# SII 1.96: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 96. ON THE BASE OF
THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT ŚOṚAPURAM; 4TH INSCRIPTION

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0096

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0096.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

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## Summary

On the base of this temple, there are at least three obliterated
inscriptions besides the preceding one. In the second line of the fourth
inscription there occurs the following passage.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ koyirācakecaripaṉmarāna kulottuṅkacoḻatevaṟkku muppattiraṇṭāvatu

## Translation

⟨1⟩ the thirty-second [year] of Ko-Rājakesarivarman, alias
Kulottuṅga-Śoṛa-deva.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.96 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 128, item 96.