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PART I. THE PALLAVAS. SII 12.7A: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – MAHENDRAVARMAN I. No. 7A. (A.R. No. 386 of 1906). TIRUMAYYAM, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE ROCK-CUT ŚIVA. TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This is a fragmentary record engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters of the 7th century A.D. A major portion of the inscription is erased, but from the preserved portion, the names of musical notes such as gāndhāram, pañchamam, dhaivatam, nishādam etc., can be read. A certain order is noticeable in the arrangement of the notes in seven sections with subsections. Unfortunately the subsections have been so erased as to make it impossible to follow the method adopted here. As the palaeography of the inscription resembles that of the Kuḍimiyāmalai epigraph, this record also may be attributed to the time of Mahēndravarman l.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.100: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 99-106. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GAṄGEŚVARA TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR. No. 100. ON THE BOTTOM OF THE EAST BASE, THIRD AND FOURTH STONES.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.101: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 99-106. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GAṄGEŚVARA TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR. No. 101. ON THE BOTTOM OF THE EAST BASE, FIFTH STONE, AND ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SOUTH BASE, TO THE RIGHT.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.102: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 99-106. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GAṄGEŚVARA TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR. No. 102. ON THE NORTH WALL, SECOND STONE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.103: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 99-106. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GAṄGEŚVARA TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR. No. 103. ON THE NORTH WALL, THIRD STONE, AND ON A STONE IN THE SOUTH WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.104: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 99-106. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GAṄGEŚVARA TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR. No. 104. ON THE LEFT OF THE BOTTOM OF THE SOUTH BASE, THIRD STONE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.105: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 99-106. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GAṄGEŚVARA TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR. No. 105. INSIDE, ON THE TOP.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.106: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 99-106. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GAṄGEŚVARA TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR. No. 106. INSIDE, ON THE BOTTOM.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.107: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 107. AT THE RĀMASVĀMI-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE AT NELLUVĀY NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: In front of this temple stands a pillar with a rough inscription on its four sides. The south-east face of the pillar contains the name of “the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara rājādhirāja rājaparameśvara, the illustrious Vīra-Ve[ṅka]ṭapati[d]eva-mahārāya” and is dated in the Yuvan year, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1557. An inscription of the same Veṅkaṭa II. of Karṇāṭa was published in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIII, p. 125. It is dated one year later than the present inscription.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.108: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 108. AT THE GRĀMADEVATĀ ULAGANĀYAKA-AMMĀḶ TEMPLE AT SADUPPERI NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: At this temple there are two stones with fragmentary inscriptions. One of them is dated “in the fifty-second year of Ko-Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.109: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 109. ON AN AḶAVUKKAL IN THE TANK AT ŚADUPPERI.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Both pillars of this aḷavukkal1 bear fragments of ancient inscriptions. That on the right pillar belongs to the time of some Ko-Parakesarivarman. It deserves to be noted that, in line 3, the syllable ṟā is written ṟā [[றா]], and not ṟā [[prereform ṟā as a single glyph]] as in modern Tamil.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.10: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART I. SANSKRIT INSCRIPTIONS. I. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PALLAVA DYNASTY. Nos. 1 TO 23. THE PALLAVA INSCRIPTIONS OF MĀMALLAPURAM AND CĀḶUVAṄKUPPAM. Nos. 1-17. INSCRIPTIONS ON THE DHARMARĀJA RATHA, MĀMALLAPURAM. B. Second storey: b. East. No. 10.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.110: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 110-112. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT ŚEMBĀKKAM NEAR VELŪR. No. 110. ON THE WEST BASE, LINES 1 AND 2.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This temple contains three fragmentary inscriptions in archaic characters. This inscription records some gift, which the assembly (sabhā) of Velūr, alias Parameśvara-maṅgalam, made to the god Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara.1

