SII 14.1: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – EARLY PANDYAS. Nos. 1 and 2. (A.R. Nos. 453 and 454 of 1906). ĀṈAIMALAI, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE WALLS OF THE VERANDAH IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE-TEMPLE OF NARASIṀHA-PERUMĀḶ ON THE HILL.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0001-0002.

Summary: These two records engraved in early Grantha and Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters belong to Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ who is also called Parāntaka. They are important because the Kali year 3871 is also quoted for this king, thus furnishing a valuable chronological land mark for early Pāṇḍya history. The rock-cut temple of Narasiṁha was begun by Māṟaṉ-Kāri alias Muvēndamaggalappēraraiyaṉ, a vaidya of Karavandapura alias Kaḷakkuḍi and an Uttaramantrin (minister) of the Pāṇḍya king,¹ but as he died subsequently, the work was completed by his brother Māṟaṉ-Eyiṉaṉ alias Pāṇḍimaṅgala-Viśaiyaraiyaṉ who succeeded him in the office of minister, who added the mukhamaṇḍapa and had the consecration ceremony performed. As the person first mentioned had also the title Madhurakavi, it has been tentatively assumed that he had some connection with the Vaishṇava Āḻvār named Kāri Māṟaṉ alias Nammāḷvār, the author of the Tiruvāymoḻi. Karavandapuram has been identified with Ukkiraṉkōṭṭai in the Tirunelveli taluk of the district of the same name, in the inscriptions copied from which, the village is called Kaḷakkuḍi and Kaḷandai.²

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Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

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No. 1.

⟨1⟩ karavandapura nivāsī śrīmātvaidyaḥ śilā ⟨2⟩ gṛham viṣṇōḥ ⟨|⟩ Akṛta kṛtī madhurakavirmma⟨3⟩dhūratarō mā(ra)sūnūridam ||⟨1||⟩ mamtrī sa Ē⟨4⟩va matimānpāṇyasya parā(nta)kābhidhāna⟨5⟩sya ⟨|⟩ Amitarddhimagrajēbhyaḥ (prādādi) ma⟨6⟩magrahāramapi ||~⟨2||⟩ kalēḥ (sahasratri)⟨7⟩tayēbdagōcarē (ga)tēṣṭaśa⟨8⟩tyāmapi saijasaptatau ⟨|⟩ kṛtapra⟨9⟩tiṣṭhō bhagaṅāgabhūtkramādihai⟨10⟩ṣa pauṣṇēhani māsikārttikē ⟨||3⟩

No. 2.

⟨1⟩ komāṟañcaṭaiyaṟku U⟨2⟩ttaramamantri kaḷakkuṭi vai⟨3⟩dyan mūventamaṅkalap⟨4⟩peraraiyaṉ Ākiya māṟaṅ⟨5⟩(kā)ri Ikkaṟṟaḷi ceytu ⟨6⟩ nīr(tta)ḷiyātey svarggāro⟨7⟩ha(ṇañ)ceyta piṉṉai Ava⟨8⟩ṉukku Anujan Uttara ⟨9⟩ mantrapada meytiṉa pāṇṭi ⟨10⟩ maṅkala vicaiaraiyaṉ ⟨11⟩ Ātiya māṟaṉṉei⟨12⟩ṉaṉ mukamaṇṭamañ ce ⟨13⟩ ytu nīrttaḷittāṉ ⟨||⟩

Apparatus

Commentary

This and the other records published in the Epigraphia Indica are reproduced in this volume on account of their importance.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VIII, pp. 317 ff.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 14.1 and SII 14.2 by Ramanatha Ayyar 1962 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Ramanatha Ayyar, A. S. 1962. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XIV: The Pāṇḍyas. South Indian Inscriptions 14. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Pages 1–2, items 1-2.

Notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XVII, pp. 296 ff.
2. Ibid., Vol. XXIII, p. 283 and n.

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