Madras Museum plates, time of Uttama Cōḻa, year 16

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: An incomplete set of 5 copper plates. At least one plate at the beginning and probably one plate only at the end are missing.

Palaeographic description: No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Languages: Sanskrit (san) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)], Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01004.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01004.xml.

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⟨1⟩ nyāyānāṃ śāsanaṃ kurvvat trāsanaṃ (catra)bhūbhṛtāṃ śāsanaM bhūpater etat∙ parakesarivarmmaṇaḥ

Plates: Sanskrit portion

⟨Page 1r⟩
⟨1r1=1⟩ yati sma [||] sa ca teṣāṁ yugma-vaṁśa-paṭṭaśālinān teṣv eva karuvuḷān·pāṭi-kaṁsahappā-
⟨1r2=2⟩ dy-atimānappādy-eṟṟuvaḻiccerīty ākhyāteṣu vāṭakeṣu tathā tad dhema-śata-dvayan nyadha-
⟨1r3=3⟩ tta teṣv ¿a?va vāṭakeṣv atimānappāṭi-karuvuḷān·pāṭīti vāṭaka-dvaya-jātāṁs tantuvā(y)ā-
⟨1r4=4⟩ ntasy-aiva hares tulā-prasthādi-mānasaMbhūteṣv arttheṣu hema-vṛddhy-upanateṣv artthe⟨ṣu⟩
⟨1r5=5⟩ cāyavyayālokināṁ śrī-kāryya-kṛtām abhāvāt· sa E⟨va⟩ rājā śrī-kāryya-kara-
⟨1r6=6⟩ ṇāya tān eva sva⟨ya⟩n nyayuṅkta{ḥ} || dātavyam māsa-mātre kuḍubaka-sahitan taṇḍu-
⟨1r7=7⟩ la-prastha-yugman taila-prasthañ ca coḻāniyama-nilayanair ūraka-stha-tridhāmne [|] nā-
⟨1r8=8⟩ deyaṁ rāja-bhāvyaṁ karam iti madhur-onmāthinā śūnya-bhāvāc coḷen-ājñāpitai-
⟨1r9=9⟩ s tair atha nagara-janair apy anujñātam etat· || Āyavyayāv ath-ālikhya coḻāniyama-vā-
⟨1r10=10⟩ sibhiḥ [|] māsa-krameṇa c-aikaikan darśanīyau kuḍuMbibhiḥ [||] rāja-vastra-kṛtām eṣāñ catu-
⟨1r11=11⟩ r-vvāṭa-nivāsināM [|] hareḥ kāryya-niyuktaiś ca sārddham ūraka-vāsinaḥ ||

Plates: Tamil portion

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨1r11=11⟩ śrī-kō-p-para-

⟨1r12=12⟩ -kēcari-panmarāṉa śrīUttama-cōḻadevarkku yāṇṭu patiṉ āṟāvatu Uṭai-

⟨Page 1v⟩

⟨1v1=13⟩ yār kaccippēṭṭu kōyiliṉuḷaḷāl teṟkil cittira-maṇṭapatt' eḻun-

⟨1v2=14⟩ t-aruḷi ...-

⟨Page 6r⟩

⟨6r13=121⟩ ṉakarattōm Inta śāsanam Eḻuttu veṭṭiṉa Aṟantāṅki porm¿i?kaviraṉā

Bibliography

Described by E. Hultzsch in ARIE 1890-91 (p. 4, § 9).

Edited and translated in Krishna Sastri 1920 (SII 3.128), with visual documentation.

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1920. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume III: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil country. Part III: Inscriptions of Aditya I, Parantaka I, Madiraikonda, Rajakesarivarman, Parantaka II, Uttama-Chola, Parthivendravarman and Aditya-Karikala and the Tiruvalangadu plates of Rajendra-Chola I. South Indian Inscriptions 3.3. Madras: Government Press. Pages 264–276, item 128, plates IX-X.

Secondary

ARIE 1890-91. G.O. No. 452, 10th June 1891. Epigraphy. Recording the Government Epigraphist's progress report for October 1890 to March 1891. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1891.

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