Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, year 17

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

Summary: Kulottuṅga III Cōḻa, 1196 CE.

Palaeographic description: No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00129.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00129.xml.

Version: 2026-09-21 23:05 (73546ed), last modified 2026-09-09 14:19 (2b8e588).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tirupuvaṉa-c-cakkara-va⟨r⟩ttikaḷ maturai koṇṭu pāṇṭiyaṉ(ai) muṭi-t talaiyum koṇṭ-aruḷiya c¡i!-kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-tēvarkku y¿ira?ṇṭu 10 7-Āvatu kumpa-nāyaṟṟu pūrva-patticattu titiyaiyum tiṅkaṭ-kiḻamaiyum peṟṟa Uttiraṭṭāti nāḷ U¡y!a-k-koṇṭār-vaḷa-nāṭṭu muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu Uṭaiyār tiru-naḷḷāṟ-uṭaiyār kōyil m¡u!la ¿k?irut⟨tiya⟩-Āti-[ca]ṇṭēcura-[t]ēva-[kaṉm]ikaḷukku I-kōyil nimantakkāṟaril cōlai-Iṭarat¡i!ṟtāṉ-Āṉa muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu kō¡n![ē]ṉ [******] ṇṭa [**] Inn [**] (ṟ?)kku [************]-

⟨2⟩ ci viṭṭa commali y-āṭu 10 Ivv-āṭu pattum nāṉ kai-k-koṇṭu canti-viḷakk[u] Oṉṟukku nāḷ Oṉṟukku maḷakku(ṭi?)ney ¿a?ru ce⟨y⟩ Aḷakka kaṭavēṉ āka⟨vu⟩m Aḷakku¡mm! ¿a?ṭattu-v Āṭu pattum Ivaiyiṟ(ṟ?) [**] mēṟpaṭṭa vaṟttaṉaikaḷum nāṉum Eṉ vaṅkica⟨t⟩t¿o?(ru)m aṉup¿o?vitt[u] cantirātitta-varai Aḷakka kaṭavōm āṉamaikk[u]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ ¿k?⟨p⟩irut⟨tiya⟩ ⬦ kirut⟨tiya⟩ Āti K&V; kirut … Āti V. — ⟨1⟩ Iṭarat¡i!⟨ī⟩ṟtāṉ ⬦ Iṭar tiṟtaṉ K&V; Iṭaratīṟtāṉ V.

⟨2⟩ maḷakku(ṭi?)ney ¿a?⟨i⟩ru ce⟨y⟩ Aḷakka ⬦ maḷak⟨ku⟩ ne⟨y⟩yāl Aḷakka K&V; maḷakku neyyal Aḷakka K&V V. — ⟨2⟩ aṉup¿o?⟨a⟩vitt[u] ⬦ (I)tu Erivittu K&V; Itu Erivittu V.

Commentary

⟨2⟩ kaṭavōm āṉamaikk[u]. The inscription stops short here.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/395).

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 477); re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 29), with photos. Translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 477).

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 477, page TBC.

[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 477, page TBC.

[V] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 29, pages 80–81.

Secondary

ARIE 1901–02. G.O. Nos. 763, 764, 6th August 1902. Epigraphy. Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1901-1902. Copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1902. Page 21, appendix B/1902, item 395.

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