Tiruniṟaṅkoṉṟai, cave, no king, no year

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Construction of a hall (maṇṭakam) for the Jain temple of Tirunaṟuṅ Koṇṭai and of the Jain temple (kōyil) of Caturmukaṉ.

Languages: Sanskrit (san), Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-09-09 12:00 (265f3f1), last modified 2025-01-07 13:03 (00d8c45).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī tirunaṟuṅ koṇtai-k kiḻai-p-paḷḷikku

⟨2⟩ k¡i!ḻ maṇṭakamu⟨ñ⟩ caturmuka-t tiru-k-kōyiluñ ceyvittār

⟨3⟩ (kā)viri-t-te(ṉ)-karai mirai-nāṭṭu tala-k-kuṭi vicaiya-nalluḻāṉ-ākiya

⟨4⟩ kumaraṉ tēvaṉ nilamum ñāyaṟum [****]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

⟨1⟩ Prosperity!

⟨1–4⟩ He who had the hall (maṇṭakam³) east of the Kiḷaippaḷḷi¹ of the glorious one with a fragrant (naṟum) tuft (koṇṭai⁴) and the glorious temple of Caturmukaṉ² built [is] Kumaraṉ Tēvaṉ alias Vicaiyanalluḻaṉ of Talakkuṭi in the Miraināṭu [on] the northern bank of the Kāvēri (kāviri).

⟨4⟩ The earth and the sun […]⁵

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939-1943 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1939-1940/306).

Edited in Dayalan 2005.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Dayalan 2005, not sufficiently reliable. The distinction between vowel akṣaras and markers, and between Grantha and Tamil letters, cannot be implemented with full confidence. The present digital edition is thus provisional and should be revised with proper visual documentation.

Primary

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1317, item 80.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1939-1943. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu and N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 66, appendixes B/1939-1940, item 306.

Notes

1. Sanskrit maṇḍapa.
2. We presume that tirunaṟuṅ koṇtai is the name of a major deity of the site.
3. Possibly a formula wishing that these constructions last as long as the earth and the sun.

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