# SII 3.40: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: IV.—INSCRIPTIONS AT MANIMANGALAM. No. 40.—ON THE
OUTSIDE OF THE EAST WALL OF THE INNER PRAKARA OF THE RAJAGOPALA-PERUMAL
TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0040

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0040.xml

Languages: Sanskrit [Grantha], Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription consists of a single Sanskrit verse in the Indravajrā
metre and of a passage in Tamil prose. It is dated on a week-day (l. 3)
which will probably admit of calculation, in the 18th year of the reign
of Tribhuvanachakravartin Rājarājadēva, and records the gift of two
lamps to the image of Vishṇu, and to an image of Narasiṁha which was set
up in the same temple.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrīḥ ⁓

1. Indravajrā

vādhūlago(tr)ār(ṇṇa)vapūrṇṇacandra⟨ḥ⟩
śrīkṛṣṇasūri(r)nnidhirāgamānāM [|]
ratnāgrahārasthitaye ⟨2⟩ parasmai
prādāt· pradīpa(dva)yamādipuṁse ⁓ [1 ∥]

tribhuvanaccakrava(r)ttika(ḷ) śrīrājarājadevaṟku yāṇṭu 10 8 Āva(tu) ⟨3⟩
makaranāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu prathamaiyum tiṅkaṭkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa
tiruvo(ṇat)tu nāḷ ma(ṇi)maṅkalamā(ṉa) ⟨4⟩
grāmaśikhāmaṇiccaturvvedimaṅkalattu ma⟨⟨ṉ⟩⟩ṉaṉār
koyililttiruvārā(dha)nam paṇ(ṇu)m {śrī} ⟨5⟩ śrīrāmabhaṭṭa(ṉu)m Ivaṉ
tampi vīṟṟiruntāṉ bhaṭṭa(ṉum I)vviruvom Ivvūrkkuṇṭ¿u?⟨ū⟩r śrīkṛṣṇabhaṭṭa
[4+] ⟨6⟩ yar pakkal nāṅkaḷ kaikkoṇṭa cempoṉ Irukaḻañcu [|] Iccempo(ṉ
I)ruka(ḻa)ñcukkum prātassandhi(yile) ⟨maṉ⟩⟨7⟩(ṉa)ṉār tirumuṉpe
Orutiru(vi)ḷakkum sāyaṁsandhi(yi)le Ikko(yi)lileḻuntaruḷi Irukkum
ciṅkapperumā(ḷ) ⟨8⟩ tirumu(ṉ)pe O(ru)tiruviḷakku(m) candrādityavarai
celu(t)takkaṭavomāka śilālekhai pa(ṇṇi)kkuṭuttom Ivviruvo(m) (௳)

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ {śrī} • After śrī some letters have been erased.

## Translation by Hultzsch 1899

Hail ! Prosperity ! (Verse 1.) Śrīkṛishṇa-Sūri, a treasury of the
scriptures (Āgama), the full-moon of the ocean (which is) the
Vādhūla-gōtra, gave a pair of lamps to the highest primal being (Vishṇu)
who resides at Ratnāgrahāra.[1]

(Line 2.) In the 18th year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three
worlds, the glorious Rājarājadēva, on the day of Śravaṇa, which
corresponded to a Monday and to the first tithi of the first fortnight
of the month of Makara,—we two, Śrīrāma-Bhaṭṭaṉ, who performs the
worship in the temple of Maṉṉaṉār (Vishṇu) at Maṇimaṅgalam, alias
Grāmaśikhāmaṇi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, and his younger brother Vīṟṟirundāṉ
Bhaṭṭaṉ, received two kaḻañju of pure gold from Śrīkṛishṇa-Bhaṭṭa[2] . .
. . . of Kuṇḍūr, (a resident) of this village.

(L. 6.) We two have caused to be engraved on stone that, (in return) for
these two kaḻañju of pure gold, we shall have to burn, as long as the
moon and the sun exist, one sacred lamp in the morning before the god
Maṉṉaṉār, and one sacred lamp in the evening before the god
Śiṅga-Perumāḷ who is pleased to reside in the same temple.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.40 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 86–87,
item 40.

[1] I.e. Manimaṅgalam; compare No. 27, verse 1.

[2] The same person was called Śrīkṛishṇa-Sūri in verse 1.