SII 12.236: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar No. 236. (A.R. No. 291 of 1919). ĀVŪR, TIRUVANNAMALAI TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE RUINED ŚIVA TEMPLE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0236.xml 2019-2026 as per external metadata

This is an incomplete inscription dated in the 30th yearThe regnal year is wrongly given as 3[5] in the Ep. Rep. for 1919. of the chief. It appears to record the setting up of the image of Astradēva during the administration of Śūrāṇḍār alias Jeyaśēvakañ-Chēdiyarāyar in the temple of Tiruvagattīśvaramuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār at Āvūr in Chēdi-maṇḍalam ‘on the northern bank of the river Peṇṇai’, by the merchants of the Eighteen Divisions, who are introduced with a number of epithets. In other inscriptions this body of merchants is called Tiśai-āyirattu-Aiññūṟṟuvar.A.R. No. 601 of 1902. From the mistakes in the text, the inscription appears to have been engraved by a person not conversant with the matter of the record.

Astradēva is a deified weapon which is usually taken out in advance of the processional image during festival days.

The astronomical details given in the inscription point to A.D. 1272, September 29, Thursday as its date.

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svasti śrī . cakalapuvaṉacakkaravattikaḷ śrī kopperuñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu 3 10.Āvatu nāyaṉṉār cū rāṇṭārāṉa ceyacevakañcetiyarāyar nāḷil śrīmaṟceṉamamahā potinaṉtapattaṉ mevaṇi karāom nāmavaiciya taṉmatāvaḷa sahajaṉatāritriyaniṟkaṇṭa sarvaguṇasaMpaṉṉa Ālaṅ⌈ keṉapaṟamarāpati bhujamikuparākrama śrīgaruḍatveśa tarumāpuri vairāvaṇa cākkiyaṟvaḷara kalime liyap pukaḻperuka pakaipaṇiya ticai Aṉaittum ceviṭupaṭāmaṟ ceṅkole muṉṉākavum ci yācciṉaiye teyvamākavum yiṉitu nāṭātti nikaḻāniṉṟa patiṉeṇ bhūmmi ticai viḷaṅku tiṟalāyirattu tikaḻvāṇikarom peṇṇaivaṭakarai cetimaṇṭalattu Āvūr Uṭaiyār tiru vakattiIśuraM Uṭaiya nāyaṉāṟkku tulaānāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣat=tu pañcamiyum viyāḻakkiḻamaiyum mulamum peṟṟanāḷ Iṉṉāyanārkku Astradevarai

The inscription stops here. The epithets mahā-bōdhi and Śākkiyar indicate the Buddhistic origin of the trading corporation.

Digital edition of SII 12.236 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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