Uttiramērūr, Sundaravaradaperumāḷ, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 10

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Unfinished inscription. Sundaravaradaperumāḷ, north wall.

Palaeographic description: The puḷḷi is used, in the form of a ondulating vertical stroke.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00103.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00103.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-vic¡a!ya-tan·ti-vik·kirama-parumaṟ·ku yāṇ·ṭu pat·t-āvatu kāliyū

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kāliyū • The inscription stops short here (Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928, p. 158, n. 1). Evidently kāliyūr-k-kōṭṭatu was intended, followed presumably by taṉ kūṟṟu Uttaramēru-c-caturvvetimaṅkalattu sabhaiyōm or a variant of it. Compare other inscriptions from Uttiramērūr.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Tenth year of the victorious king Tantivikkiramaparumaṉ.¹

⟨1⟩ ⟨in⟩ the Kāliyū⟨r-k-kōṭṭam⟩

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1897–98 (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/51).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.334). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 103).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2019) and ASI estampage “AR_C0166_1922-23” available on BharatSHRI, Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (accessed 2026-06-23).

Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 158, item 334.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 344, item 103.

Secondary

[ARIE] 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 17, appendix B/1898, item 51.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Dantivikramavarman.

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