SII 2.78: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch – III.—INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHOLA DYNASTY. No. 78. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE ANEKATANGAPADAM TEMPLE AT KANCHIPURAM.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv02p0i0078.

Summary: Like No. 77, this inscription belongs to the time of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷadēva I. It is dated in the 34th year of his reign, and records that the king granted 2 vēlis of land to the Aṉēkataṅgāpadam temple at Kāñchipuram. The land granted was situated in the southern portion of Kāñchipuram, to the north of the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Mahādēva, i.e., of the Rājasiṁhavarmēśvara (now Kailāsanātha) temple,1 to the east of the hamlet of Puttēri,2 to the west of ‘the royal wall of Rājēndra-Chōḷa,’3 and to the south of the hamlet of Kīṛ-Puttēri, i.e., ‘Eastern Puttēri.’ As the land granted bordered on the Kailāsanātha temple, it is not impossible that it formed part of those gifts of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷadēva, which were declared to be unlawful and were restored to the Kailāsanātha temple in the time of Kambaṇa-Uḍaiyar.4

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (aca1847), last modified (787c91e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] pukaḻmātu viḷaṅka jayamātu virumpa nilamakaḷ nilava malarmakaḷ puṇara Urimaiyiṟciṟanta maṇimuṭi cūṭi m¿i?⟨ī⟩ṉavar nilai keṭa villavar kulai(ta)ra Eṉai manṉavar Iriya(lu)ṟṟi(ḻita)rattikkaṉaittuntan cak⟨2⟩karaṉaṭātti vijayaAbhiṣekam paṇṇi vīrasiṁhāsaṉattuppuvaṉamuḻutumuṭaiyāḷoṭum vīṟṟiruntaruḷiya śrīkulottuṅkacoḻadevarkku yāṇṭu muppattuṉālāvatu ti(ruvāy m)o(ḻintaruḷa) jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭa⟨3⟩lattu Eyiṟkoṭṭattu nakaraṅkāñcipurattu Āḷuṭaiyār tiruvaṉekataṅkāpatamuṭaiya mahādevarkku nittanimantañceluttukaikku Antarāyamuṭpaṭa Iṟaiyili t(e)va(t)āṉamiṭṭa n¿i?⟨ī⟩rnilam kāñcipura(ttuttuṇ)¿(n)?⟨ṇ⟩(i)lattuttirukkaṟṟaḷimahādevar koyilu⟨4⟩kku vaṭakkum putterikkukkiḻakkum rājentiracoḻan tirumat¿u?⟨i⟩ḷukku meṟkum k¿i?⟨ī⟩ḻputterikkutteṟkum naṭuvuṭpaṭṭa vaṭatāḻampaḷḷattuṭaippuṭpa(ṭat)teṟakaṭaiy Iṭṭa nilam Iruveliyum kallu veṭṭikkoḷkavenṟu tiruvāy moḻinta⟨5⟩(ru)ḷappallavataraiyar kal veṭṭivitta paṭi ||~

Translation by Hultzsch 1895

Hail! Prosperity! In the thirty-fourth year (of the reign) of Śrī-Kulōttuṅga-Śōṛadēva, who, etc.,5—the king was pleased to order that it should be engraved on stone that two vēlis of wet land on the southern side of the land belonging to Kāñchipuram were given,—for defraying the daily expenses, including the antarāyam, free of taxes, as a dēvadāna, including the breach (uḍaippa) in the pit on the north where pandanus trees grow (vaḍa-tāṛam-paḷḷam),6 (and) which is situated within (the land granted),—to (the god) Mahādēva of the holy Aṉēkataṅgāpadam (temple), who is the lord of Kāñchipuram, a city in Eyiṟ-kōṭṭam, (a district) of Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śōṛa-maṇḍalam.

(The land granted) is situated to the north of the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Mahādēvar, to the east (of the hamlet) of Puttēri, to the west of the royal wall of Rājēndra-Śōṛaṉ, and to the south (of the hamlet) of Kīṛ-Puttēri.

The king having ordered thus, Pallavadaraiyar caused (the above) to be engraved on stone.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 2.78 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 392–393, item 78.

Notes

  1. 1. See Vol. I, p. 118.
  2. 2. Puttēri-teruvu is still the name of the street which leads from Conjeeveram to the Kailāsanātha temple.
  3. 3. It appears from this that Rājēndra-Chōḷa had built a fortification wall round Kāñchipuram.
  4. 4. See Vol. I, p. 118.
  5. 5. The introduction of this inscription is identical with that of No. 77.
  6. 6. The same term occurs in an inscription of Kambaṇa-Uḍaiyar, Vol. I, p. 119, text line 45 f.