SII 3.175: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri

Alternative title: “XV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARTHIVENDRAVARMAN OR PARTHIVENDRADHIPATIVARMAN, ‘WHO TOOK THE HEAD OF VIRA-PANDYA.’ No. 175.—ON A ROCK IN THE BACKYARD OF A PRIVATE HOUSE AT TAYANUR. No. 364 of 1909.”

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This record supplies interesting information about a bond dealing with money transactions. It states that two brothers having lent money to the villagers of Mīyvaḻi Tāyaṉūr, in the fifth year of Pārthivēndravarman, received their dues back with interest but could not so endorse on the original document which was now lost. Hence they declared that the document, if it should ever come out, must be considered ‘a dead document,’ i.e., become null and void.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0175.

File path: SII03/DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0175.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] koppārttiventirapaṉmaṟku (y)āṇṭu 5 Āvatu Umpaḷanāṭṭu meṟku(ṭikiḻā)-
⟨2⟩ ṉ tiraṉ ¿p?ūtaiyaṉu(m) Ivaṉṟa(m)pi ti(ra)ṉ (Ula)kaṭikaḷum Ivviruvoñ ciṅkapuran(āṭṭu) miyvaḻittāya(ṉūrūrā)-
⟨3⟩ (rk)ku Oṭṭikkaittiṭṭiṭṭu kuṭutta paricāvatu Ivarkaḷ pakkal nāṅkaḷ muppati(ṉ kaḻañ)cu poṉ kuṭuttu [******]
⟨4⟩ [******] tiṉāl nāṟpattaiṅkaḻañcu poṉṉuṭaiyomāy Ip{poṉṉa}poṉṉaṟa koṇṭu Ivvo-
⟨5⟩ laip paṭṭuk keṭṭamaiyil Ivvolai meṟṟoṉ(ṟap)paṭil Avvolai cāvolai yāka Oṭṭikku [*******]
⟨6⟩ [********] tiraṉ ¿p?ūtaiyaṉu(m) (tira)ṉulakaṭikaḷum Ivviruvom |||~

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ ¿p?⟨m⟩ūtaiyaṉu(m) • Read mūtaiyaṉum as in No. 362 of 1909 below.

⟨6⟩ ¿p?⟨m⟩ūtaiyaṉu(m) • Read mūtaiyaṉum as in No. 362 of 1909 below.

Translation by Krishna Sastri 1920

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 5th year (of the reign) of king Pārthivēndravarman, the following was put into writing and given with consent to the residents (ūrār) of Mīyvaḻi Tāyaṉūr in Śiṅgapura-nāḍu by the two individuals Tīraṉ Mūdayyaṉ, the chief of Mērkuḍi in Umbaḷa-nāḍu and his younger brother Tīraṉ Ulagaḍigaḷ:—

(L. 3.) Having deposited thirty kaḻañju of gold with these (and) being entitled to receive forty-five kaḻañju of gold, we received this gold completely . . . . . . . The (original) document being lost, we two Tīraṉ Mūdayyaṉ and Tīraṉ Ulagaḍigaḷ together declare . . . . . . . . . . that that document, if it is discovered at any future time, shall become a dead document.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 3.175 by Krishna Sastri 1920 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1920. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume III: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil country. Part III: Inscriptions of Aditya I, Parantaka I, Madiraikonda, Rajakesarivarman, Parantaka II, Uttama-Chola, Parthivendravarman and Aditya-Karikala and the Tiruvalangadu plates of Rajendra-Chola I. South Indian Inscriptions 3.3. Madras: Government Press. Pages 351–352, item 175.

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