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                <title>SII 3.182: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri</title>
                <title type="alt">XV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARTHIVENDRAVARMAN OR PARTHIVENDRADHIPATIVARMAN, ‘WHO TOOK THE HEAD OF VIRA-PANDYA.’ No. 182.—ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE VAIKUNTHA-PERUMAL TEMPLE AT UTTARAMALLUR. No. 20 of 1898.</title>
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                            <p>This inscription records a gift of land by <hi rend="bold">Śandraṉ Eḻunūṟṟuvaṉ</hi> <hi rend="italic">alias</hi> <hi rend="bold">Nuḷamba Māyilaṭṭi</hi>, a resident of the hamlet of <hi rend="bold">Raṇavīrappāḍi</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Kāñchīpuram</hi>, to the temple of <hi rend="bold">Tiruvuṉṉaūr</hi> (<hi rend="italic">i.e.</hi>, Tiruvuṉṉiyūr of No. <ref target="DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0179.xml">179</ref> above) at <hi rend="bold">Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimangalam</hi>, in the 6th year of <hi rend="bold">Pārthivēndrādhipativarman</hi>, who took the head of the <hi rend="bold">Pāṇḍya</hi> (<hi rend="italic">king</hi>).</p>						
                            
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                    <lb n="1"/><hi rend="grantha">svasti śrī</hi> <supplied reason="undefined"><g ref="sym:doubleBar" type="punctuation">.</g></supplied> <hi rend="grantha">pā</hi>ṇṭiyaṉai talaikoṇṭa pā<hi rend="grantha"><unclear>r</unclear>tthi</hi>ve<hi rend="grantha">ndrā</hi>ti<hi rend="grantha">pa</hi>tiva<hi rend="grantha">rma</hi>ṟku yāṇṭu 6 vatu kāliyūrkoṭṭa<unclear>t</unclear>tu taṉkūṟṟuttarameruccatu<hi rend="grantha"><unclear>r</unclear>ve</hi>timaṅkala<supplied reason="omitted">t</supplied>tu <hi rend="grantha">sabhai</hi>yom
                    <lb n="2"/>Eḻuttu Emmūrt ti<unclear>ruvu</unclear>ṉṉaŪrpperumāṉaṭikaḷukku <hi rend="grantha">śrī<unclear>ba</unclear>li<unclear>bho<!--kāl clear--></unclear>ga</hi>ttukku Ākak kāñcipurattu Ira<supplied reason="omitted">ṇa</supplied>virappāṭi <hi rend="grantha">śa</hi>n<hi rend="grantha">tra</hi>ṉ Eḻuṉūṟṟuvanākiya ṉuḷampamāyi<supplied reason="omitted">la</supplied>ṭ
                    <lb n="3" break="no"/>ṭi nammūr viḻuli<choice><sic>m</sic><corr>y</corr></choice>āykkiṭanta nilattil <hi rend="grantha">śrī</hi> <hi rend="grantha">b<choice><sic>e</sic><corr>a</corr></choice>libhoga</hi>mākak koṇ<unclear>ṭu</unclear> vaitta<hi rend="grantha">bhūmi</hi>yāvaṉa <hi rend="grantha">subrahmaṇya</hi>nār<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>cattiṉ vaṭakku <num value="14"><g type="numeral">10</g> 4</num> ka<supplied reason="omitted">ṇ</supplied>ṇāṟṟu <hi rend="grantha"><unclear>pa</unclear>rameśva</hi>ravatiyiṉ me
                    <lb n="4" break="no"/>ṟku 1 ca<supplied reason="omitted">tu</supplied>kkattu <unclear>2</unclear>ntaraṅ kuḻi <num value="240"><unclear>2</unclear> <g type="numeral">100</g> 4 <g type="numeral">10</g></num> <unclear>nā</unclear>ṟpatum <hi rend="grantha">subrahmaṇya</hi>nā<hi rend="grantha">rāśa</hi>ttiṉ vaṭakku <num value="18"><g type="numeral">10</g> 8</num> ka<supplied reason="omitted">ṇ</supplied>ṇāṟṟu kāvaṉūr Erivāyey pona vatiyiṉ <unclear>m</unclear>eṟku 8 catukkattu <unclear>2</unclear>taraṅ
                    <lb n="5" break="no"/>kuḻi <num value="240"><unclear>2</unclear> <g type="numeral">100</g> 4 <g type="numeral">10</g></num>m <hi rend="grantha">subrahmaṇya</hi>nār<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice><hi rend="grantha">śa</hi>ttiṉ vaṭakku <num value="18"><g type="numeral">10</g> 8</num> ka<supplied reason="omitted">ṇ</supplied>ṇāṟṟuk kāvaṉūr Erivāyey po<unclear>na</unclear>vatiyiṉ meṟku 8 catukka<choice><sic>ka</sic><corr>t</corr></choice>tu 2n=taraṅ kuḻi <num value="240">2 <g type="numeral">100</g> 4 <g type="numeral">10</g></num>
