SII 3.14: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch I—INSCRIPTIONS IN THE VISHNU TEMPLE AT UKKAL. No. 14.—ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MANDAPA. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0014.xml 2019-2026 as per external metadata

This inscription is dated in the 4th year of the reign of “Parakēsarivarman who deprived Vīra-Pāṇḍya of his head.”Another, incomplete inscription of the same king (No. 240 of 1894) is engraved on the maṇḍapa in front of the Pañchanadēśvara shrine at Tiruvaiyāṟu near Tanjore. With the construction vīrapāṇṭiyaṉaittalai koṇṭa compare ceḻiyaraittecu koḷ in the inscriptions of Rājarāja I., e.g. above, No. 4, l. 3. This king may be identified with Āditya II. surnamed Karikāla, the elder brother of Rājarāja I., who, according to the large Leyden grant (l. 58), “as a boy, played sportively in battle with Vīra-Pāṇḍya.”

The inscription records that a cultivator named Śēṉai granted one paṭṭiSee Vol. II. p. 359, note 12. of land, from the proceeds of which water and fire-pansSimilar endowments for the supply of water and fire occur in the Kūram plates (Vol. I. p. 151, text line 74) and in a Tirukkaḻukkuṉṟam inscription of Kaṉṉaradēva (Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 285, text line 9 f.) had to be supplied to a maṇḍapa frequented by Brāhmaṇas.

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svasti śrī . vīrapāṇṭiyaṉaittalai koṇṭa kopparakesaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu nālāvatu kāliyūr·kkoṭṭattu taṉ kūṟṟuccīivacūḷāmaṇimaṅkalamākiya śrīvikramābharaṇaccaturvvetimaṅkalattu Iruntu vāḻum veṉaḷḷāḷaṉ cik=kāruṭaiyāṉ puliyaṉ makaṉ ceṉai taṉakku dharmmārtthamāka Ivvūr brahmasthāṉatte Āṟu māsaṉn taṇṇīraṭṭuvatākavum Āṟu māsaM Agniṣṭṭhai Iṭuvatākavum maṇṭatkattu toṭṭi mūṉṟeyṉṉe Ettam Eṭuppatākavum Itdharmmattukku candrātittavat niṟka vaitta bhūmi vaḷaiyiliṟpaṭṭi nilamum . Avvava saMṁvatsaraṅkaḷil grāmakāryyaM tiruttum perumakkaḷ Itdharmmaṅkaṭaikkāṇpatākavum . Itaṟkku virodhaniṉṟār geaṁgāgkanyān=tarattiṟceytār ceyta pāvattiṟpaṭuvārākavum . Ipparicu vaiytteṉ ceṉaiyeṉ . Itukku virodhittāṉ Irupattañaiṅ kaḻañcu poṉ daṇṭamiṭappeṟuvatākavum .

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! In the fourth year (of the reign) of king Parakēsarivarman who deprived Vīra-Pāṇḍya of (his) head,—Śēṉai, (who was) the son of the cultivator (Veḷḷāḷaṉ) Śi[kk]ār-uḍaiyāṉ Puliyaṉ (and) who resided at Śivachūḷāmaṇimaṅgalam, alias Śrī-Vikramābharaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, (a village) in its own subdivision of Kāliyūr-kōṭṭam, assigned (one) paṭṭi of land in the neighbourhood, to last as long as the moon and the sun, for his own merit (and) for the meritorious purpose of supplying to the Brahmasthāna in this village water during six months and fire-pans (agnishṭhā) during six months and of constructing a water-lever in front of the cistern at the maṇḍapa.maṇṭakam is a Tamil corruption of maṇṭapam. It occurs in No. 7, line 2, and three times in the Kūram plates (Vol. I. No. 151, text lines 61 and 74).

(L. 3.) The great men who manage the affairs of the village in each year, shall supervise this charity. Those who cause obstruction to this, shall incur (all) the sins committed between the Gaṅgā and Kanyā.Kanyā is the same as Kanyākumāri or, more commonly, Kumari, the Tamil name of Cape Comorin. Under these conditions, I, Śēṉai, assigned (the land). He who obstructs this, shall be liable to pay a fine of twenty-five kaḻañju of gold.

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