# Tiruvicalūr, Śivayoganātha temple, time of [Vara]guṇa, year [lost]

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPandya00024

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPandya00024.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Śivayoganātha temple, Tiruvicalūr, Tiruviṭaimarutūr taluk, Tañcāvūr
district. On the south wall of the main sanctuary. The inscriptions
which were on the main sanctuary of this temple have been polished away
with a sanding-machine during renovation; this one has therefore
disappeared.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [3+] kuṇa-mahārājaṟku yā ⟨2⟩ [3+] ṉṟ-āvatiṉ etir āṇṭu va ⟨3⟩ [3+]
tēyam Amaṉi-nārā⟨yaṇa⟩-ca ⟨4⟩ [4+] lattu tiruvicallūr ⟨5⟩ [3+] ḷukku
Ecca-perumāḷ

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ Amaṉi° SII ⬦ amaṇi° G.

## Translation by Gillet 2017

⟨This is⟩ the year opposite to the year 1/3/11/13[1] of ⟨Vara⟩guṇa
Mahārājar; […] Amaṇinārā⟨yaṇa⟩, a ⟨brahma⟩teyam […] for
⟨Perumāṉaṭika⟩ḷukku of Tiruvicallūr, […] Eccaperumāḷ […]

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1906–07 (ARIE/1906-1907/C/1907/17), in Mahalingam 1992
(Tj 688).

Edited in Ramanatha Ayyar 1962 (SII 14.24). 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). Page 22, item 24.

[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]. Page 268, item
20.

### Secondary

ARIE 1906–07. G.O. No. 503, 27th June 1907. Epigraphy. Reviewing the
annual progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent
for -, Southern Circle, for the year 1906-1907. Edited by V. Venkayya.
No place, 1907. Page 43, appendix C/1907, item 17.

[TLI] Mahalingam, T. V. 1992. A topographical list of inscriptions in
the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states. Volume Seven: Thanjavur district. New
Delhi: ICHR.

[1] The number may have been [o]ṉṟāvatu (1), [mu]ṉṟāvatu (3),
[patiṉo]ṉṟāvatu (11), [patimu]ṉṟāvatu (13), and so on. Since we do not
know where the inscription was exactly, it is difficult to evaluate how
much is missing. The estampage of this inscription was not available in
the ASI offices in Mysore.