Tirupuvaṉai / Thirubhuvanai, Varadarāja Perumāḷ temple, time of Rājādhirāja, year 30

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: North, west and east walls. Cōḻa, Rājādhirāja I Cōḻa, RY 30 = 1048 CE.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00102.

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00102.xml.

Version: (e2dd903), last modified (3137dcf).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tiṅkaḷēr taru ṟoṅkal veṇ-kuṭai-k k¡i!ḻ ... viśvalōkattu

⟨5⟩ viḷaṅka manuneṟi niṉṟ’ aśvamēta(ñ) c(e)ytu aracu v¡i!ṟṟirun=ta jayaṅ-koṇṭa-cōḻa¡n! uyarn=ta perum-pukaḻ kō-v-irāja-kēcari-vaṉmar-āṉa Uṭaiyār śrī-rājādhirājadevaṟkku yāṇṭu muppat-āvatu rājen¡t!ra-cōḻa-vaḷanāṭṭu viḻupparaiya-nāṭṭu taṉiyūr śrī-tiripuvaṉa-mātēvi-c-caruppēti-maṅkalattu-p peruṅ-kuṟi-p peru-makkaḷōm Ivv-āṭṭai miṉa-ṉāyaṟṟu-p putaṉkiḻamai peṟṟa Uttiratti nāṉṟu nam makaṉār cempiyaṉ umpaḷanāṭṭu m¡u!vēn=tavēlār Eṭuppitta maṇṭapattē nirampa peruṅ-kuṟi kūṭi y-irun=tu paṇi-p-paṇiyāl paṇitta Eḻuttu nam m¡u!la-teyvam naṭuvil śrīv¡i!ra-nārāyaṇaṉ viṇṇakar Āḻvār tiru-nāmattāl senāpatikaḷ Irājen¡t!ra-cōḻa-mā-vali-vāṇarājar Uṭaiyār śrī-rājen¡t!ra-cōḻa-devar tiru-

⟨6⟩ -mēṉikku niṉṟāka vaitta rājen¡t!racōḻaṉ ut(ta)mākkarattikku-k koṇṭa nilam āvatu namm-ūr vaṭa-piṭākai kō(k)kiḻānaṭi-p per-ēri k¡i!ḻ-k koṭu-

⟨7⟩ kkūr-āṉa rājen¡t!racōḻa-nallū⟨r⟩ nilam ...

⟨21⟩ nel nūṟṟ’ irupatiṉ ... niccal paṭi Uṇṇum śrī-vayiṣṇavar pa¡n!ṉiruvarkku nāḷ oṉṟukku nel kalamum tiruvarātaṉai ceyvāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel patakkum tiruvāymoḻi viṇṇappam cey-

⟨22⟩ vāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel mu-k-kuṟuṇi y-āka nālvarkku nel kalamum ...-

⟨23⟩ ... vētān=tam vakkāṇippāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel kalanē patakkum m¡i!māṁsai vakkāṇippāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel kalamum viyākaraṇam vakkāṇippāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel Iru-tūṇi-k kuṟuṇiyum Ur¡u!pāvatāraṅ kēṭpippāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel tūṇi-p patakkum mā-pāratamum śrī-rāmāyaṇamum vācippāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel Iru-tuṇi-k kuṟu-

⟨24⟩ ṇiyum śrī-maṉucāttiram kēṭpippāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel tūṇiyum śrī-vaikānasam Ōtuvippāṉ Oruvaṉukku nel mu-k-kuṟuṇiyum Irukku-vētam Apūrvvam Ōtuvār Aṟupatinmarum yajurvetam Apūrvvam Ōtuvār Aṟupatinmarum santōkasāmam Ō(tu)vār Irupatiṉmarum talavukārasāmamum Apūrvvamum vajasanēyamum botāniya-sūttiramum sattūṣāṭa-sūttiramum Ōtuvar Ai⟨m⟩patinmarum Āka ṉūṟṟu-t toṇṇūṟṟuvarku pērāl nel Aṟu nāḻiyāka nel pati¡n! oru kalanē Iru-tūṇi-p patakku nāṉāḷiyum ...-

⟨25⟩ ...-

⟨42⟩ ... Idhamma śrī-vaiṣṇavar rakṣai

Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ Hail! Prosperity!

⟨1–5⟩ While the goddess of the earth was beaming under his fringed white parasol, which resembled the moon in beauty, ⟨the king⟩ wedded the goddess of fortune, wielded the scepter, and destroyed the dark Kali ⟨age⟩, ...

⟨5⟩ Year 30 ⟨of the reign of⟩ king Rājakēcarivaṉmar alias Lord śrī-Rājādhirāja-devar.

⟨5⟩ The document ordered by us, the members of the great assembly of Tiripuvaṉamātēvi-c-caturvētimaṅkalam, an autonomous village in Viḻupparaiya-nāṭu in Rājendracōḻa-vaḷanāṭu after having assembled in full in the hall erected by our son, Cempiyaṉ Umpaḷanāṭṭu Mūvēntavēḷār, on Wednesday when the asterism Uttiraṭṭāti was current in the month of Mīṉa in this year ⟨is as follows⟩.

⟨5–6⟩ The land we got for a special food offering called Rājendracōḻaṉ uttamākkaram, for the betterment of the sacred body of Lord śrī-Rājendracōḻa-devar in the name of śrī-Vīranārāyaṇa-viṇṇakar Āḻvār, our main deity in the centre ⟨of our village⟩ endowed by Rājendracōḻa-māvali-vāṇarājar, commander in chief of the army is ⟨as follows⟩.

⟨6–⟩

⟨23–24⟩

  • One kalam and one patakku of paddy for one person who gives exposition to Vedānta,

  • one kalam of paddy for one person who gives exposition to Mīmāṁsā (m¡i!⟨ī⟩māṁsai),

  • two tūṇis and one kuṟuṇi of paddy for one person who gives exposition to grammar (viyākaraṇam = vyākaraṇa),

  • ⟨one tūṇi and one patakku of paddy for on person who studies Rūpāvātara (Ur¡u!⟨ū⟩pāvatāram),⟩

  • two tūṇis and one kuṟuṇi of paddy who reads Mahābhārata (mā-pāratam) and śrī-Rāmāyaṇa (śrī-rāmāyaṇam),

  • one tūṇi of paddy for one person who teaches śrī-Manu-śāstra (śrī-maṉucāttiram),

  • three kuṟuṇis of paddy for one person who teaches śrī-Vaikhānasa,

  • 60 people who study R̥g-veda (Irukku-vētam)and Apūrva (Apūrvvam),

  • 60 people who study Yajurveda (yajurvetam) and Apūrva,

  • 20 people who study Sandoha-sāma (santōkasāmam),

  • 50 people who study Talavukārasāma (talavukārasāmam), Apūrva, Vājasaneya (vajasanēyam), Baudhāyanasūtra (botāniya-sūttiram), Sattūjātasūtra (sattūṣāṭa-sūttiram),

thus 11 kalams and two tūṇis and one patakku of paddy for 190 people, at the rate of six nāḻis of paddy per day per person.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1918–19 (ARIE/1918-1919/C/1919/176).

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 102) and translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 102).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006. This translation adapted from Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010.

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. Pages 115–124, item 102.

[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. Pages 47–51, item 102.

Secondary

ARIE 1918–19. G.O. No. 1003, 16th August 1919. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1918-1919. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1919. Page 63, appendix C/1919, item 176.