Mahābalipuram, time of Vīrarājendra, year 9

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0100042.

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Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: (edd67e8), last modified (5f598cc).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

v¡i!⟨ī⟩⟨ra⟩rājendra⟨2⟩cōḻa-devarku yāṇ⟨3⟩ṭu Opat-āvatu

tiru⟨4⟩-k-kaṭal-mallai Em p⟨5⟩erumānuk=ku ci(ṟi)tavūr-ā⟨6⟩¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a narasi⟨ṃ⟩ha-maṅkala⟨7⟩ttu mahāsabhai⟨8⟩yōm tiruviṭaiyā⟨9⟩ṭṭamāha viṭṭa Eṅkaḷ ⟨10⟩ Ūr Ukkāviri-vā⟨y⟩k⟨11⟩kālukku-t tek=ku maṅ⟨12⟩kala-c-ceṟum yin=ta ku⟨13⟩ṟiyā niṉṟa nārāyaṇaṉ⟨14⟩māṅkaḷ¡u!⟨ū⟩r-āṉa kūttāṭi⟨15⟩(pa)ṭṭi Āka taṭi 5-ṉā(l) ku⟨16⟩ḻi (2 1000) I¡ṉ-ṉ!⟨n-n⟩āyaṉārku ⟨17⟩ tiruviṭaiyāṭṭamāha⟨18⟩Iṟai Iḻicci(-k kuṭu)⟨19⟩⟨tt⟩ōm Iv-ūr mah⟨20⟩⟨āsa⟩bhaiyōm

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ śrī • SII treats this word as an honourific prefix to the name of the king that follows.

Translation by Hultzsch 1891

Commentary

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1887 (ARIE/1886-1887/II/1886-1887/1).

First edited Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1.42), with English translation.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024).

Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Pages 68–69, item 42.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1887. G.O. No. 1462, 24th October 1887. Archaeology. Noting with satisfaction the work performed by Dr. Hultzsch, Epigraphist, from 21st November 1886 to 20th September 1887. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 5, appendix II, item 1.