# SII 3.25: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: III.—INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PASUPATISVARA TEMPLE AT
KARUVUR. No. 25.—ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE PASUPATISVARA SHRINE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0025

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0025.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription contains an order of a king who bore the titles
Tribhuvanachakravartin Kōnēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ.[1] He granted certain
privileges to the artizans (Kaṇmāḷar) of the district of
Veṅgāla-nāḍu,—to take effect from the month of Āḍi of the 15th year of
his reign.

An almost identical duplicate of this inscription (No. 562 of 1893) is
engraved on the central shrine of the Gōshṭhīśvara temple at Pērūr near
Coimbatore. It differs chiefly in being addressed to the Kaṇmāḷar of
Southern Koṅgu (Teṉ-Koṅgu) and in the king’s bearing the title
Kōṉērimēlkoṇḍāṉ instead of Kōnēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (sva)sti [∥] tribhuvanacca(k)kravattikaḷ śrīkoneriṉmai(ko)ṇ(ṭ)āṉ
veṅkālanā(ṭ)ṭukkaṇ(māḷa)ṟku [|] 10 5 vatu (Āṭimā)ta(m) mutal
taṅka⟨2⟩ḷukku naṉmaitinmaikaḷukku Iraṭṭaic(ca)ṅkum Ūti perik(ai)
Uḷḷiṭ(ṭa)vai (k)oṭṭuvittu koḷḷavum tāṅkaḷ puṟa(p)paṭa veṇṭum ⟨3⟩
Iṭaṅkaḷukku pādara(kṣ)ai kottukk(oḷ)ḷavum taṅkaḷ
v¿i?⟨ī⟩ṭu(kaḷuk)kuccāntu Iṭṭukkoḷ(ḷa)vum (c)oṉnom [|] Ippaṭikku
I⟨v⟩volai pi⟨4⟩ṭi(p)āṭākakkoṇṭu candrātittavarai
cel(va)tākattaṅ(ka)ḷukku veṇṭiṉa Iṭaṅkaḷile kallilum cempilum
veṭṭikkoḷka [|] ⟨5⟩ Ivai viḻu(pp)ātarāyaṉ Eḻuttu [∥]

## Translation by Hultzsch 1899

(Line 1.) Hail ! The emperor of the three worlds, the glorious
Kōnēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ (addresses the following order) to the Kaṇmāḷar of
Veṅgāla-nāḍu.

“We have ordered that, from the month of Āḍi of the 15th (year of our
reign), at your marriages and funerals, double conches may be blown and
drums, etc., beaten, that sandals may be worn (on the way) to places
which you have to visit, and that your houses may be covered with
plaster. On the authority of this written order (ōlai), this may be
engraved on stone and on copper in (all) places desired by you, so as to
last as long as the moon and the sun.”

(L. 5.) This (is) the writing of Viḻuppādarāyaṉ.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.25 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 46–47,
item 25.

[1] See above, p. 44, note 8.