Śrīvāñjiyam, Kulōttuṅka-Cōḻa king, year 25

Editors: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00052.

Summary: Inscription damaged and incomplete. Endowment of money (kācu) for the worship of the three nāyaṉmar (emperumakkaḷ) and supposedly for Māṇikkavācakar (tiruttoṇṭar cīr uraittār).

Hand description:

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

Version: (2267c18), last modified (6f6fdd0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […] (ṉa)cakkara-vatt[i] […] maturaiyum Īḻam[um] karuvūrum […]

⟨2⟩ (śrī)-kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-tēvaṟku yāṇṭu 2 10 5 kku [m]ēl ⟨3⟩ [3+] A ṇu pa ra ya ṉ cevūril paiyar tirumaṇi-k kōyil(u) [3+] (to/ko)(yi) [3+] ⟨4⟩ kōyil Emperumakkaḷ kōyil mūṉṟukkum tiruttoṇṭar cīr Uraittar […] ⟨5⟩ [3+] miṭarum n¿a?⟨ā⟩ḷ Oṉṟukku māṇiṉāṭukku cōṟu kuṟuṇi Oru nāḻi Arici-c cōṟu peṟṟu kēṭta ⟨6⟩ [3+] yarkaḷum [1+] purattil tirukaṟṟaḷi tirum¿a?⟨ā⟩ṇikku Oṭukkiṉa kācu[k]ku 1 1001 10 1 kācu Ik-[kācu] […]

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1938-1939 (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/229).

A summary of this inscirption is given in Patmāvati 1979 (NK 052).

This edition by Renato Davalos and Emmanuel Francis (2025), based on photos (F. De Simini, 2024).

Primary

[ARIE] ARIE 1938-1939. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1939. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 33, item 229, appendixes B/1938-1939.

Secondary

[NK] Patmāvati, Ā. 1979. Naṉṉilam kalveṭṭukkaḷ: mutal tokuti. Tamiḻnāṭṭu kalvetṭukaḷ 12. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu Tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 52.