SII 14.12B: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 12B. (A.R. No. 121 of 1928-29.) LĀLGUḌI, LALGUDI TALUK, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE SAPTAṚISHĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0012B.

Summary: This record of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ alias Pāṇḍyakulapati Varaguṇa Mahārāja registers the gift of 120 kāśu by the king for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruttavattuṟai in uḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu. The king is stated to have transmitted the gift through a certain Aṇḍanāṭṭu-Vēḷāṉ and the money was received by the assembly of Iḷamperuṅkāyirukkai in Iḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu who agreed to supply one nāḻi of ghee for burning the lamp. The inscription is dated in the year 4+9 of the king’s reign and the details of date, viz., Dhanus, Śadaiyam (Śatabhishaj), and Tuesday have been equated with 824 A. D. November 29, and the king is identified with Varaguṇa I1

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (ab2718e), last modified (f8664ad).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svastiśrī [||] komāṟañcaṭaiyarkku yāṇṭu 4~vatiṉ Etir 9 Āmāṇṭu dhanu nāyiṟṟu cevvā⟨y⟩kkiḻamai peṟṟa cataya{ma}ttu (nāḷ I)⟨2⟩ṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭu tiruttavattuṟai m¿ā?⟨a⟩devarkku Iravum pakalum cantirātittaval Iraṇṭu no(ntāttiruviḷakku)⟨3⟩Erippatāka komāṟañcaṭaiyaṉ¿a?⟨ā⟩yiṉa pāṇḍyakulapati varakuṇam¿ā?⟨a⟩rāyar Aṇṭanāṭṭu veḷāṉ (k)aiyi(lk kuṭutta pa)ḻa(ṅ)⟨4⟩kācu 100 2 10 nūṟṟirupatu kācu¿ṅ?⟨m⟩ muta(l) ke(ṭā)maiy poli(yū)ṭṭiṉāl nicati nā [14+] ⟨5⟩ Aḷappomāyinom Ippaṭi Oṭ(ṭi) Ikkācu koṇṭo(m) Iṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭu Iḷamperuṅkāy Iruk(k)ai (sabhai)(yo) ⟨6⟩ m [|] Iññey nicati Irunāḻiyum muṭṭil muṭṭiraṭṭiyum mulap(pa)ṭṭa panmāheśvarare sabhaiyākavum tanittākavum ni[14+]⟨7⟩ḷḷiṭṭa tāṉ veṇṭu koviṉukku pukka vu ḷa Aññūṟu kāṇam taṇṭamiṭa Oṭṭikkuṭuttom tiruttavattuṟai mahādevarkku [||]

Commentary

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XX, pp. 46 ff.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 14.12B (ARIE/1928-1929/B/1928-1929/121) 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). Page 9, item 12B.

Notes

  1. 1. [See Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 39 where the king is identified with Varaguṇa II and the details are equated with 875 A. D. December 6—Ed. ].