# Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Rājarāja, year 25

G. Vijayavenugopal and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00130

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00130.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

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (svasti śrī) ↝

t[i]ri-puvaṉa-(c-cakk)ara-va⟨r⟩ttikaḷ śrī-rāja-rāja-devaṟku yāṇṭu 2 10
5-vatiṉ Etir-ām āṇṭu tulā-nāyaṟṟu (p)ū(rvva)-pakṣat(tu) [daśa]miyum
putaṉ-k(i)ḻamaiyum peṟṟa catayattu nā[ḷ]

Uyya-k-koṇṭār-vaḷa-[n]āṭṭu muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu Uṭaiyār
tirunaḷḷāṟ-u[ṭai]⟨2⟩[yār] kōyil nā[ṭ-uṭai n]āyakaṉ tirumaṇṭapa[ttilē
śrī]-kōyil tāṉattāru[m] ma[ṇi]-māheśvarar[u]m nāṭ=ṭavarum Irukka
[Ik-kōyi]l pūcaik kāriyam Ārāykiṟa Iṭattu civa-p-pirāmaṇar Upaiyam-(ā)ka
nā[ḷ] Oṉ[ṟukku] (A)ḷantu varukiṟa Ariciyum Avalu[m]

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1968–69 (ARIE/1968-1969/B/1968-1969/114).

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 479); re-edited in
Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 30), with photos. Translated in
Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 479).

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 479, 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 479,
page TBC.

[V] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 30, page 85.

### Secondary

ARIE 1968–69. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1968-69. Edited by
G. S. Gai. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India, 1974. Page 35,
appendixes B/1968-1969, item 114.