# SII 3.52: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: V.—INSCRIPTIONS AT TIRUVALLAM. No. 52.—ON THE WEST
AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE BILVANATHESVARA SHRINE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0052

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0052.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated in the 20th year of the reign of the Chōḷa
king Rājarāja I. and records the gift of a lamp by Naṉṉamaraiyar or
Naṉṉamaṉ,[1] the son of Tukkarai. The donor belonged to the Vaidumba
family and ruled over Iṅgallūr-nāḍu,[2] a district of Mahārājapāḍi.

The seven thousand (villages) of Mārājavāḍi, the chief town of which
seems to have been Vallūru, are mentioned in an inscription of
Rājādhirāja at Miṇḍigal in the Kōlār district (No. 279 of 1895);
Mārāyapāḍi occurs in an inscription of Pārthivēndravarman at Takkōlam in
the North Arcot district (No. 14 of 1897); and a copper-plate
inscription of Kṛishṇarāya of Vijayanagara mentions some villages of the
Mārjavāḍa-rājya, which are in the modern Cuddapah district.[3]
Consequently, Vallūru has to be identified with the present village of
Vallūru in the same district.[4] The Vaidumba king was defeated by the
Chōḷa kings Parāntaka I.[5] and Vīrarājēndra I.;[6] and Vinayamahādēvī,
the mother of the Eastern Gaṅga king Vajrahasta III., belonged to the
Vaidumba family.[7]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sva(sti) śrī [∥] tirumakaḷ polapperunilaccel(vi)y¿ū?⟨u⟩ntaṉakke
U(ri)mai (pū)ṇṭamai ma(ṉak)koḷkkāntaḷurccālai kalamaṟuttaru(ḷi)
veṅkaināṭum kaṅkapāṭiyum nuḷampapā(ṭi)yum
taṭikaipāṭiyuṅkuṭamalaināṭu(ṅ)kollamuṅka(li)ṅkamumeṇṭicai pukaḻ tara
(yī)ḻamaṇṭalamuntiṇ(ṭi)ṟal veṉṟi[ttaṇṭāṟ] k(o)ṇṭa ta(ṉ)ṉe(ḻi)l vaḷar
¿vū?⟨Ū⟩(ḻi)yūḷḷellāyāṇ(ṭu)[ntoḻuta](k)[ai] (vi)ḷaṅkum yāṇṭe
ce(ḻi)ñraittecu ko[ḷ śrī]kovirājarājarājakesaripanmarāṉa
(śrī)rājarājad(e)vaṟku (y)āṇṭu 2 10 Āvatu (pa)ṭu⟨2⟩vūrkko(ṭ)ṭattu
m¿i?⟨ī⟩yaṟain¿a?⟨ā⟩ṭṭu tiruvallattu tirut¿i?⟨ī⟩kkāli Āḻvā⟨rk⟩ku
mahārājapāṭi Iṅkallūrnāṭu Uṭaiya vaitumpaṉ tukkarai makaṉ naṉṉamaraiyar
Itt¿i?⟨ī⟩kkāli Ā⟨ḻ⟩vārkku can(ti)r¿a?⟨ā⟩tittavaṟ Erippatāka vaitta
nandāviḷakku Oṉṟinukku vaitta cāvā mūvāpperāṭu 9 10 [|] I⟨v⟩v(ā)ṭu
toṇ(ṇū)ṟu I⟨v⟩vāṭu to(ṇ) [5+] va tiruUṇṇāḻikai Uṭaiyār kai piṭi Ivar
[5+] ṭa viḷakku nan=tāviḷakku Oṉṟu [∥]

## Translation by Hultzsch 1899

Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 20th year (of the reign) of the glorious king
Rājarāja-Rājakēsarivarman, alias Śrī-Rājarājadēva, who, in his life of
growing strength, during which,—(in) the belief that, as well as the
goddess of fortune, the goddess of the great earth had become his
wife,—(he) was pleased to destroy the ships (at) Kāndaḷūr-Śālai and
conquered by (his) army, which was victorious in great battles,
Vēṅgai-nāḍu, Gaṅga-pāḍi, Nuḷamba-pāḍi, Taḍigai-pāḍi, Kuḍamalai-nāḍu,
Kollam, Kaliṅgam, and Īḻa-maṇḍalam, (the conquest of which) made (him)
famous (in) the eight directions,—deprived the Śeḻiñas of (their)
splendour at the very moment when [Udagai], which is worshipped
everywhere, was (most) resplendent;—Naṉṉamaraiyar, the son of Tukkarai,
the Vaidumba, who possessed Iṅgallūr-nāḍu, (a district) of Mahārājapāḍi,
gave one perpetual lamp, (which) was to burn as long as the moon and the
sun exist, to (the temple of) Tirutīkkāli-Āḻvār at Tiruvallam in
Mīyaṟai-nāḍu, (a subdivision) of Paḍuvūr-kōṭṭam. For (maintaining this
lamp he) gave 90 full-grown ewes, which must neither die nor grow
old.[8] These ninety ewes[9] . . . . . . . . . . . . .

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.52 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 106–107,
item 52.

[1] See below, p. 107, note 5.

[2] There is a village Iggalūr in the Ānekal tāluka of the Bangalore
district; see Mr. Rice’s Mysore and Coorg, Vol. II. p. 39. But, as Dr.
Fleet suggests to me, ‘Inganur’ near Kāḷahasti is a more probable
location.

[3] See my Progress Report for October 1890 to March 1891, p. 5.

[4] Mr. Sewell’s Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 129.

[5] Above, Vol. II. p. 379.

[6] See p. 68 above.

[7] Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. pp. 164 and 175, and Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 186.

[8] See above, Vol. II. p. 375, note 3.

[9] The following sentence is damaged. On an adjacent portion of the
same wall are three further lines of writing, which seem to be connected
with this inscription, as they refer to ninety ewes given by naṉnamaṉ.