# SII 1.89: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 89. INSIDE THE
GEṄGOṆḌA MAṆḌAPA AT MĀMALLAPURAM, ON THE LEFT WALL

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0089

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0089.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## 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-koṭṭam[1] in
Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śoṛa-maṇḍalam.” The seventh line contains the name of the god
Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara.[2]

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## 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.

[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] Ātidāsacaṇṭeśvarar. See page 92, note 6, and page 116, note 3.