# SII 3.39: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: IV.—INSCRIPTIONS AT MANIMANGALAM. No. 39.—ON THE EAST
WALL OF THE MANDAPA IN THE RAJAGOPALA-PERUMAL TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0039

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0039.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

The subjoined inscription belongs to the 18th year of the reign of
Tribhuvanachakravartin Rājarājadēva. This king is probably identical
with Rājarāja III., who is known to have ascended the throne about A.D.
1216 and seems to have been the immediate successor of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa
III.[1] In this case the week-day on which the inscription is dated will
admit of astronomical calculation. The inscription records that a flight
of stone steps leading to a maṇḍapa was built at the expense of two
brothers.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] tiruvāykkeḻ(vi mu)ṉṉāka
(ti)ripuvaṉaccakkaravat(ti)ka(ḷ) śrīrājarājatevaṟ⟨2⟩ku yāṇṭu 10 8 vatu
dhanunāya(ṟṟu) pūrvvapakṣattu pañcamiyum putaṉkiḻamaiyum pe⟨3⟩ṟṟa
Aviṭṭattiṉā(ḷ) jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattuppuliyūrkkoṭṭamā(ṉa)
kulottu⟨4⟩ṅkacoḻavaḷaṉāṭṭukku(ṉ)ṟat(tūr)nāṭṭu maṇimaṅkala(m)āṉa
grāmaśikhāma(ṇi)ccaturvvetimaṅ⟨5⟩ka(la)ttu vaṇṭuvarā(pa)ti
(E)m(pe)rumā(ṉ) koyilil Abhiṣeka(ma)ṇṭa(pa)ttukku
kīḻaip⟨6⟩pulimu(kamā)ṉa copāṉattukku (v)eṇṭum
poṉṉiṭṭukkal(k)ārañceyvittāṉ maṇi(ma)ṅ⟨7⟩kalam¿ū?⟨u⟩ṭaiyāṉ pañcaneti
I(lakṣuma)ṇaṉ malai(ki)ṉiyaniṉṟāṉ brahmapriya(ṉ)
(p)e(ri)ya(pi)ḷ⟨8⟩ḷaiyum Ivaṉ tampi Ākavamal(la)teva(ṉu)m [|] Ivarkaḷ
taṉmam [∥]

## Apparatus

⟨7⟩ malai(ki)ṉiyaniṉṟāṉ brahmapriya(ṉ) (p)e(ri)ya(pi)ḷ⟨8⟩ḷaiyum •
Instead of this, No. 41, text line 6 f. reads malaikiṉiyaniṉṟāṉ
periyapiḷḷai āṉa brahmapriyaṉum.

## Translation by Hultzsch 1899

Hail ! Prosperity ! With the approval of the god,[2] —in the 18th year
(of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, Śrī-Rājarājadēva, on
the day of Dhanishṭhā, which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the
fifth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Dhanus,—Brahmapriyaṉ,
the eldest son of Maṇimaṅgalam-uḍaiyāṉ Pañchanedi Lakshmaṇaṉ
Malaigiṉiyaniṉṟāṉ,[3] and his younger brother Āhavamalladēvaṉ paid the
gold required for, and caused to be made the stone work of, a flight of
steps, with tiger’s heads at the bottom, for the Abhishēka-maṇḍapa in
the temple of Vaṇḍuvarāpati-Emberumāṉ at Maṇimaṅgalam, alias
Grāmaśikhāmaṇi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, in Kuṉṟattūr-nāḍu, (a subdivision) of
Puliyūr-kōṭṭam, alias Kulōttuṅga-Śōḻa-vaḷanāḍu, (a district) of
Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śōḻa-maṇḍalam. (It is) their charitable gift.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.39 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 85–86,
item 39.

[1] See page 43 above.

[2] Literally, ‘the hearing of the holy voice having preceded.’

[3] The same name is borne by a different person in No. 35 above.