# SII 3.132: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: XIV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN UTTAMA-CHOLA.
No. 132.—ON THE NORTH BASE OF THE SECOND PILLAR IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE IN
THE PUNDARIKAKSHA-PERUMAL TEMPLE AT TIRUVELLARAI. No. 534 of 1905

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0132

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0132.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This unfinished inscription is dated in the 8th year of Parakēsarivarman
and registers a gift of [2]0 kaḻañju of gold for offerings to the god
Kṛishṇa and his consort Rukmiṇī. The donor was Īrāyiraṉdēvi-Ammaṉār, the
wife of ‘the lord who died on the back of an elephant’.

This is the earliest reference in South-Indian Inscriptions to the
worship of Kṛishṇa and Rukmiṇī. By the clause ‘the lord who died on the
back of an elephant’ we have probably to understand Prince Rājāditya
who, in the large Leyden grant, is stated to have met with his death on
the back of an elephant in an encounter with Kṛishṇarāja (i.e., the
Rāshṭrakūṭa king Kṛishṇa III.)[1] King Parakēsarivarman must, therefore,
be identified with either Madhurāntaka Uttama-Chōḷa or with
Āditya-Karikāla II.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] kopparakesaripanmaṟkku yāṇṭu 8 Āvatu tiruveḷḷaṟai
periyaśrī⟨2⟩koyilil śrīkṛūṣṇarkkum śrīrukmiṇip=pirāṭṭiyārkkum Uṭaiyār
Āṉaimeṟṟu⟨3⟩ñciṉār deviyār ¿I?⟨Ī⟩rāyiraṉṟeviyammaṉār kuṭuttapaṭi
Eḻutiyatu śrīkṛūṣṇarkku ⟨4⟩ Iraṇṭu vāvum Aṣṭamiyum saṁ¿g?⟨k⟩rān=tiyum
Innāḷ(ḷoṉṟaikku) nāṉāḻi {nāṉāḻi} Arici⟨5⟩(y)āl Amu⟨tu⟩paṭi¿m?⟨ya⟩mutu
ceyvikka vaitta poṉ tiruveḷḷaṟaikallā⟨l⟩ mutala⟨6⟩[5+] rupatiṉ kaḻañcum
viḷakkoṉṟukku vaitta poṉ tiruveḷḷaṟaikallāl

## Apparatus

⟨4⟩ nāṉāḻi nāṉāḻi • {nāṉāḻi} which is repeated in the original may be
cancelled.

## Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 8th year of (the reign of) king
Parakēsarivarman, (the following) was engraved (i.e., recorded) as the
gift (made) by Īrāyiraṉdēvi-Ammaṉār, the consort of ‘the lord who died
on the back of an elephant’ (Uḍaiyār Āṉaimēṟṟuñjiṉār) to the glorious
(god) Kṛishṇa and the glorious goddess Rukmiṇī in the sacred big temple
(periya-śrīkōyil) at Tiruveḷḷaṟai. [Twenty] kaḻañju of gold (weighed) by
the stone (called after) Tiruveḷḷaṟai, were deposited for offering food
prepared from four nāḻi of rice to the glorious (god) Kṛishṇa on each
one of the (following) days (viz.,) the two vāvu (?), Ashṭami (eighth
tithi) and Saṅkrānti. And for one lamp, was deposited . . . . gold
(weighed) by the stone (called after) Tiruveḷḷaṟai.

## Commentary

⟨6⟩ tiruveḷḷaṟaikallāl. The record stops here.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.132 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 278–279, item 132.

[1] See Madras Epigraphical Report for 1912, page 62, paragraph 14.