# SII 3.142: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: XIV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN UTTAMA-CHOLA.
No. 142.—ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE MANIKANTHESVARA
TEMPLE AT TIRUMALPURAM. No. 286 of 1906

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0142

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0142.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated in the 14th year and the 216th day[1] of
Kō-nōṉ-iṉmaikoṇḍāṉ[2] while he was staying in his golden palace
(poṉ-māḷigai) at Kachchippēḍu. In his introduction to South-Indian
Inscriptions, Volume II, Part V, the late Mr. Venkayya surmised that
poṉ-māḷigai[3] in the word poṉ-māḷigai-tuñjiṉadēva must denote the
dancing hall of the god Naṭarāja at Chidambaram which is said to have
been covered with gold both by Parāntaka I. and by an early Pallava
sovereign[4] . The reference in this inscription to the golden palace at
Kachchippēḍu seems, however, to indicate that the term poṉ-māḷigai
should refer to the palace and not to the golden hall of the Chidambaram
temple. It is more appropriate that the death of Sundara-Chōḷa called
Poṉmāḷigai-tuñjiṉadēva should have happened in a palace instead of a
temple.

The record is of much historical interest. It refers first to a grant of
revenue in paddy and in gold, made in the 21st and 22nd years of a Chōḷa
king entitled Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūrtuñjiṉadēva, to the temple at Tirumālpēru.
The grant, was not entered in the revenue registers, evidently by a
mistake, and was therefore rectified in the 4th year of
Parakēsarivarman, ‘who took Madirai and Īḻam.’ A fresh grant was also
made to the temple in the 36th year of this same king. This latter grant
being misappropriated by the assembly of Puduppākkam which was entrusted
with the management of the gift, a complaint was lodged before the king,
here referred to as Kō-nōṉ-iṉmai-koṇḍāṉ, in the 14th year of his reign.
The offending members were fined for the mistake committed and orders
were issued that the defaulting members of the assembly should in future
conduct the trust honestly.

Rai Bahadur V. Venkayya has fully discussed the contents of this
inscription and their historical bearing in the Madras Epigraphical
Report for 1907, p. 71 f. He points out that Toṇḍaimānāṟṟūr-tuñjiṉadēva,
who preceded Parakēsarivarman the conqueror of Madirai and Īḻam, could
be no other than the latter’s father Āditya I., and that the title which
means ‘who died at Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūr’ must indicate that Āditya I., who was
the actual conqueror of Toṇḍai and the hero who deprived the Gaṅga
Pallavas of the last vestiges of their authority, died in the Toṇḍai
country in the village Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūr (i.e., the modern Toṇḍamanāḍ near
Kāḷahasti). It is not clear who king Kō-nōṉ-iṉmai-koṇḍāṉ was in whose
14th year the present record was written. In identifying him it has to
be observed that he rectified a mistake which was committed in the 36th
year of Parāntaka I. and which was brought to his notice in his 14th
year. Mr. Venkayya was inclined to identify Kō-nōṉ-iṉmai-koṇḍāṉ with
Āditya Karikāla (II) whose latest date known from inscriptions, however,
is his 5th year. Kō-nōṉ-iṉmai-koṇḍāṉ may have been Rājakēsarivarman
Gaṇḍarāditya, the immediate successor of Parāntaka I. But the appearance
of the same names among the signatories in this record as well as in
another document distinctly of the time of Uttama-Chōḷa, makes it almost
certain that the Kō-nōṉ-iṉmai-koṇḍāṉ of the Tirumālpuram inscription is
no other than king Uttama-Chōḷa.

The publicity given to the order by communicating it to the headmen of
all Brahmadēya villages, the residents of the Dēvadāna, Paḷḷichchanda,
Kaṇimuṟṟūṭṭu and Vēṭṭappēṟṟu villages in Maṇaiyil-nāḍu, the long list of
officers that held various public offices such as Āṇatti, Vāykkēḻvi,
Ōlai-nāyagam, Puravuvari, Varippottagam, Kaṇakku, Variyiliḍu, Paṭṭōlai
and Mugaveṭṭi who executed the order and witnessed the transaction, and
the perspicuity with which the facts themselves are detailed in the
record, are worthy of note.

