# SII 1.120: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123.
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 120.
INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE RIGHT, THIRD INSCRIPTION

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0120

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

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## Summary

1. Date: Śālivāhana-Śaka 1457 expired and the Nandana year current.[1]

2. King: the illustrious mahārājādhirāja-parameśvara
Achyutadeva-mahārāyar (of Vijayanagara).

3. Donee: Mārgasahāya-deva[2] of Iriñchipuram (!).

4. Remarks: The inscription mentions Śiṟaleri (see No. 123). The grant
seems to have consisted of a number of kuṛis of land and to have been
made for the benefit of two Brāhmaṇas, Timmappayaṉ and Śaivādirāyar
Vasantarāya-guru, who taught the Ṛik-śākhā and Yajuḥ-śākhā respectively.
The second donee belonged to the Bhāradvāja-gotra and followed the
Bodhāyana-sūtra.[3]

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## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.120 by Hultzsch 1890 converted to DHARMA
conventions by Emmanuel Francis. Text not published in SII 1.

### 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 132, item 120.

[1] There is a mistake in the date, as Śaka 1458 corresponds to the
Manmatha year, and the Nandana year to Śaka 1455. See No. 123.

[2] Compare Mārgasahāyeśvara in No. 58 and Margasahāya-liṅga in No. 140.

[3] Bodhāyana is the southern form of Baudhāyana; see page ix of the
preface of my edition of Baudhāyana’s Dharmaśāstra, Leipzig, 1884.