# Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 4

G. Vijayavenugopal and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00146

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00146.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⟩ svasti śrī ௳

śrīmaT-kī⟨r⟩ttikku mēl kō-c-ca[ṭa]-paṉmar
tiru-puvaṉa-c-cakkara-va⟨r⟩ttikaḷ śrī-sundara-pāṇḍya-devaṟkku yāṇṭu
4-vatu ⟨ka⟩⟨r⟩kkaṭaka-nāyaṟṟu pūrvva-pakṣattu catu⟨r⟩tthiyum
veḷḷi-k-kiḻamaiyum ⟨2⟩ peṟṟa Uttirattu nāḷ

Uyya-k-koṇṭār vaḷa-nāṭṭu muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu Uṭaiyā=r tiru-naḷḷāṟ-uṭaiyār
kōyil Āti-caṇṭēśvara-tēvakaṉ(mi)kaḷōm jayaṅ-koṇṭa-cōḻa⟨3⟩-vaḷa-nāṭṭu-t
tiru-viṭai-k-kaḻi-nāṭṭu-k kuṟṟūr Uṭaiyā=r Upar¡i!⟨ī⟩śvaram-uṭaiyā=r
kōyil-k-kāṇi Uṭaiya śiva-brāhmaṇaril vaḷattu vāḻvittāṉ
v¿a?⟨ā⟩ṇātar=āja-brahmā-rāyaṉukku Iṟṟai nāḷāl nā⟨4⟩ṅkaḷ Ivaṟkku viṟṟu-k
kuṭutta Iṉ-ṉāyanā=r-kōyil-c cām¡a!⟨u⟩tāya-p paṇi Oṉṟu

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## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ °kaṉ(mi)kaḷōm • The letter mi looks like medial e.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1965–66 (ARIE/1965-1966/B/1965-1966/453).

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 491); re-edited in
Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 46), with photos. Translated in
Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 491).

This revised edition by G. Vijayavenugopal. 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 491, 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 491,
page TBC.

[V] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar
tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 46, pages 114–115.

### Secondary

ARIE 1965–66. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1965-66. Edited by
Govind Swamirao Gai. n.p. Page 88, appendixes B/1965-1966, item 453.