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                <title>SII 3.122: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri</title>
                <title type="alt">XIII.—INSCRIPTIONS OF RAJAKESARIVARMAN SUNDARACHOLA PARANTAKA II. No. 122.—ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VEDAPURISVARA TEMPLE AT TIRUKKALITTATTAI. No. 299 of 1908.</title>
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                        <forename>Emmanuel</forename>
                        <surname>Francis</surname>
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                            <p>This incomplete record, dated in the 14th year of <hi rend="bold">Rājakēsarivarman</hi>, registers gifts of money in <hi rend="italic">īḻakkāśu</hi> made by <hi rend="bold">Rājādichchi</hi> and <hi rend="bold">Kuñjiramalli</hi>, the wife and daughter respectively of <hi rend="bold">Śiṟiyavēḷāṉ</hi>, for burning lamps in the temple at <hi rend="bold">Tirukkuḍittiṭṭai</hi> which was included in <hi rend="bold">Amaninārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. Śiṟiyavēḷāṉ</hi> is identical with <hi rend="bold">Pirāntakaṉ Śiṟiyavēḷār</hi>, the General of the Chōḷa king <hi rend="bold">Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka</hi> II.<note>See <hi rend="italic">Epigraphia Indica</hi>, Vol. XII, pp. 121ff.</note> The king <hi rend="bold">Rājakēsarivarman</hi> could not be identified. It is not impossible, however, that he is identical with <hi rend="bold">Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka</hi> II.</p>						
                            
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                    <lb n="1"/><g ref="sym:bar" type="punctuation">.</g><g ref="sym:dash-long" type="punctuation">.</g> <hi rend="grantha">svasti śrī</hi> <supplied reason="undefined"><g ref="sym:doubleBar" type="punctuation">.</g></supplied> ko Irācakecaripaṉmaṟkiyāṇṭu <num value="14"><g type="numeral">10</g> 4</num> Āvatu <unclear>va</unclear>ṭakarai tevatāṉa<hi rend="grantha">brahmade</hi>yam Amaninārāyaṇaccatu<hi rend="grantha">rvve</hi>timaṅkalattu ti<unclear>ru</unclear><supplied reason="omitted">k</supplied>kuṭit<unclear>tiṭ</unclear>ṭai perumāḷukku ciṟiyaveḷāṉ tevi<surplus>y</surplus> Irācāticci Oru nontāviḷakku canti
                    <lb n="2" break="no"/>rāticcavaṟ Eriya vaiytta Īḻa<supplied reason="omitted">k</supplied>kācu <num value="25">2 <g type="numeral">10</g> 5</num> Irupa<unclear>t</unclear>tañcu <supplied reason="undefined"><g ref="sym:doubleBar" type="punctuation">.</g></supplied> ciṟiyaveḷāṉ makaḷ kuñciramalli<surplus>y</surplus> Oru nontāviḷakku <unclear>ca</unclear>ntirāticcavaṟ Eriya vaiytta Īḻakkācu <num value="25">2 <g type="numeral">10</g> 5</num> <supplied reason="undefined"><g ref="sym:doubleBar" type="punctuation">.</g></supplied> Āka <num value="50"><unclear>5</unclear> <g type="numeral">10</g></num> kā
                    <lb n="3" break="no"/><unclear>cu</unclear>m kuṭuttu koṇṭa pūmi yamaṅkuṭi<surplus>y</surplus> Ūriṉ melpakkattu Ālikkoṉṟai ciritara<hi rend="grantha">krama</hi>vittar Eva 
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                <p>Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 14th year of (<hi rend="italic">the reign of</hi>) king <hi rend="bold">Rājakēsarivarman, Rājādichchi</hi>, the wife of <hi rend="bold">Śiṟiyavēḷāṉ</hi>, deposited (25) twenty-five <hi rend="italic">īḻakkāśu</hi> for burning, as long as the moon and the sun (<hi rend="italic">endure</hi>), one perpetual lamp, in (<hi rend="italic">the temple of</hi>) the god (<hi rend="italic">perumāḷ</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Tirukkuḍittiṭṭai</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Amaninārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam</hi> which was a <hi rend="italic">dēvadāna</hi> and a <hi rend="italic">brahmadēya</hi> on the northern bank (<hi rend="italic">of the Kāvērī). (Also</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Kuñjiramalli</hi>, the daughter of <hi rend="bold">Śiṟiyavēḷāṉ</hi>, deposited 25 <hi rend="italic">īḻakkāśu</hi>, for burning, as long as the moon and the sun (<hi rend="italic">endure</hi>), one perpetual lamp (<hi rend="italic">in the same temple</hi>). For the total of 50 <hi rend="italic">kāśu</hi> (<hi rend="italic">thus</hi>) paid, was purchased the land (<hi rend="italic">situated</hi>) on the western side of the village of <hi rend="bold">Amaṅguḍi</hi>; and under the direction of <hi rend="bold">Ālikkoṉṟai Śrīdharakramavittar</hi><note>Evidently this person was the manager of the temple.</note> —</p>
                
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                <p n="3"><foreign>ciritara<hi rend="grantha">krama</hi>vittar Eva</foreign>. The inscription stops here abruptly. </p>
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