# SII 3.50: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: V.—INSCRIPTIONS AT TIRUVALLAM. No. 50.—ON THE WEST
WALL OF THE BILVANATHESVARA SHRINE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0050

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0050.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated in the same year of the reign of Rājarāja I.
as No. 49. It records that a Brāhmaṇa set up an image of the goddess and
granted a lamp to the temple. He also purchased 1,700 kuḻi of land from
the inhabitants of the village of Mandiram in Tūñāḍu and made it over to
the temple authorities, who had to feed the lamp and to supply offerings
from the produce of the land.

Tūñāḍu, to which Mandiram belonged, was the name of the country round
Mēlpāḍi.[1] Mandiram had the surname Jayamēru-Śrīkaraṇamaṅgalam (ll. 2
and 15 f.), which seems to be derived from Jayamēru, one of the surnames
of the Bāṇa king Vikramāditya I.[2]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] ko rājarājakesariva⟨r⟩mmaṟkiyāṇṭu Eḻāvatu tūñā⟨2⟩ṭṭu
man=tiramākiya jayameruśrīkaraṇamaṅkalattu sabhaiyom [|]
paṭu⟨3⟩vūrkkoṭṭattukkāraināṭṭu naratuṁgacatu⟨r⟩vvedimaṅkalattu
śivabrā⟨4⟩hmaṇaṉ vikramātit=tanākiya
k¿it=t?⟨īrt⟩imā⟨r⟩t=tāṇḍabrahmādhirājar tirutt¿iy?⟨ī⟩kkāli Āḷvār ⟨5⟩
kūttapperumāṉaṭikaḷukku Umābha⟨ṭ⟩ṭārakiyai Eḻuntaruḷuvittu vai⟨6⟩tta
nondāviḷakkoṉṟinukkunāṭṭiruvamutoṉṟiṉukku⟨m⟩ (v)ai⟨7⟩ytta nilamāvatu [|]
Eṅkaḷ¿u?⟨ū⟩rkkaruṅkāli Eri k¿i?⟨ī⟩ḻttūmpiniṉṟu karai⟨8⟩yaṭaive poṉ
vāykkālukku meṟku [|] teṉpāṟkellai tūm⟨9⟩(pi)ṉiṉṟu meṟku nokkippoṉa
kucavaṉ paṭṭikkuppā⟨y⟩n=ta vāykkālu⟨10⟩kku vaṭakkum [|] melpāṟkellai
viṟpārkaḷ nilattukku kiḻakkum [|] vaṭa⟨11⟩pāṟkellai viṟpārkaḷ nilattukku
teṟkum [|] Innāṟpālellai⟨12⟩kku naṭuvuṇ¿ṉ?⟨ṇ⟩ilamoḻiviṉṟi Āyiratteḻunūṟu
kuḻikkum (kī)rttimā⟨r⟩t⟨13⟩tāṇḍabrahmādhirājar pakkaliṉṉilattāl van=ta
vilaidravyamum Iṟai⟨14⟩dravyamummaṟakkoṇṭu Ep(p)erppaṭṭa Iṟaiyum Iḻitti
Iṟai⟨15⟩yiliyāka viṟṟukkuṭuttom muṟcollappaṭṭa man=tiramā(ki)ya
jayame⟨16⟩ruśrīkaraṇamaṅkalattu sabhaiyom [|] I⟨p⟩bhūmi Anubhavittu
(I)nna⟨17⟩ndāviḷak=kuntiruvamutum can¿t?⟨d⟩rādi{t}tyaval ceyvomānom
ti⟨18⟩ruvuṇṇāḻikaiyuṭaiya śivabrāhmaṇarom ∥

## Translation by Hultzsch 1899

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! In the seventh year (of the reign) of king
Rājarāja-Kēsarivarman. (The writing of) us, the assembly of Mandiram,
alias Jayamēru-Śrīkaraṇamaṅgalam, in Tūñāḍu.

(L. 2.) Vikramādittaṉ, alias Kīrtimārtāṇḍa-Brahmādhirājar, a
Śiva-Brāhmaṇa of Naratuṅga-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Kārai-nāḍu,[3] (a
subdivision) of Paḍuvūr-kōṭṭam, set up (an image of) Umā-Bhaṭṭārakī and
gave one perpetual lamp to Kūtta-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ,[4] the god (Āḻvār) of
Tiruttīkkāli.

(L. 6.) For (maintaining this lamp) and for (supplying) offerings once a
day, (he) gave the following land:—

(L. 7.) (The eastern boundary is) to the west of a channel which flows
close to the bank from the sluice below the Karuṅgāli tank in our
village. The southern boundary (is) to the north of a channel which
flows to the west from the sluice (and) irrigates the Kuśavaṉpaṭṭi.[5]
The western boundary (is) to the east of the land of those who sold (the
land to the donor). The northern boundary (is) to the south of the land
of the same persons.

(L. 11.) Having received from Kīrtimārtāṇḍa-Brahmādhirājar the whole
purchase-money and tax-money due for the land enclosed within these four
boundaries, which, not excluding the cultivated land,[6] (measures) one
thousand and seven hundred kuḻi, and having remitted all kinds of
taxes,—we, the assembly of the above-mentioned Mandiram, alias
Jayamēru-Śrīkaraṇamaṅgalam, sold (this land) free of taxes.

(L. 16.) While enjoying this land, we, the Śiva-Brāhmaṇas in charge of
the store-room of the temple,[7] shall have to supply this perpetual
lamp and the offerings as long as the moon and the sun exist.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.50 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 103–104,
item 50.

[1] See p. 22 above.

[2] See p. 99 above.

[3] See p. 95 above.

[4] I.e. ‘the dancing god’ (Naṭarāja).

[5] I.e. ‘the potter’s paṭṭi’; on paṭṭi see above, Vol. II. p. 359, note
12.

[6] See above, p. 26, note 2.

[7] See above, p. 94 and note 5.