# SII 1.69: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: 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

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0069

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0069.xml

Languages: Sanskrit [Grantha], Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated in the tenth year of Ko-Māṟavarman[1]
Tribhuvanachakravartin Vīra-Pāṇḍya-deva and records the building of a
sluice at Vaigai-Tirumalai.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] k(o)māṟapaṉma(r) tribhuvanacakravartti
(śrī)virapāṇṭiyatevarkku ⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu pattāvatu vaikaittirumalai
matakerikku kaliṅku kaṭṭivittāṉ rā⟨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.

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