Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, Ādhipurīśvara temple, time of Tribhuvana Vīra, year 31

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00007.

Summary: Donation of a bull, a cow and a calf for burning a twilight lamp.

Hand description:

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Medial i and ī interchangeable.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

Version: (12f3008), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tiri-puvaṉa-c-cakkaravattikaḷ maturaiy(u)m ¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻamuṅ karuvūrum pāṇṭi⟨2⟩yaṉ muṭi-t-talaiyuṅ koṇṭ-aruḷi v¡i!⟨ī⟩ra-A(p)iṣekamum paṇṇi y-aruḷiṉa ⟨3⟩ śrī-tiri-puvaṉa-v¡i!⟨ī⟩ra-tēvaṟku yāṇṭu muppatt’ oṉṟ-āvatu

Uṭaiyār ⟨4⟩ tiruvoṟṟiyūr-uṭaiya nāyaṉāṟku-c canti-viḷakku Erippataṟku veṇ-ku⟨5⟩ṉṟa-k-kōṭṭattu-k kuḷattūril kuḷantai-y-āṇṭār maṭa⟨6⟩ttil irukkum peṟṟāṉ makaṉ [4×] mukattāṉ viṭṭa pacu Oṉṟu ⟨7⟩ nāku Oṉṟu kaṉṟu Oṉṟu

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–3) Thirthy-first year of the glorious king Tribhuvana Vīra, the emperor of the three worlds, who, having graciously taken Maturai, Laṅkā, Karuvūr and the crowned head of the Pāṇḍya, graciously performed the heroic anointment.

(3–7) That which […]1 Mukattāṉ, son of Peṟṟāṉ, who resides in the Kuḷantaiyāṇṭār maṭha in Kuḷattūr in the Veṇkuṉṟakkōṭṭam, gave (viṭṭa2) for having a twilight lamp burning for the Lord (uṭaiyār), Lord (nāyaṉāṉ) of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr:

  • one bull,
  • one cow,
  • one calf.

Commentary

Bibliography

First reported in Krishna Sastri 1912 (ARIE/1911-1912/B/1911/366).

Edited online by துரை. சுந்தரம் in கொங்கு கல்வெட்டு ஆய்வு (accessed 2024-02-15).

Edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis based on photos (2019).

Secondary

Krishna Sastri, H. 1912. G.O. No. 919, 29th July 1912. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1911-1912. No place. Page 26, appendix B/1911, item 366.

Notes

  1. 1. This lacuna bears to the first part of the name of the donor
  2. 2. Literally: "left, released".