# SII 1.123: 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. 123.
INSIDE THE BACK GOPURA

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0123

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0123.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara rājādhirāja rājaparameśvara,
the illustrious Achyutadeva-mahārāyar or Achyutarāya (of Vijayanagara).

2. Date: Śaka 1454 expired[1]and 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.

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## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.123 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 133, item 123.

[1] The date is expressed both in figures and by the words vaṁśavaryye
śakasyāṁbde, 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] 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] This is the modern village of Aṅgaraṅkuppam, 6 miles north of
Viriñchipuram.