Koṭumpāḷūr, Mūvarkōyil, donation, time of Bhūti Vikramakesarin

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00001.

Summary: Donation of a maṭha by Bhūti Vikramakesarin and provisions for the cult of Maheśvara by the same in the temple that he had founded.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy).

Version: (cf4a6dc), last modified (e8ce250).

Edition

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I. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

tad-vaṃśyaḥ para-vīrajin maḷava-jic chrī-⟨2⟩‡vīra-tuṃgo ⟨’⟩muto

a

jā‡to ⟨’⟩smād ati-vīra Ity anupamas tasmād abhūt saṃ⟨3⟩‡ghakṛt∙

b

Asmāc chrī-nṛpa-‡kesarī vivavṛdhe yo bāla Evoragai⟨4⟩s

c

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d

Bibliography

Reported in Venkayya 1908 (ARIE/1907-1908/B/1907/129).

Edited in Vaidyanatha Aiyar and Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929 (IPS 14); in Nilakanta Sastri 1933, with a facsimile; in Srinivasa Rao 1979 (SII 23.129).

Translated in Srinivasa Aiyar 1941 (IPS 14), Nilakanta Sastri 1933.

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on the facsimile in Nilakanta Sastri 1933, autopsy and photographs (Emmanuel Francis).

Primary

[IPS] Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. and Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Inscriptions (texts) of the Pudukkottai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 14, pages 9–10.

[S] Nilakanta Sastri, K. A. 1933. “The Koḍumbāḷūr inscription of Vikrama-Kēsarī.” JORM 7 (1), pp. 1–10.

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1979. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXIII: inscriptions collected during the year 1906-07. South Indian Inscriptions 23. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director-General). Item 129, pages 101–102.

Secondary

Venkayya, V. 1908. G.O. No. 574, 17th July 1908. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1907-1908. No place. Page 15, appendix B/1907, item 129.

Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. and Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Chronological list of inscriptions of the Pudukkóttai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 14, page TBC.

Srinivasa Aiyar, K. R. 1941. Inscriptions in the Pudukkóttai state: translated into English. Part I: Early, Pallava and Cola inscriptions. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 14, page TBC.