# Pēraḻi, Kāṭṭukkōyil (Śiva temple), time of Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, year 2

Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00063

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00063.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tribhuvaṉa-c-cakkaravattikaḷ śrī-ku[lōt]tu[ṅka]-cōḻa-devarkku yāṇtu
Irāṇṭ-āvatu

Uttuṅka [12+] ṭukuka(ṟa/ṟ)-kūṟṟattu-p pērakaḻiyil irukkum
puttūr-uṭaiyā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ [.]e [10+] ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ devatāṉam Iṭṭa paṭi y-āvatu

Eṅkaḷ pitākkaḷ koṇṭ-uṭaiya kāṇi-y-āy varukiṟa Ip-pērakaḻiyilē
civa-liṅka-p-piratiṭṭaiyum paṇṇi Upāṉāti-tūpi⟨2⟩-puriyantam-āka-t
tiru-k-kaṟṟaḷiyuñ cātti viṉāyaka-p-piḷḷaiyār kṣetrapāla-p-piḷḷaiyār
mutal-āṉa cilar m¡u!⟨ū⟩rttaṅkaḷu(m) Eḻunt-aruḷ[uvit]tu tiru-mēṉi
nāyaṉmāraiyum Eḻunt-aruḷuvittu I[n]nāy¿(u)?⟨a⟩ṉār Aḻa [12+] t[ē]vatāṉam
patināl (aṭi)yum vilakkaṭ(i)yumāna kōlāl Ivv-ūr mēlai-k kaḻaṉiyiṟ
kāṟ-ceyyum kiḻai-k kaḻaṉiyiṟ kāṟ-ceyyum Ik-kōlāl

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Second year of the glorious king Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, emperor of the
three worlds.

⟨1⟩ This is the manner in which […], Lord of Puttūr, who resides in
Pērakaḻi in the […]kūṟṟam […] gave a devadāna.

⟨1–2⟩ In this Pērakaḻi, which comes as a property (kāṇi) owned by our
father, after having made the installation of a liṅga of Śiva, having
built a glorious stone-temple ..., having installed some images such as
Viṉāyaka and Kṣetrapāla, having installed glorious images of the
Nāyaṉmārs, ⟨he gave⟩ as devadāna … a quarter cey of land in the west of
this village and a quarter a quarter cey of land in the east as per this
⟨measuring⟩ rod.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1992–93 (ARIE/1992-1993/B/1992-1993/464).

This edition by Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis based on the
estampage under the copyright of ASI, kindly supplied by the Director of
epigraphy, Mysore.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1992–93. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1992-93.
Edited by Madhav N. Katti. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India,
1998. Page 75, appendixes B/1992-1993, item 464.