Tiruppukuḻi, Vijayaraghavaperumāḷ temple, time of Vīra Harihararāya

Editor: Dorotea Operato.

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv39p0i0217.

Summary: This inscription states that the Kaikkōḷars and other members of the Left-Hand caste made some contribution for burning a lamp in the same temple.

Hand description:

No distinction between n and , nor between e and ē.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: (05cda97), last modified (bce70f0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

man·mahā-maṇḍaleśvara harirāya vibhāṭan· bhāṣaikku ⟨2⟩ [2+] puva yā kaṇṭa camuttiṟāti-pati śrī v¿i?⟨ī⟩ra-harihara-rāyaṉukku-c cel ⟨3⟩ lā niṉṟa bahunya saṁ-vaṟsaratta ṛṣabha-nāyaṟṟ-up pūrva-pakṣattu nā ⟨4⟩ yaṟṟu-k kiḻamaiyum tiṟitikaiyum peṟṟa puṇar-pūcattu nāḷ

jayaṅko ⟨5⟩ ṇṭa-c¡o!⟨ō⟩ḻa-maṇṭalattu tāmaṟ-koṭṭattu-t tiruppati tirup⟨6⟩puṭkuḻi nāyaṉāṟku tiru-viḷakkukku Oṉṟu pātiyum Ivv-ūr ⟨7⟩ tiru-k-kaikk¡o!⟨ō⟩ḷaṟkum kaikk¡o!⟨ō⟩ḷaṟkum Em-perumāṉ Aṭi⟨8⟩yāṟkum maṟṟum Iṭaṅkaiyil Uḷḷāṟkum Oṉṟu pātiyum ⟨9⟩ Āka Iṭaṅkai-vari Iṭaṅkaiyai-y n¡o!⟨ō⟩kkivarum pala-vari māniyam ⟨10⟩ Āka viṭṭa Aḷavukkum caṅk¡e!⟨ē⟩ta camaiyattāṟar pukuta-k kaṭavat’ alla ⟨11⟩ Eṉṟu colla-k kallilum cempilum veṭṭi-k kuṭutt¡o!⟨ō⟩m

⟨12⟩ Inta tarmattukku vir¡o!⟨ō⟩tam paṇṇiṉavaṉ keṅkai karaiyil ⟨13⟩ kurāl pacuvai-k koṉṟa pāpamuṅ koṇṭa nā [1+] paṭu-t-tur¡o!⟨ō⟩kam Āka⟨14⟩-k kaṭavatu

Inta taṟmam caṉtiṟātitta-varaiyum naṭakka-k kaṭavatu

Ippaṭi⟨15⟩kku Ivai {Ivai} Iṭaṅkai kāmaveḷān¡e!⟨ē⟩ṉ Eḻuttu teṟku Āka ticai Iṉ-ṉāṉku Ellaikku Uṭpaṭṭa ⟨16⟩ naṉ-cey <nilam> 6 li In-nilam Aṟu veliyum Ivv-ūr nattamum cettalai-t tiṭallum mēl n¡o!⟨ō⟩kkiṉa mara⟨17⟩mum kīḻ-n¡o!⟨ō⟩kkiṉa kiṇaṟum Uṭpa⟨ṭ⟩ṭatu Ivarkku Iṟṟai-nāḷ viṟṟu-k kuṭuttu-k koḷvat’ āṉa Emmil i⟨18⟩cainta vilai-p-poruḷ [5+] ṭu naṟkāciṉāl Ākra-vāram <paṇam> 9 10 Ip-paṇam toṇṇūṟṟukkum Ivv-ūr ⟨19⟩ nāṉku Ellaikku Uṭpaṭṭa naṉ-cey <nilam> Aṟu veliyum nattamum cettalai-t tiṭarum kuḷamum vilai Āvat’ ākavum ⟨20⟩ Ip-paṇam toṇṇūṟum Ik-kiḻppaṭa paṟṟi-k koṇṭu Intaṅ karuppūr viṟṟu vilai-p piṟamāṇam pa⟨21⟩ṇṇi-k kuṭutt¡e!⟨ē⟩

Uṭaiyār tiru-v-ampalam-uṭaiyār toṇṭai-māṉāṟkku kaḷañ⟨ca⟩lūr kiḻavaṉ ⌈ ⟨22⟩ cellappiḷḷai-y-āṉa koṉār¡e!⟨ē⟩

  • Ip-paṭikku Ivai cempiyaṉ t¡e!⟨ē⟩ṟaṉār Eḻuttu
  • ⟨23⟩ viśvesvara t¡e!⟨ē⟩va¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ puṅkaṉūr kiḻavaṉ Eḻuttu
  • ⟨24⟩ Ivai tiru-vīraṭṭ’ āṉa muṭaiyāṉ Eḻuttu
  • puṅkaṉūr kiḻavaṉ Umaiyuruva [5+] ⟨25⟩ Eḻuttu
  • Ivai peru-maṅkala muṭaiyān tiru-meṉi Aḻakiyāṉ Eḻuttu

⟨26⟩ Ip-paṭikku Ivai Ākkāṭu kiḻāṉ cellappiḷḷaiyān¡e!⟨ē⟩n ⟨27⟩ Ip-paṭi Aṟiv¡e!⟨ē⟩[5+] ṭunan

Apparatus

⟨15⟩ Ivai ⬦ SII • Probably a surplus.

Commentary

This inscription is dated to A.D. 1398 according to Karuppiah 2020.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1915-1916 (ARIE/1915-1916/C/1916/217).

Edited in Karuppiah 2020 (SII 36.332).

This digital edition by Dorotea Operato, based on Shama Sastry and Lakshminarayan Rao 1939.

Primary

[SII] Karuppiah, K. 2020. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXIX: Inscriptions collected during the year 1916. South Indian Inscriptions 39. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Pages 235–236, item 217.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1915-1916. G.O. No. 99, 29th August 1916. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1915-1916. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1916. Page 84, appendix C/1916, item 217.