SII 3.81: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch VIII.—INSCRIPTIONS OF VIRARAJENDRA I. No. 81.—INSCRIPTION AT TIRUNAMANALLUR. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0081.xml 2019-2026 as per external metadata

This incomplete inscription (No. 371 of 1902) is engraved on the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the shrine in the Bhaktajanēśvara temple at Tirunāmanallūr in the Tirukoilur (Tirukkōvalūr) tālukaNo 320 on the Madras Survey Map of this tāluka. of the South Arcot district. It records an order which Vīrarājēndra I. issued in the 4th year of his reign. As in other inscriptions, Tirunāmanallūr is here called Tirunāvalūr alias Rājādittapuram,Ep. Ind. Vol. VII. p. 133 and note 2. and its Śiva temple Tiruttoṇḍīśvara, which is the Tamil equivalent of the modern name Bhaktajanēśvara.See ibid. p. 132. The village is stated to have been included in Mēlūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Tirumuṉaippāḍi, a district of Rājēndra-Chōḷa-vaḷanāḍu, while, according to an inscription of Rājēndra-Chōḷa I., Tirumuṉaippāḍi was a district of Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Chōḷa-maṇḍalam.See ibid. p. 138. The end of the published portion refers to the village of Perumbākkam in Mēlūr-nāḍu, which belonged to the temple and was surnamed Vīrarājēndra-chaturvēdimaṅgalam after the king.Among the fragments of the concluding portion of this inscription occurs the statement that a village, which may be identical with Perumbākkam, received the new name Vīra-Śōḻaṉallūr. This name is evidently derived from Vīra-Chōḷa, one of the titles of Vīrarājēndra I. PerumbākkamNo. 251 on the Madras Survey Map of the Tirukoilur tāluka. is situated 4 miles west-north-west of Tirunāmanallūr.

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svasti śrī . vīrame tuṇaiyākavun=tiyākameyaṇiyākavum ceṅkoloccikkaruṅkali kaṭin=tu kūṭalcaṅkamattu Āhavamallaṉai Añcuvittu vikkalaṉaiyum Uṭai puṟaṅkaṇṭu maṟṟavaṉ māteviyāreoṭum vastuvāhanaṅkaiykkoṇṭu vīrasigājaṉsiṁhāsanattu Ulakamuḻutuṭaiyāḷḷoṭum vīṟṟiruntaruḷiya kovāirājakecarivanmarāṉa Uṭaiyār śrīvīrarājentratevarkku yāṇṭu 4 Āvatu . svasti śrī . sakalabhuvanāśraya śrīmedinivallabha mahārājādhirāja coḷakulasundara pāṇḍyakulān=taka Āhavamallakulakāla Āhavamallanai mummaṭi miveṉṉ kaṇṭa rājāśraya vīracoḷa karikālacoḷa śrīvīrarājendradeva rājakesarivanmaperumānaṭikaḷ koneriṉmaikoṇṭāṉ rājendracoḻavaḷanāṭṭuttirumuṉaippāṭi melūrnāṭṭuttirunāvalūrāna rājādittapurattu nakarattaārkku . Avvūr tiruttoṇṭīśvaramuṭaiya mahātevar tevatāṉam Innāṭṭu perumpākkam vīrarājentracaruppetimaṅkalattu

vikkalaṉaiyum Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of clause II. on p. 192 f. above add ciṅkaṇaṉaiyum. kaiykkoṇṭu Nos. 5 and 6 add vijaiApiṣekam paṇṇi. vīrasigājaṉatu Read siṁhāsanattu. kovāja Read kovirāja. vīrarājentracaruppetimaṅkalattu From here the stones bearing the inscription are out of order.

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! While courage was (his) only help and liberality (his) only ornament, (the king) wielded the sceptre and dispelled the dark Kali (age). (He) terrified Āhavamalla at Kūḍalśaṅgamam, saw the retreating back of (i.e). put to flight) Vikkalaṉ [and Śiṅgaṇaṉ], and seized riches and vehiclesI.e. horses, elephants, camels and chariots. along with his (viz. Āhavamalla's) great queen. In the 4th year of (this) king Rājakēsarivarman alias) the lord Śrī-Vīrarājēndradēva, who was pleased to be seated on the throne of heroes together with (his queen) Ulagamuḻuduḍaiyāḷ.

(L. 2.) Hail ! Prosperity ! Sakalabhuvanāśraya ŚrīmēdinivallabhaI.e. ‘the asylum of the whole world, the favourite of Fortune and of the Earth.’ Mahārājādhirāja Chōḷakula-Sundara Pāṇḍyakulāntaka Āhavamallakula-Kāla Āhava-mallaṉai-mummaḍi-veṉ-kaṇḍa RājāśrayaI.e. ‘the god of Love of the Chōḷa family, the destroyer of the Pāṇḍya family, the god of Death to the family of Āhavamalla, who saw the back of (i.e). who put to flight) Āhavamalla three times, the asylum of kings.’ Vīra-Chōḷa Karikāla-Chōḷa Śrī-Vīrarājēndradēva Rājakēsarivarman-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ Kōnēriṉmai-koṇḍāṉSee above, p. 44, note 8. (addresses the following order) to the citizens of Tirunāvalūr alias Rājādittapuram in Mēlūr-nāḍu, (a subdivision) of Tirumuṉaippāḍi, (a district) of Rājēndra-Śōḻa-vaḷanāḍu:—. . . . . . . . . . of Perumbākkam (alias) Vīrarājēndra-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in this nāḍu, a dēvadāna of (the god) Mahādēva of the Tiruttoṇḍīśvara (temple) in that village . . . . . . . . . .

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