SII 2.71: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch – No. 71. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv02p0i0071.

Summary: The beginning of the first five lines of this inscription is hidden by a flight of steps, which has been constructed in front of the shrine after the time when the inscription was engraved. The record is dated in the cyclic year Kshaya which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1368 (A.D. 1446-47), and during the reign of Dēvar[āya II.] (of Vijayanagara). It describes a few gold and silver ornaments which were presented to the temple by a certain Vallabhadēva. This person was probably a military officer of Dēvarāya, as he professes to have made the gift with the object of effecting in return the conquest of the world. While, in the Chōḷa inscriptions of the Tanjore temple, the weight of ornaments is given in kaṛañju, mañjāḍi and kuṉṟi, the subjoined inscription employs for this purpose the tūkkam of ten paṇa-iḍai. From the table of weights, which is contained in Sir Walter Elliot’s Coins of Southern India, p. 47, and which is based on a Malayāḷam work entitled Kaṇakkusāram, it appears that the tūkkam and paṇa-iḍai of the subjoined inscription must be identical with the kaṛañju and paṇattūkkam (= 2 mañjāḍi) of the metrical system. Although the paṇa-iḍai or paṇattūkkam (=1/10 kaṛañju) is not mentioned in the Tanjore inscriptions of the Chōḷas, it is there presupposed by the fact that the Tamil term mā (1/20) is used to denote ‘one tenth whenever it follows the word mañjāḍi (= 1/2 paṇa-iḍai or paṇattūkkam).1

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (97de750), last modified (35cfc45).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [10+] (yarā)ya(vi)pāṭaN (bhāṣai)kku tappu(va r)āyar·(ka)ṇṭaṉ muvva(r)āyar· kaṇṭa(ṉ) ka(ṇ)ṭa nāṭu ke⟨2⟩[10+] [.]ā(ṉ) pūrvvadakṣiṇapaścimaUttaracatusamudrādhipati gajaveṭṭai kaṇṭaruḷiya devar(ā)⟨3⟩[10+] (pṛ)dhivirājyaM paṇṇi Aruḷāniṉṟa cakābdaM 1000 3 100 6 10 8 Itaṉ mel cellāniṉṟa kṣayasaṁvaT⟨4⟩[10+] Āyanapuṇyakālattu pūrvvapakṣattu pañcamiyum budhavāramum peṟṟa pūrvvapalguninakṣatrattu tañcāvū(r) ⟨5⟩ [10+] g¿e?⟨o⟩trattu Ā¿śśi?⟨śva⟩lāyanasūtrattu śauṇḍarasar· putraN vallabhadevar· di¿T?⟨g⟩vija⟨6⟩yamāka veṇum Eṉṟu koṭutta periya paṭṭam Oṉṟu Eṭṭarai māṟi po(ṉ) tūkkam Oṉṟukku paṇaiṭai pa(t)tāka tūkkam Irupatu [|] paṭṭam ⟨7⟩ Oṉṟu Eṭṭu māṟi tūkkam patiṉeḻu paṇa(I)ṭai Eṭṭu [|] paṭṭam Oṉṟu Eṭṭu māṟi tūkkam Āṟu paṇaIṭai Iraṇṭu [|] paṭṭaikkāṟai Oṉṟu Eṭṭu ⟨8⟩ māṟi tūkkam Iraṇṭu [|] cantupaṭṭaikkāṟai Iraṇṭu Eṭṭarai māṟi tūkkam mūṉṟu [|] mūkkutti niṟai paṇaIṭai Iraṇṭu [|] tirukkaṇmalar Iraṇṭu ⟨9⟩ Oṉpatu māṟi tūkkam Oṉṟu [|] patakkam Oṉṟu Eṭṭu māṟi tūkkam nālu [|] kṣetrapālaṉukku veḷḷi paṭṭam Oṉṟu tūkkam Oṉṟu paṇaIṭai [|]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (yarā)ya(vi)pāṭaN • Read ari{ya}rāya, as in Vol. I, No. 81, text line 2. — ⟨1⟩ kaṇṭa(ṉ) ka(ṇ)ṭa nāṭu ke⟨2⟩[10+] [.]ā(ṉ) • Read kaṇṭa nāṭu koṇṭu koṇṭa nāṭu kuṭātāṉ, as in Vol. I, No. 81, text line 5 f.

⟨2⟩ pūrvvadakṣiṇapaścimaUttaracatusamudrā° • Read paścimottaracatussamudrā°.

⟨5⟩ vallabhadevar· • After this word is a blank space which might have contained about nine syllables.

Translation by Hultzsch 1895

(On the day) of the nakshatra Pūrva-Phalgunī, which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the fifth tithi of the first fortnight, at the auspicious time of2 . . . . . . . . . . in the Kshaya saṁvat[sara] which was current after the Śaka year 1368, while . . . . . . . . . . the destroyer of [hostile] kings, the disgracer3 of those kings who break their word, the disgracer of the three kings (of the South), he [who takes] every country which he sees, [but never gives back a country which he has taken], the lord of the four oceans, (viz.) the eastern, southern, western and northern (oceans), who was pleased to witness the elephant hunt,4 Dēvar[āya] . . . . . was graciously ruling the earth, —Vallabhadēvar, the son of Śauṇḍarasar of the . . . . . gōtra (and) of the Āśvalāyana-sūtra, gave [to the god at] Tañjāvūr (the following presents), with the desire to accomplish the conquest of the world (dig-vijaya):—One large diadem (paṭṭa), (containing) twenty tūkkam of gold of eight and a half (degrees) fineness,5—at the rate of ten paṇa-iḍai to one tūkkam; one diadem, (containing) seventeen tūkkam and eight paṇa-iḍai (of gold) of eight (degrees) fineness; one diadem, (containing) six tūkkam and two paṇa-iḍai (of gold) of eight (degrees) fineness; one neck-ring (paṭṭaikkāṟai), (containing) two tūkkam (of gold) of eight (degrees) fineness; two joined neck-rings, (containing) three tūkkam (of gold) of eight and a half (degrees) fineness; (one) nose-ornament (mūkkutti), weighing two paṇa-iḍai; two eyes for the idol (tirukkaṇmalar), (containing) one tūkkam (of gold) of nine (degrees) fineness; one breastornament (padakkam), (containing) four tūkkam (of gold) of eight (degrees) fineness. To (the god) Kshētrapāla6 (he gave) one silver diadem, (weighing) one tūkkam and (one) paṇa-iḍai.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 2.71 by Hultzsch 1895 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1895. South-Indian inscriptions: Tamil inscriptions of Rajaraja, Rajendra-chola, and others in the Rajarajesvara temple at Tanjavur. Volume II, Part III: Supplement to the first and second volumes. South Indian Inscriptions 2.3. Madras: Government Press. Pages 338–340, item 71.

Notes

  1. 1. Compare page 36, note 1, and page 66, note 1.
  2. 2. The syllables āyana which are preserved before puṇyakālattu, show that either Uttarāyaṇa or Dakshiṇāyana has to be supplied.
  3. 3. See Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 40, note 3.
  4. 4. This biruda appears to imply that khēdā operations were carried on in the time of the Vijayanagara kings.
  5. 5. Māṟi appears to be synonymous with māṟṟu, which occurs in the inscriptions No. 3 and No. 59.
  6. 6. The same deity is referred to in No. 1, paragraph 33, and No. 43, paragraph 2.