# Madras Museum plates, time of Uttama Cōḻa, year 16

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01004

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01004.xml

Languages: Sanskrit [Grantha, Tamil], Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-15 15:59 (9615181), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
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## 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.

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## Edition

### Seal

1. Anuṣṭubh

⟨1⟩ nyāyānāṁ śāsanaṁ kurvvat
trāsanaṁ (catra)bhūbhr̥tāṁ
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?⟨e⟩va vāṭakeṣv atimānappāṭi-karuvuḷān·pāṭīti vāṭaka-dvaya-jātāṁs
tantuvā(y)ā⟨1r4=4⟩ntasy-aiva hares tulā-prasthādi-mānasaMbhūteṣv
arttheṣu hema-vr̥ddhy-upanateṣv artthe⟨ṣu⟩ ⟨1r5=5⟩ cāyavyayālokināṁ
śrī-kāryya-kr̥tām abhāvāt· sa E⟨va⟩ rājā śrī-kāryya-kara⟨1r6=6⟩ṇāya tān
eva sva⟨ya⟩n nyayuṅkta{ḥ} ∥

1. Sragdharā

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· ∥

2.

Āyavyayāv ath-ālikhya coḻāniyama-vā⟨1r10=10⟩sibhiḥ [|]
māsa-krameṇa c-aikaikan darśanīyau kuḍuMbibhiḥ [∥]

3.

rāja-vastra-kr̥tām 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?⟨u⟩kaviraṉā

## Bibliography

Described by E. Hultzsch in ARIE 1890–91 (1/2) (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 (1/2). 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.