SII 3.108: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri XI.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN PARANTAKA I. No. 108.—ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE ADHIPURISVARA TEMPLE AT TIRUVORRIYUR. No. 160 of 1912. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0108.xml 2019-2026 as per external metadata

The inscription is dated in the 34th year of king Parakēsarivarman who took Madura and records the gift of 90 sheep for a lamp to the Śiva temple at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr (Ādhipurī), by the chief Māṟaṉ Paramēśvaraṉ alias Śembiyaṉ Śōḻiyavaraiyaṉ of Śiṟukuḷattūr, on his return from conquering Śīṭpuli and destroying Nellūr. The mutilated Sanskrit verse at the beginning gives the king the title Vīrakīrti. This military campaign reveals for the first time the extent to which the sway of the Chōḷa king Parāntaka I. extended on the east coast.See Madras Epigraphical Report for 1913, page 94, paragraph 18.

The name Śīṭpuli is Tamil and means ‘the fierce tiger.’ The corresponding Sanskrit equivalent, if any, must end in the word vyāghra. We do not know of any names of contemporaneous kings of the Telugu country at this period which ended either with vyāghra or puli. In the time of Nandivarman Pallavamalla, however, there was, according to the Udayēndiram plates, a chief named Pṛithivivyāghra whom Udayachandra drove out of the district of Vishṇurāja (i.e., the Eastern Chalukya king Vishṇuvardhana III.). It is not impossible that our Śīṭpuli was a later member of the Nishāda family to which Pṛithivivyāghra belonged.

The puḷḷi or virāma is mostly marked in this inscription.

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svasti śrī . ripave śryādhipuryyā � gānānna vatimadātsa vīrakirttiḥ .

mati raikoṇṭa kopparake sarivarmmaṟku yāṇṭu mu ppattunālāvatu coḻa ṉāṭṭu tenkaraiṉāṭṭu po yyiṟkūṟṟattu ciṟuku ḷattūruṭaiyāṉ māṟaṉ parameśvaraṉākiya cem piyaṉ coḻiyavarai yaṉ cīṭpuliyai yeṟi ntu nellūrraḻittu mīṇṭu potukiṉṟāṉ tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahāde varkku Ācandratāramum tirunandāviḷakkeri ppataṟku vaitta cā vā muvāpperāṭu to ṇṇūṟṟāṟu .

Hail ! Prosperity ! . . . . . . . to (the temple of Śiva), the enemy of . . . at the prosperous (town) Ādhipurī, that Vīrakīrti gave 90The word navati (90) has been apparently wrongly used to specify the number of goats, which according to the Tamil portion were 96. goats. In the 34th year of (the reign of) king Parakēsarivarman who took Madirai (Madura), Māṟaṉ Paramēśvaraṉ alias Śembiyaṉ Śōḻiyavaraiyaṉ, a native of Śirukuḷattūr in Poyyiṟ-kūṟṟam (a district) of Teṉkarai-nāḍu (which was a division) of Śōḻa-nāḍu, while returning (from his campaign) after having struck Śīṭpuli (in battle) and destroyed Nellūr, gave for burning a sacred perpetual lamp to the (god) Mahādēva (Śiva) at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr as long as the moon and stars (last), 96 fat sheep which neither die nor grow old.

Lines 1 to 3 are much worn out.

Digital edition of SII 3.108 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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