Tiruvōttūr, Vedapurīśvara temple, time of Parakesarivarman, year 14

Authors of digital edition: Nicolas Cane (nica), Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Temple de Vedapurīśvara, sur la jagatī de la face sud du sanctuaire de Cidambareśvara. Uttama Cōḻa, 984-85 CE.

Palaeographic description: No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

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

Repository: Cempiyaṉ Mahādevī (tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCempiyanMahadevi00011.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-p-para-kēsaripanma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu 10 4l-āvatu tiru-v-ottūr mahā-devarkku tiru-nan=tāviḷakk’ erippa-
⟨2⟩ taṟkku vaitta Āṭu Uttama-cōḻa-mārāyan cūṟaiyiṟ pōka Uṭaiyār cempiyaṉ m¿ā?hā-deviyārkku viṇṇa-
⟨3⟩ ppañ ceyya Aruḷu-c-ceyya mīṇṭa Āṭu Iru-ṉūṟṟum Uṭaiyār vaitta tiru-nantā-viḷakkiṉukku cāvā mū-
⟨4⟩ vā-p pēr-āṭu śan¡t!r¿i?ti⟨t⟩ta-varai Iraṇṭu tiru-nan=tāviḷakk’ erippataṟkku pañca-vāra-k-kāl oṭokku nāḻiyāl tiṅkaḷ
⟨5⟩ pati¡n! aṟu nāḻi Uri Āḻākku neyyum kōyilukkē koṇṭu ceṉṟu tiru-v-uṇṇāḻikai-y-uṭaiyārkaḷu […]

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1899–1900 (ARIE/1899-1900/B/1900/104).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.114); in Swaminathan 2012 (SII 32.2.140); in Cane 2017 (no. 11), based on autopsy (2012-09).

Commented and translated into French in Cane 2017, p. 525ff.

This digital edition after Cane 2017, curated by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Item 114, page TBC.

[S] Swaminathan, S. 2012. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXII: inscriptions of the early Chola kings upto Uttama Chola. South Indian Inscriptions 32. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Part II, page TBC, item 140.

[C] Cane, Nicolas. 2017. “Cempiyaṉ-Mahādevī, reine et dévote : un « personnage épigraphique » du Xe siècle.” These de doctorat, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE). No place. [URL]. Page 802, item 11, figure TBC.

Secondary

ARIE 1891–92. G.O., etc., Nos. 544-45, 6th August 1892. Epigraphy. Directing that certain reports containing the information called for by the Government of India in letter No. 1095--27-5, dated 27th May 1891, in connexion with --, be forwarded to that Govrnement. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1892. Page 54, appendix B/1900, item 104.

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