SII 1.123: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 123. INSIDE THE BACK GOPURA.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0123.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara rājādhirāja rājaparameśvara, the illustrious Achyutadeva-mahārāyar or Achyutarāya (of Vijayanagara). 2. Date: Śaka 1454 expired1and the Nandana year current. 3. Donee: Uḍaiyār Vaṛittuṇai-nāyaṉār or Śrī-Viriñcheśvara. 4. Donor: the karaṇikka (= karaṇam) Vīrappayaṉ or Vīraya, who belonged to the Gautamānvaya. 5. Object of the grant: (a) the village of Śiṟaleri within the boundaries (sīmā) of Kāvanūr;2 (b) the village of Vīraraśūr, excluding the agrahāra of Kīṛai-Vīraraśūr and including the open (i.e., unfortified) place (liṟappu) of Aṅgarāyaṉ-kuppam.3 6. Remark: The inscription mentions the maṇḍapa of Śamburāyaṉ, which may have formed part of the Viriñchipuram temple.

Hand description:

Language: Undetermined.

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

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

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Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.123 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 133, item 123.

Notes

  1. 1. The date is expressed both in figures and by the words vaṁśavaryye śakasyāṃbde, i.e., in the Śaka year va (4), śa (5), va (4), ya (1) = 1454 (expired). On this manner of notation, see Dr. Burnell’s South-Indian Palaeography, 2nd edition, p. 79.
  2. 2. This is the name of a village in the Guḍiyātam Tālluqa of the North Arcot District; see Sewell’s Lists, Vol. I, p. 160.
  3. 3. This is the modern village of Aṅgaraṅkuppam, 6 miles north of Viriñchipuram.