SII 1.89: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 89. INSIDE THE GEṄGOṆḌA MAṆḌAPA AT MĀMALLAPURAM, ON THE LEFT WALL.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0089.

Summary: This inscription is engraved on two stones, which fit to each other. It is dated “in the fourteenth year of Ko-Rājakesarivarman, alias Tribhuvanachakravartin Śrī-Kulottuṅga-Śoṛa-deva, who was pleased to sit on the throne of heroes, (which consisted of) pure gold.” The fourth line mentions “Āmūr-nāḍu, (a division) of Āmūr-koṭṭam1 in Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śoṛa-maṇḍalam.” The seventh line contains the name of the god Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara.2

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (3cdd373), last modified (829da8c).

Edition

⟨3⟩ cem pon virasiṁhāsaṉattu viṟṟirun=taruḷiya kovirācakecariparmarāna tripuva⟨ṉa⟩cca(k)karavarttikaḷ śrīkulottuṅkacoḻadevarkku yāṇṭu patinālāva⟨4⟩tu jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattu Āmurkoṭṭattu Āmurnāṭṭu [10+]

Commentary

GEṄGOṆḌA MAṆḌAPA. Madras Survey Map, No. 53. The modern name is perhaps a corruption of Gaṅgai-koṇḍāṉ Maṇḍapa and connected with Gaṅgai-koṇḍa Choḷa, a prince who, according to Dr. Burnell (South- Indian Palaeography, 2nd edition, p. 45, note 1), is mentioned in an inscription at Karuvūr in the Coimbatore District. I read the name gaṁgaikoṇḍa-cola on both faces of a silver coin, which is figured by Sir W. Elliot (Coins of Southern India, plate iv, No. 152).

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.89 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 126, item 89.

Notes

  1. 1. See page 64, above. Āmūru-koṭṭa is also mentioned in a copper-plate grant of Śaka 1558 (expired); Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII, p. 132, plate iv b, line 1. Āmūr-nāḍu and Āmūr-koṭṭam are probably named after Āmūr or Āmbūr, a town in the Velūr Tālluqa of the North Arcot District and a station on the Madras Railway; see Sewell’s Lists, Vol. I, p. 163.
  2. 2. Ātisacaṇṭeśvarar. See page 92, note 6, and page 116, note 3.