Vēlūr, time of [Rājādhirāja], year lost

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0400139.

Summary: Portion of the meykkīrtti of Rājādhirāja I Cōḻa.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: (b9585e8), last modified (d9c7a93).

Edition

[unknown number of lost lines]
I. āciriyappā

⟨1⟩ [kaṉṉi kāvalar] [teṉṉa]var mūvaruḷ

1

va [5+] Iruvarukka⟨2⟩[ru]ḷi-k kāṉakam

2

Oruvaṉukkaḷittu-p porucilai ⟨3⟩ [ci]rccilaic cēralaṉ

3

vēlaikeḻu kāntaḷūr-[cā]⟨4⟩lai kalam aṟuppitt’

4

ilaṅkai-k-karaicai[yu]m a⟨5⟩laṅkal vallavaṉaiyuṅ

5

kaṉṉakucci ⟨6⟩ kāvalaṉaiyum poṉṉaṇi

6

muṭi-t-ta⟨7⟩lai taṭintu taṉ koṭippa[ṭ]ai y-ēvi-k

7

ka⟨8⟩ṉṉāṭakar viṭu kaṭakari puraḷat

8

taṉṉāṭaiyi⟨9⟩ṟ tamiḻpparaṇikoṇ ṭoṉṉār

9

vacci[ra]⟨10⟩neṭuvāḷ vicciyaṉ veruneḷitt’

10

[ci]⟨11⟩yoṭi vañciyampaṭaiyāl

11

āṅkavaṉ [pi]⟨12⟩tāvai mātāvoṭum catāmali

12

v¡i!⟨ī⟩ṅku n¡i!⟨ī⟩rppū⟨13⟩ṇṭ¡ui!⟨ū⟩r veñcamatt’ akappa[ṭu]tt’

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am{p}paṭai ⟨14⟩ Āhavamallaṉ payattoṭum

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varaviṭum O ⟨15⟩ ṟṟarai veru[va]rappiṭippitt’

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āṅkavar mā[na]⟨16⟩vil Āhavamallaṉ

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yāṅṅaṇam Aiñci⟨17⟩ṉaneṉṉa naṉkeḻuti-c

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celuttiya [pi]⟨18⟩taṉ puli-k-koṭi-p paṭaiñar

18

oṭṭalari vāraṇa [varacaik kaṭalpuraic]

19
[unknown number of lost lines]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–18) ... [portion of the meykkīrtti of Rājādhirāja I Cōḻa]

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/41).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.139).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923.

Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1923. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume IV: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada countries and Ceylon. South Indian Inscriptions 4. Madras: Government Press. Pages 13–14, item 139.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1888. G.O. No. 424, 20th April 1888. Archaeology. Recording letter from the Director-General forwarding Dr. Hultzsch's progress report from 21st September 1887 to 31st January 1888. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 5, appendixes I/1887-1888, item 41.