SII 12.61: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 61. (A.R. No. 122 of 1928-29). ON THE SAME WALL.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0061.

Summary: This inscription states that in the 2nd year of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavikramavarman, the assembly of Muttaiyil in Iḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu received a gift of 10 1/2 kaḻañju of gold made by Pūdi Kaṇḍaṉ of Kavirappoṟkaṭṭiyūr, on behalf of his mother, to provide rice, by the measure called Nārāya-nāḻi during the seven days of the Chittirai-Vishu festival in the temple of Tiruttavattuṟai-Mahādēva. It has been suggested that some of the inscriptions in this temple are later copies,1 though it is not stated so in the present epigraph. From the provenance of the record, it will be evident that Nṛipatuṅga’s territory extended as far as the Trichinopoly district. Tiruttavattuṟai may be identified with Lālguḍi itself where this inscription is found and the village Muttaiyil with Muttayyampāḷaiyam in the Musiri taluk of the Trichinopoly district. The donor of the inscription also figures in another record of the same place,2 dated in the 23rd year of Nṛipatuṅga.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (97de750), last modified (180a207).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] kovicaya nirupatoṅkavikkiramaparumarkku yāṇṭu 2~ṇṭāvatu Iṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭut tiruttavattuṟai mahādeva(rkku) ⟨2⟩ Iññāṭṭu kavirappoṟkaṭṭiyūr Uṭaiyāṉ pūtikaṇṭaṉ cittiraiviṣu tiruviḻāvukku tāyāraic cārtti v¿a?⟨ai⟩tta poṉ pati⟨3⟩ṉkaḻaiñcarai Ippoṉ patiṉkaḻañcarai poṉṉuṅ Iññāṭṭu muttaiyil sabhaiyoṅ koṇṭu caṉtirātittava⟨4⟩l Āṭṭāṇṭutoṟuñ cittiraiviṣu tiruviḻāvukku nārāyanāḻiyāl Eḻunāḷaikkum nicati kalavarai Arici patte(ṭṭukkuttal) ⟨5⟩ (ma)ṭāvil Aṭṭum parice Eḻunāḷ muṉtuṟa śrīkoyilukke (ko)⟨ṇ⟩{ṭ}ṭu ceṉṟu Aḷap pomāṉom Aḷavomāyi(l mu)ṭṭira⟨6⟩(ṭṭi) panmāheśvarar taṇṭikkoḷḷa Oṭṭik kuṭuttom tiruttavattuṟai mahādevarkku muttaiyil sabhaiyom [|] Itu panmāheśvara rakṣai [||]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.61 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 25, item 61.

Notes

  1. 1. Ep. Ind. Vol. XX, p. 47.
  2. 2. S.I.I. Vol. IV. No. 531.