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) [Tamil (tamil)].

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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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