# SII 3.74: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: VI.—INSCRIPTIONS OF KULOTTUNGA-CHOLA I. No.
74.—INSCRIPTION IN THE PANDAVA-PERUMAL TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0074

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0074.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription (No. 18 of 1893) is engraved on the south wall of the
Pāṇḍava-Perumāḷ temple at Conjeeveram. As in No. 68 above, the name of
the temple is given as Tiruppāḍagam (l. 3).

The date is the 39th year of the reign of Kulōttuṅga I. But the
historical introduction agrees almost literally with an inscription of
the 5th year in the same temple (No. 68 above), while the intervening
inscriptions (Nos. 69 to 73, 78, and Vol. II. No. 58) contain much
additional matter.

The inscription records that a merchant of Kāñchipuram paid two kaḻañju
and two mañjāḍi of gold to the Pūjāris of the temple, who pledged
themselves to have the god supplied daily with two nāḻi of curds.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] pukaḻ cū⟨ḻ⟩n=ta puṇari Akaḻ cūḻn=ta puviyil
pon=nemiyaḷavu(n=ta)n=nemi na(ṭ)ātti viḷa(ṅ)ku jayamakaḷ Iḷaṅko
paruvattu cakkarakoṭṭattu vikkiramattoḻilāl putumaṇam puṇar¿n=ta?⟨ntu⟩
va(ṉ)ka⟨ḷi⟩ṟṟ¿i?⟨ī⟩ṭṭa⟨m⟩ vaiyirākarattu v¿a?⟨ā⟩ri
¿Ai?⟨A⟩yilmunaikkon=taḷavarai(ca)r tan=tanamiri(ya) vāḷuṟ(ai) kaḻittu
toḷ vali kāṭṭi porppari naṭātti (kī)rttiy(ai) niṟutti vaṭati(c)ai vākai
cūṭi ten=ticai temaru(ka)mala(ppū)maka(ḷ) ¿(pu)?⟨po⟩tum(ai)yum
(p)on=niyāṭai{yum} (nan=ni)lappāvaiy¿u(n=ta)?⟨iṉ
ta⟩nimaiyu(n=ta)vi⟨r⟩ttu (pu)¿n?⟨ṉ⟩ita¿ru?⟨t⟩tirumaṇimakuṭam
(mu)ṟaimaiyil cūṭi tan=naṭi Iraṇṭum taṭamuṭiyāka ⟨2⟩ t(o)n(nila)ven=tar
cūṭa ponni matuvāṟu p(eru)ka ka(li)yāṟu vaṟappa ceṅko(l
ti)cai(t)oṟuñc(e)lla v(e)ṇkuṭai Iru(ni)lava(ḷ)ākameṅkaṇun=ta(n)ātu
tirunilaveṇṇi(l)ātti(ka)ḻa Orutani meruvil puli viḷaiyāṭa Āḻ(ka)ṭal
t¿i?⟨ī⟩vān=tarattu pūvar tiṟai viṭutta kala(ṉ) co⟨ri⟩ kaḷ¿u?⟨i⟩ṟu muṟai
niṟpa vi(ḷa)ṅkiya ten=navanarun=talai parun=talai(ttu) ki(ṭa)ppa
(na)ṉmaṇiyāramun=ti ruppu(ya)ttala(ṅ)kalum ta¿n=t?⟨ṉat⟩u vīramum
tiyākamum viḷaṅka pārmicai mevalar vaṇaṅka (vī)rasiṁhāsanattu
Avanimuḻutuṭaiyāḷoṭum v¿i?⟨ī⟩ṟṟiru⟨3⟩n=taruḷiya
ko(vi)rājakesaripanmarāna Uṭaiyār śrīkulottuṅkacoḻatevarkku (y)āṇṭu
muppattoṉ(pa)tāvatu jayaṅ(k)oṇṭacoḻamaṇ⟨ṭa⟩lattu Eyi¿rk?⟨ṟ⟩koṭṭattu
nakaraṅ(k)āñcipurattu tiruppāṭakattāḻvānaittiruvārāta(n)ai paṇṇum
(bh)ā¿ra?⟨ra⟩dvā¿c?⟨j⟩i ninṟanārāyaṇapaṭṭanenum dū(da)kari
tiruvara(ṅ)kam(ā)ṇipaṭṭane(nu)m cilā⟨le⟩k(ai) pa⟨ṇ⟩ṇikkuṭutta paricāvatu
[|] In=naka(ra)ttu rājāśr¿i?⟨a⟩yap(p)erun=teruvil Irukku(m) vāṇiyaṉ
toṭṭaṅkiḻānātan coman (pa)kkal (n)āṅka(ḷ) kaikkoṇ(ṭa)
matu(r)ān=takamāṭai⟨4⟩yoṭokkum poṉ kuṭiñaikkal niṟai Irukaḻañce I(ra)ṇṭu
mañcāṭikkum (p)olicaiyāl Ivvāḻ⟨vā⟩nukku nittap(pa)ṭikku
(ni)nṟā¿n=n?⟨n⟩āl (I)runāḻi taiyi(ra)mutu ce(y)kai⟨k⟩ku
celuttakka(ṭa)vomākavumāṭaṭomākila celuttuvār pakkalippoṉ (ku)ṭukka
kaṭavomākavum [|] Ikkoyil kāṇi tavi⟨r⟩n=tu (po)killipp(o)ṉ
Oṭu(kki)p(po)kak(ka)ṭavomānom Ivvi(ru)v(o)m ∥⁓

