# SII 14.87: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: No. 87. (A.R. No. 626 of 1926.) KĪḺMĀTTŪR, MADURAI
TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0087

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII14/DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0087.xml

Language: Tamil [Vaṭṭeḻuttu]

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## Summary

The inscription in Tamil poetry is fragmentary; but from the available
portion, it can be inferred that it refers to the building of the temple
at Tirumāttūr by a certain Tamiḻavēḷ in about the 8th year of reign of
Vira-Pāṇḍya. This record contains an eulogy of this chieftain. There is
a reference to some who was well-versed in Sanskrit and Tamil works,
such as the Vēdas, the Purāṇas, PAtañjala mudar-paṉuval, etc. As the
name Teṉṉavaṉ is mentioned in another record, that word combined with
Tamiḻavēḷ seems to give the full title ‘Teṉṉavaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ’ of the
chieftain, who erected the ŚrIkaṇThēśvaram temple in stone. This chief
figures in a record dated in the 12th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya at
Ambāsamudram in the Tirunelveli district.[1]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ taṇṭamiḻoṭāri yanūl va— ⟨2⟩ lla tamiḻaveḷ vaṇṭamaruñ colai cūḻ
māttūriṟ caṇṭapaṭi Eṉṟuṅ kuṉṟāmaiy pārttiyaṟ ṟumā [4+] rāṭi Eṉṟum
pūmpotavaṟku ∥⁓ pūmicai maṭantaiyum puṉai tamiḻp pula[.]e [3+] r [2+]
nāmicai ⟨3⟩ maṭantaiyum naṉakiṉi tirukka mārvu mukamu maṟṟavark kaḷitta
tāḷkeḻu taṭantoṭ caturācāraṉa (mai)ccaṉ Itto [3+] varkkuṅ kacci mūtūrk
kāmak kiḻavor paṭuvaṇ kirtti marapuḷāṉ vāṭik kūṭi [4+] mutal van [4+]
⟨4⟩ takoḷari [1+] malart teṉṉar komāṉ kaṉṉi naṉṉāṭṭup puḷaka vācaṟ
p¿o?⟨e⟩rarum puricaik kaṉaka māḷkaik kaḷan [4+] malaṉ Iṟaivarai
makaḷireṟṟiya viḷakkamaṟurai kaṭaṟ pakkattāriruḷ kaṭiyum pu [4+] ṟai
[2+] yūruṭai [6+] ⟨5⟩ ya peruḷāṉ maṟai poruṭṭaricaṉa māṟun tamiḻkaḷ
mūṉṟum varicaiyilamainta vaṭanūl vakaiyu nīti nūlaiyu metaku purāṇamum
pātañcala mutaṟ paṉuvaṟ payaṉkaḷum meymai yuṇarn [2+] ṟu [2+] virapāṇ

## Commentary

⟨1⟩ taṇṭamiḻoṭāri. The inscription is fragmentary, the further stones
being now missing.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 14.87 (ARIE/1926-1927/B/1926/626) 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 56, item 87.

[1] No. 101 of 1905 published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV, p. 35. See
No. 95 below.