SII 14.84-85: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 84-85. (A.R. Nos. 625 and 627 of 1926.) KĪḶMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE. No. 84.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0084.

Summary: The inscription is dated in the 5th year opposite to the 4th year of the king’s reign. It states that the affairs of the stone temple named Śrikaṇṭhēśvaram erected by Teṉṉavaṉ Kaṇḍaṉ-Śāttaṉ for the god Bhaṭāra at Tirumāttūr, were examined by this officer, and that the wet and dry lands belonging to the temple priests (aganāḻigaiyār) drummers, etc., situated in Birundaiyūr, were also properly checked and regulated. The fact that the old dēvadāṉa lands were checked in the time of Vīra-Pāṇḍya indicates that the temple had existed from earlier times, probably as a brick structure, and that it was now rebuilt of stone by this chieftain, with the new name of Śrīkaṇṭhēśvaram, after his own name of Kaṇḍaṉ, and the flower-garden called ‘Śōḻāntakaṉ’ was endowed in the name of the king himself. This chieftain is called Teṉṉavaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ in another record.¹

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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 nāṉku Itaṉetir Añcu Ivvāṇṭu tirumāttūr bhaṭārarkku śrīkaṇṭheśvarameṉṟu tirukkaṟṟaḷi Eṭutta teṉ [3+] ⟨2⟩ ṇṭañcāttaṉ Ittevarkku śrīkāryya mārāyā niṉṟu Ittevar paḻantevatāṉam piruntai Ūrppaṭum nirnilaṉ coḷāntakaṉeṉṟu tāṉ mayakkiṉa nantavāṉam [3+] ⟨3⟩ (pi)ṉ teṟkuḷḷatu Oṉṟey nāṉmā(varai) Ittaḷitteva rakanāḻi⟨kai⟩yārkku nālu paṅkiṉāl Arccanābhogamāy niṅku nirnilaṉ Araiye Iraṇṭumā (ni) [3+] ⟨4⟩ raiye Araikkālālum Ittevarkkuriya puṉceyyālum Ittaḷi Uvaccaṉ śrīpalluvam pūvaṇavaṉ niyatam Āṟāḷiṭṭu Uvaccappaṇi cey (ma) [3+] ⟨5⟩ ttevarkkup paṇṭu kācu poliŪṭṭiṉāluṅ kāliIṉālum Ittevar nārāyanāḻi śrīkaṇṭhaṉāl ney yaṭṭakkaṭava paḻaṅkuṭikaḷai Ārāñci [4+] ⟨6⟩ Itteva rakanāḻikaiyār vacam piruntaiyūr śrīdharaṉatirāttiraṉ vacca poliŪṭṭuk kāciṉā livar kaḷaṭṭakkaṭava ney yuḻakku Ittevar veṭṭikkuṭi Iṭaiyaṉ

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 14.84 (ARIE/1926-1927/B/1926/625) 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 53, item 84.

Notes

1. No. 87 below.

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