SII 12.245: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Alternative title: “No. 245. (A.R. No. 104 of 1934-35). CHIDAMBARAM, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA IN THE NAṬARĀJA TEMPLE.”

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This inscription, dated in the 36th year, registers an order of the officer Vēṇāḍuḍaiyāṉ to the authorities of the temple at Chidambaram, to engrave an inscription on the ‘Vikkiramaśōḻaṉ-tirumāḷigai’, close to the record pertaining to the Brahmans of Irumarabuntūyya-Perumāḷ-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a hamlet of Koṟṟaṅguḍi. The inscription now ordered to be engraved records grant of exemption from payment of taxes on 10 vēli of land1 purchased and presented by a certain Aḻagiya Tiruvaiyāṟuḍaiyār belonging to the ‘Tirunāvukkaraśu-Teṉtirumaḍam’ situated in the street ‘Ambalanāyaka-perunteruvu’, to certain Brahmans whom he settle in the agrahāra called Tillaināyaka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and for offerings to the image of the god Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa-Viṉāyakappiḷḷaiyār set up by him at the mugakkaṭṭaṇam on the east side of the temple. The Brahmans had to recite the Vēdas on important occasions such as when the processional image was taken out in procession in car and during the sacred bath of the deity in the temple and also to chant benedictory verses when it halted in the garden ‘Kulōttuṅgaśōḻan-tiruttōppu’.

Language: Tamil (tam).

Version: (5e30cca), last modified (0ec4724).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī ḷa sakalabhuvaṉaccakravattikaḷ śrī AvaṉiĀḷappiṟantārāṉa kopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu muppattāṟāvatu veṇāṭuṭaiyāṉ Olai [|] teṉṉavaṉpirammārāyarum jayatuṅkappallavaraiyarum tillaiAmpalappallavaraiyarum Uṭaiyār tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyār koyil śrīmāheśvara kaṇkāṇi ceyvārkaḷum

⟨2⟩ śrīkāriyañ ceyvārkaḷum cāmutāyañ ceyvārkaḷum koyilṉāyakañ ceyvārkaḷum tirumāḷi kaikkūṟu ceyvārkaḷum paṇṭārappottakamuṭaiyārkaḷum kaṇakkarum kaṇṭu viṭu tantatā vatu [|] nāyakar tiruttereḻuntaruḷumpotu tiruppuṟakkuṭaiyil Adhyayaṉam paṇṇi cevikkavum nāyakar kulottuṅkacoḻaṉ tiruttoppil EṟiAruḷiṉāl svasti

⟨3⟩ colli cevikkavum Ittiruttoppil tirumañcaṇam paṇṇi Aruḷumpotu Adhyayaṉam paṇṇavum divasaṅkaḷukku piḷḷaiyār civapātacekaraṉ cittaittuṇaipperumāḷ Etirili coḻaṉ tiruna⟨n⟩tavaṉattu tiruppālikai valañceyya Eḻuntaruḷiṉāl mṛTgrahaṇam paṇṇavum Etirilicoḻaṉ tiruna⟨n⟩tavaṉattu melpakkattu tillaināyakaccaruppeti-

⟨4⟩ maṅkalam Eṉṉum tirunāmattāl tiruvaiyāṟuṭaiyār vaitta Akarattu brāhmaṇarkkup perum paṟṟappuliyūrp piṭākaikaḷil Ivar pala⟨r⟩ pakkalilum vilaikoṇṭu kuṭutta nilamum Inta brāhmaṇar pala⟨r⟩ pakkalum dānamāka peṟṟa nilamum Uḷppaṭa nilam Oṉpataraiyum Ampala nāyakap perunteruvil tirunāvukkaracu teṉtirumaṭattu Uṭaiyār Aḻakiya tiruvai-

⟨5⟩ yāṟuṭaiyār tirukkoyil kiḻpakkattu mukakkaṭṭaṇattu Eḻuntaruḷi Irukkum kulottuṅkacoḻa viṉāyakappiḷḷaiyārai rācākkaḷtampirāṉ tiruvitiyil nāyakar Eḻuntaruḷit tirukkaṇ cātti Aruḷum nā⟨ṭ⟩kkaḷi⟨l⟩ tirukkāṭcci cevikkavum tiruppaṇṇikāram Amutu ceyyavum Ivarkoṇṭu viṭṭa nilam Araiyum Āka nilam patiṟṟiveliyum mulaparuḻaiyār Eḻutiṉa mahā-

⟨6⟩ sabhāniyokappaṭiye koyil (kuṭimai) tiruvaraṅku vi(ni)yokam paḻavarici Uḷḷiṭṭaṉa tavirvatākavum vikkiramacoḻaṉ tirumāḷikaiyil koṟṟaṅkuṭi⟨yi⟩l Irumarapuntuyyaperumāḷ caruppetimaṅkalattu brāhmaṇarkku kalveṭṭiṉa Iṭattukku Aruke kalveṭṭavumaṭavatākap paṇṇuvate [|] Ivai veṇāṭuṭaiyāṉ Eḻuttu Eṉṟu pukunta Evaṟtiṭṭiṉpaṭi kalveṭṭiyatu ௳

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ caruppetimaṅkalattu brāhmaṇarkku • See S.I.I. Vol. VIII, Nos. 47 and 48.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.245 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 153, item 245.

Notes

  1. 1. The order of the mūlaparishat regarding this land is found in No. 455 of 1902 (S.I.I. Vol. VIII, No. 43), dated in the 36th year of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva.