# SII 3.119: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: XIII.—INSCRIPTIONS OF RAJAKESARIVARMAN SUNDARACHOLA
PARANTAKA II. No. 119.—ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE
SIVAYOGANATHASVAMIN TEMPLE AT TIRUVISALUR. No. 317 of 1907

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0119

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0119.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated in the 2nd year of Rājakēsarivarman and
registers a gift of land to the temple at Tiruviśalūr by Pirāntakaṉ
Iruṅgōḷaṉ alias Śiṟiyavēḷār of Koḍumbāḷūr. This chief has been
identified by Mr. K.V.Subrahmanya Aiyar with PirāntakaṉŚiṟiyavēḷār alias
Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Pichchaṉ mentioned in a Tirukkaḷittaṭṭai inscription.[1]
The name Śiṟiyavēḷār occurs again in a much mutilated Tirukkaḷittaṭṭai
inscription of the reign of Sundara-Chōḷa alias Poṉmāḷigaittuñjiṉadēvar
(i.e., the lord who died in the golden palace) who ‘drove the Pāṇḍya
into the forest[2] .’ The king who died in the golden palace was
Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka II., the father of Rājarāja I[3] . This
Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka II., is called a Rājakēsarivarman in No. 302 of
1908 quoted above which also refers to Īḻam; but the passage is much
mutilated. The officer Śiṟiyavēḷār is stated in a record of the time of
Rājarāja I.[4] to have died on the battlefield in Ceylon in the 9th year
of Poṉmāḷigaittuñjiṉadēva (i.e., Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka II.)[5] .
Evidently Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka II. and his General were engaged in a
battle with the Ceylon king who must as usual have helped with his
forces, the Pāṇḍya king, the natural enemy of the Chōḷas.

Applying the correction of 23 years in the Singhalese Chronology worked
out by Professor Hultzsch (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for
1913, pp. 517-531) we gather that Mahinda IV. must have been the
sovereign of Ceylon who was contemporaneous with Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka
II. In his time, according to the Mahāvaṁsa, Chapter LIV, there was a
fight with Vallabha (i.e., the Chōḷa king) in which it is stated that
Mahinda’s General ‘destroyed him (the Chōḷa) utterly.’

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sasti śrī [∥] k(o)rā(ja)(k)esarivarmaṟku yāṇṭu 2 Āvatu (vaṭaka)rait
te(va)tāṉabrahmadeyam Avaninārāyaṇacaturvvedimaṅkalattu
tiru(vi)calūrpperumāṉaṭikaḷ śrīkoyilile ⟨2⟩ vaitta candrādityavat·
Ekāgram Oru vedabrāhmaṇa(ṉ) Ut=tam(āgram) Uccamp(o)tuṇpataṟku
k(o)ṭumpāḷūr pirāntakaniruṅkoḷa(nā)kiya ciṟiya(veḷā)r vilaikku koṇṭu
vai(t)ta nilamā(va)tu tirunārāya⟨3⟩(ṇa)cceri pu [3+] ṉattu [3+]
nārāyaṇaṉār catukkattu talaipāṭaka(m) para(m)e(śva)ravāykk(ā)liṉ
vaṭakarai toḻurt tāyanārā(ya)ṇa(paṭṭa)com(ā)ciyār pa(k)ka(l) vilaikku
koṇṭuṭaiya Araikkāṟcey⟨4⟩kkum I(ṟai)kāva(l)ā(ka)
(t)e(va)ṅkuṭipperumakkaḷukku (Ai)¿ñ?⟨m⟩pati(ṉ ka)ḻañcu poṉ kuṭut(tu)
Iṟaiyiḻic(cu vai)tta cey Araikkāla Itu mahāsabhaipperumakkaḷ (Ira)kṣai ∥

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ vaitta • vaitta at the beginning of this line is either superfluous
or may be construed with ekāgram in the sense of ‘established.’

## Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 2nd year of (the reign of) king
Rājakēsarivarman, Pirāntakaṉ Iruṅgōḷaṉ alias Śiṟiyavēḷār of Koḍumbāḷūr
purchased and gave the following land for feeding at noon with one
sumptuous meal[6] one Brāhmaṇa (versed) in the Vēdas, in the sacred
temple (śrīkōyil) of the god (perumāṉdigaḷ) of Tiruviśalūr in
Avaninārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a dēvadāna and a brahmadēya on the
northern bank (of the Kāvērī), as long as the moon and the sun (endure).
He (also) paid fifty kaḻañju of gold to the great men (perumakkaḷ) of
Tēvaṅguḍi as iṟaikāval[7] for the one-eighth śey (of land) purchased
from Tāyanārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa-Sōmayājiyār of Toḻūr, on the northern bank of
the (channel called) Paramēśvaravāykkāl, (forming) the first pāḍagam of
the śadukkam of Nārāyaṇaṉār . . . . . . . . . . . . Tirunārāyaṇachchēri
got it exempted from the payment of taxes and gave over (this)
one-eighth śey (of land). This (charity is placed) under the protection
of the great men of the great assembly.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.119 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 255–256, item 119.

[1] Epigraphia Indica, Volume XII, pp. 121ff.

[2] No. 302 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908.

[3] South-Indian Inscriptions, Volume II, page 68, and Introduction,
page 1, note 3.

[4] No. 116 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1896.

[5] Epigraphia Indica, Volume XII, page 124.

[6] The words ekāgram and uttamāgram must be taken as synonymous in the
sense ‘sumptuous.’ The word agraśālā is used in Malabar for the cooking
place in temples.

[7] I.e., security for exemption from the payment of taxes.