Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar, time of Vikramacōḻa, year undetermined

Editors: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00121.

Summary: An originally incomplete or damaged inscription, consisiting in initial blessings and the beginning of the name of the ruling king Vikramacōḻa.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

t(i)r(i)puva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a-cakka(ra)⟨2⟩(vat)tikaḷ śrī-vik(ki)rama-cō

[unknown number of possibly lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ t(i)r(i)puva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a-cakka(ra)⟨2⟩(vat)tikaḷ ⬦ tiripuvanacakkara⟨2⟩vattikaḷ K+V; tiripuvana cakkara ⟨2⟩ vattikaḷ VVG.

⟨2⟩ śrī-vik(ki)rama-cō ⬦ śrīvikkiramaco K+V; śrī vikkirama co[…] VVG.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) The emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikramacōḻa […]

Commentary

It is not clear if the inscription was originally left incomplete after the end of line 2 or if one line at least is lost after line 2.

Bibliography

First edited in Kuppusamy and Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 470). First translated in Kuppusamy et al. 2010 (PI 470). Re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 21), with photo.

This edition revised by G. Vijayavenugopal (2019). Curated by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on photos (N. Ramaswamy, 2016).

Primary

[K+V] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. and 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 470, page 426.

[K] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. and 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 470, page 201.

[VVG] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 21, pages 60–61.

Secondary

Gai, Govind Swamirao. N.d. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1965-66. n.p. Page 87, appendixes B/1965-1966, item 449.