# Puḷḷalūr, Viṣṇu temple, time of Rājamahendraa, year 2

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00172

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00172.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-09 18:23 (fbd1441), last modified 2026-10-26 12:34
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## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tiru-maṅkai vaḷara Iru-nila-makaḷai Oru-kuṭai-niḻaṟ k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ kiḻi […]
nmar-āna Uṭaiyār śrī-rājamahen¡t!⟨d⟩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!⟨ṉ⟩ 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.