SII 14.4: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 4. (A.R. No. 480 of 1917.) KUTTĀLAM, TENKASI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE NORTH-SIDE OF THE KUṞṞĀLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0004.

Summary: This incomplete record is dated in the 4th year and 360th day of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and mentions the gift of some donation by Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ, probably a petty chieftain of Pōliyūr, for a lamp in the temple of Tirukkuṟṟālattu-Bhaṭāra. This person a so figures in a record1 from Tiruppattūr in the Rāmanāthapuram district, where he is mentioned with the other title of Teṉṉavaṉ Pallavaraiyaṉ.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (e64779b), last modified (f8664ad).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||] komā ⟨2⟩ ṟañcaṭaiyarkku yāṇṭu ⟨3⟩ nālu nāḷ muṉṉūṟṟu ⟨4⟩ Aṟupatu Iññāṉāl ⟨5⟩ teṉavāra nāṭṭu⟨6⟩t tirukkuṟṟa⟨7⟩lattu bhaṭāra⟨r⟩k⟨8⟩kup poḻiyūr ⟨9⟩ (A)raiyaṉāyiṉa ⟨10⟩ māṟaṉāccaṉ ⟨11⟩ Iravum paka⟨12⟩lu muṭṭāme ca⟨13⟩ndrādityavaṟ Eri⟨14⟩vatāka vaitta ⟨15⟩ tirunontā vi⟨16⟩ḷakku Oṉṟu O

Apparatus

⟨16⟩ Oṉṟu O • The inscription stops with this. The pillar on which this record was engraved is not traceable now.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 14.4 (ARIE/1917-1918/B/1917/480) 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 2–3, item 4.

Notes

  1. 1. No. 5 below.