Javantināthapuram, Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa temple, time of Māṟañ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 4+9

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPandya00302.

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Language: Tamil.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-mā[ṟañ] ⟨2⟩ (ca)ṭaiyarkki yā(ṇ)[ṭu] ⟨3⟩ ¡ṉ!⟨n⟩āṉk-ām āṭṭaikk’ e(t)i[r] ⟨4⟩ Oṉpatām yāṇ[ṭu] ⟨5⟩ taṉu-ñāyaṟṟu-t ti[ṅ]⟨6⟩(ka)ṭ-kiḻamai peṟṟa [A]⟨7⟩viṭṭa mutal āka I[ṭ]ai⟨8⟩yāṟṟu maṅkalat[tu] ⟨9⟩ tirumayilaraṅkat[tu] ⟨10⟩ (p)erumāṉaṭikaḷuk[ku] ⟨11⟩ Iravum pakalum I[ra]⟨12⟩ṇṭu noṉtā-viḷak[k]’ e⟨13⟩(ri)ppat’ āka kō-māṟañ [ca]⟨14⟩ṭ(ai)yar-āyiṉa pāṇ(ḍya)⟨15⟩-Atipati-varakuṇa-ma[hā]⟨16⟩[rā]jar Aṇṭaṇāṭṭu [vē]⟨17⟩ḷāṉ kaiyyil viṭu [ta]⟨18⟩nta poṉ pāṭi

Apparatus

⟨15⟩ °ma[hā]⟨16⟩[rā]jar ⬦ °ma[kā]⟨16⟩[rā]jar V; °mahā⟨16⟩rājar K; °ma[hā]⟨16⟩[rā]jar G •

Translation by Gillet 2017

(1) Hail! Prosperity!

(1–18) [This is] the 9th year opposite to the 4th year of king Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ; from (mutal āka) aviṭṭam obtained on Monday (tiṅkaṭ-kiḻamai) in the month of dhanus; for Perumāṉaṭikaḷ of Tirumayilaraṅkam in Iṭaiyyāṟṟu maṅkalam, night and day, for burning (erippatāka) two (iraṇṭu) perpetual lamps, king (kō) Māṟañcaṭaiyar alias Varaguṇa Mahārājar, the great Lord of the Pāṇḍyans, released and gave (viṭu-tanta) into the hand (kaiyyil) of Aṇṭanāṭṭu Vēḷāṉ, […] gold […]

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1946-1947 (ARIE/1946-1947/B/1946-1947/104).

Edited in Venkataramayya 1953, with visual documentation; in Krishnan 2002 (IEP 41), with English translation; in Gillet 2017, with English translation.

This edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photographs (2009, by Valérie Gillet).

Primary

[V] Venkataramayya, M. 1953. “Javantinathapuram inscription of Varaguna-Maharaja.” EI 28, pp. 38–42.

[K] 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 48, item 41.

[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 257, item 6.

Secondary

ARIE 1946-1947. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1946-47. Edited by Bahadur Chand Chhabra. [Delhi]: [Manager of Publications (Department of Archaeology)], 19?? Page 25, appendixes B/1946-1947, item 104.

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