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· <title type="alt">PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 54. ON THE BASE OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT TEḶḶŪR NEAR VELŪR.</title>
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35 <p>This inscription is dated in the reign of the <hi rend="italic">mahāmaṇḍaleśvara</hi> <hi rend="bold">Vīrapratāpa-Devarāya-mahārāya</hi> (<hi rend="italic">of</hi> Vijayanagara) and in Śaka 1353, the <hi rend="italic">Sādhāraṇa</hi> year. It records that the family (<hi rend="italic">kuḍi</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Māraṇaṉ-uḷḷiṭṭār</hi>, which belonged to <hi rend="bold">Pallava-nallūr</hi>, was given to the temple at <hi rend="bold">Teḷḷaiyūr</hi> (<hi rend="italic">the modern</hi> Teḷḷūr), <hi rend="italic">alias</hi> <hi rend="bold">Pukkaḷappuram</hi>, which belonged to <hi rend="bold">Vaḍapuri-Āndi-nāḍu</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu</hi>, a division of <hi rend="bold">Paḍuvūr-koṭṭam</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Choḷa-maṇḍalam</hi>.</p>
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· <lb n="1b"/><hi rend="grantha">svasti</hi> <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> <hi rend="grantha">śrīmanmahāmaṇḍaleśvaraN Arirā</hi>yavi<hi rend="grantha">bhā</hi>ṭaṉ <hi rend="grantha">bhāṣai</hi>kku tappuva rāyar kaṇṭaṉ <hi rend="grantha">pūrvvadakṣa</hi>ṇapaccamot=tara<hi rend="grantha">samudrādhipa</hi>ti<hi rend="grantha"> śrī</hi>vī<hi rend="grantha">rapra</hi>tā<hi rend="grantha">pade<unclear>va</unclear></hi>rā
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· <milestone n="B" unit="zone" type="pagelike" break="no"/><label>East.</label>
· <lb n="1" break="no"/>ya<hi rend="grantha">mahār<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>ya pṛthi</hi>vīrā<hi rend="grantha">jyaM pa<supplied reason="omitted">ṇ</supplied>ṇi</hi> <unclear>A</unclear>ruḷāniṉṟa <hi rend="grantha">śa</hi>kā<hi rend="grantha">bdaM</hi> <num value="1353"><g type="numeral">1000</g> 3 <g type="numeral">100</g> 5 <g type="numeral">10</g> 3</num>
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65 <lb n="1a"/><hi rend="grantha">sādhā</hi>raṇavaru<hi rend="grantha">ṣa</hi>m kaṟkaṭakanāya<unclear>ṟṟu</unclear> pū<hi rend="grantha">rvva</hi>pa<hi rend="grantha">kṣa</hi>ttu pañcamiyum tiṅ<unclear>kaḷ ki</unclear>ḻamaiyum peṟṟa tiruv<unclear>o</unclear>ṇattu nāḷ <hi rend="grantha">ja</hi>yaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattu paṭuvūrkoṭṭattu paṅkaḷanāṭṭu vaṭapuriĀntināṭṭu <unclear>A</unclear>karam teḷḷaiyūrāna pukkaḷappurattu nāyinārukku Āntiṭṭu vaṭuki maṉṟāṭi Atikārikaḷ va <gap reason="lost" quantity="4" unit="character"/> nāyakkatecu <gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/> kañcaṉanum taṉmacātanam paṇṇikkuṭuttapaṭi Inta nāyinārukku Āntiṭṭu
· <lb n="2"/>pallavanallūrccervaikkuṭi m<unclear>ā</unclear>raṇaṉuḷḷiṭṭārai tirunantāviḷakku kuṭi Āka ca<hi rend="grantha">ndrā</hi>tittavaraiyum cellumpaṭikku <hi rend="grantha">Uda</hi>kapū<hi rend="grantha">rvva dharmmadā</hi>namāka paṇṇikkuṭuttom <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> Ippaṭi paṇṇikkuṭutta Inta māraṇaṉuḷḷiṭṭār Eṅke Irukkilum Inta nāyinārukku I<unclear>ya</unclear>kka kaṭava<choice><sic>n</sic><corr>r</corr></choice>ākavum <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> Inta taṉmacātanakkuṭi
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· <milestone n="B" unit="zone" type="pagelike"/><label>East.</label><lb n="2"/>vaḻi Ellām Inta nāyinār kuṭi vaḻi Ākakkaṭavatākavum <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> Ippaṭi paṇṇikkuṭutta Inta taṉmacātanattukku Akitam pa<supplied reason="omitted">ṇ</supplied>ṇināruṇṭānāl