Of the villages mentioned Śiṟṟiyāṟṟūr and Puduppākkam may be identified
with Śittāttūr and Puduppākkam in the Walajapet taluk of the North Arcot
district. The terms puravu and iravu applied to the income in paddy have
not been clearly understood.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] koṉoṉ I⟨2⟩ṉmaiy koṇṭāṉ maṇai⟨3⟩yilkoṭṭattu
maṇaiyilnā⟨ṭ⟩⟨4⟩ṭārkkum brahmateyakki⟨5⟩ḻavark⟦u⟧kum
tevatāṉap⟨6⟩paḷḷiccantakkaṇimuṟṟu⟨7⟩ṭṭuveṭṭappeṟṟūrkaḷilā⟨8⟩(r)kku⟨m⟩
nakaraṅkaḷil¿a?⟨ā⟩rkkum yāṇṭu 10⟨9⟩4 Āvatu n⟨āḷ⟩ 2 100 10 6 ṉāl
kaccippe⟨10⟩ṭṭu nam viṭṭinuḷḷāl(p) poṉmāḷikai ⟨11⟩ Ātipūmiyil
nāmi(ru)kkac coḻamuven⟨12⟩taveḷāṉ tirumālppeṟṟu m¿ā?⟨a⟩hādeva⟨13⟩ṟkku
ma(ṇai)yilkkoṭṭattu maṇaiyilnāṭṭu⟨14⟩c ciṟṟiyāṟṟūr caṅkappāṭikiḻāṉ kāṇi
ni(k)⟨15⟩kip puravu muvāyira⟨⟨kkāṭiyum⟩⟩ Iravu ⟨16⟩ Aiññūṟṟu Aṟupattoru
kāṭiyum poṉ Irupatta(ṟu)kaḻa⟨17⟩ñcaraiye mañcāṭiyun
tevatāṉaIṟai⟨18⟩yiliyāy Ippuravum Iravum poṉ⟨19⟩ṉum tevarkku Iṟuppatāka
Ikkoṭṭattup puricainā⟨20⟩ṭṭup pirahmateyapputuppākkattu
sabh(ai)(yā)ṟkkut te⟨21⟩vatāṉabrahmatecamākat toṇṭaimāṉāṟṟūrttuñciṉa
U(ṭ)ai⟨22⟩yāṟkku Irupattoṉṟāvatu kuṭuttu Iru(pa)ttiraṇṭā(vatu
piṭā)⟨23⟩kai naṭantu śāsanaM ceytukoṭuttu variIliṭā(tey kiṭa)⟨24⟩nta
Ivvūrai matiraiyum Īḻa(mu)ṅko(ṇ)ṭa ko(pparakeca)⟨25⟩ripa(nma)ṟku yāṇṭu
nālāvatu tevatāṉa brahmadeyamāka vari⟨26⟩yiliṭṭa Itaṉāl puravum Iravum
poṉṉum putup(pā)⟨27⟩kkattu (sa)bhaiyārey tevaṟkku Iṟuttu
va(rāniṉṟā)⟨28⟩rkaḷ Icciṟṟiyāṟṟūr caṅkappāṭikiḻāṉ kāṇi(yā)l
(mu)⟨29⟩talāy varukiṉṟa puravu muvāyirakkāṭiyum matiraiyum
(Ī)ḻa(mu)⟨30⟩ṅkoṇṭa kopparakecaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu muppattāṟāvatu ⟨31⟩
(ti)rumāṟpeṟṟu mātevaṟkey tevatāṉa Iṟaiyili(yā)kavariyi(l)⟨32⟩liṭṭu
Ipparicu kuṭutta Iccaṅ(ka)ppāṭikiḻ(ā)ṉ kāṇiyaip (putup)⟨33⟩pākkattu
sabhaiyār paṟṟiyuṇṭu tevarkku yiṟaiyiṟātoḻi⟨34⟩kiṉṟārkaḷeṉṟu
