SII 12.255: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – No. 255. (A.R. No. 388 of 1921). TIRUVADI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE FIRST PRĀKĀRA IN THE TIRUVĪRAṬṬĀNĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0255.

Summary: Only a portion of this inscription is preserved. The date of the epigraph is also lost. It records the provision made by Śūraiṉāyakaṉ Pugalāḻvāṉ for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruvīraṭṭānamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār at . . . . . [pu]ram in Tirumuṉaippāḍi, situated in Rājādhirāja-vaḷanāḍu.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (c2424c5), last modified (0dae05b).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīkoppe [9+] ⟨2⟩ vatu Irātirācavaḷanāṭṭut tirumuṉaippāṭi [9+] ⟨3⟩ rattu Uṭaiyār tiruviraṭṭāṉamuṭaiya ṉāyaṉāṟku I [9+] ⟨4⟩ cūraiṉāyakaṉ pukalāḻvā(ṉ)ṉeṉ [|] Iṉṉāyaṉāṟku ti [9+] ⟨5⟩ ṭaic cittirai mātam piṟanta 10 8~Ān ti⟨⟨(yati)⟩⟩ mutal ṉāṉ viṭ [8+] ⟨6⟩ pam 1~m kaikkoṇṭu tirununtāviḷakkukku Atikaiṉā [9+] ⟨7⟩ ney tirumaṭaippaḷḷippaṇṭārattu cantirātittava[.]ai [9+] ⟨8⟩ ṉ Iṉṉāyaṉār maṉṟāṭikkuṭimakkaḷil vaṭavāyilāṉ ko [9+] ⟨9⟩ māheśvara rakṣai

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ ti⟨⟨(yati)⟩⟩ • The letters yati in tiyati are engraved below the line.

Commentary

The inscribed stone containing the ends of lines is lost.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.255 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. Pages 160–161, item 255.