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70 <milestone n="A" unit="zone" type="pagelike"/><label>South.</label><lb n="3"/>keṅkaikkar<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ai</corr></choice>yil kurāl pacuvai koṉṟa pāvatte poka kaṭavum <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> <hi rend="grantha">m<choice><sic>ā</sic><corr>a</corr></choice>heśvvararakṣai</hi> <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied>
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· <lem>pukkaḷappurattu</lem>
· <note>After this word there is engraved below the line: <foreign>Ūrāṅkuḷuntanā<unclear>ta</unclear>yinā<unclear>na</unclear>r</foreign> (?).</note>
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· <p>Hail! On the day of (<hi rend="italic">the nakshatra) Tiruvoṇam,</hi><note>Sanskrit <hi rend="italic">Śravaṇa</hi>.</note>which corresponds to Monday, the fifth lunar day of the former half of the month of <hi rend="italic">Karkaṭaka</hi> of the <hi rend="italic">Sādhāraṇa</hi> year (<hi rend="italic">and</hi>) the Śaka year 1353, while the illustrious <hi rend="italic">mahāmaṇḍaleśvara</hi>, the conqueror of hostile kings, the destroyer of those kings who break their word, the lord of the eastern, southern, western and northern occans, the illustrious <hi rend="bold">Vīrapratāpa-Devarāya-mahārāya</hi> was pleased to rule the earth,—Whereas (<hi rend="italic">we),<note>The names of the donors seem to have been contained in the break of line 1a of the south wall.</note> . . . . . . . . . . </hi> gave a <hi rend="italic">dharmaśāsana</hi> to (<hi rend="italic">the temple of</hi>) the lord of <hi rend="bold">Teḷḷaiyūr</hi>, <hi rend="italic">alias</hi> <hi rend="bold">Pukkaḷappuram</hi>, a village in <hi rend="bold">Vaḍapuri-Āndi-nāḍu</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">which belongs</hi>) to <hi rend="bold">Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">a division</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Paḍuvūr-koṭṭam</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śoṛa-maṇḍalam</hi>; —We (<hi rend="italic">hereby declare, that we</hi>) gave to this lord the family (<hi rend="italic">called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Māraṇaṉ-uḷḷiṭṭār</hi>, which belongs to <hi rend="bold">Pallava-nallūr</hi>, as a family (<hi rend="italic">which has to maintain</hi>) a <hi rend="italic">tirunandā</hi> lamp, with a libation of water, as a meritorious gift, to last as long as the moon and the sun. These <hi rend="bold">Māraṇaṉ-uḷḷiṭṭār</hi>, who were thus given, shall attend to (<hi rend="italic">the worship of</hi>) this lord, wherever they are. The whole family (<hi rend="italic">named in</hi>) this <hi rend="italic">dharmaśāsana, (together with</hi>) their descendants, shall be the family of this lord. If there is anybody who injures this <hi rend="italic">dharmaśāsana</hi>, which was thus given, he shall incur the sin of one who has killed a tawny cow on the bank of the <hi rend="bold">Gaṅgā</hi>. Let <hi rend="bold">Maheśvara</hi> be the protector!</p>
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· <p n="3">The following line is engraved in somewhat smaller letters below the beginning of line 1a.</p>
· <p>On a stone near this temple there is a fragment of a Choḷa inscription, the first line of which reads: <foreign>Uṭaiyār śrīkulot<unclear>tuṅka</unclear></foreign>, Uḍaiyār Śrī-Kulot<unclear>tuṅga</unclear>.</p>
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Commentary
(3) The following line is engraved in somewhat smaller letters below the beginning of line 1a.
On a stone near this temple there is a fragment of a Choḷa inscription, the first line of which reads: Uṭaiyār śrīkulot(tuṅka), Uḍaiyār Śrī-Kulot(tuṅga).