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· <title type="alt">PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. VI. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA AT KĀÑCĪPURAM. No. 88. ON A PILLAR IN THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.</title>
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35 <p>This inscription is dated in the <hi rend="italic">Kīlaka</hi> year (<hi rend="italic">i.e.</hi>, Śaka 1291) and during the reign of <hi rend="bold">Kambaṇṇa-uḍaiyar</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">the son of</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Vīra</hi>.<note>See page 117, above.</note> It records that, with the sanction of <hi rend="bold">Koppaṇaṅgaḷ</hi>,<note>See page 118, above.</note> the temple authorities gave a <hi rend="italic">maṭha</hi> near the temple and some land to a certain <hi rend="bold">Gāṅgayar</hi> of <hi rend="bold">Tirumudukuṉṟam</hi>. According to lines 9 to 14, <hi rend="bold">Kāñchipuram</hi> belonged to <hi rend="bold">Eyiṟkoṭṭam</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Choḷa-maṇḍalam</hi>. The district of <hi rend="bold">Eyiṟkoṭṭam</hi><note>See the remarks on <hi rend="bold">Maṇayiṟkoṭṭam</hi> in the introduction of No. <ref target="DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0151">151</ref>.</note> was probably called after <hi rend="bold">Eyil</hi>, <hi rend="italic">i.e.</hi>, “the fort,” a village in the <hi rend="bold">Tiṇḍivanam</hi> Tālluqa of the South Arcot District.<note>Sewell's <hi rend="italic">Lists of Antiquities</hi>, Vol. I, p. 207.</note> <hi rend="bold">Tirumudukuṉṟam</hi>, <hi rend="italic">i.e.</hi>, “the holy ancient mountain,” is perhaps meant for its Sanskrit equivalent <hi rend="bold">Vṛiddhāchalam</hi>, the head-quarters of a Tālluqa in the South Arcot District.<note><hi rend="italic">Ibid.</hi> p. 212.</note></p>
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· <label>West face.</label>
60 <lb n="1"/><hi rend="grantha">svasti</hi> <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> <hi rend="grantha">śrī</hi>virakam
· <lb n="2" break="no"/>paṇṇaUṭaiyarku
· <lb n="3"/>cellāniṉṟa kīla
· <lb n="4" break="no"/>kavaru<hi rend="grantha">ṣa</hi>ttu <hi rend="grantha">makara</hi>ṉā
· <lb n="5" break="no"/>yaṟu A<hi rend="grantha">parapa<surplus>ṣa</surplus></hi>
65 <lb n="6" break="no"/><hi rend="grantha">kṣa</hi>ttu <hi rend="grantha">saptami</hi>yu<supplied reason="omitted">m</supplied> ⌈
· <lb n="7" break="no"/>cevvāykki<surplus>ḻa</surplus>⌈
· <lb n="8" break="no"/>ḻ<choice><sic>ai</sic><corr>a</corr></choice>maiyum peṟṟa
· <lb n="9"/><unclear>t</unclear>er ṉāḷ <hi rend="grantha">ja</hi>yaṅko
· <lb n="10" break="no"/>⌉ṇṭacoḻama
70 <lb n="11" break="no"/>ṇṭalattu Eyiṟ
· <lb n="12" break="no"/>koṭṭattu nakara
· <lb n="13" break="no"/>ṅkāñci
· <lb n="14" break="no"/>purattu⌈
· <lb n="15" break="no"/>ṭaiyār tiru
75 <lb n="16" break="no"/>kkaṟṟaḷi
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· <label>South face.</label>
· <lb n="17"/>mak<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>tevarāṉa Eṭu<unclear>tat</unclear>
80 <lb n="18" break="no"/>tāyiram Uṭaiya n
· <lb n="19" break="no"/>āyiṉār koyilil
· <lb n="20"/><hi rend="grantha">śrīrudraśrīm<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>heśva</hi>
· <lb n="21" break="no"/>rarum tānattārumav
· <lb n="22" break="no"/>vaṉaivarom ko
85 <lb n="23" break="no"/>ppaṇaṅkaḷ A
· <lb n="24" break="no"/>ruḷicceyalpaṭikku
· <lb n="25"/>tirumutukuṉṟattil
· <lb n="26"/>mā<hi rend="grantha">heśvara</hi>ril ciṟ
· <lb n="27" break="no"/>ṟāmuruṭaiyāṉ pe
90 <lb n="28" break="no"/>ṇṇākiya perum
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· <lb n="29" break="no"/>āṉāṉa kāṅkayaṟku
95 <lb n="30"/>tirukkaiyerpaṭi
· <lb n="31"/>tirumuṉ Otukaiyu
· <lb n="32" break="no"/>m melaitteruvi
· <lb n="33" break="no"/>l Oru maṭamum kā<unclear>ṇi</unclear>
· <lb n="34" break="no"/>y<unclear>āṭciyu</unclear>m kuṭutta A
