# SII 12.40: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0040

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0040.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This inscription records the construction of a well called
Mārppiḍugu[1]-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.

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## Commentary

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

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.40 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
16, item 40.

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