# SII 1.79: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. V.
INSCRIPTIONS AT PAḌAVEḌU. No. 79. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE
AMMAIAPPEŚVARA TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0079

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0079.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated during the reign of Vīra-Devarāya-mahārāyar
(of Vijayanagara) and in the Pramādin year (i.e., Śaka 1356). It records
a grant to the Ammaiappa Temple. The name of the donor is obliterated.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti [∥] śrīmanIracātiIrācaṉ Irā(ca)⟨2⟩parameśvaran
śrīvi(ra)tevarāmamahā⟨3⟩Irāyar(kuc)cellāniṉṟa piṟamātica⟨4⟩varuṣam māci
mātam pattāntayati ⟨5⟩ nāyaṉār AmmaiAppanāyaṉārk(ku) ⟨6⟩
teyavaṅka(ṇa)pan mātava(y)āvanā(yar) ⟨7⟩ taṉmacātaṉa paṇ(ṇi ku)ṭuttapaṭi
ma [3+] ⟨8⟩ (koṉ) periya pekamāvar tiruvira [4+] ⟨9⟩ Āka viṭṭa [1+]
vaḷavu (1) [∥] Inta taṉ(mam) ca⟨10⟩ntiṟādittavarai(yu)m naṭakka
kaṭa(vat)āka⟨11⟩vum [∥] Inta taṉmattukku Akita paṇ(ṇu)vu⟨12⟩van keṅkai
karai(yi)l k¿a?⟨ā⟩rām (pacuv)ai [unknown number of lost lines]

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ °rāma° • The inscription No. 80 reads °rāya° instead of °rāma°.

## Translation by Hultzsch 1890

Hail! On the tenth day of the month of Māśi of the Pramādīcha[1] year,
which was current (during the reign) of the illustrious rājādhirāja
rājaparameśvara, the illustrious Vīra-Devarāya-mahārāyar, . . . . . . .
. . . 1 vaḷavu[2] was given by a dharmaśāsana to the lord
Ammaiappa-nāyaṉār. This meritorious gift shall last as long as the moon
and the sun. He who shall injure this meritorious gift, [shall incur the
sin of one who has killed] a black cow on the bank of the Gaṅgā.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.79 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 109, item 79.

[1] As Dr. Oppert has shown in the Madras Journal of Literature and
Science for the year 1881, p. 276, the erroneous forms Pramodūta and
Pramādicha for the two cyclic years Pramoda and Pramādin owe their
origin to some old versus memoriales, in two of which we find Pramodo
’tha and Pramādī cha; in course of time the two particles atha and cha
were mistaken for portions of the names themselves. In Tamil the two
wrong forms have entirely superseded the correct ones.

[2] vaḷavu or vaḷaivu means “a house, household premises” (Winslow).