tevakaṉmikaḷum (U)ṇṇāḻikai(yu)ṭai⟨35⟩yārum paṉmāyeśvararum vantu
Aṉiyā(yami)ṭukiṉṟārkaḷ Eṉ⟨36⟩ṟu namakkuccolla
tirumālpeṟṟitte(va)kaṉmikaḷ U(ṇṇā)⟨37⟩ḻikai Uṭaiyārkaḷaiyum
paṉmāyeśvararaiyum putuppākkat(tu) sa⟨38⟩bhaiyā(raiyum) Aḻaittu nā(m
Ā)rāynta Iṭat(tu) ⟨39⟩ putuppākkattu sa⟨40⟩bhaiyār ciṟṟiyāṟ(ṟū)⟨41⟩rc
caṅkappāṭikiḻā⟨42⟩ṉ kāṇiyāl tevarkku ⟨43⟩ Iṟaiyiṟātey
teva(tā)⟨44⟩ṉaṅkaḷai Aṉupavit(tu)⟨45⟩varukiṉṟamaiy I(cai)⟨46⟩ntam(ai)yil
putuppākka⟨47⟩ttu sabhaiyā(rai)t ta⟨48⟩ṇṭaṅ koṇṭu Icca⟨49⟩ṅkappāṭikiḻāṉ
kāṇi⟨50⟩(yāl pura)vu (mu)vāyirakkāṭiyum tirumālpeṟṟumā⟨51⟩tevarkkup
putuppākkattu sabhaiyārey Iṟuppa⟨52⟩tāka Ivarkaḷukke yāṇṭu 10 4 Āvatu
mutal teva⟨53⟩tāṉappirahmateyamāy Itaṉāl puravu muv(ā)yirakkāṭi⟨54⟩yum
ciṟṟiyāṟṟuŪrāl muṉṉiṟuttu varukiṉṟa puravu muvā⟨55⟩yirakkāṭiyum Iravu
Aiññūṟṟu Aṟupatto(ru)kāṭiyum ⟨56⟩ (poṉṉi) rupattaṟukaḻañcaraiy(e)
mañcāṭiyum (Ā)ka(p) puravu ⟨57⟩ Āṟā(yi)rakkāṭiyum Iravu Aiññūṟṟu
Aṟupatt(o)rukāṭiyum ⟨58⟩ poṉ IrupattuAṟukaḻañcaraiye mañcāṭiyun
tirumāl⟨59⟩peṟṟumātevarkkupputuppākkattu sabhaiyār Iṟuppatākat ⟨60⟩
tevatānabrahmateyamāy Iṟaiyili(y)ā(ka) variyiliṭṭukkoḷka⟨61⟩(ve)ṉṟu nāñ
colla naṅkarumamārāykiṉṟa paruttikkuṭaiyā⟨62⟩ṉ kotukulavaṉ cāttanāṉa
parakecarimuven(ta)veḷā⟨63⟩ṉum naṭuvirukkaip(pa)yalait
tiyampakapaṭṭanu(m) cikkaruṭai⟨64⟩yāṉ nakkan kaṇicca(ṉā)ṉa
coḻamuven=taveḷānum ⟨65⟩ Āṇattiyum vā(y)kkeḻviyumāykkeṭṭu nam
(O)laiye⟨66⟩ḻutum A(ṇ)ṇāṟṟūruṭ(ai)yāṉ Uttaramantiri
paṭṭālakaṉeḻu⟨67⟩ttiṉālum nam Olaināyakaṉ coḻamuven=ta(v)eḷāṉ ⟨68⟩
Oppiṉālum pukkattiṭṭiṉpaṭi variyiliṭṭukk(o)ḷkave⟨69⟩ṉṟu naṅ
karumamārāykiṉṟa parakecarimuventaveḷā⟨70⟩{ṉ}nevap puravuvariccempiyaṉ
Uttaraman=tiriyā⟨71⟩(ṉa I)ṟ(ai)yāṉku⟨72⟩(ṭi)t talaima(ka)ṉ
ta⟨73⟩ṇṭipūtiyum pavva⟨74⟩ttirikkiḻavaṉ Aṭi⟨75⟩kaḷ nakkaṉum
