# SII 3.5: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: I—INSCRIPTIONS IN THE VISHNU TEMPLE AT UKKAL. No.
5.—ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE SHRINE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0005

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

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Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated in the 15th year of the reign of Kampavarman.
The archaic alphabet employed in this record and in No. 8 below, which
is dated in the 10th year of the same king, proves that Kampavarman must
be anterior to the Chōḷa occupation of Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam. A stone
inscription of the 9th year of the same king is quoted in the
unpublished Madras Museum plates of Parakēsarivarman, alias
Uttama-Chōḷadēva.[1] The temple of Vīṟṟirunda-Perumāḷ at Dūśi near
Māmaṇḍūr in the Arcot tāluka contains a fragmentary inscription of a
king named kō vijaya-Kampa-Vikramavarman.[2] The fact that the two words
kō vijaya are prefixed to the name of this king, suggests that he
belonged to the same family as kō vijaya-Narasiṁhavarman,
Nṛipatuṅga-Vikramavarman and Nandi-Vikramavarman.[3] A later Kampa was
the second of the five sons of Saṁgama I., the founder of the first
Vijayanagara dynasty.[4]

The inscription records that a certain Śaḍaiyaṉ made over 1,000 kāḍi[5]
of paddy to the villagers of Uṭkar, who pledged themselves to supply in
return 500 kāḍi of paddy per year for some unspecified purpose.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] kampava(r)mmaṟku yāṇṭu patin¿ā?⟨a⟩ñcāvatu [|] Uṭkar
sabhaiyom Eḻuttuccaṭaiyaṉ pakkal Āyirakkāṭi nel koṇ⟨2⟩ṭom [|]
Ivvāyirakkāṭi nellālum palicai Aynnūṟṟukkāṭi nel Āṭṭāṇṭu toṟum Erikkaṭṭi
Ikuttuvippomāṉo{ā}m sabhai⟨3⟩yem [|] I(ta)ṉṟeṉṟār kaṅkai Iṭai(k=ku)mari
Iṭai ceytār ceyta pā(va)m paṭuvārākappa(ṇit)tom [|]
sa¿Mb?⟨ṁv⟩atsa¿ra?⟨ra⟩vāriyapperumakkaḷe Aṭṭuvikka kaṭavā(r) [∥]

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ saMbatsara • Read saṁvatsara.

## Translation by Hultzsch 1899

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! In the fifteenth year (of the reign) of
Kampavarman. The writing of us, the assembly of Uṭkar. We have received
one thousand kāḍi of paddy from Śaḍaiyaṉ.

(L. 2.) We, the assembly, shall close (the sluice of) the tank (to
collect water for irrigation), and shall cause five hundred kāḍi of
paddy to be supplied every year as interest on these one thousand kāḍi
of paddy.

(L. 3.) We declare that those who disobey this, shall incur (all) the
sins committed between the Gaṅgā and Kumari. The great men[6] elected[7]
for the year shall cause (the paddy) to be supplied.

## Commentary

⟨2⟩ palicai. palicai is another form of policai; see the Index to Vol.
I. s.v. paliśai, and Dr. Gundert’s Malayāḷam Dictionary, s.v. paliśa.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.5 by Hultzsch 1899 converted to DHARMA
conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1899. South-Indian inscriptions.
Volume III: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil country. Part I:
Inscriptions at Ukkal, Melpadi, Karuvur, Manimangalam and Tiruvallam.
South Indian Inscriptions 3.1. Madras: Government Press. Pages 8–9, item
5, plate III.

[1] See my Progress Report for October 1890 to March 1891, p. 5. The
original reads: ko vicaiyakampapanmaṟku yāṇṭu oṉpatāvatu oḻukkaipākkattu
sabhaiyār śilālekhaippaṭi. The village of Oḻukkaipākkam is identical
with the modern Oḻugavākkam, No. 192 on the Madras Survey Map of the
Arcot tāluka.

[2] See my Annual Report for 1892-93, p. 6.

[3] Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. pp. 177 and 180 ff.

[4] See Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 36.

[5] The same measure for paddy is mentioned in an inscription of the
ancient Chōḷa king Parakēsarivarman (Vol. I. No. 85), in one of Rājarāja
I. (Vol. I. p. 140, note 2), and in the Madras Museum plates of
Uttama-Chōḷa (see my Progress Report for October 1890 to March 1891, p.
5).

[6] Perumakkaḷ is an honorific designation of respectable villagers. The
corresponding Sanskrit term is mahājana, on which see the Index to Vol.
I.

[7] Compare ūra[m]ai ceyyum vāriyapperumakkaḷ in Vol. I. p. 117.