# SII 1.63: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III.
INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 63. ON THE BASE OF THE EAST
WALL

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0063

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0063.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

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## Summary

This short inscription refers to the gift of the village of Puttūr,
which is also recorded in the two preceding inscriptions.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ poykai A(ruḷāḷa)rai puṉaintu puttūrum Aiyyamaṟa koṇṭu Avarkku
Ūrākkiṉāṉ ceyyamalarmātuyār niṉṟa malaināṭṭu vāḻ ⟨2⟩ vaṇikan ĀtiIrāman
keraḷan ௳

## Translation by Hultzsch 1890

The merchant Ādi-Rāma the Keraḷa, who lived in Malai-nāḍu, where the
goddess with the red flower (Lakshmī) resides, having decorated Aruḷāḷar
(of) Poygai, and having acquired as exclusive property (the village of)
Puttūr, made it his (the god’s) village.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.63 by Hultzsch 1890 converted to DHARMA
conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### 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. Page 90, item 63.