                    <lb n="6"/>m <hi rend="grantha">śrī</hi>tevivāykkāliṉ teṟku <num value="16"><g type="numeral">10</g> 6</num>ṅ ka<supplied reason="omitted">ṇ</supplied>ṇāṟṟup pallavanāra<unclear>ṇa</unclear>vatiyiṉ kiḻakku 6 ñ catukkattu 4 n=taraṅ kuḻi <num value="300">3 <g type="numeral">100</g></num>m <hi rend="grantha">subrahmaṇya</hi>nā<hi rend="grantha">rāśa</hi>t<unclear>ti</unclear>ṉ vaṭakku <num value="17"><g type="numeral">10</g> 7</num>ṅ ka<supplied reason="omitted">ṇ</supplied>ṇāṟṟu māṟapiṭukuvatiy<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>i</corr></choice>ṉ kiḻa
                    <lb n="7" break="no"/>kku 9m catukkattum <num value="10"><g type="numeral">10</g></num> ñ catukkattumāka Iraṇṭā<supplied reason="omitted">n</supplied>ta<supplied reason="omitted">raṅ kuḻi</supplied> <num value="240">2 <g type="numeral">100</g> 4 <g type="numeral">10</g></num> m 
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                        <lem> taṉkūṟṟu</lem>
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                        <lem>ti <unclear>ruvu</unclear>ṉṉa</lem>
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                <p>(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 6th year of (<hi rend="italic">the reign of</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Pārthivēndrādhipativarman</hi> who took the head of the <hi rend="bold">Pāṇḍya</hi> (<hi rend="italic">king), (this is</hi>) the writing of us (<hi rend="italic">the members</hi>) of the assembly of <hi rend="bold">Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">a village</hi>) in its (<hi rend="italic">own</hi>) subdivision in <hi rend="bold">Kāliyūr-kōṭṭam</hi>. The following are the lands which <hi rend="bold">Śandraṉ Eḻunūṟṟuvaṉ</hi> <hi rend="italic">alias</hi> <hi rend="bold">Nuḷamba Māyilaṭṭi</hi> of <hi rend="bold">Raṇavīrappāḍi</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">a hamlet</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Kāñchīpuram</hi> acquired for <hi rend="italic">śrībalibhōga</hi> out of the lands lying waste <foreign>(viḻuliyāy kiṭaṉta nilam)</foreign> in our village and gave as <hi rend="italic">śrībalibhōga</hi> to the god (<hi rend="italic">perumāṉaḍigaḷ</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Tiruvuṉṉaūr:—</hi></p>
                
                <p>(L. 3.) 240 <hi rend="italic">kuḻi</hi> of second rate (<hi rend="italic">land</hi>) of the first <hi rend="italic">śadukkam (situated</hi>) to the west of (<hi rend="italic">the path called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Paramēśvara-vadi</hi> in the fourteenth <hi rend="italic">kaṇṇāṟu</hi>, north of (<hi rend="italic">the lane called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Subrahmaṇya-nārāśam</hi>; 240 <hi rend="italic">kuḻi</hi> of second rate (<hi rend="italic">land</hi>) of the eighth <hi rend="italic">śadukkam</hi>, west of the path which went straight to the (<hi rend="italic">tank</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Kāvaṉūr-ēri</hi> in the eighteenth <hi rend="italic">kaṇṇāṟu</hi>, north of (<hi rend="italic">the lane called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Subrahmaṇya-nārāśam</hi><note>This item of 240 <hi rend="italic">kuḻi</hi> with the description of its situation is again repeated. The purpose of the repetition is not apparent.</note> ; 300 <hi rend="italic">kuḻi</hi> of fourth rate (<hi rend="italic">land</hi>) of the sixth <hi rend="italic">śadukkam</hi> east of (<hi rend="italic">the path called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Pallavanāraṇa-vadi</hi> in the sixteenth <hi rend="italic">kaṇṇāṟu</hi>, south of the <hi rend="italic">channel</hi> <hi rend="bold">Śrīdēvi-vāykkāl</hi>; and 240 <hi rend="italic">kuḻi</hi> of second rate (<hi rend="italic">land</hi>) of the ninth and tenth <hi rend="italic">śadukkam</hi>, east of (<hi rend="italic">the path called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Māṟapiḍuguvadi</hi> in the seventeenth <hi rend="italic">kaṇṇāṟu</hi>, north of (<hi rend="italic">the lane called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Subrahmaṇya-nārāśam</hi>.</p>
                
