Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Rājādhirāja, year 27

Authors of digital edition: G. Vijayavenugopal (vija), Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: A fragment recording the change of status of a land.

Palaeographic description: No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō. Medial i and ī interchangeable. Occasional distinction between mū and mū.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00101.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00101.xml.

Version: 2026-11-09 18:23 (fbd1441), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10 (5251b7d).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī yāṇṭu Irupatt’ ēḻ-āvatu nāḷ toṇṇūṟiṉāl kō-v¡i!ra-pāṇṭiyaṉ talaiyum […] […]
⟨2⟩ yiṉāl Arumoḻi-tēva-c-caruppēti-maṅkalam pū(r)vva-tēcamum kaṅkaiyum kaṭāramum koṇṭ-aruḷiṉa […]
⟨3⟩ vakaiyālaṉ veḷḷāṉvakai varicai-k k¡i!ḻ Iṟai-k kuṭal-āka nilattukku-t tavirntu I¡ṉ!-nila munnāḷ […]
⟨4⟩ variyil iṭa-t tiru-vāy-moḻi¡ṉ!t-aruḷiṉā{r}r eṉṟu tirumantira-Ōlai caḷukki-kulakāla-mūvē¡ṉ!tavēḷāṉ […]
⟨5⟩ cēkaranallūr kiḻavar Arai(yar) [***] yilūraṉ maṇṇai koṇṭa cōḻa-mūvē¡ṉ![tavēḷāṉ] […]
⟨6⟩ ḷārum kṣattra-cikāmaṇi-vaḷa(nāṭṭu) [***********] (cōḻa-mūvē)[tavēḷā]ṉ Aiya [*******] ḷar […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ talaiyum […] ⬦ talaiyum [.]e K&V.

⟨2⟩ pū(r)vva° ⬦ pūḻu⟨va⟩° K&V; pūḻu(va)° VVG. — ⟨2⟩ koṇṭ-aruḷiṉa […] ⬦ koṇṭ-aruḷi [7+] K&V; pūḻu(va)° VVG.

⟨3⟩ vakaiyālaṉ ⬦ va Ayiravaṉ K&V. — ⟨3⟩ k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ ⬦ kiḻ VVG; kīḻ K&V. — ⟨3⟩ Iṟai-k kuṭal-āka nilattukku-t ⬦ VVG; Innāṭṭu paṭa [3+] lattukku-t K&V. — ⟨3⟩ munnāḷ […] ⬦ muṉtiri(k)ai [5+] K&V.

⟨4⟩ caḷukki ⬦ caḷukkik K&V VVG. — ⟨4⟩ kulakāla-mūvē¡ṉ!⟨n⟩tavēḷāṉ […] ⬦ VVG; kulakāla-muve¡ṉ!⟨n⟩ta [12+] K&V.

⟨5⟩ Arai(yar)[ca. 3+] ⬦ A[.]ai [4+] K&V; Araiyar [6+] VVG. — ⟨5⟩ cōḻa-mūvē¡ṉ!⟨n⟩[tavēḷāṉ][…] ⬦ coḻa-muveṉta(v)e(ḷār) [9+] K&V; cōḻa-mūvēṉta [6+] VVG.

⟨6⟩ kṣattra-cikā-vaḷa(nāṭṭu) ⬦ kūṭi tirumaṇi-vaḷa [3+] K&V; kṣattriya-cikāmaṇi-vaḷanāṭṭu VVG. — ⟨6⟩ [ca. 11+](cōḻa-mūvē)[tavēḷā]ṉ ⬦ [2+] Irumaṭi mu [3+] ṉ K&V; [4+] ṉ cōḻa mūvē [6+] ṉ VVG. — ⟨6⟩ Aiya [ca. 7+] ḷar […] ⬦ Aiya(ṉ) [6+] K&V; Aiya [5+] VVG.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Twenty seventh year, ninetieth day of […] [who took] the head of the heroic Pāṇḍya king.

⟨1–6⟩ … Arumoḻitēvaccaruppētimaṅkalam … who graciously took the Eastern country, the Ganges and Kaṭāram … Vakaiyālaṉ … of the veḷḷāṉvakai category (varicai) … the tirumantiravōlai Caḷukki-kulakāla-mūvēntavēḷāṉ, having said (eṉṟu) that, so that it is put in the account (variyil iṭa), he¹ graciously uttered with his glorious mouth … the chief (araiyar), lord (kiḻavar) of Cēkaranallūr, […]yilūraṉ Cōḻa-mūvēntavēḷāṉ, who took Maṇṇai … of the Kṣatra-cikāmaṇi-vaḷanāṭu …

Commentary

⟨2⟩ Kaṭāram is a port in Southeast Asia. The phrase "who graciously took the Eastern country, the Ganges and Kaṭāram" is formulaic and found in many cōḻa inscriptions.

Bibliography

First edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 451). First translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 451). Re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 1), with photo and the text (most probably unrelated) on the next two blocks of the base edited in continuation for lines 1-5.

This edition by G. Vijayavenugopal. Revised and curated by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (N. Ramaswamy, 2016).

Primary

[K&V] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2006. Pondicherry inscriptions. Part I: Introduction and texts with notes = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Item 451, pages 392–393.

[K] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2010. Pondicherry inscriptions. Part II: Translation, appendices, glossary and phrases, [and] preface = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Item 451, page 188.

[VVG] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 1, pages 14–15.

Secondary

ARIE 1965–66. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1965-66. Edited by Govind Swamirao Gai. n.p. Page 85, appendixes B/1965-1966, item 435.

Notes

1. That is, the king.

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