# Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Vikramacōḻa, year
undetermined

G. Vijayavenugopal and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00121

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00121.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

## Summary

An originally incomplete or damaged inscription, consisiting in initial
blessings and the beginning of the name of the ruling king Vikramacōḻa.

## Palaeographic description

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

t(i)r(i)puva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a-cakka(ra)⟨2⟩(vat)tikaḷ śrī-vik(ki)rama-cō

[unknown number of possibly lost lines]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ t(i)r(i)puva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a-cakka(ra)⟨2⟩(vat)tikaḷ ⬦
tiripuvanacakkara⟨2⟩vattikaḷ K&V; tiripuvana cakkara ⟨2⟩ vattikaḷ VVG.

⟨2⟩ śrī-vik(ki)rama-cō ⬦ śrīvikkiramaco K&V; śrī vikkirama co[…] VVG.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ The emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikramacōḻa […]

## Commentary

It is not clear if the inscription was originally left incomplete after
the end of line 2 or if one line at least is lost after line 2.

## Bibliography

First edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 470). First
translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 470). Re-edited in
Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 21), with photo.

This edition revised by G. Vijayavenugopal (2019). Curated by Emmanuel
Francis (2024), 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 470, page 426.

[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 470,
page 201.

[VVG] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 21, pages 60–61.

### Secondary

ARIE 1965–66. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1965-66. Edited by
Govind Swamirao Gai. n.p. Page 87, appendixes B/1965-1966, item 449.