# SII 12.74: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 74. (A.R. No. 38 of 1930-31).
TIRUKKŌḌIKKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL
OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE TIRUKKŌḌĪŚVARA TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0074

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0074.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This record of the 22nd year, like No. 55 above, is prefaced by the
remark that ‘this is also a copy of an old stone inscription’. It is
preceded by a record of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟaṉ Śaḍaiyaṉ (A.R. No. 37 of
1930-31) and followed by an epigraph of the Muttaraiyar chief
Iḷaṅgō-Muttaraiyar (A.R. No. 39 of 1930-31), all of which are engraved
in continuation of one another. It has been pointed out above (No. 55)
that the temple at Tirukkōḍikkāval was renovated by Śembiyaṉ-Mādēviyār,
the mother of the Chōḷa king Uttama-Chōḷa and that she took care to
re-engrave on the new walls the old inscriptions found in the temple.

The present record does not give the king’s name, but from the mention
therein of Vīra-Mahādēviyār, the queen of Nṛipatuṅga-Mahārāja, it may be
ascribed to Nṛipatuṅga himself. It gives the interesting information
that this queen performed the hiraṇyagarbha and tulābhāra ceremonies,
evidently at Tirukkōḍikkā and presented 50 kaḻañju of gold from the
wealth so weighed, to the temple of Mahādēva in the village for
offerings and lamp. The assembly of Tirukkōḍikkāvu alias Kaṇṇamaṅgalam
received the money and undertook to conduct the endowment. Queen
Vīra-Mahādēviyār is known to epigraphy for the first time only from this
record.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] Ituvum moru paḻaṅkalpaṭi [∥] yāṇṭu (Irupattiraṇ){ṭ}ṭu
nṛpatoṅkamahārāja⟨r⟩ deviyār viramahādeviyār hiraṇyagarbhamu
tulāpāra(mum) pukka poṉṉil tiruk koṭikāvil mahā [9+] ⟨2⟩ tta poṉ
Aimpatiṉ kaḻañcu Itaṉil Irupattaiṅ kaḻañcu poṉṉiṉ palicaiyāl nicati
Irunāḻi Ariciyum Oru piṭi ne(yyu)m taḷi Arcci⟨p⟩pār kai [9+] ⟨3⟩ l
nicati Uḻakku ney taḷi Aṟcippār kaiyyile noṉtāviḷakki⟨ṉu⟩kku
kuṭu⟨p⟩pomāṉom tirukkoṭikāvāṉa kaṇṇamaṅkalattu sabhaiyom Itu
paḻaṅkalpaṭi [|] I [10+] ⟨4⟩ Ubhaiyogam Illāmaiyil Atu tavintatu Itu
muṭṭil paṉmāyeśvarar kaṭaikkūṭṭappeṟṟār [∥]

## Commentary

The inscription is built in at the right end.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.74 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
32, item 74.