SII 12.66: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 66. (A.R. No. 461 of 1905). TIRUVĀLAṄGĀḌU, TIRUTTANI TALUK, CHITTOOR DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE FIRST PRĀKĀRA OF THE NAṬARĀJA SHRINE IN THE VAṬĀRAṆYĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0066.

Summary: This inscription is engraved below No. 64 and therefore, may also be likewise taken to be a later copy. It is dated in the 15th year of Nṛipatuṅgadēva, and it states that the assembly of Pulvēḷūr in Eyiṟ-kōṭṭam agreed to supply one uri of oil daily, by the measure Pirudimāṇikkam for burning two perpetual lamps in the temple of Tiruvālaṅgāḍu-Uḍaiyār for the amount of 30 kaḻañju of gold received by them from one Arigaṇḍa-Perumāḷ. This person may be identified with the donor of the same name mentioned as the son of Kāḍupaṭṭi-Muttaraiyar in a record of the 24th year of Nṛipatuṅga from Tirumukkūḍal.1 It may be mentioned that Kāḍupaṭṭi-Muttaraiyar figures in a record from Piḷḷaipāḷaiyam2 near Conjeeveram in the reign of Dantivarman. Nṛipatuṅga’s queen, according to No. 64 above from the same place, was Kāḍavaṉ-Mādēviyār, also known as Pṛithivīmāṇikkam,3 and the liquid measure of the temple was called Pirudimāṇikkam evidently after her name. It was probably after this queen that the Vishṇu temple at Ukkal in the North Arcot district was called Bhuvaṉimāṇikka-Vishṇugṛiham.4

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (c2424c5), last modified (8ea237f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] konirupatuṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu 10 5~Āvatu Arikaṇṭaperumāḷ pakkal Eyiṟ koṭṭattup pu(l)ve⟨2⟩ḷūr sahaiyār koṇṭukaṭava poṉ~ 3 10 Ippoṉ muppatiṉ kaḻañcukkum palicaiyākat tiruvālaṅkāṭu⟨3⟩ṭaiyārkku Ivvūr sabhaiyār ceyyakkaṭava nimantam Uṭaiyārkku tirunantāviḷakku Iraṇṭukkup pirutimāṇi⟨4⟩kkattināl nitta muṭṭāmal Aḷakkak kaṭava Eṇṇai Uri [||]

Commentary

(1) konirupatuṅkatevarkku. SII. Vol. III, p. 1.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.66 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. Pages 27–28, item 66.

Notes

  1. 1. No. 75 below.
  2. 2. No. 44 above.
  3. 3. Sewell’s ‘Lists’ Vol. II, p. 30, No. 209.
  4. 4. Sewell’s ‘Lists’ Vol. II, p. 30, No. 209.