SII 12.246: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – No. 246. (A.R. No. 191 of 1904). TIRUVAKKARAI, VILLUPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE 1000-PILLAR MAṆḌAPA INSIDE THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA OF THE CHANDRAMAUḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0246.

Summary: The present inscription which is not dated gives the surnames Kāḍavaṉ Avaṉiyāḷappiṟandāṉ, Sarvajña, Khaḍgamalla,1 and Kṛipāṇamalla to Kōpperuñjiṅga II. It records that the chief constructed a sluice, with a feeder-channel, to the tank at Oḻugaṟai. In the Sanskrit version appended to the epigraph the channel is stated to have been named ‘Tribhuvananṛipanātha.’ The village Oḻugaṟai is in French India about 2 miles from Pondicherry. It was also known as Kulōttuṅgaśōḻanallūr (A.R. No. 175 of 1904), evidently after Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa I.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

Version: (c2424c5), last modified (1595827).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||]

cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravatti kāṭavaṉ Ava(ṉi)yāḷappiṟantāṉ kopperuñciṅkaṉ sarvvajñakhaṭgamallaṉ Oḻukaṟai ⟨2⟩ Erikku matakuñceyvittu Ivverikku nirpukirakkāluṅ kalluvittapaṭi [|]

Oḷukaranakari taṭākakūlē vipu⟨3⟩laśilāghaṭitaM mahāpraṇāIM [|] jagadavanasamuTbhavābhidhānaṃ vyatanuta bhūmipatiḥ kṛpāṇamallaḥ ||

Oḷukaranakari ta⟨4⟩ṭāka pūrttyai kṣitiparipālana saMbhavakṣitiśaḥ [|] tribhuvananṛpanāthanāmadhēyāM bahutaravārivahāṁ vyadhatta kulyāM [||]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.246 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 154, item 246.

Notes

  1. 1. See also No. 120 above and Nos. 73 of 1889 and 198 of 1905. Cf. also the title ‘Vāḷvallapperumāḷ’ given in the Tiruvaṇṇāmalai record (A.R. No. 480 of 1902).