# SII 3.175: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: XV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARTHIVENDRAVARMAN OR
PARTHIVENDRADHIPATIVARMAN, ‘WHO TOOK THE HEAD OF VIRA-PANDYA.’ No.
175.—ON A ROCK IN THE BACKYARD OF A PRIVATE HOUSE AT TAYANUR. No. 364 of
1909

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0175

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0175.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This record supplies interesting information about a bond dealing with
money transactions. It states that two brothers having lent money to the
villagers of Mīyvaḻi Tāyaṉūr, in the fifth year of Pārthivēndravarman,
received their dues back with interest but could not so endorse on the
original document which was now lost. Hence they declared that the
document, if it should ever come out, must be considered ‘a dead
document,’ i.e., become null and void.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] koppārttiventirapaṉmaṟku (y)āṇṭu 5 Āvatu Umpaḷanāṭṭu
meṟku(ṭikiḻā)⟨2⟩ṉ tiraṉ ¿p?⟨m⟩ūtaiyaṉu(m) Ivaṉṟa(m)pi ti(ra)ṉ
(Ula)kaṭikaḷum Ivviruvoñ ciṅkapuran(āṭṭu) miyvaḻittāya(ṉūrūrā)⟨3⟩(rk)ku
Oṭṭikkaittiṭṭiṭṭu kuṭutta paricāvatu Ivarkaḷ pakkal nāṅkaḷ muppati(ṉ
kaḻañ)cu poṉ kuṭuttu [6+] ⟨4⟩ [6+] tiṉāl nāṟpattaiṅkaḻañcu poṉṉuṭaiyomāy
Ip{poṉṉa}poṉṉaṟa koṇṭu Ivvo⟨5⟩laip paṭṭuk keṭṭamaiyil Ivvolai
meṟṟoṉ(ṟap)paṭil Avvolai cāvolai yāka Oṭṭikku [7+] ⟨6⟩ [8+] tiraṉ
¿p?⟨m⟩ūtaiyaṉu(m) (tira)ṉulakaṭikaḷum Ivviruvom |||⁓

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ ¿p?⟨m⟩ūtaiyaṉu(m) • Read mūtaiyaṉum as in No. 362 of 1909 below.

⟨6⟩ ¿p?⟨m⟩ūtaiyaṉu(m) • Read mūtaiyaṉum as in No. 362 of 1909 below.

## Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 5th year (of the reign) of king
Pārthivēndravarman, the following was put into writing and given with
consent to the residents (ūrār) of Mīyvaḻi Tāyaṉūr in Śiṅgapura-nāḍu by
the two individuals Tīraṉ Mūdayyaṉ, the chief of Mērkuḍi in Umbaḷa-nāḍu
and his younger brother Tīraṉ Ulagaḍigaḷ:—

(L. 3.) Having deposited thirty kaḻañju of gold with these (and) being
entitled to receive forty-five kaḻañju of gold, we received this gold
completely . . . . . . . The (original) document being lost, we two
Tīraṉ Mūdayyaṉ and Tīraṉ Ulagaḍigaḷ together declare . . . . . . . . . .
that that document, if it is discovered at any future time, shall become
a dead document.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.175 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 351–352, item 175.