# SII 12.255: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: 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

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0255

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0255.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## 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.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīkoppe [9+] ⟨2⟩ vatu
Irājātirācavaḷanāṭṭut 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 & Krishnamacharlu
1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 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.