# Mahābalipuram, time of Vīrarājendra, year 9

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0042

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0042.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

v¡i!⟨ī⟩⟨ra⟩rājendra⟨2⟩cōḻa-devarku yāṇ⟨3⟩ṭu On·pat-āvatu

tiru⟨4⟩-k-kaṭal-mallai Em p⟨5⟩erumānuk=ku ci(ṟi)tavūr-ā⟨6⟩¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a
narasi⟨ṁ⟩ha-maṅkala⟨7⟩ttu mahāsabhai⟨8⟩yōm tiruviṭaiyā⟨9⟩ṭṭamāha viṭṭa
Eṅkaḷ ⟨10⟩ Ūr Ukkāviri-vā⟨y⟩k⟨11⟩kālukku-t tek=ku maṅ⟨12⟩kala-c-ceṟum
yin=ta ku⟨13⟩ṟiyān· niṉṟa nārāyaṇaṉ⟨14⟩māṅkaḷ¡u!⟨ū⟩r-āṉa
kūttāṭi⟨15⟩(pa)ṭṭi Āka taṭi 5-ṉā(l) ku⟨16⟩ḻi (2 1000)
I¡ṉ-ṉ!⟨n-n⟩āyaṉārku ⟨17⟩ tiruviṭaiyāṭṭamāha⟨18⟩Iṟai Iḻicci(-k
kuṭu)⟨19⟩⟨tt⟩ōm Iv-ūr mah⟨20⟩⟨āsa⟩bhaiyōm

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ śrī • SII treats this word as an honourific prefix to the name of
the king that follows.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1886–87 (ARIE/1886-1887/II/1886-1887/1).

Edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1.42), with English translation.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on Hultzsch 1890.

### Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions,
Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram,
Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras
Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian
Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Pages 68–69, item 42.

### Secondary

ARIE 1886–87. G.O. No. 1462, 24th October 1887. Archaeology. Noting with
satisfaction the work performed by Dr. Hultzsch, Epigraphist, from 21st
November 1886 to 20th September 1887. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor
Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1887. Page 5,
appendix II, item 1.