SII 12.218: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – No. 218. (A.R. No. 356 of 1919). LITTLE CONJEEVERAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE ‘ROCK’ IN THE ARUḶĀḶA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0218.

Summary: This inscription refers to the provision made for a lamp in the 20th year of the chief. It records the agreement made by the trustees of the temple of Aruḷāḷap-Perumāḷ to burn a perpetual lamp before the god for 15 Nellūr-māḍai received by them from Śevvakkaṉ, sister-in-law of Aṉṉaladēvaṉ of Nellūr. This record gives 15 Nellūr-māḍai as equivalent to 331 Perumāḷ-rāśi[paṇam].

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (3cdd373), last modified (6dd4d76).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ci ko(p)peruñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu Irupatāvatu nellūril Aṉṉalatevaṉ ⟨2⟩ maiccuṉi cevvakkaṉ tirunantāviḷakkukkup pacuvum Iṣapamum koṇṭuviṭa varakkāṭṭi⟨ṉa⟩p perumā⟨3⟩ḷ Irāci <ḷa> 3 100 3 10 1~ṉāl ci paṇṭārattu Oṭukkiṉa nellūrmāṭai 10 5 Immāṭai patiṉ Añcu⟨4⟩m tirunantāviḷakkukku Uṭalākak kaikkoṇṭom Aruḷāḷapperumāḷ koyilt ⟨5⟩ tāṉattom [|] Ippaṭikku Ivai koyiṟkaṇakkuc ciyapuramuṭaiyāṉ periyaperumāḷ E⟨6⟩ḻuttu [||] Immāṭai cipaṇṭārattuppāl [||]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ <ḷa> • This symbol stands for poṉ or paṇam.

Commentary

This inscription is engraved below a record of Rājarāja III dated in the 7th year (A.R. No. 355 of 1919).

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.218 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 133, item 218.