SII 1.84: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. VI. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA AT KĀÑCĪPURAM. No. 84. ON THE FLOOR OF THE MAHĀMAṆḌAPA OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0084.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the 3rd year of Ko-Rājakesarivarman. By it, the villagers of Meṉalūr pledged themselves, to furnish oil for a lamp from the interest of a sum of money, which they had received from the temple-treasury. The inscription mentions Kāñchīpuram. Tirukkaṟṟaḷippuṟam, “the town of the holy stone-temple,” which occurs in lines 1 f., is evidently derived from Tirukkaṟṟaḷi, one of the names of the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Temple,¹ and is probably a synonym of Kāñchīpuram. The town belonged to Kāliyūr-koṭṭam, a district, which is also mentioned in Nos. 85, 147 and 148.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

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⟨1⟩ (kovi)rājakecaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu 3 (Āvatu) kāliyūrkoṭṭat(tokaḻa)nāṭṭu tiru(kka)⟨2⟩ṟṟaḷippuṟattu meṉalūr Ūrom kaiyyeḻuttu [||] kāñcīypurattu tirukkaṟṟaḷi (Ā)⟨3⟩didāsacaṇḍeśva(ra) pakkal yāṅkaḷ koṇṭu kaṭava poṉ patiṉeṇ(kaḻañcey) ⟨4⟩ munṟu mañcāṭiyum kuṉṟiy [|] Ippon patiṉneṇkaḻañcey mu(nṟu mañcā)⟨5⟩(ṭi) kuṉṟikkum palicaiyāṟcantrātit(ta)va¿ṟa?⟨rai⟩ nicatam Uḻakkeṇṇai Ūraka[muṭaiyār kā]⟨6⟩loṭokkum Uḻakkāle Aṭṭuvomānom Oru nan=tāviḷakku Aṭṭuvom¿a?⟨ā⟩no(m) [5+] ⟨7⟩ (Ū)rār colla Eḻutineṉ Ivvūr vica(van) Alappaṭiyeṉ Ivai En Eḻut(tu) [||]

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ Ūraka[muṭaiyār kā] • These letters are supplied from line 11 of the inscription No. 147.

Translation by Hultzsch 1890

In the 3rd year of Ko-Rājakesarivarman, we, the villagers of Meṉalūr, (a quarter) of Tirukkaṟṟaḷippuṟam in Ogaṛa-nāḍu (?), (a division) of Kāliyūr-koṭṭam, (made the following) written agreement. We have received from Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara² (in) the holy stone-temple at Kāñchīpuram eighteen kaṛañjus, three mañjāḍis and one kuṉṟi³ of gold. From the interest⁴ of these eighteen kaṛañjus, three mañjāḍis and one kuṉṟi of gold, we shall pour out daily,⁵ as long as the moon and the sun exist, (for) one nandā lamp, one uṛakku of oil with an uṛakku (measure), which is equal to a quarter (according to the standard) of the authorities in the village. As the villagers . . . . . told (me), I, Alappaḍi, the headman⁶ of this village, wrote (this document). This is my signature.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.84 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 115–116, item 84.

Notes

1. See page 118, below.
2. On Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara see page 92, note 6. According to the Tamil Periya-purāṇam, Śiva made the pious Vichāraśarman the chief (talaivaṉ) of his devotees (toṇṭar), and bestowed on him the title Chaṇḍeśvara. This legend perhaps explains the designation Ādidāsa, “the first devotee.”
3. 1 kaṛañju contains 20 mañjāḍi contains 2 kuṉṟis, and 1 kuṉṟi is equal to about 2 grains.
4. palicai seems to be the same as policai.
5. nicatam seems to be another form of nicati (see page 114, note 3).
6. vicavaṉ , which occurs also in No. 148, is probably identical with viyavaṉ.

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