# Kōlār, Kōlārammā temple, time of Rājendra Cōḻa, no year

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilOutsideTN00001

Repository: Tamil Outside of Tamil Nadu (varia)
(tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilOutsideTN00001.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-14 17:47 (bb013b9), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
(b2f53ec)

## Summary

Construction of a maṇḍapa.

## Palaeographic description

Medial i and ī.

Medial u and ū interchangeable.

Letter ṉa with long vertical stroke.

Sanskrit spelling influenced by the Dravidian substrate.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

rājen¡t!⟨d⟩ra-cōḻa-devar tiru-nāmattāl kaṭampaṉākkai-nāṭṭu
kanaka-pa⟨r⟩vva¡d!⟨t⟩am-āna-c c¡u!⟨ū⟩ḻkal-malai-k k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ Iṭṭakirai
tripuvaṉaiyaṉ makaḷ ⟨2⟩ jakkiyappai Eṭuppitta-t tiru-c-cuṟṟu-maṇṭakam

śrī-rājen¡t!⟨d⟩ra-cōḻa-devaṉ

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pa⟨r⟩vva¡d!⟨t⟩am ⬦ pavvadam Rice 1905. — ⟨1⟩ tripuvaṉaiyaṉ ⬦
tripuvaṉaiyaṉ Rice 1905. — ⟨1⟩ c¡u!⟨ū⟩ḻkal ⬦ cūḻkal Rice 1905.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–2⟩ In the glorious name of the king Rājendracōḻa, ⟨this is⟩ the
glorious surrounding hall (maṇṭakam[1]) that Jakkiyappai, daughter of
Tribhuvana of Iṭṭakirai, had built below (kīḻ[2]) the Cūḻkal hill
(cūḻkal-malai), alias the golden mountain (kanaka-parvata), in the
Kaṭampaṉākkaināṭu.

⟨3⟩ The glorious king Rājendracōḻa.

## Commentary

Inscription engraved in circle around the a lotus figure sculpted on a
ceiling. In the middle of the petal is another inscription (EC 10 Kl
116) stating that Jakeya, son of Tribhuvanayya and thus brother of
Jakkiyappai, had this lotus figure made.

## Bibliography

Edited and translated in Rice 1905 (EC 10 Kl 115) (5 epigraphical
lines).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on EFEO pictures (2017).

Rice 1905, № Kl 115

[1] Sanskrit maṇdapa.

[2] That is, "at the feet of".