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

G. Vijayavenugopal and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00129

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00129.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

Kulottuṅga III Cōḻa, 1196 CE.

## Palaeographic description

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tirupuvaṉa-c-cakkara-va⟨r⟩ttikaḷ maturai koṇṭu pāṇṭiyaṉ(ai) muṭi-t
talaiyum koṇṭ-aruḷiya c¡i!⟨ī⟩-kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-tēvarkku y¿ira?⟨ā⟩ṇṭu 10
7-Āvatu kumpa-nāyaṟṟu pūrva-patticattu titiyaiyum tiṅkaṭ-kiḻamaiyum
peṟṟa Uttiraṭṭāti nāḷ

U¡y!⟨yy⟩a-k-koṇṭār-vaḷa-nāṭṭu muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu Uṭaiyār tiru-naḷḷāṟ-uṭaiyār
kōyil m¡u!⟨ū⟩la ¿k?⟨p⟩irut⟨tiya⟩-Āti-[ca]ṇṭēcura-[t]ēva-[kaṉm]ikaḷukku
I-kōyil nimantakkāṟaril cōlai-Iṭarat¡i!⟨ī⟩ṟtāṉ-Āṉa muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu
kō¡n!⟨ṉ⟩[ē]ṉ [6+] ṇṭa [2+] Inn [2+] (ṟ?)kku [12+]⟨2⟩ci viṭṭa commali
y-āṭu 10

Ivv-āṭu pattum nāṉ kai-k-koṇṭu canti-viḷakk[u] Oṉṟukku nāḷ Oṉṟukku
maḷakku(ṭi?)ney ¿a?⟨i⟩ru ce⟨y⟩ Aḷakka kaṭavēṉ āka⟨vu⟩m

Aḷakku¡mm!⟨m⟩ ¿a?⟨i⟩ṭattu-v Āṭu pattum Ivaiyiṟ(ṟ?) [2+] mēṟpaṭṭa
vaṟttaṉaikaḷum nāṉum Eṉ vaṅkica⟨t⟩t¿o?⟨ā⟩(ru)m aṉup¿o?⟨a⟩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.