# SII 13.55: original edition by G.V. Srinivasa Rao

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: No. 55. (A.R. No. 98 of 1920.) TIRUMAḺAVĀḌI
UDAIYARPALAIYAM TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE
RUINED MAṆḌAPA TO THE NORTH OF THE SHRINE OF THE GODDESS IN THE
VAIDYANĀTHA TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0055

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII13/DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0055.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

This records an undertaking backed with a security in land, given by two
servants of the temple to make an offering of flaked rice to god
Gaṇapati in the temple at Punalvāyil on the day of Ārudrā in Mārgaḻi
month, with the money endowed for the purpose and left in their charge
by a certain Śēndaṉ Vēḷāḷa-Piḷḷaiyār of Kumbaḷḷumbūr in Ōymā-nāḍu, a
subdivision of Toṇḍai-nāḍu.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [∥] kovirājakecaripanma⟨ṟ⟩kku yāṇṭu 3⁓Āvatu pu⟨2⟩ṉalvāyil
śrīkoyil gaṇapati bhaṭṭārarkku candrāditta⟨3⟩val toṇṭaināṭṭu
Oymā{ṉ}ṉāṭṭu kumpaḷḷumpūr ce⟨4⟩(n)taṉ veḷāṉ piḷḷaiyār gaṇapatiyārkku
mārkaḻit ti⟨5⟩ruvātirai nāḷ Aval Amutu ceyya tūṇi nānāḻi Aval ⟨6⟩
Aṭṭuvatāka koṇṭa poṉ Eḻu mañcāṭiyum kuṉṟi Ivvūr kāma ⟨7⟩ kkāṇi Aiyāṟaṉ
devasvāmiy(yu)m Aiyāṟaṉ mā⟨8⟩[3+] devaṉum Iviruvom Iv⟨va⟩va{l}lukku
nāṅkaḷ ⟨9⟩ Oṟṟivaytta (nilamāvatu melūr Eṅkaḷ) [4+]

## Commentary

⟨9⟩ (Eṅkaḷ) [4+]. The inscription stops here incomplete.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 13.55 by Srinivasa Rao 1952 converted to DHARMA
conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1952. South-Indian inscriptions (texts) (with
introductory notes in English). Volume XIII: The Cholas. South Indian
Inscriptions 13. Madras: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 25–26,
item 55.