SII 12.27: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NARASIMHAVARMAN II RAJASIMHA. No. 27. (A.R. No. 76 of 1909). TIRUPPŌRŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON TWO PILLARS IN THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE DĒVAYĀNAIYAMMAṈ SHRINE IN THE KANDASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0027.

Summary: This record engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters on two detached pillars, gives the birudas of a Pallava king. From the florid variety of the alphabet¹ used and from the occurrence of the titles Atyantakāma, Atiraṇachaṇḍa, etc., the king may be identified with Narasiṁha II whose identical birudas are also found engraved in the Kailāsanātha temple at Conjeeveram which is definitely known to have been constructed by him. As Tiruppōrūr is close to Mahābalipuram, it is possible that the pillars belonged to a structural temple of the time of Narasiṁha II built somewhere in this locality and may have been fixed up in their present position in the Kandasvāmin temple at a later date. First Pillar.

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Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

Version: 2025-05-10 12:15 (c2424c5), last modified 2025-05-05 20:45 (530fd60).

First Pillar.

⟨1⟩ kāmalaḷitaḥ ⟨2⟩ kulatilakaḥ ⟨3⟩ guṇavinīta(ḥ) ⟨4⟩ dharaṇitilaka(ḥ) ⟨5⟩ jñānasāgaraḥ ⟨6⟩ tribhuvanadīpa(ḥ) ⟨7⟩ Aviratadānaḥ ⟨8⟩ Īśānaśara(ṇa)ḥ

Second Pillar.

⟨9⟩ pṛthivīsāraḥ ⟨10⟩ samaradhanañjaya(ḥ) ⟨11⟩ Atyantakāmaḥ ⟨12⟩ Abhayaṁkaraḥ ⟨13⟩ Avanidivākara(ḥ) ⟨14⟩ Atiraṇacaṇḍa(ḥ) ⟨15⟩ Avāritavīryya(ḥ) ⟨16⟩ Arikarikesarī (||)

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.27 by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 12, item 27.

Notes

1. See plate V.

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