Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Vikrama Cōḻa, year 15

Authors of digital edition: G. Vijayavenugopal (vija), Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Mahāmaṇḍapa, on various zones of west and south walls. A very lacunose inscription starting with the meykkīrtti of Vikrama Cōḻa (r. 1118-1135 CE).

Palaeographic description: No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00119.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00119.xml.

Version: 2026-09-21 23:05 (73546ed), last modified 2026-09-09 14:19 (2b8e588).

Edition

⟨Zone A⟩

⟨1–14⟩ […]

⟨Zone B⟩

⟨28⟩ ...

⟨Zone C⟩
⟨76⟩ yāṉ-āṉa tiru-c-ciṟṟampala-
⟨77⟩ -paṭṭaṉum kāśyapa¡n! ciṟiy-
⟨78⟩ [ā]ṉ nāṭ-uṭaiyāṉ-ā¡n!a nā-
⟨79⟩ [ṟ]patt-eṇṇ-āyira-paṇṭi-
⟨80⟩ taṉum Iva¡n! tampi ciṟiyā-
⟨81⟩ ¡n! ...

⟨Zone D⟩
⟨107⟩ muppatin kalamum cantirātittaval [***] va-
⟨108⟩ ṟ [****] [tāṉu]m In-nel [Eḻu-pat]t’ iru
⟨109⟩ kalattukkum palicai poliyum nel-
⟨110⟩ lu muppati¡n! kalamuṅ koṇṭu It-tiru-nu-
⟨111⟩ ntā-viḷakku Onṟum cantirātittavaṟ
⟨112⟩ cōḻarkaḷ tiru-k-kulam vattikkavum ca-
⟨113⟩ tturu jayam paṇṇi Aruḷavum śrī-māyē-
⟨114⟩ curam vattikkavum śrī-kirāmam vatti-
⟨115⟩ [kkavu]m It-tiru-nun[tā]-(viḷakku vatti)[kkavum]
⟨116⟩ ...

Commentary

⟨1–14⟩ This gap is estimated to 9 lines in the previous editions. Some letters are in fact still readable.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1965–66 (ARIE/1965-1966/B/1965-1966/447).

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 468); re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 19), with photos. Translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 468). Both these editions mistakenly include here a portion of the inscription Tirunaḷḷāṟu 18 (their lines 102-127).

This edition by G. Vijayavenugopal. Revised and curated by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (N. Ramaswamy, 2016).

Primary

[K&V] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2006. Pondicherry inscriptions. Part I: Introduction and texts with notes = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Item 468, page TBC.

[K&al] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2010. Pondicherry inscriptions. Part II: Translation, appendices, glossary and phrases, [and] preface = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Item 468, page TBC.

[V] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 19, pages 54–56.

Secondary

ARIE 1965–66. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1965-66. Edited by Govind Swamirao Gai. n.p. Page TBC, appendixes B/1965-1966, item 447.

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