SII 1.73: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. IV. INSCRIPTIONS AT TIRUMALAI NEAR POLŪR. No. 73. IN A SMALL SHRINE BELOW THE PAINTED CAVE AT TIRUMALAI, FIRST INSCRIPTION.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0073.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] kaṭaikkoṭ⟨2⟩ṭūrttirumalaipparavātima⟨3⟩llar māṇākkar Ariṣṭane⟨4⟩miĀcāryyar ce(y)⟨5⟩vitta yakṣitti(ru)⟨6⟩meṉi ||

Translation by Hultzsch 1890

Hail! Prosperity! Arishṭanemi-āchārya of Kaḍaikkoṭṭūr, a pupil of Paravādimalla1 of Tirumalai, caused the image of a yakshī to be made.

Commentary

There is a fragment of a second inscription in two lines, which begins: svasti śrī Ippaḷḷi (U)ṭaiya śrī.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.73 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. Pages 104–105, item 73.

Notes

  1. 1. A Jaina teacher of this name, who was a contemporary of a king Kṛishnarāja, is mentioned in an unpublished inscription from Śravaṇa-Beḷagoḷa.