pe⟨76⟩raraicūruṭaiyā{ṉ}⟨77⟩⟦ru⟧⟨⟨n⟩⟩āṉa Utaiyativā⟨78⟩karaṉum
virāparaṇa(mu)⟨79⟩ventaveḷāṉā(ṉa) ⟨80⟩ kaḻaṉivāyilu(ṭai)⟨81⟩yāṉ veṉ(ṟā)ṉ
⟨82⟩ kaṟpakamum varip⟨83⟩pottakam tiru(nā)⟨84⟩lūr kiḻavaṉ tāḻi
ca⟨85⟩n=tirac(e)karaṉum muka⟨86⟩veṭṭi paḻaṉakkuṭai⟨87⟩yāṉ Araiyaṉ [3+]
⟨88⟩ yilum vittāruṭai⟨89⟩yāṉ Aṭikaḷ vi⟨90⟩racoḻaṉum I(ṟai)⟨91⟩yāṉceri
Uṭaiyā⟨92⟩ṉ (pa)ṅkaṉ kaṭampaṉu⟨93⟩m mukkuṟumpuṭai⟨94⟩yāṉ kiruḻ{ṇ}ṇaṉ
⟨95⟩ Irācātittaṉum ⟨96⟩ toṇṭaināṭṭu⟨97⟩(p pu)ravuvaric
cāt⟨98⟩taṉūruṭaiyāṉ ni⟨99⟩ṉ(ṟā) ṉakkaṉum ci⟨100⟩(ṟu)kuṭaiyāṉ
A(rai)⟨101⟩yaṉ civakkoḻun⟨102⟩tum (cem)pākkamuṭaiyā⟨103⟩ṉ (ku)ṉṟāṭi
tiruppo⟨104⟩riyum (va)⟨105⟩rippot⟨106⟩takkaṇakku ⟨107⟩ [1+]
m(e)ṉāraṇama⟨108⟩ṅkala(muṭai)⟨109⟩(yāṉ) [3+] ⟨110⟩ yāṉ ṟāḻi⟨111⟩yum
neṟkku⟨112⟩ṉṟamuṭaiyā⟨113⟩ṉ parañco⟨114⟩tipaṭṭālakaṉu⟨115⟩m
variyi{l}li⟨116⟩{ṭ}ṭu Uṭaiyūru⟨117⟩ṭaiyāṉ cuva⟨118⟩raṉ cāt⟨ta⟩ṉum ⟨119⟩
paṭṭolaik kuṟicciyuṭaiyā(ṉ) ⟨120⟩ Irāca(vi)ṉaiyāparaṇaṉum Iruntu
yā(ṇ)⟨121⟩ṭu 10 4 Āvatu nāḷ 2 100 10 (8) ṉāl tirumā(ṟ)⟨122⟩peṟṟu
m¿ā?⟨a⟩hādevar tevatāṉam (I)ṟaiyi(li)⟨123⟩yāṉa taṅkaḷ nāṭṭuc
ciṟṟiy(ā)ṟṟūr caṅka(p)pā⟨124⟩ṭikiḻāṉ kāṇiyāl (puravu
muvā)yi(ra)kkā⟨125⟩ṭiyum puricaināṭṭu brahma(teya)m putu⟨126⟩ppākkattu
sabhaiyāre Iṟuppat(ā)⟨127⟩ka Ivarkaḷukku tevatāṉabrahmadeya⟨128⟩(māy)
Itaṉālp puravu (mu)vāyirakkā(ṭi)⟨129⟩yum ciṟṟiyāṟṟūrā(re) Ivarkaḷ
muṉ⟨130⟩ṉiṟuttuvarukiṉṟa puravu muvāyirak⟨131⟩kāṭiyum Iravu Aiññūṟṟu
Aṟupat⟨132⟩torukāṭiyum poṉ Irupattaṟuka(ḻa)⟨133⟩ñcaraiye mañcāṭiyum Āka
(nel)⟨134⟩lu Āṟāyirattaññūṟṟu Aṟupa⟨135⟩ttorukāṭiyum
po(ṉ)ni⟨ru⟩patta(ṟu)kaḻa⟨136⟩ñcaraiye mañcāṭiyum tirumāl⟨137⟩peṟṟu
mahātevarkku putup(pākka)⟨138⟩ttu sabhaiyāre Iṟuppat(ā)ka
(I)⟨139⟩varkaḷukkuttevatāṉa(brahma)⟨140⟩teyam variyi(liṭṭuk
kuṭu)⟨141⟩ttom Ivai [3+] (Ā)⟨142⟩tittaṉ Āṉa miṉavaṉ
(muve)nta⟨143⟩veḷāṉeḻuttu [3+] ⟨144⟩ ṭaiyāṉ nakkaṉ [3+] ⟨145⟩
coḻamuventa [6+]

