# SII 1.91: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 91-94.
INSCRIPTIONS AT THE VELŪR TEMPLE. No. 91. ON THE PILLAR TO THE LEFT IN
FRONT OF THE GOPURA

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0091

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0091.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

The four subjoined inscriptions are written in modern Tamil characters
and record “the perpetual devotion”[1] of a certain Chandra-piḷḷai of
Kāṭṭeri.

There are several similar inscriptions in other parts of the temple,
viz., two on the pedestals of the two dvārapālakas in front of the
gopura, one on the left outer wall of the inner prākāra, and five on the
floor of the alaṁkāra-maṇḍapa, of which two are written in Tamil, two in
Telugu, and one in very faint Nāgarī characters.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kopuravācal ⟨2⟩ kumā⟨3⟩racūvā⟨4⟩miyār ⟨5⟩ lakṣi⟨6⟩kka kā⟨7⟩ṭṭeri ⟨8⟩
cantira⟨9⟩piḷḷai ⟨10⟩ Atiyā⟨11⟩ri catā⟨12⟩cer⟨13⟩vai [∥]

## Translation by Hultzsch 1890

In order that (the god) Kumāra-svāmin at the gate of the gopura might
protect[2] (him), the magistrate (adhikārin) Chandra-piḷḷai of Kāṭṭeri
(made this gift, which records his) perpetual devotion.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.91 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 127, item 91.

[1] catācervai seems to represent the Sanskrit sadā-sevā. It is here
used in the sense of “a monument of perpetual devotion,” just as, in
Sanskrit, kīrti and kīrtana have sometimes the meaning “a monument of
fame;” see Mr. Fleet’s Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. III, p. 212,
note 6.

[2] lakṣikka seems to be a vulgar form for rakṣikka.