Tirunaḷḷāṟu 26, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar, central shrine, south wall, time of Rājadhirāja Cōla, year 11

Editors: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00126.

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Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

Version: (b3b3a47), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī ḥ

I. āciriyappā

kaṭal cūḻ¡ṉ!⟨n⟩ta pār-mātarum kalai-mātarum

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Aṭal cūḻ¡ṉ!⟨n⟩ta pōr-mātaruñ c¡i!⟨ī⟩r-mātarum amar¡ṉ!⟨n⟩tu vāḻa

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nāṟ-kaṭal cūḻ puvi-y ēḻum pāṟ-kaṭal pōṟ-pukaḻ parappa

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Ātiyukam-ām eṉṉa-c cōt(i) muṭi puṉai¡ṉ!⟨n⟩t’ aru(ḷi)

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(A)ṟu camaiyamu[m] AIm-pūtamum neṟiyil niṉṟu pālippa

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cēralaru(m) t(e)ṉṉavaru(ñ) ciṅkaḷaruṅ koṅkaṇarup

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pēraracu peṟa vēṇṭi-p pir(i)yātu cēvippa

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tamm aracu tām peṟṟu tammuṭaṉē muṭi cūṭi

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Am-maruṅkuṟa tēviy¿i?⟨a⟩rkaḷ A[ṇima]ṅkalam peṟṟ’ aruḷi

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vāḻi vāḻ(i) maṇam pu(ṇar)ntu Ūḻi-y Ūḻi pala-v ōṅki-c

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cem-poṉ-v¡i!⟨ī⟩ra¿sa?⟨si⟩ṅṅāsaṉat(tu)

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Ulak-uṭai-mukkō-k-kiḻāṉaṭikaḷoṭum

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v¡i!⟨ī⟩ṟṟiru¡ṉ!⟨n⟩t’ aruḷ(iya) kō-v-irā(ca)-kēcari

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paṟmar-ā[ṉa tiri]puvaṉa-c-cakkarava⟨t⟩tikaḷ śrī-Irājāt(i)[(ja)]-

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tēvaṟku yāṇ⟨2⟩ṭu patiṉ Oṉṟāvatu siṅṅa-nāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣattu pañcamiyum putaṉkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa cōti nāḷ Uyyak-koṇ{ṭ}ṭār-vaḷa-nāṭṭu muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu Uṭaiyār tiru-naḷḷāṟ-uṭaiyār kōyil muppatu vaṭṭattu kāṇi Uṭaiya (ci)vap pirāmaṇa⟨ṉ⟩ kautama-kōttirattu Uṇmai-coṉṉāṉu(m) Āḷavantiyāṉ nāṟpatteṇṇāyira-paṭṭaṉum tēvarkaḷ cuntaraṉ-ā(ṉa) cāṉṟaruḷi ceyta paṭṭaṉum Umaiyāḻvāṉ-āṉa t(i)runaḷḷāṟṟu paṭṭaṉum maṇṭai(y)āḻvāṉ-āṉa Ōti-nalla-vētiya-paṭṭaṉum kāci⟨ya⟩pa-kōttirattu tēvarkaḷ cu¡ṉ!⟨n⟩taraṉ-ā(ṉa kolō)ttuṅka-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum Āḻvāṉ-āṉa vi(k)kira(ma)-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum nāṭuṭaip perumā⟨3⟩ ṉ tillai-nāyaka-paṭṭa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩um kūttāṭuvāṉ-āṉa tiyāka-camuttira-paṭṭaṉum nā(ṭu)(ai)-p-perumāḷ-āṉa kalliyāṇa-cuntara-paṭṭaṉum naṉ-Uṭai-p-perumāḷ-āṉa nāṟ¿ṭ?⟨p⟩at(teṇ)ṇāyira-paṇṭitaṉum nāṭuṭai-p-perum(āḷ)-āṉa nāṭuṭai-nāyaka-paṇṭi(ta)ṉum kāci⟨ya⟩¡v!⟨p⟩a-kōttirattu tirucciṟṟampalām-uṭaiyāṉ-āṉa Ēḻ-kaṭalum cū⟨ḻ⟩ntāṉum Ā⟨ḻ⟩vāṉ-āṉa nāṭuṭai-nā⟨ya⟩ka-paṭṭaṉum Umai-y-āḻvāṉāṉa poṟ-kōyil-paṭṭaṉum piccāṇṭāṉ-āṉa cōḻa-kēraḷa-paṭṭaṉum tiru-k-kaṟṟaḷi-p-piḷḷai-y-āṉa tiruna¿ṉ?⟨ḷ⟩ḷāṟṟu-p paṇṭitaṉum[4+]-kōttirattu mū-v-āyiratt-oruva(ṉ-āṉa) kar(i){la}kāla⟨4⟩ ṉ-āṉa pāñca-poṟ-pīṭa-paṭṭaṉum Iv-vaṉaivōm nitta-vi(ṉō)ta-vaḷa-nāṭṭu (Ā)(ḻ/v)ūr-k-kūṟṟattu viḻi(yū)r-uṭaiyar cennāṭ-uṭaiyāṉ Uṭaiya-nampiyār-āṉa (to)ṇṭaimāṉār pakkal Upaiyatu koṇṭu kalveṭṭik kuṭutta paric-āvatu Iṉṉāyaṉār kōyililēy iṉṉāḷāl

