Puḷḷalūr, Viṣṇu temple, time of Rājamahendraa, year 2

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00172.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tiru-maṅkai vaḷara Iru-nila-makaḷai Oru-kuṭai-niḻaṟ k¡i!ḻ kiḻi […] nmar-āna Uṭaiyār śrī-rājamahen¡t!ra-(t)ē-

⟨2⟩ varkku yāṇṭu 2 Āvatu jayaṅ-koṇṭa-cōḻa-ma […] kalattu mahāsabhaiyōm śrī-maturān=taka-c-ca(tu)-

⟨3⟩ rveti-maṅkalam y-āluṅkaṇattāruḷ paṅkaṉūr śrī-rāmabhaṭṭa¡n! brā […] bhārata-vṛtti-y-āka viṟṟu-k kuṭutta nilam āvatu

⟨4⟩ Ivv-ūr teṉ-karai cōḻa-pāṇṭiya-vatik=ku-t te[ṟku?] […] vaṉ camaṉa-vati-k-karai-t taṭiya

Apparatus

⟨4⟩ camaṉa ⬦ canmaṉ ASI. — ⟨4⟩ taṭiya ⬦ taṭiyaṟ ASI.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ 2nd year of the glorious king Rājamahendra, the lord, alias […] who ….

⟨2–3⟩ There is a land that we, the members of the assembly of ... -mankaḷam in Jayaṅ-koṇṭa-cōḻa-ma[ṇṭalam] gave as a bhārata-vṛtti after purchase ... [from (?)] the glorious Rāmabhaṭṭaṉ of Paṇkaṉūr, one among the members of the ruling committee of the glorious Maturāntakaccaturvetimaṅkalam.

⟨4⟩ South of (?) (te[ṟku?]) the channel ⟨named⟩ Cōḻa-Pāṇṭiyaṉ on the south bank of this village, ... bank of the channel ⟨named⟩ Camanaṉ ...

Commentary

Incomplete or unfinished inscription. End lost or not engraved.

⟨1⟩ Variant of Rājamahendra’s meykkīrtti.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1922–23 (ARIE/1922-1923/C/1923/50).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis based on ASI estampage and transcript available on BharatSHRI.

Primary

[ASI] No name. N.d. “ASI transcript.”

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1922–23. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1923. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1924. Page 66, appendix C/1923, item 50.

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