# SII 1.73: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: 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

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0073

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0073.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## 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
Paravādimalla[1] 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.

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Kṛishnarāja, is mentioned in an unpublished inscription from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