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ tala(ṅ)kalum • Other inscriptions add pol.

## Translation by Hultzsch 1903

(Line 3.) In the thirty-ninth year (of the reign) of king
Rājakēsarivarman, alias the lord Śrī-Kulōttuṅga-Śōḻadēva, who etc.[1]
—the following writing on stone was made and given by me,
Niṉṟanārāyaṇa-Bhaṭṭaṉ of the Bhāradvāja (gōtra) and by me, Dū[da]kari[2]
Tiruvaraṅgamāṇi-Bhaṭṭaṉ, who are performing the worship in the temple of
Tiruppāḍagatt-Āḻvāṉ at Kāñchipuram, a city in Eyiṟkōṭṭam,[3] (a
district) of Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Śōḻa-maṇḍalam. From Tōṭṭaṅgiḻānādaṉ Sōmaṉ, a
merchant who resides in the great street of Rājāśraya[4] in this city,
we have received two kaḻañju and two mañjāḍi of gold, weighed by the
standard of the city (kuḍiñai-kal) (and) equal (in fineness) to the
Madurāntaka-māḍai.[5]

(L. 4.) Out of the interest from (this) we shall be bound to pay for
supplying daily to this god two nāḻi of curds by the Niṉṟāṉ (? measure).
If we are not able (to pay it), we shall be bound to make over this gold
to those who will pay (it). If (our) right (to serve) in this temple
should cease, we two shall be bound to refund this money before leaving.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.74 by Hultzsch 1903 converted to DHARMA
conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1903. South-Indian inscriptions.
Volume III: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil country. Part II:
Inscriptions of Virarajendra I., Kulottunga-chola I., Vikrama-chola and
Kulottunga III. South Indian Inscriptions 3.2. Madras: Government Press.
Pages 163–164, item 74.

[1] The introduction of this inscription is the same as in No. 68 above.

[2] This is the Tamil spelling of Dūta-Hari, i.e. ‘Kṛishṇa as messenger
(of the Pāṇḍavas).’ With it may be connected Pāṇḍavadūta-Perumāḷ, which
is given by Mr. Kanakasabhai Pillai (Ind. Ant). Vol. XXI p. 281) as the
name of the Pāṇḍava-Perumāḷ temple.

[3] See above, Vol. II. p. 390.

[4] This was one of the surnames of Rājarāja I.; see above, Vol. II. p.
260, note 5.

[5] On kuḍiñai-kal and Madurāntaka-māḍai see Ep. Ind. Vol. V. p. 106,
notes 1 and 3.