# SII 3.202: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: XVI.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN (ADITYA II.
KARIKALA) WHO TOOK THE HEAD OF VIRA-PANDYA OR THE PANDYA (KING). No.
202.—ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE MAHALINGASVAMIN
TEMPLE AT TIRUVIDAIMARUDUR. No. 154 of 1895

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0202

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0202.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

The record is dated in the 4th year of the reign of Parakēsarivarman who
took the head of the Pāṇḍya king and provides for the dance called
Āriyakkūttu by Kīrttimaṟaikkāḍaṉ alias Tiruvēḷai-aṟaichchākkai, in the
temple of Tiruviḍaimarudil. The theatrical hall where the temple
servants, the merchants and the king’s officer Kōyilmayilai alias
Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷāṉ met together to decide this question appears to
suggest that the Āriyakkūttu dance must have been a regular dramatic
performance in which dancing and singing were evidently given a
prominent place. Śākkaikūttu which is referred to in some other
inscriptions of the time of Rājēndra-Chōḷa was evidently another variety
of a dramatic dance (see Madras Epigraphical Report for 1915, page 98,
paragraph 27).

Āriyam and Tamiḻ are mentioned as the two recognised varieties of dance,
in the commentary of Aḍiyārkkunallār on text lines 12-25 of Chapter III
of Śilappadigāram (see Mahā. V. Swaminatha Ayyar’s edition, page 63).
That these must have been also accompanied by music is inferred from a
reference made to these very two terms in a Tanjore inscription of
Rājarāja I. (South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, page 299, sections
428-492).

The king Parakēsarivarman who took the head of the Pāṇḍya king must
evidently be Āditya (II.)—Karikāla, the son of Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka
II. The name Śiṟṟiṅgaṇ-Uḍaiyāṉ Kōyilmayilai alias Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷāṉ
appears in No. 200 above. His name also occurs frequently in the records
of Uttama-Chōḷa Madhurāntaka as Madhurāntaka-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] pāṇṭiyaṉ talaikoṇ(ṭa) kopparakecaripanmaṟkku yāṇṭu 4
Āvatu tiruviṭaimarutil śrīmūlastāṉa⟨t⟩til pe⟨2⟩rumāṉaṭikaḷukku
Āriyakkūttāṭa śrīkā(ryya)m Ārāykiṉṟa Atikārikaḷ ciṟṟiṅkaṇ Uṭaiyāṉ
koyilmayilai Āṉa parā⟨3⟩ntaka mūventaveḷārum tiṟaimūr (sabhai)yārum
tiruviṭaimarutil nakarattārum tevakanmikaḷum nāṭakacālaiyi{l}⟨4⟩le
I(ru)ntu kittimaṟaikkāṭaṉ Āṉa tiruveḷai Aṟaicākkai⟨k⟩ku nivanta⟨m⟩ ceytu
kuṭukka Eṉṟu Ēvalāl Ittevar te⟨5⟩vatāṉam viḷaṅku(ṭi) nilattil
panaicceripattu Uḷpaṭa (ni)lam veliyum Ivvāṇṭiṉ Etirāmāṇṭu mutal
In⟨6⟩nilaṅkoṇṭu taippūcattirunāḷil Oru kūttāṭuvatākavum tiruttum Āṭiṉa
piṟṟai nāḷ tuṭaṅki mūṉṟu kūttā⟨7⟩ṭuvatāka(vu)m vaiykāci tiruvātiraiyiṉ
piṟṟai nāḷ tuṭaṅki muṉṟu kūttāṭuvatākavum Āka Inta kūttu
Eḻu(mi)ṅ(ke){ḻum} Āṭuvatākavum ⟨8⟩ (pa)ṇṭā⟨ra⟩ttey patiṉāṟ kala nel
koṟṟu peṟuvatākavum I(nne)l (Aḻi)vil Aṭaippaṭi nellum koṟṟum Iraṭṭi
Avvāṇṭaiyiṉ

## Apparatus

⟨6⟩ tiruttum • Read tīrttam.

⟨7⟩ Eḻu(mi)ṅ(ke)ḻum • The word eḻum is a repetition; cancel ḻum.

## Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 4th year of (the reign of) king
Parakēsarivarman who took the head of the Pāṇḍya (king), the officer
(adhikāri) Śiṟṟiṅgaṇudaiyāṉ Kōyil Mayilai alias Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷāṉ,
who supervises the temple affairs (śrīkārya), the members of the
assembly of Tiraimūr, the merchants (nagarattār) and the temple servants
(dēvakanmi) of Tiruviḍaimarudil, having assembled in the theatre-hall
(nāṭaka-śālai), ordered that provision may be made for performing the
(dance known as) Āriyakkūttu in the presence of the lord of the sacred
Mūlasthāṉa (temple) at Tiruviḍaimarudil, to Kīrttimaṟaikkāḍaṉ alias
Tiruvēḷai-Aṟaichchākkai.

Having received (one) vēli of land inclusive of the land (called)
Paṉaichchēripattu in Viḷaṅguḍi which was a dēvadāna (village) of this
god (he) shall, from the year opposite to this year (of reign), perform
one dance (kūttu) on the sacred festival of Tai-Pūśam; shall perform
three dances commencing from the day after the bathing (of the god); and
shall perform three dances commencing from the day after (the festival
of) Vaigāśi-Tiruvādirai. In all, he shall perform these seven dances
here (i.e., in this theatre-hall) and shall receive for maintenance
(koṟṟu) fourteen kalam of paddy from the treasury. If this paddy is not
spent (thus), the stipulated paddy and maintenance shall be doubled,
(and) from that year . . . . .

## Commentary

⟨8⟩ Avvāṇṭaiyiṉ. The inscription stops here.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.202 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 378–379, item 202.