# Tirupuvaṉai / Thirubhuvanai, Varadarāja Perumāḷ temple, time of
Rājendra Cōḻa, year lost

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00099

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00099.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-04 20:32 (e2dd903), last modified 2026-10-26 13:44
(2e9e227)

## Summary

On the south side of the basement of the dilapidated maṇḍapa. Fragment
of the meykkīrtti of Rājendra I Cōḻa (r. 1012-1044 CE). Most probably
part of a single inscription with PI 100.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […] ta¡n!⟨ṉ⟩i celviyun= taṉ perun= tē[viyar] […] [āra]mum teṇtirai
y-¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻa-maṇṭala⟨m⟩ muḻu⟨vatum⟩ […] ⟨2⟩ […] [tirutta]ku muṭiyum
payaṅkoṭu paḻi[mika] […] mācuṇit tēcamum Ayarvil vaṇ k¡i!⟨ī⟩[rtti] […]
⟨3⟩ […] muṟaṇukat tākki-t tik=kaṇai k¡i!⟨ī⟩rt=ti tak=kaṇa […] [celu]tti
caṅk¿a?⟨i⟩rāma-vicaiyō[t]tuṅka-paṟma[ṉ] […] ⟨4⟩ […] toṉmalaiyūrum
Āḻkaṭal akaḻ cūḻ m […] [ka]ṭāramum mā-p-peru-taṇṭāl koṇṭa
kō-p-[parakēcari] […]

## Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE.

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 99). Not translated in
Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 99).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Kuppusamy &
Vijayavenugopal 2006.

### Primary

[PI] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2006. Pondicherry
inscriptions. Part I: Introduction and texts with notes = Putuccēri
mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient;
Institut français de Pondichéry. Page 114, item 99.

[PI] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2010. Pondicherry
inscriptions. Part II: Translation, appendices, glossary and phrases,
[and] preface = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole
française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Page 46,
item 99.