SII 1.148: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch

Alternative title: “PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 148. ON THE ROOF OF THE MAHĀMAṆḌAPA OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.”

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This fragment, which is dated in the fifteenth year of Ko-Parakesarivarman, contains an agreement made by the inhabitants of some village, who had received a certain sum of money from “the large holy stone-temple (i.e., the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Temple) at Kachchippeḍu (i.e., Kāñchīpuram).” From the interest of this sum, they pledged themselves to supply ghee for a lamp at the rate of 1 uṛakku per day or 7 nāṛis and 1 uri per mensem.¹ The measure to be used was a nāṛi, which was equal to a rājakesari.² As the Choḷa kings alternately bore the surnames Rājakesarin and Parakesarin,³ it must be assumed, that this measure was called after one of the predecessors of the king, to whose reign the inscription belongs. The writer of the inscription was the village-headman Nāga Alappaḍi.⁴

Language: Tamil (tam).

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⟨1⟩ kopparakesarivarmmakku yāṇṭu patiṉaiñcāvatu kāliyūrkkoṭṭattu [**********]
⟨2⟩ [*] r Ūrom kaiyyeḻuttukkaccippeṭṭupperiya tirukka[ṟṟaḷi] [**********]
⟨3⟩ yāṅkaḷ koṇṭu kaṭava poṉ tuḷai patiṉaṟu kaḻañ[cu] [**********]
⟨4⟩ ṉ palicaikkāka Oru ⟨na⟩n=tāviḷakkiṉukku nicatam Uḻakku ṉey [**********]
⟨5⟩ yarkaḷ vaḻi rājakecariyoṭokkunāḻiyāl tiṅkaḷ Eḻu nāḻi Uri ne[y] [**********]
⟨6⟩ (Ita)ṟtiṟampil dha(rmm)āsaṉamuḷḷiṭṭa tarmaveṇṭu kovukku nicatam kā [**********]
⟨7⟩ Ūrom Ūr colla Eḻutiṉeṉ Ivūr vicavaṉ nākaṉ Alappa[ṭi] [**********]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.148 by Hultzsch 1890 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Pages 141–142, item 148.

Notes

1. As 1 nāṛi is equal to 4 uṛakkus or 2 uris, 30 uṛakkus are exactly equal to 7 nāṛis and 1 uri.
2. The same measure is mentioned in line 4 of the fragment No. 146, and probably in line 13 of No. 150.
3. See lines 18 to 20 of the large Leyden grant in Dr. Burgess’ Arch. Survey of S. India, Vol. IV, p. 206. The rule holds good in the case of the two kings Rājarāja-deva and Rājendra-Choḷa-deva, Nos. 10 and 11 of the table on page 112, above.
4. Compare the village-headman Alappaḍi in No. 84.

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