SII 14.4: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar

Alternative title: “EARLY PANDYAS. No. 4. (A.R. No. 480 of 1917.) KUTTĀLAM, TENKASI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE NORTH-SIDE OF THE KUṞṞĀLANĀTHA TEMPLE.”

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This incomplete record is dated in the 4th year and 360th day of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and mentions the gift of some donation by Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ, probably a petty chieftain of Pōliyūr, for a lamp in the temple of Tirukkuṟṟālattu-Bhaṭāra. This person a so figures in a record¹ from Tiruppattūr in the Rāmanāthapuram district, where he is mentioned with the other title of Teṉṉavaṉ Pallavaraiyaṉ.

Language: Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-09-08 19:01 (3992bd7), last modified 2025-07-03 14:51 (0ec4724).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||] komā
⟨2⟩ ṟañcaṭaiyarkku yāṇṭu
⟨3⟩ nālu nāḷ muṉṉūṟṟu
⟨4⟩ Aṟupatu Iññāṉāl
⟨5⟩ teṉavāra nāṭṭu-
⟨6⟩ t tirukkuṟṟa-
⟨7⟩ lattu bhaṭāra⟨r⟩k-
⟨8⟩ kup poḻiyūr
⟨9⟩ (A)raiyaṉāyiṉa
⟨10⟩ māṟaṉāccaṉ
⟨11⟩ Iravum paka-
⟨12⟩ lu muṭṭāme ca-
⟨13⟩ ndrādityavaṟ Eri-
⟨14⟩ vatāka vaitta
⟨15⟩ tirunontā vi-
⟨16⟩ ḷakku Oṉṟu O

Apparatus

⟨16⟩ Oṉṟu O • The inscription stops with this. The pillar on which this record was engraved is not traceable now.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 14.4 (ARIE/1917-1918/B/1917/480) by Ramanatha Ayyar 1962 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Ramanatha Ayyar, A. S. 1962. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XIV: The Pāṇḍyas. South Indian Inscriptions 14. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Pages 2–3, item 4.

Notes

1. No. 5 below.

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