# SII 1.131: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 130-132.
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT AMMUṆḌI NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 131

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0131

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII01/DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0131.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is engraved to the right of No. 130 and may have been
intended for its continuation. It records a gift of land from the
inhabitants of Aimbūṇḍi (the modern Ammuṇḍi)[1] to their Śiva temple,
which bore the name of Muppaṉaiyīśvara. The gift was made before the god
Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara-deva.[2]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattu paṅkaḷanāṭṭu vaṭakkil vakai miyakaṟaināṭṭu
(Aim)⟨2⟩pūṇṭi Ūrom Eṅkalūr muppaṉai(yī)śvaramuṭaiya mahādevaṟku
tirunan=tavaṉamāka Ā⟨3⟩titāsaṉ caṇṭeśvaradevar śrīhastattile nāṅkaḷ nīr
vārttukkuṭutta nilamāva⟨4⟩tu [∥] teṉpāṟkellai nam kayattukku vaṭakkum
[|] melpāṟkellai tompan māvukkukkiḻakkum [|] ⟨5⟩ vaṭapāṟkellai
vaḻikkutteṟkum [|] kīḻpāṟkellai veḷaimeṭṭukkuppuku [10+]

## Translation by Hultzsch 1890

Having poured water into the blessed hand of Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara-deva,
we, the inhabitants of Aimbūṇḍi in Miyagaṟai-nāḍu, a division in the
north of Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu, (which forms part) of Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śoṛa-maṇḍalam,
gave the land specified below as a tiru-nandavanam to (the god) Mahādeva
of the Muppaṉaiyīśvara (temple) in our village. The southern boundary is
to the north of our tank; the western boundary is to the east of the
field of Tombaṉ; the northern boundary is to the south of the road; the
eastern boundary is . . . . . . . . . .

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.131 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. Pages 135–136, item 131.

[1] See No. 59, above.

[2] See page 92, note 6, and page 116, note 3.