SII 12.202: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Alternative title: “No. 202. (A.R. No. 104 of 1921). MĒLPĀḌI, CHITTOOR TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA (RIGHT OF ENTRANCE) IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE SŌMANĀTHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.”

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This inscription of the 17th year registers a remission of a number of specified taxes on the village Marudampākkam for conducting a festival to the god Chōḷēndraśiṅgamuḍaiya-Nāyanār by Amarābharaṇar alias Śīyagaṇgaṉ, who calls himself ‘Lord of Kuvaḷālapura’, ‘descendant of the Gaṅga family’ and ‘lord of the Kāvērī and Nandigiri’. This chief appears to have been a subordinate of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva and was probably identical with Amarābharaṇaṉ Śīyagaṅgaṉ, the patron of Pavaṇandi (Bhavanandi), the author of the Tamil Grammar Naṉṉūl, who figures in records of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III, dated in the 27th and 34th years;1 but it has to be mentioned that the interval between the latter date and that of the present epigraph is nearly 48 years, unless we assign the present inscription to Kōpperuñjinga I. Śīyagaṅga was the son of Chōḷēndrasiṁha and was also known as Śiṟaimīṭṭa-perumāḷ2 and Uttamachōḷa-Gaṅga.3

From an inscription at Mēlpāḍi itself we know that the ancient name of the Sōmanāthēśvara temple was Chōḷēndrasiṁhēśvaram4 and that it was constructed by Rājarāja I in the city of Vīra-Rājāśrayapuram, newly founded by him after cancelling the old surname of Mēṟpāḍi viz. Vīranārāyaṇapuram.5

The village Marudambākkam may be identified with the village of the same name in the Walajapet taluk of the North Arcot district.

Language: Tamil (tam).

Version: (5e30cca), last modified (0ec4724).

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] cakalapuvanaccakkaravattikaḷ ko⟨p⟩peruñ-

⟨2⟩ ciṅkatevar(k)ku <yāṇṭu> (10 7)~vatu śrīmaṟ kuvaḷālapuraparame-

⟨3⟩ śvaraṉ kaṅkakuloṟpavaṉ kāverivallavaṉ nan=ti-

⟨4⟩ ki(ri)nāta(ṉ) ciyakaṅka(r) ⟨O⟩lai [|] marutampā⟨k⟩kattu Ūravar ka-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭu viṭai tan⟨ta⟩tāvatu [|] taṅkaḷ Ūr tevatāṉa tiruviṭaiyāṭṭa

⟨6⟩ śrīpaṇṭārapātikku Antarāyappāti Uḷpaṭa Ūraṭaṅ(ki)l naṉcai puṉcai

⟨7⟩ kaṭamaiyum śrīpaṇṭārappāti Uḷpaṭa veṭṭi taṉiyāḷ ciṟupāṭi-

⟨8⟩ kāval kaṇkāṇi Eṭuttukkoṭṭi Arimukkai kaṇak(ka)mikuti Uḷ-

⟨9⟩ paṭṭa pala nellāyaṅkaḷum veṭṭip puṭavai mutaṟtaraṅ kāttikai kā-

⟨10⟩ cuvakai na(t)kācu muḷḷa(ṭi) Iṉavari Erimiṉpāṭṭam Ācuvikaḷperk⟨ka⟩ṭamai

⟨11⟩ Uḷḷiṭṭa pala kācukaṭamaiyum Accuttaṟi paṟaittaṟi cāliyattaṟi Uḷḷiṭṭa ta-

⟨12⟩ ṟikka⟨ṭ⟩mai velippayaṟu tarappaṭi A(ri)ci tū(ṇi) nilattiṟap(pu)kkaṭamai cekkukaṭamai

⟨13⟩ perkkaṭamai Iruntuparimāṟuvār perkkaṭamaiyum ceṭṭikaḷ vāṇiyar

⟨14⟩ perkkaṭamaiyum vālmañcāṭikkaṭamaiyum pā(li)kkap pāṭṭamum paḻaṅku-

⟨15⟩ ṭi ni⟨k⟩ki putukkuṭiyāy Eṟikkoṇṭa maṉṟāṭikaḷ perkkaṭamaiyum po-

⟨16⟩ ṉvari veṇṭukoḷ nallerutu (na)ṟkiṭā kāṇikkai kāttikaippaccai

⟨17⟩ pu(ṭa)vai māṭaiyum ma⟨ṟ⟩ṟum nām ko(ḷḷu)m Eppeṟpa(ṭ)ṭa Aṉaittuvari-

⟨18⟩ kaḷum Uḷpaṭa Ivvūr nāṟpāṟkellaikkum Uḷpaṭṭa melnokki(ya)

⟨19⟩ maramum kiḻnokkiya kiṇaṟum Uṭpaṭa patiṉeḻāvatu cittirai mātam

⟨20⟩ mutal coḷentiraciṅkamuṭaiya nāyanārt tirunā(ḷu)⟨k⟩ku veṇṭuvaṉa-

⟨21⟩ ⟨va⟩tukku veṭṭum Amarāparaṇarāṉa ciyakaṅkaṉ viṭṭeṉ [*******]

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.202 by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 123, item 202.

Notes

  1. 1. S.I.I. Vol. III, No. 62. See also A.R. Nos. 10 of 1893, 116 of 1922 and 432 of 1928-29.

  2. 2. A.R. Nos. 88 of 1889 and 589 of 1919.

  3. 3. A.R. Nos. 551 and 562 of 1906.

  4. 4. S.I.I. Vol. III, pp. 22 and 29.

  5. 5. A.R. No. 101 of 1921 and Ep. Rep. for 1921, p. 97.