Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar, time of Vīramōkaṉ Kāṭavarāyaṉ

Editors: G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00131.

Summary: Records the tiruppaṇi (temple service or temple buiding/repairing) by Aḻakiya Nampirāṭṭi, the spouse of Vīramōhaṉ Kāṭavarāyaṉ.

Hand description:

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

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ (svas)ti śrī

(v)¡(i)!⟨ī⟩ra-mōha¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-āṉa kāṭava⟨2⟩-(r)āya¡(ṉṉ)!⟨ṉ⟩ aḻakiya nampirāṭṭiyēṉ tiruppa[ṇi]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ tiruppa[ṇi]tiruppa(ṇi) K+V; tiruppaṇi VVG.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) [This is] the (tiruppa[ṇi]) [of] Aḻakiya Nampirāṭṭi, [spouse of] the Kāṭavarāyar alias Vīramōhaṉ.

Commentary

The same two individuals are mentioned in a nearby inscription (Tamil Nadu 131).

Vīramōhaṉ Kāṭavarāyaṉ may be Ēḻicaimōhaṉ, the son of the Kāṭavarāya King Āṭkolliyār.

Since this inscription is found on the base of a small shrine, it may refer to the construction of this small shrine, as a service.

Bibliography

Reported in Gai N.d. (ARIE/1965-1966/B/1965-1966/458).

Edited in Kuppusamy and Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 480); re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 31), with photos.

Translated in Kuppusamy et al. 2010 (PI 480).

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 480, page 447.

[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 480, page 209.

[VVG] Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō. 2017. tirunaḷḷāṟu aruḷmikku tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam. Item 31, page 86.

Secondary

Gai, Govind Swamirao. N.d. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1965-66. n.p. Page 89, appendixes B/1965-1966, item 458.