SII 1.81: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. V. INSCRIPTIONS AT PAḌAVEḌU. No. 81. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE SOMANĀTHEŚVARA TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0081.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the Śukla year, which was current after the expiration of the Saka year 1371, and during the reign of Vīrapratāpa Prauḍha-Immaḍi-Devarāyamahārāyar. This is the latest hitherto-known date of Devarāja II. of Vijayanagara. The inscription is much injured and incomplete at the end. In the preserved portion, mention is made of the kingdom of Paḍaivīḍu (Paḍaivīṭṭu rājyam), which belonged to Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam,1 of the right and left hand castes,2 and of the Somanātheśvara Temple at Paḍaivīḍu.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (1624459), last modified (829da8c).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śubhamastu svasti [||] śrīmaNma(hā)⟨2⟩maṇḍaleśvaran Ari(ya)rā(ya)vi⟨3⟩pāṭaN pāṣaikkuttappu(va rā)⟨4⟩yar kaṇṭaN mūvarāyar ka(ṇ)⟨5⟩ṭaN kaṇṭa nāṭu koṇṭu ⟨6⟩ koṇṭa nāṭu ku(ṭ)ātāṉ pū⟨7⟩ṟuvadakṣiṇapaccimaUttarasa⟨8⟩mudrātipati śrīmaNrācātirācarācapa⟨9⟩rameśvara śrīvirapratāpa gacaveṭṭai ⟨10⟩ kaṇṭaruḷiya pravuṭaImmaṭi⟨11⟩tevarāyamahārāyar pritivīrā⟨12⟩ccaya(m) paṇṇi Aruḷāniṉṟa ⟨13⟩ śakā(bda)m 1000 3 100 7 10 1 ṉ mel ce⟨14⟩llāniṉṟa śuklavaruṣaM siṁha⟨15⟩nāyaṟṟu pūṟuvapakṣattu tray(o)⟨16⟩daśiyum caṉivāramum Ā(yu)⟨17⟩(ṣm)āN yoga(muM) pe(ṟṟa) U(t)⟨18⟩tirāṭattu nāḷ toṇṭai⟨19⟩maṇḍalattu paṭaivīṭṭu ⟨20⟩ rājyaM (n)āṭṭavar valaṅkaiyu⟨21⟩M IṭaṅkaiyuM mahājanamuM ⟨22⟩ rācagam(pīra)N malai(kka)⟨23⟩ṭai¿t?⟨n⟩ta muru(ka)maṅkalappaṟṟu ⟨24⟩ marutācā pa(ṭ)aivīṭu Uṭaiy(ār) ⟨25⟩ comaṉāte(śva)(ra)nayiṉār koyili⟨26⟩le niṟaivaṟa [1+] ṟaintu (ku)ṟaiva(ṟa) [unknown number of lost lines]

Translation by Hultzsch 1890

Let there be prosperity! Hail! On the day of (the nakshatra) Uttirāḍam,3 which corresponds to the Yoga Āyushmat and to Saturday, the thirteenth lunar day of the former half of the month of Siṁha of the Śukla year, which was current after the Śaka year 1371 (had passed), while the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, the conqueror of hostile kings, the destroyer of those kings who break their word, the destroyer of the three kings (of the South),4 who takes every country which he sees, but who never gives back a country which he has taken, the lord of the eastern, southern, western and northern oceans, the illustrious rājādhirāja rājaparameśvara, the illustrious Vīrapratāpa, who has been pleased to witness the hunting of elephants, Prauḍha-Immaḍi-Devarāya-mahārāyar, was pleased to rule the earth,—the inhabitants of the kingdom (rājyam) of Paḍaivīḍu, (which belongs) to Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam, the great men of the right hand and of the left hand,—at the temple of Somanātheśvara-nāyaṉār, the lord (of) Paḍaivīḍu in the north-west (of) Murugamaṅgala-paṟṟu,5 which borders on the Rājagambhīra Hill (Rājagambhīraṉ-malai)6 . . . . . . . . . .

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.81 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 110–111, item 81.

Notes

  1. 1. See the introduction of No. 56.
  2. 2. Much interesting information on the right and left hand castes is found in Dr. Oppert’s work “On the Original Inhabitants of Bharatavarsha or India,” Part I, pp. 57 to 66.
  3. 3. Sanskrit Uttarāshāḍhā.
  4. 4. mūvarāyar is the same as mūvaracar, “the three kings,” i.e., the Chera, the Choḷa, and the Pāṇḍya. In Kanarese inscriptions it occurs in the form Mūru-rāyaru; see Journal of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XII, p. 376, note 30, and Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIII, p. 131, verse 45.
  5. 5. See page 102, note 5.
  6. 6. This hill was probably called after Rajagambhīra-Śambuvarāyaṉ; see the introductions of Nos. 74 and 78.