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ nāṟkaṭal ⬦ kaṭal VVG. — ⟨1⟩ ciṅkaḷaruṅ ⬦ ciṅkaḷarum VVG. — ⟨1⟩ koṅkaṇarup ⬦ koṅkaṇarum VVG. — ⟨1⟩ A[3×]ṅkalam • The gap can be restored from parallel line (aṭi) in other epigraphical versions of this royal eulogy in Tamil verse (meykkīrtti): aṇimaṅkalam.

⟨2⟩ (kolō)ttuṅka-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum ⬦ kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum VVG.

⟨3⟩ tiyāka-camuttira-paṭṭaṉum ⬦ tiyāka-camuttira-paṭṭanum VVG. — ⟨3⟩ nāṟ¿ṭ?⟨p⟩at(teṇ)ṇāyira-paṇṭitaṉum ⬦ nāṟpatteṇṇāyira-paṇṭitaṉum VVG. — ⟨3⟩ kāci⟨ya⟩¡v!⟨p⟩a-kōttirattu ⬦ kācipa-kōttirattu VVG • An alternative reading is kāci⟨ya⟩pa-kōttirattu — ⟨3⟩⟨ḻ⟩ntāṉum ⬦ cūḻntāṉum VVG. — ⟨3⟩ Ā⟨ḻ⟩vāṉ-āṉa ⬦ Āḻvāṉ-āṉa VVG. — ⟨3⟩ nāṭuṭai-nā⟨ya⟩ka-paṭṭaṉum ⬦ nāṭuṭai-nāyaka-paṭṭaṉum VVG. — ⟨3⟩ [4+]kōttirattu ⬦ kevutama-kōttirattu VVG.

⟨4⟩ viḻi(yū)r-uṭaiyar ⬦ viḻiyūr-uṭaiyan VVG. — ⟨4⟩ (Ā)(ḻ/v)ūr-k-kūṟṟattu ⬦ Āḻūr-k-kūṟṟattu VVG.

Commentary

The meykkīrtti portion (line 1: kaṭal cūḻnta etc.) is split cīr- and aṭi-wise in the Tamil edition (following the parsing in Cuppiramaṇiyam 1983) and word-wise in the transliteration.

The line (aṭi) 3 of the meykkīrtti (nāṟkaṭal cūḻ puvi-y ēḻum pāṟ-kaṭal pōṟ-pukaḻ parappa) has one more word (ṟ) than in Cuppiramaṇiyam 1983.

Bibliography

First edited in Kuppusamy and Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 475). First translated in Kuppusamy et al. 2010 (PI 475). Re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 26), with photos.

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 475, page page.

[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 475, page page.

[VVG] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 26, pages 72–73.

Secondary

Cuppiramaṇiyam, Pu. 1983. Meykkīrttikaḷ. Ceṉṉai: ulakat tamilārāycci niruvaṉam. Pages 39–45.