                <p>(Ll. 1 and 2 of note.) 480 <hi rend="italic">kuḻi</hi> of second rate (<hi rend="italic">land</hi>) in the sixth square (<hi rend="italic">situated</hi>) to the east of (<hi rend="italic">the path called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Pallavanāraṇavadi</hi> in the twenty-second <hi rend="italic">kaṇṇāṟu</hi>, west of (<hi rend="italic">the lane called</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Subrahmaṇya-nārāśam</hi>. In all, these (<hi rend="italic">are</hi>) seven <hi rend="italic">pāḍagam (of land</hi>). We (<hi rend="italic">the members</hi>) of the assembly of <hi rend="bold">Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam</hi> having received <hi rend="italic">pūrvāchāram</hi> from this person, declared that no tax, <hi rend="italic">echchōṟu, veṭṭi</hi> and <hi rend="italic">amañji</hi> shall be shown (<hi rend="italic">in the account books</hi>) by us against these lands as long as the moon and the sun (<hi rend="italic">exist</hi>) and had (<hi rend="italic">this</hi>) engraved on stone. I, the arbitrator, <hi rend="bold">Śivadāsaṉ Brahmapriyaṉ</hi>, wrote (<hi rend="italic">this</hi>) under orders of the great men, being myself in the assembly.</p>
                
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                <p n="7"><foreign><num value="240">2 <g type="numeral">100</g> 4 <g type="numeral">10</g></num> m</foreign>. The inscription stops in the middle of line 7. The following two lines of writing in the same character are found a little below. It is doubtful if these are in any way connected with the main inscription:— <foreign><lb n="1"/><hi rend="grantha">subrahmaṇya</hi>nā<hi rend="grantha">rā</hi>cattiṉ vaṭakku <num value="22">2 <g type="numeral">10</g> 2</num> kaṇṇāṟṟu pallavanā<hi rend="grantha">ra</hi>ṇavatiyiṉ kiḻakku 6 ca<unclear>tu</unclear>kkattu Iraṇṭāntaraṅ kuḻi <num value="480">4 <g type="numeral">100</g> 8 <g type="numeral">10</g></num>patum Āka Iveḻu pāṭakamum <lb n="2"/>Ivaṉ pakkal <hi rend="grantha">pūrvvāśā</hi>raṅ koṇṭu I<hi rend="grantha">bhū</hi>mi cuṭṭi I<unclear>ṟ</unclear>aiyum yeccoṟum veṭṭiyum Ama<supplied reason="omitted">ñ</supplied>iyum <hi rend="grantha">śantrā</hi>tittaval kāṭṭapeṟātomāka pa<unclear>ṇi</unclear><supplied reason="omitted">t</supplied>tu <hi rend="grantha">śilālekhai</hi> ce<unclear>y</unclear>tu kuṭu<supplied reason="omitted">t</supplied>tomuttarameruccatu<hi rend="grantha"><unclear>r</unclear>ve</hi>timaṅkala<supplied reason="omitted">t</supplied>tu <hi rend="grantha">sabhai</hi>yom Itu kuṟi<unclear>yuḷi</unclear>runtu peruma<supplied reason="omitted">k</supplied>kaḷ paṇi<supplied reason="omitted">k</supplied>ka Eḻutine<supplied reason="omitted">ṉ</supplied> <hi rend="grantha">madhyasta</hi>ṉ civa<hi rend="grantha">dāsa</hi>ṟ <hi rend="grantha">brahmapri</hi>yaṉeṉ <supplied reason="undefined"><g ref="sym:doubleBar" type="punctuation">.</g></supplied></foreign></p>
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                <p>Digital edition of SII 3.182 by <bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastri1920_01"/></bibl> converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.</p>
                
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