SII 14.79: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 79. (A.R. No. 420 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0079.

Summary: This record is dated in the 3rd year opposite to the 4th year of the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya ‘who took the head of the Chōḷa’ and registers a gift of sheep by Śoḷāntaka Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Māṟaṉ-Ādichchan of Pōḻiyūr in Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu for burning a lamp in the temple of god Sundara-pāṇḍya-Īśvarattu-Bhaṭāra at Tiruchchuḻiyal a dēvadāna in Paruttikkuḍi-nāḍu. Sundara-Pāṇḍya Īśvaram must have been named after a king or prince of that name. The village is called Paḷḷimaḍai or probably Paḷḷipāḍai, in which latter case, the shrine may have been built in memory of a Sundara-Pāṇḍya. A certain chieftain of Pōḻiyūr called Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ alias Teṉṉavaṉ-Pallavaraiyaṉ figures in a record dated 4+1st year, 593rd day of a Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ from Tirupputtūr¹, and he was probably an earlier member of the family to which the Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ of this inscription belonged. Here he bears the title of ChōḷAntaka-Pallava raiyaṉ from the biruda of the king Vīra-Pāṇḍya namely ChōḷAntaka, i.e., ‘god of death to the Chōḷa’ which is equivalent to ‘Śōḻaṉṟalaikoṇḍa’ which is found in all his records. From this fact it is clear that a Chōḷa king had actually been killed by Vīra-Pāṇḍya. From a record of this king from Ambāsamudram² it has been possible to fix his initial date as A.D. 946.

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Language: Tamil.

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

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] coḻaṉṟalaikoṇṭa kovirapāṇṭiyaṟku yāṇṭu (4) Itaṉe(ti)r mūṉṟu Ivvāṇṭu parittikku ⟨2⟩ ṭināṭṭut tevatāṉan tiruccuḻiyal paḷḷi(ma)ṭai cuntarapāṇṭiya Īśvarattu ⟨3⟩ paṭārarkkup poḻiyūrnāṭṭup poḻiyūrc coḷāntakap pallavaraiyaṉā ⟨4⟩ yiṉa māṟaṉāticcaṉ vaitta tirunontāviḷakku Oṉṟu Iravum pakalu muṭṭāme ⟨5⟩ Erivatāka coḷāntaka nārāyattiṉ kīḻ Uḻakkiṉāl ney Uḻakkāḻākku Inne⟨y⟩ ⟨6⟩ kku cāvā muvāp perāṭāka Aṭutta Āṭu Eḻupattañcu Ivai koṇṭu Aṭṭuvāṉāyi⟨7⟩ṉāṉ (teṉpu)lanāṭṭu kiraṉūrkkuṭi paṭaittalaivaṉ cāttaṉ tevaṉ [|] Ivaṉukkup puṇai ⟨8⟩ poḻiyūr nāṭṭup poḻiyūrk kāviti paṭāraṉ colai [|] Iviḷakku rakṣippār tiruccu ⟨9⟩ ḻiyal Ayyaṉmār [||]

Commentary

There is another inscribed slab which contains the following: ⟨1⟩ Eḻupattañcu | ⟨2⟩ kkarai [8+] kariyāṉ māṟaṉ koṇṭa Āṭu— ⟨3⟩ ṉ vatta tirununtāviḷakkoṉṟinukku nicatam ney m— ⟨4⟩ coḷāntaka pirammārāyaṉāṉa nārāyaṇaṉ śrīmātava— ⟨5⟩ tuvvūr kūṟṟattu piramateyam sāḷagrāmattu [4+] paṭiyā [4+]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 14.79 (ARIE/1914-1915/B/1914/420) 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 50–51, item 79.

Notes

1. No. 5 above.
2. Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV, p. 37.

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