# SII 12.27: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: 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

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0027

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0027.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Grantha]

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## 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 alphabet[1] 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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## Edition

### 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 & Krishnamacharlu
1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

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

[1] See plate V.