# Tārācuram / Darasuram, Airavateśvara temple, dvārapāla

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00601

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00601.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## 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.

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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.