SII 1.69: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. IV. INSCRIPTIONS AT TIRUMALAI NEAR POLŪR. No. 69. ON THE WALL OF A MAṆḌAPA AT THE BASE OF THE TIRUMALAI ROCK, TO THE LEFT OF THE ENTRANCE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0069.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the tenth year of Ko-Māṟavarman1 Tribhuvanachakravartin Vīra-Pāṇḍya-deva and records the building of a sluice at Vaigai-Tirumalai.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

Version: (3cdd373), last modified (829da8c).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] k(o)māṟapaṉma(r) tribhuvanacakravartti (śrī)virapāṇṭiyatevarkku ⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu pattāvatu vaikaittirumalai matakerikku kaliṅku kaṭṭivittāṉ ⟨3⟩jarājavaḷanāṭṭuttirumuṉaippāṭināṭṭu pāṇ(ṭ)aiyūrmaṅkalaṅkiḻāṉ ⟨4⟩ Ampalapperumāḷāṉa ciṉattaraiyaṉ [|]

dharmmoyañja(ya)tu

Translation by Hultzsch 1890

Hail! Prosperity! In the tenth year of Ko-Māṟavarman Tribhuvanachakravartin, the illustrious Vīra-Pāṇḍya-deva,—Ambala-Perumāḷ alias Śiṉattaraiyaṉ, the headman (kiṛāṉ) (of) Pāṇḍaiyūr-maṅgalam in Tirumuṉaippāḍi-nāḍu, (a division) of Rājarāja-vaḷa-nāḍu, caused to be built a sluice for the Madageri (tank) (near) the holy mountain of Vaigai (Vaigai-Tirumalai). Let this pious work be victorious!

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.69 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 101, item 69.

Notes

  1. 1. māṟaṉ was a title of the Pāṇḍya kings; see Winslow.