100 <lb n="35" break="no"/><unclear>ḷa</unclear>vukkuc<unclear>can</unclear>ti<unclear>ṟāti</unclear>tta
· <lb n="36" break="no"/>va<unclear>raiyum na</unclear>ṭatti<unclear>k</unclear>⌈
· <lb n="37" break="no"/>koḷḷavum <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> <hi rend="grantha">śrī</hi>ru<hi rend="grantha"><unclear>draśrī</unclear></hi>
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· <lb n="39" break="no"/>rom <unclear>ka</unclear>mpā<unclear>ṇṭāṉ E</unclear>
105 <lb n="40" break="no"/><unclear>ḻu</unclear>ttu Ivai Iṟaṅkal mi
· <lb n="41" break="no"/>ṭṭa ciya<unclear>r</unclear> Eḻuttu
· <lb n="42"/>Ivai viraca
· <lb n="43" break="no"/>mpa<unclear>pi</unclear>ramā
· <lb n="44" break="no"/>rāyar Eḻut
110 <lb n="45" break="no"/>tu viṭaṅka
· <lb n="46" break="no"/>paṭṭaneḻuttu
· <lb n="47"/>Irākutta
· <lb n="48" break="no"/>rāyakkāla
· <lb n="49" break="no"/>ṉ Eḻu<supplied reason="omitted">t</supplied>tu
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· <lem>Eḻu<supplied reason="omitted">t</supplied>tu</lem>
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· <p>Hail ! On the day of (<hi rend="italic">the nakshatra) Ter,</hi><note>This corresponds to the Sanskrit <hi rend="italic">Rohiṇī</hi>.</note> which corresponds to Tuesday, the seventh lunar day of the latter half of the month of <hi rend="italic">Makara</hi> of the <hi rend="italic">Kīlaka</hi> year, which was current (<hi rend="italic">during the reign</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Kambaṇṇa-uḍaiyar</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">the son of</hi>) the illustrious <hi rend="bold">Vīra</hi>,—we, all the followers of the blessed <hi rend="bold">Rudra</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">alias</hi>) the blessed <hi rend="bold">Maheśvara</hi>, and the authorities of the temple of the lord <hi rend="bold">Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Mahādeva</hi>, <hi rend="italic">alias</hi> <hi rend="bold">Eḍudatt-āyiram-uḍaiya-nāyaṉār</hi><note>On these two names of the <hi rend="bold">Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara</hi> Temple, see page 118, above.</note> at <hi rend="bold">Kāñchipuram</hi>, a town of <hi rend="bold">Eyiṟkoṭṭam</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śoṛa-maṇḍalam</hi>, gave, as ordered by <hi rend="bold">Koppaṇaṅgaḷ</hi>, to <hi rend="bold">Perumāṉ</hi>, <hi rend="italic">alias</hi> <hi rend="bold">Gāṅgayar</hi>, who is worshipped by (i.e., <hi rend="italic">who is the teacher of ?</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Śiṟṟāmūr-uḍaiyāṉ</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">one</hi>) of the <hi rend="italic">Māheśvaras</hi> at <hi rend="bold">Tirumudukuṉṟam, . . . . . </hi> (<hi rend="italic">for</hi>) reciting the <hi rend="italic">Veda</hi> in the presence of the god, one <hi rend="italic">maṭha</hi> in the western street<note>The western <hi rend="italic">saṁnidhi</hi> street of the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Temple seems to be meant; compare <foreign>cannatitteru</foreign> in No. <ref target="DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0086">86</ref>, line 54, and in No. <ref target="DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0087">87</ref>, line 22.</note> and some hereditary land. (<hi rend="italic">This gift</hi>) shall be managed accordingly, as long as the moon and the sun exist. We, the followers of the blessed <hi rend="bold">Rudra</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">alias</hi>) the blessed <hi rend="bold">Maheśvara</hi>, and the authorities of the temple:—The signature of <hi rend="bold">Kambāṇḍāṉ</hi>. This is the signature of <hi rend="bold">Śīyar</hi> (<hi rend="italic">Siṁha</hi>), who made the closing (<hi rend="italic">of the temple</hi>) cease. This is the signature of <hi rend="bold">Vīra-Śamba-Brahmā-rāyar</hi>. The signature of <hi rend="bold">Viḍaṅga-bhaṭṭa</hi>. The signature of <hi rend="bold">Irāguttarāyakkālaṉ</hi>.</p>
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