Tārācuram/Darasuram, Airavateśvara temple, dvārapāla

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Stone-inscription (pedestal of statue). Eleventh-century CE trophy inscription in Tamil on the statue of a door-guardian seized by the Cōḻa king Vijayarājendra (Rājādhirāja Cōḻa) after the conquest of the capital of the rival dynasty of the Cāḷukyas.

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

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

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī Uṭaiyār śrī-vijaya-rājendra-devar

⟨2⟩ kalyā(ṇa)puram Eṟin=tu koṭu-van=ta tuvārapālakam

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ kalyā(ṇa)puram • The ṇa looks like yā. — ⟨2⟩ koṭu-van=ta • koṇṭuvanta in modern Tamil.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ Door-guardian brought by the lord king Vijayarājendra after destroying Kalyāṇapuram.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1907–08 (ARIE/1907-1908/C/1908/24).

Edited and translated in Nilakanta Sastri 1955, in Srinivasan 1987.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on photos (E. Francis, 2013).

Primary

[NS1] Nilakanta Sastri, K. A. 1935. The Cōḷas. Vol. I. To the accession of Kulōttunga I. Madras: University of Madras. Pages 275–276.

[NS2] Nilakanta Sastri, K. A. 1955. The Cōḷas. 2nd edition revised. Madras University Historical Series 9. Madras: University of Madras. Page 255.

[S] Srinivasan, P.R. 1987. “Epigraphical study.” In: Darasuram. Epigraphical Study. Étude architecturale. Étude iconographique. Edited by Françoise L’Hernault. Mémoires Archéologiques 16. Paris: EFEO. Page 22, item a.I.

Secondary

ARIE 1907–08. G.O. No. 574, 17th July 1908. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1907-1908. Edited by V. Venkayya. No place, 1908. Page 42, appendix C/1908, item 24.

[S] Davis, Richard H. 1997. Lives of Indian images. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pages 51–87.

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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Door-guardian brought by the lord king Vijayarājendra after destroying Kalyāṇapuram.

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