910. G.O. No. 665, 28th July 1910. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for -, Southern Circle, for the year 1909-1910. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1910. Page 57, appendix C/1910, item 84.

[TLI] Mahalingam, T. V. 1991. A topographical list of inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states. Volume Eight: Tiruchchirappalli district. New Delhi: ICHR.

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kō-māṟañ caṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu nāl-ā

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<hi rend="grantha">vṛścika</hi>-ñāIṟṟu ti

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Ip-poṉ mutal keṭāmai poliyāl

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