Uttiramērūr, Vaikuṇṭha-Perumāḷ, time of Parakesarivarman, year 12

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Procedure of election to the village committees.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Uttiramērūr (tfa-uttiramerur-epigraphy).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī mat¡i!rai koṇṭa [kō-p-para]kēca[r]i-va(r)mmarkku yāṇṭu pa¡ṉ!ira⟨ṇ⟩ṭu Āvatu Uttiramēru-c(·)-catu⟨r⟩vvedi¡mm!aṅ(·)kalattu sabhaiyōm Ivv-āṇṭu mutal Eṅkaḷ ūr śrī-mu¡ka!-p paṭi Āñai-

⟨2⟩ yi(ṉ)āl tattanū(r m)¡u!vē(nta)vēḷāṉ Iruntu vāriyam-āka Āṭṭ’ oru-k-kālum sa¿mma?v¿ā?t(·)sara-vāriyamun tōṭṭa-vāriyamum Ēri{ṭu}-vāriyamum Iṭuvata(ṟ)ku vyavasthai cey-

⟨3⟩ ta paric’ āvatu ...

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ Iṭuvata(ṟ)ku ⬦ Iṭuvataṟku V • The letter ṟ seems to have been corrected from k.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ 12th year of the king Parakesarivarman who took Maturai.

⟨1–3⟩ This is the manner (pāric’ āvatu), in which, We, the members of the assembly of Uttirameruccaturvvedimaṅgala, made a deliberation / settlement (vyavasthai), according to a royal order (śrī-mukha-p paṭi)¹, Tattanūr Mūvēntavēḷāṉ sitting ⟨with us⟩, as per order (āñai-y-iṉ-āl), so as to establish (iṭuvataṟku²), from this year onwards, ⟨in⟩ our village, as committees (vāriyam-āka), one time (oru-k-kālum) per year (āṭṭu), the annual committee (samvatsara-vāriyam), the garden committee (tōṭṭa-vāriyam), and the tank committee (ēri-vāriyam).

Translation by Venkayya 1908

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Commentary

Parāntaka I Cōḻa according to Venkayya 1908 (918/919 CE)and Mahalingam 1989 (919 CE).

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1897–98 (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/1).

Edited and translated in Venkayya 1908 (ARASI 1904-1905). Edited and translated in Nilakanta Sastri 1932.

Re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2023), based on autopsy and on photographs (2019), with input from participants to the DHARMA workshop held in Pondicherry in August 2023.

Primary

[V] Venkayya, V. 1908. “Two inscriptions at Uttaramallūr.” ASI, Annual Report 1904-1905, pp. 131–145. Pages 136–139, item A.

[S] Nilakanta Sastri, K. A. 1932. Studies in Cōḷa history and administration. Madras: University of Madras. Pages 163–164, 169–170, item A.

Secondary

ARIE 1897–98. G.O. Nos. 1093-1096, 29th August 1898. Epigraphy. Directing that the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for 1897-98 be forwarded to the Government of India, approving provisionally his programme of work for the next fields season. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1898. Page 16, appendix B, item 1.

Mahalingam, T. V. 1989. A topographical list of inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states. Volume Three: Chingleput district. New Delhi: ICHR. Pages 266–267, item Cg. 1074.

Notes

1. Alternatively: "according to a royal order ⟨sent to / of / concerning⟩ our village".
2. Literally: "to put".

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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12th year of the king Parakesarivarman who took Maturai.

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Parāntaka I Cōḻa according to <bibl><ptr target="bib:Venkayya1908_01"/></bibl> (918/919 CE)and <bibl><ptr target="bib:Mahalingam1989_01"/></bibl> (919 CE).

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Reported in <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1897-1898"/></bibl> (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/1).

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Edited and translated in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Venkayya1908_01"/></bibl> (ARASI 1904-1905). Edited and translated in <bibl><ptr target="bib:NilakantaSastri1932_01"/></bibl>.

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