# SII 3.105: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: XI.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN PARANTAKA I. No.
105.—ON ANOTHER SLAB BUILT INTO THE SAME VERANDAH. No. 164 of 1912

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

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Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

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Languages: Sanskrit [Grantha], Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

The subjoined record is also dated in the 30th year of king
Parakēsarivarman Parāntaka I. Later on, in the body of the inscription
(l. 11) his 35th year is mentioned. It follows that the epigraph must
have been engraved on the stone not earlier than the 35th year of the
king and that till then it must have been preserved in the royal
archives. It registers a gift of gold for a lamp to the temple of
Tiruvoṟṟiyūr by prince Kōdaṇḍarāma, the eldest son of (the Chōḷa king)
Śōḻa-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ (Parāntaka I.).

A portion of this gold is stated to have been invested with the
residents of Veḷḷivāyil who agreed to pay interest once in six months on
the deposited amount and to give two meals every day to the man that
came to demand the interest thereon. The rate of interest was three
mañjāḍi per kaḻañju per annum (i.e., fifteen per cent). Veḷḷivāyil is
evidently the same as Tiruveḷḷavāyal, eight miles east of Poṉṉēri.

The temple of Kōdaṇḍarāmēśvara at Toṇḍamaṉāḍ was also called Ādityēśvara
and Mr. Venkayya surmised from this that Kōdaṇḍarāma must have been a
surname either of Rājāditya, the eldest son of Parāntaka I., or of his
second son Gaṇḍarāditya[1]. The subjoined inscription calling
Kōdaṇḍarāma the eldest son of Parāntaka proves conclusively that the
former must be identical with Rājāditya of the large Leyden plates. It
might further be remarked that in the Tirumālpuram inscription (No. 142)
printed below, the Chōḷa king Āditya I. is called
Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūr-tuñjiṉadēva. Mr. Venkayya identifies the village
Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūr with Toṇḍamaṉāḍ. If this identification is correct it
follows that the temple of Kōdaṇḍarāmēśvara or Ādityēśvara at Toṇḍamaṉāḍ
may have been so called after Āditya I. who died at Toṇḍamaṉāḍ and who,
it is not improbable, also held the title Kōdaṇḍarāma, just like his
grandson Rājāditya.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ dī(pa)daṇḍau ca [6+] ⟨2⟩
pratidina¿Mni?⟨madi⟩śa¿n?⟨d⟩d¿ī?⟨i⟩padī¿ṣ?⟨p⟩tyai [5+]

⟨3⟩ matiraikoṇṭa kopparakecarivarmmaṟku yā(ṇṭu) [1+] ⟨4⟩ muppatāvatu
tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahādevarkku co(ḻap)⟨5⟩perumā¿nn?⟨ṉ⟩aṭikaḷ
parake(sa)rivarmmar tirumaka¿nṉ?⟨ṉ⟩ār mu(t)⟨6⟩tapiḷḷaiyār
śrīkodaṇḍar(ā)mar Ācandratāramum Iraṇṭu (na)⟨7⟩ndāviḷakku Erippataṟku
mu¿(ḻu)?⟨ṭi⟩cc(o)ḻaṇāṭṭuc ciṟṟina⟨vāḻ⟩ ⟨8⟩ Eccaperumāṉ meykāppāṉ
koyina(llū)r (na)⟨9⟩ṭaiyyūraṉum kaṇkāṇiyāl Iraṇṭu
nandāvi(ḷakki)⟨10⟩ṉukku vaitta poṉṉūṟkaṟcem(m)ai Aṟu(pati)⟨11⟩(ṉ
ka)ḻañcu [∥] Ippoṉṉilikkovukku muppattaiñ(c)āva(tu) (puḻal)⟨12⟩koṭṭattu
puḻalerikiḻnāṭṭu ve(ḷḷivā)yilūroṅ koṇ(ṭa poṉṉū)⟨13⟩ṟkaṟcemmai
muppatiṉkaḻa(ñ)cu (Ippoṉṉu)kku palicaiy [5+] ⟨14⟩ ḻañciṉvāy mu⟨ṉ⟩ṟu
mañcāṭiyā⟨kak⟩ ko(ṇ)ṭa nāṟ(kaḻañca)rai poṉ [1+] ⟨15⟩ mācimutal(āṟā)ṟu
tiṅkaḷilirukaḻañcekā(l) poṉṉā [5+] ⟨16⟩ n tiruvoṟṟiyūrāṇikkiḻe koṇṭu ceṉ
[5+] ppo [2+] ⟨17⟩ poṉṟaṇṭavaṉtār⟨k⟩ku nicati yi{r}(ṟira)ṇṭu coṟu
kuṭupp(o) [3+] ⟨18⟩ taṟṟiṟampil dha(r)mmāsanattu nicati pan(ni)rukāṇan
taṇ(ṭa) [5+] ⟨19⟩ kuṭutto{m}miṭṭa taṇṭañ ceṉṟu niṉṟum pa [2+] ku [6+]
⟨20⟩ (t) tomāṉom meṟ collappaṭṭa veḷ(ḷi)vā(yil) [7+] ⟨21⟩ [10+]

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ pratidinaMniśandīpadīṣtyai • Read dinamadiśaddipadīptyai.

## Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

(Line 1.) . . . . . gave two lamp-stands . . . . . . . . . . for burning
lamps every day.

(L. 3.) In the 30th year of (the reign of) king Parakēsarivarman who
took Madirai (Madura), the eldest prince, the prosperous Kōdaṇḍarāma,
the illustrious son of Śōḻa-Perumānaḍigaḷ Parakēsarivarman, deposited
sixty kaḻañju of pure gold tested by the stone of the village, for two
perpetual lamps under the supervision of Echchapperumāṉ of Śiṟṟinavāḻ in
Muḍichchōḻa-nāḍu and of the body-guard (meykāppāṉ) Naḍaiyūraṉ of
Kōyinallūr, for burning two perpetual lamps in (the temple of) Mahādēva
(Śiva) at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr as long as the moon and the stars (exist). Out of
this gold, in the thirty-fifth (year) of this king, the residents of the
village (ūrōm) of Veḷḷivāyil in Puḻalērikīḻ-nāḍu (a subdivision) of
Puḻal-kōṭṭam, received thirty kaḻañju of pure gold tested by the stone
of the village. The interest on this gold. . . . . . received, at the
rate of three mañjāḍi per kaḻañju, (viz.) four and a half kaḻañju of
gold . . . . . two kaḻañju and a quarter of gold for every six months
commencing with (the month of) Māśi . . . . shall be received through
the administrators of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr[2] . . . . . . To the persons who
come to demand the gold (i.e., the interest), we shall give two meals
every day. Failing (to do) this . . . . . . to the dharmāsana, a fine of
twelve kāṇam per day . . . . . gave . . . . . . . The fine being
deposited, . . . . the standing . . . . we the above-mentioned . . . . .
of Veḷḷivāyil . . . . . . . . .

## Commentary

⟨1⟩ It is very likely that one or two lines have been lost at the
beginning.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.105 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 237–239, item 105.

[1] Madras Epigraphical Report for 1904-05, page 50, paragraph 9.

[2] The phrase tiruvoṟṟiyūrāṇikkīḻē has been tentatively translated as
“through the administrators of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr”. The term ūrāṇi may be
compared with nīrāṇikkaṉ ‘one who takes care of the sluice of a public
tank’.