SII 12.257: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – No. 257. (A.R. No. 484 of 1921). ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VAIKUṆṬHA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE IN THE SAME VILLAGE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0257.

Summary: This is an order of Kāḍavarāyaṉ issued to the trustees of the temple of Aḻagiyapallava-viṇṇagar-Emberumāṉ at Tiruveṇṇainallūr remitting the taxes on the tiruviḍaiyāṭṭam lands, for effecting repairs to the temple which was constructed by his mother but which had become ruined after the death of his father Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ. The order is signed by Kāḍavarāyaṉ. It may be noted that the god Vaikuṇṭha-Perumāḷ at Tiruveṇṇainallūr was called Aḻagiyapallava-viṇṇagar-Emberumāṉ after the surname of Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ,1 the father of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva II. The donor Kāḍavarāyaṉ may be identified with Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva (II).

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] kāṭavarāyaṉ Olai [|] tiruveṇṇainallūr Aḻakiyapallavaviṇṇakar Emperumāṉ koyiltāṉattār kaṇ⟨2⟩ṭu viṭai tantatāvatu [|] Ivvemperumāṉ koyil muṟkālaṉtuṭaṅki Eṅkaḷ Āccimār taṉmamāyp potukiṟa Ittirumu⟨3⟩ṟṟam Aiyyaṉ maṇavāḷapperumāḷ Abhāvattile Ittirumuṟṟam novupaṭukaiyāle nām Iṉṉāḷile nammu{ṭai}⟨4⟩ṭai⟨⟨(ya)⟩⟩(perāl Ukaṉtaruḷappaṇṇi) Ivvem⟨perum⟩āṉ tiruviṭaiyāṭṭam naṉcai puñcai kaḷukku varum tevai kuṭimai⟨5⟩kaḷum Aṉaittāyaṅkaḷum Uḷppaṭa Iḻantu Iṟaiyiliyākat taṉtom Ippaṭi kalveṭṭi koḷvate [||] ⟨6⟩ Ivai kāṭavarāyaṉ Eḻuttu [||]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.257 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 162, item 257.

Notes

  1. 1. For Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ, see A.R. Nos. 133 of 1900, 313 of 1902, 43 and 73 of 1903, 63 of 1919 and Ep. Ind. Vol. XXIV, pp. 22 ff.