# SII 14.79: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: No. 79. (A.R. No. 420 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM,
ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE
KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0079

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII14/DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0079.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Vaṭṭeḻuttu]

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## 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 Tirupputtūr[1], 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
Ambāsamudram[2] it has been possible to fix his initial date as A.D.
946.

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## Edition

⟨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.

[1] No. 5 above.

[2] Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV, p. 37.