## Apparatus

⟨5⟩ ki⟨5⟩ḻavarkkum • k is changed from ku by erasing the u sign.

⟨9⟩ na 2 100 10 6 • The letter na is used here as an abbreviation for
nāḷ.

⟨15⟩ kkāṭiyum • kkāṭiyum is written over an erasure.

⟨77⟩ nāṉa • n is corrected from ru.

## Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! (This is the order of)
Kō-nōṉ-iṉmai-koṇḍāṉ[5] to the residents (nāṭṭār) of Maṇaiyil-nāḍu in
Maṇaiyil-kōṭṭam, to the headmen (kiḻavar) of Brahmadēya (villages), to
the residents of the Dēvadāna, Paḷḷichchanda, Kaṇimuṟṟūṭṭu and
Vēṭṭappēṟṟu villages and to the residents of towns:—

(L. 8.) On the 216th day of the 14th year (of our reign) we being on the
first floor of the golden hall (poṉ-māḷigai) within our mansion at
Kachchippēḍu, the officer Śōḻa-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ informed us thus:—

(L. 12.) “Śiṟṟiyāṟṟūr in Maṇaiyil-nāḍu (a subdivision) of Maṇaiyilkōṭṭam
with (its income of) three thousand kāḍi of puravu, five hundred and
sixty-one kāḍi of iravu and twenty-six and a half kaḻañju and (one)
mañjāḍi of gold, excluding the kāṇi of Śaṅgappāḍikiḻāṉ, was assigned as
a tax-free dēvadāna to (the temple of) Mahādēva (Śiva) at Tirumālpēṟu in
the twenty-first year of (the reign of) the king (uḍaiyār) who died at
Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūr, and was made over to (the members) of the assembly of
Puduppākkam which was a brahmadēya in Puriśai-nāḍu of this kōṭṭam, as a
dēvadāna and brahmadēya (with the stipulation) that they should pay the
said puravu, iravu and gold to the god.”

(L. 23.) “(This village) which was handed over in the 22nd (year of the
same reign) after its hamlets had been circumambulated and the
(necessary) documents executed, was not, (however), entered in the
accounts (vari). It was registered (subsequently) in the accounts (vari)
as a dēvadāna and a brahmadēya in the fourth year (of the reign of) king
Parakēsarivarman, ‘who took Madirai (Madura) and Īḻam (Ceylon)’, and
(accordingly) the members of the assembly of Puduppākkam were themselves
paying to the god, the (said) puravu, iravu and gold.”

(L. 28.) “In the 36th year of (the reign of) king Parakēsarivarman, ‘who
took Madiri (Madura) and Īḻam (Ceylon)’ the three thousand kāḍi of
puravu accruing as produce from the estate (kāṇi) of Śaṅgappāḍikiḻāṉ in
this (village of) Śiṟṟiyāṟṟūr, was (also) entered in the accounts as a
tax-free dēvadāna (in favour of) the same (temple of) Mahādēva at
Tirumālpēru.”

(L. 32.) “(Now), the managers of the temple (dēvakanmigaḷ), the men in
charge of (its) central shrine (uṇṇāḻigaiy-uḍaiyār) and all the
Māhēśvaras come and complain that the members of the assembly of
Puduppākkam have been misappropriating and enjoying this kāṇi of
Śaṅgappāḍikiḻāṉ bestowed (on the temple) in the above said manner,
without paying the taxes to the god.”

(L. 36.) On Our inquiry (into the matter) after summoning the managers
of the temple at Tirumālpēṟu, the men in charge of the central shrine,
(the assembly of) all Māhēśvaras and the members of the assembly of
Puduppākkam, it was found that the members of the assembly of
Puduppākkam had been enjoying the dēvadāna and had not been paying the
taxes (derived) from the kāṇi of Śaṅgappāḍikiḻāṉ in Śīṟṟiyāṟṟūṟ to the
god. We ordered that a fine be levied on the members of the assembly of
Puduppākkam and that from the 14th year (of Our reign) it (i.e., the
kāṇi of Śaṅgappāḍikiḻāṉ) be a dēvadāna and a brahmadēya of these same
(with the stipulation) that the members of the assembly of Puduppākkam
shall themselves pay to (the temple of) Mahādēva at Tirumālpēṟu three
thousand kāḍi of puravu on the kāṇi of the said Śaṅgappāḍikiḻāṉ.

(L. 53.) (We also ordered) that this three thousand kāḍi of puravu (thus
settled), the three thousand kāḍi of puravu, five hundred and sixty-one
kāḍi of iravu and twenty-six and a half kaḻañju and (one) mañjāḍi of
gold which is (already) being paid on the village of Śīṟṟiyāṟṟūr,—in all
six thousand kāḍi of puravu, five hundred and sixty-one kāḍi of iravu
and twenty-six and a half kaḻañju and (one) mañjāḍi of gold, shall be
paid by the members of the assembly of Pudduppākkam to (the temple of)
Mahādēva at Tirumālpēṟu and be so entered in the accounts as tax-free
dēvadāna and brahmadēya.

