# Ōrakam, Bhagavati temple, time of Rājamahendra, year 2

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00173

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00173.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Vaṭṭeḻuttu]

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## Summary

About 10th century according to ASI transcript.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

puriyaṉūr mukkāl vaṭṭat⟨2⟩tuk kūṭi y-ūrār Avirōtattāṟ cey⟨3⟩ta kaccam
āvatu

paṭāriyār-uṭaiya nicca⟨4⟩ṉa vaiyāyuḷḷavai paṭaikkum patuṇ
niru⟨5⟩māliyamum nantā-viḷakkum Oḻukka⟨6⟩viyum nāḷ paṅkum pāratamun
kū⟨7⟩ttum paliyum taccum ivai Oṉpatum ⟨8⟩ vilakkapeṟār vilakkuvō(r) ⟨9⟩
mūḻikkaḷatt’ oḻukka viccava⟨10⟩ttai piḻaiccōr āvōr Aṟamuṅ kūṭ(ār?)

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–3⟩ This is the agreement that the members of village assembly (ūrār)
made amicably having assembled ...

⟨3–⟩ ... a ..., a daily offering of food (nirumāliyam[1]), a perpetual
lamp, a daily offering of food (oḷukkavi), a day share (?) (nāḷ paṅkum),
a Bhārata (pāratam), a dance (kūttu), an offering (pali[2]), a
carpenter’s work (taccu), these nine things ...

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1975–76 (ARIE/1975-1976/B/1975-1976/152).

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 1975–76. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1975-76.
Edited by K. R. Srinivasan. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India,
1986. Page 60, appendixes B/1975-1976, item 152.

[1] Sanskrit nirmālya.

[2] Sanskrit bali.