# SII 3.89: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: X.—INSCRIPTIONS OF THE TIME OF RAJAKESARIVARMAN
ADITYA I. No. 89.—ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE
GHRITASTHANESVARA TEMPLE AT TILLASTHANAM. No. 286 of 1911

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0089

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0089.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

The inscription registers a gift of 100 sheep for a lamp by
Kaḍambamādēvī, the wife of the chief Vikki-Aṇṇaṉ, who was the recipient
of several royal honours and of the hereditary title Śembiyaṉ Tamiḻavēḷ
from the Chōḷa king Rājakēsarivarman who ’overran Toṇḍai-nāḍu’ and was
the conqueror of ’kings that possessed many elephants
(pal-yāṉai-kōkkaṇḍaṉ)’[1] and from the Chēra king Sthāṇu Ravi.

The Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates state that the Chōḷa king Āditya I. defeated
the Pallava Aparājita and captured Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam from him. We also
know that Āditya’s son, Parāntaka I., was called Parakēsarivarman and
there is not therefore much doubt that the Rājakēsarivarman referred to
in this inscription is Āditya I. The fact that he and the Chēra king
Sthāṇu Ravi conferred honours on Vikki-Aṇṇaṉ suggests that these Chēra
and the Chōḷa kings might have been contemporaries.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] toṇṭaināṭu pāviṉa coḻaṉ
pal⟨2⟩y(ā)ṉaikkokkaṇaṭaṉ¿āI?⟨ayi⟩ṉa rājakesaripatmaṉā⟨3⟩luñ ceramāṉ
kottāṇuiravi(y)ālun tavicuñ c(ā)⟨4⟩maraiyuñ civikaiyun timilaiyuṅ
koyilum poṉa(ka)⟨5⟩muṅ kāḷamuṅ kaḷiṟṟuniraiyuñ
c(e)mpiyaṉṟamiḻaveḷe⟨6⟩ṉṉuṅ kulappiyarum peṟṟa vikki Aṇṇaṉṟevi¿v?⟨y⟩āṉa
⟨7⟩ kaṭampamātevi tiruneyttāṉattu mātevark koru nantāviḷak(ki)⟨8⟩ṉuk(ku)
kuṭutta Āṭu (nūṟu) pa(tm)āheśvararakṣai ∥⁓

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pāviṉa • We have perhaps to correct this word into paramṉa.

## Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

Hail ! Prosperity ! One hundred sheep were given for a perpetual lamp to
the Mahādēva (i.e., Śiva) of Tiruneyttāṉam by Kaḍambamādēvī, the wife of
Vikki-Aṇṇaṉ who had received a (feudatory) throne (taviśu ?), fly-whisk,
palanquin, drum (timilai), mansion, pōnagam (sumptuary allowance),
bugle, an army of male elephants and the hereditary title of
Śembiyaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ from Rājakēsarivarman, the Chōḷa (king) who
overran[2] Toṇḍai-nāḍu and from the Kōkkaṇḍaṉ of (i.e., the conqueror of
kings that possessed) many elephants, the Chēra king (Śēramāṉ) Sthāṇu
Ravi. (The assembly of) all Māhēśvaras shall protect this (charity).

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.89 by Krishna Sastri 1920 converted to DHARMA
conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1920. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume III:
Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil country. Part III:
Inscriptions of Aditya I, Parantaka I, Madiraikonda, Rajakesarivarman,
Parantaka II, Uttama-Chola, Parthivendravarman and Aditya-Karikala and
the Tiruvalangadu plates of Rajendra-Chola I. South Indian Inscriptions
3.3. Madras: Government Press. Pages 221–222, item 89, plate VII.

[1] Kōkkaṇḍaṉ which forms the second half of the adjunct
pal-yāṉai-kōkkaṇḍaṉ appears independently used as a title in two early
records at Veḷḷalūr in the Coimbatore district, of Kōkkaṇḍaṉ Ravi and
Kōkkaṇḍaṉ Vīranārāyaṇa of the Chandrāditya family who were probably
Chēra kings. It is not impossible that in the translation below we have
to take palyāṉai kokkaṇṭaṉ as an adjective qualifying the Chēra king
Sthāṇu Ravi.

[2] paraviṉa literally means “one who has spread.” The word seems to be
used here in the sense of “extended (his conquests to)” or “overran.”