Tūci, Vaikuṇṭha Perumāḷ temple, time of Kampavikramavarman

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00339.

Summary: IAR 1969-70 (no. 39, p. 50): “This incomplete inscription in Tamil language and characters of the ninth century A.D., engraved on the tripattakumuda of the north and south walls of the Vaikuṇṭha Perumāḷ temple, is dated in the twenty-fifth year in the reign of Pallava Vijaya-Kampavarman. It mentions Cittiramēkataṭākam in Kaliyūr-kōttam and seems to record a gift of land endowed to a deity called Irunta-Perumāṉaṭikaḷ as devadāna and made tax-free for conducting a festival for seven days from Vicākam to Tiruvōṇam in the month of Vaikāci every year.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

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Commentary

From Hultzsch 1893 (ARIE 1892-1893, p. 6) and Hultzsch 1903 (SII 3, p. 8), we learn that the temple name is Vīṟṟirunta Perumāḷ and that the Pallava king is named Kō-Vicaiya-Kampa-Vikramavarman.

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1893 (ARIE 1892-1893, p. 6), in Hultzsch 1903 (SII 3, p. 8), and in IAR 1969-70 (no. 39, p. 50)>.

Recorded in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 339).

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

Primary

[IAR] IAR 1969-70. Indian Archaeology 1969-70: A Review. By B. B. Lal. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1973. Page 56, plate 19.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 339, page 738.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1893. G.O. Nos. 642-43, 14th August 1893. Epigraphy. Directing, with remarks, Dr. Hultzsch's report on Epigraphical work done during 1892-93 be forwarded to the Govrnement of India and approving of the programme for the next field season. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 6.

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1903. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume III: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil country. Part II: Inscriptions of Virarajendra I., Kulottunga-chola I., Vikrama-chola and Kulottunga III. South Indian Inscriptions 3.2. Madras: Governement Press. Pages 235–236, item 103.