# Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Rājendra II, year 8

G. Vijayavenugopal and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00109

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00109.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-09 18:23 (fbd1441), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
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## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ [s](v)asti śrī

1. Āciriyappā

tirum[ātar] […]
[…] ⟨Zone 2⟩ […]
[…] ⟨Zone 3⟩ […]
[irumuṭicōḻa ṉeṉṟum] p¿e?⟨o⟩rumuraṭ
ṭa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩[tirut tampiyar] taṉṉ[uḷ ⟨Zone 4⟩ veṉ]ṟiko[ḷ]
[mummuṭic] ⟨Zone 5⟩ cōḻaṉai Aṭutiṟal
[cōḻa-p]āṇṭiyan eṉṟum kōḻimaṉ
toṭukaḻal v¡i!⟨ī⟩ra-cōḻaṉaip paṭipuka(ḻ) ⟨2⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ -[k]

kō-p-para[k]ēsariva(nma)r-ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a Uṭaiyār
śrī-rā[je]n¿(t)?⟨d⟩(ra)-devarkku yāṇṭu 8 Āvatu

(je)ya(ṅ-koṇṭa){(ṇa)}-cōḻa-va(ḷa)⟨9⟩⟨Zone 1⟩[āṭṭu m]uḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu
bra(n/h)man=tē[yam] (ti)ru-naḷḷāṟṟu tiru-na⟨ḷ⟩ḷāṟ-u(ṭ)aiyār [.]i […]
⟨Zone 2⟩ […] ⟨Zone 3⟩ (k)āśyapaṉ celva-naḷḷāṟu-tē(vaṉum) ...

...

Ip-pari⟨13⟩⟨Zone 1⟩cu kallilum cempilu⟨m⟩ veṭṭi-k koḷḷa-p pe […] t
t¡i!⟨ī⟩ṭṭu-k= kuṭut[t]ōm ⟨Zone 2⟩ śiva-brā(n/h)maṇar(ō)⟨Zone 3⟩(m)

⟨14⟩ ...

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–8⟩ [meykkīrtti of Rājendra II Cōḻa]

⟨8⟩ 8the year of ...

⟨8–14⟩ ...

## Bibliography

First edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 459). First
translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 459). Re-edited in
Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 9), with photos.

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 459, pages 407–408.

[K&al] 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 459,
pages 192–194.

[V] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 9, pages 32–33.