SII 12.40: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Alternative title: “DANTIVARMAN. No. 40. (A.R. No. 541 of 1905). TIRUVEḶḶAṞAI, LALGUDI TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON THE MARGIN OF A WELL CALLED ‘NĀLUMŪLAIKKĒṆI’.”

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This inscription records the construction of a well called Mārppiḍugu¹-peruṅkiṇaṟu at Teṉṉūr in Tiruveḷḷaṟai by Kambaṉ Araiyaṉ, the younger brother of Viśayanalluḻāṉ of Ālambākkam, in the 4th year of Dantivarman. The well is designed in the form of a svastikā and it is reached by a flight of steps from each of the four directions.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XI, p. 157.

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Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.40 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 16, item 40.

Notes

1. Māṟpidugu was also the surname of the Telugu-Chōḻa king Puṇyakumāra (Ep. Rep. for 1936, p. 56).

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