(L. 61.) Accordingly Kōdukulavaṉ Śāttaṉ alias Parakēsari-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of
Paruttikkuḍi who looks after Our affairs, the arbitrator (naḍuvirukkai)
Triyambaka-bhaṭṭaṉ of Payalai and Nakkaṉ Kaṇichchaṉ alias
Śōḻa-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Śikkar, being Aṇatti and Vāykēḻvi, received (this
order). (The order was) written by the Uttaramantri Paṭṭālagaṉ of
Aṇṇāṟṟūr who writes Our orders, and signed by Our Chief Secretary
(Ōlai-nāyagaṉ) Śōḻa-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ. (And) Parakēsari-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ who
looks after Our affairs, having commanded the entry in the registers in
the terms (of the order) issued, Puravuvari Śembiyaṉ Uttaramantri alias
Taṇḍipūdi the headman (talaimagaṉ) of Iraiyāṉkuḍi, Aḍigaḷ Nakkaṉ the
headman (kiḻavaṉ) of Pavvattiri, Udayadivākaraṉ (a native of)
Pēraraiśūr, Vīrābaraṇa-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ alias Veṉṟāṉ Karpagam of
Kaḻaṉivāyil, the Varippottagam (officer) Tāḻi Śandiraśēgaraṉ the headman
of Tiruṉālūr, the Mugaveṭṭi (officer) Araiyaṉ . . . of Paḻanakkuḍi,
Aḍigaḷ Vīraśōḻaṉ of Vittār, Paṅgaṉ Kaḍambaṉ of Iraiyāṉśēri, Kṟishṇaṉ
Rājādittaṉ of Mukkuṟumbu, Niṉṟāṉ Nakkaṉ of Śāttaṉūr, the Puravuvari of
Toṇḍaināḍu, Araiyaṉ Śivakkoḻundu of Śiṟuguḍi, Kuṉṟāḍi Tiruppori of
Śembākkam, the Varippottaga-kaṇakku (officer), . . . . Tāḻi of
[Mē]-Nāraṇamaṅgalam, Parañjōdi Paṭṭālagaṉ of Nerkuṉṟam, the Variyiliḍu
(officer) Śuvaraṉ Śāttaṉ of Uḍaiyūr and the Paṭṭōlai (officer)
Rājavijayābaraṇaṉ of Kuṟichchi,—being present.

(L. 121.) In the 14th year and 218th day (of Our reign), the three
thousand kāḍi of puravu from Śaṅgappāḍikiḻāṉ’s estate (kāṇi)—a tax-free
dēvadāna of (the temple of) Mahādēva at Tirumālpēru in Śiṟṟiyāṟṟūr
belonging to your naḍu, being payable by the members of the assembly of
Puduppākkam a brahmadēya in Puriśai-nāḍu, (since it was given over) to
them as a dēvadāna and a brahmadēya, and the three thousand kāḍi of
puravu, five hundred and sixty-one kāḍi of iravu and twenty-six and a
half kaḻañju and (one) mañjaḍi of gold which these residents of
Siṟṟiyāṟṟūr have been previously paying (on the village of
Śiṟṟiyāṟṟūr)—in all six thousand five hundred and sixtyone kāḍi of paddy
and twenty-six and a half kaḻañju and (one) mañjāḍi of gold, shall
(thus) be paid by the members themselves of the assembly of Puduppākkam
to (the temple of) Mahādēva at Tirumālpēru. This was entered in the
accounts and given over to them as a dēvadāna and a brahmadēya.

(L. 141.) This . . . . . the signature of Ādittaṉ alias Mīṉavaṉ
Mūvēndavēḷāṉ, Nakkaṉ . . . . Śōḻamūvēnda . . . . of . .

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.142 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 288–293, item 142.

[1] Lower down in l. 121 of the text is given the 14th year and 218th
day of the king. Evidently two days after the 216th day were taken up in
enquiry.

[2] See below, p. 291, footnote 2.

[3] The word ponmāḷigai occurs for the first time in a damaged record of
the time of Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka II, found at Tirukkaḷittaṭṭai (No.
302 of 1908, and is referred to again in a Tanjore inscription of
Rājarāja I. (above Vol. II, pp. 72 and 74) and in another of the
latter’s reign (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XII, p. 124). These references
show that Sundara-Chōḷa died in the golden palace and was on that
account known in aftertimes as “Poṉmāḷigai-tuñjiṉadēva.”

[4] South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, Part V, p. 379.

[5] Mr. Venkayya suggests that Kō-nōṉ-iṉmai-koṇḍāṉ might correspond to
the term kusalī of Sanskrit copper-plate grants; see Madras Epigraphical
Report for 1907, p. 71.