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.111: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 110-112. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT ŚEMBĀKKAM NEAR VELŪR. No. 111. ON THE WEST BASE, LINES 3 TO 6.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription seems to record another gift of the sabhā of Velūr. It mentions Śemmaṇpākkam (the modern Śembākkam) and Rājendra-Choḷeśvara,1 evidently the name of the temple itself.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.112: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 110-112. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT ŚEMBĀKKAM NEAR VELŪR. No. 112. ON THE SOUTH BASE, LINES 1 TO 6.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription mentions both Rājendra-Choḷeśvara1 and Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara.2 The fragment seems to begin with a description of the boundaries of some gift, in which the term Piḍāri-paṭṭi3 occurs.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.113: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 113. ON THE PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE AT ŚEVŪR NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: There are three stones with almost illegible inscriptions built into the wall of this temple. Two of them contain the subjoined fragment, which may be read with the help of the nearly identical Paḍaveḍu inscription No. 81. The inscription seems to have belonged to Devarāja II. of Vijayanagara, the son of Vīra-Vijayarāya-mahārāyar. The latter is identical with Vijaya or Vīra-Vijaya, who, according to No. 153, below, was the son of Devarāja I. and the father of Devarāja II. The inscriptions of Devarāja II. which are published above (Nos. 54, 56, 79, 80 and 81) range between the current Śaka years 1348 and 1372.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.114: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 114. ON THE VIRŪPĀKSHEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VEPPAMBAṬṬU NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Besides the inscription published under No. 55, above, this temple bears another much defaced inscription, which is engraved on the east wall and consists of seven lines. The date is the Vishu year, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1443. According to the third and fourth lines, the inscription seems to have recorded a grant, which Tirumalai-nāyaka made to the temple of Virūpāksha-nāyaṉār at Veppambaṭṭu in Āndi-nāḍu; line 4 also mentions Paḍaivīḍu.1 The passage alluded to runs as follows:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.115: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 115. INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE LEFT, FIRST INSCRIPTION.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Medinīśvara Immaḍi-Narasiṁharāyamahārāyar (of Vijayanagara).1 2. Date: Śaka 1418 expired2 and the Rākshasa year current. 3. Donor: Periya-Timmarāśa-uḍaiyar. 4. Remark: The inscription mentions a maṇḍapa, which Eṟama-nāyaka caused to be built at Tiru-Viriñchipuram.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.116: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 116. INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE LEFT, SECOND INSCRIPTION.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. Date: the Nandana year (i.e., Śaka 1395). 2. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Medinīśvara Gaṇḍaṉ Kaṭṭā[ri] Sāḷuva Dharaṇivarāha Narasiṁharāya-uḍaiyar (of Vijayanagara). 3. Donee: Uḍaiyar Vaṛittuṇai-nāyaṉār1 of Tiru-Viriñchipuram. 4. Remark: The inscription mentions some nāyaka, the son of another nāyaka; the names of both are obliterated.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.117: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 117. INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE LEFT, THIRD INSCRIPTION.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: Sakalalokachakravartin Rājanārāyaṇa.1 2. Remark: The inscription mentions Āndi-nāḍu.2

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.118: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 118. INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE LEFT, FOURTH INSCRIPTION.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahārājādhirāja, the illustrious Vīrapratāpa-[Achyutadeva]-mahārāyar (of Vijayanagara).1 2. Date: Śaka 1463 expired and the Plava year current. 3. Remark: The inscription mentions Kishṇama-nāyaka and the temple of Uḍaiyar Vaṛittuṇai-nāyaṉār at Tiru-Viriñchipuram.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.119: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 119. INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE RIGHT, FIRST INSCRIPTION.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Medinīśvara Gaṇḍa Kaṭṭāri Sāḷuva-sāḷuva Narasiṁhadeva (of Vijayanagara). 2. Date: Śaka 1404 expired and the Śubhakṛit year current. 3. Denor: Nāgama-nāyaka. 4. Donee: Uḍaiyār Vaṛittuṇai-nāyaṉār of Tiru-Viruñchapuram. 5. Remark: The inscription mentions the villages of Paśumarattūr and Veppūr.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 11.1: original edition by C. R. Krishnamacharlu, R. S. Panchamukhi, N. Lakshminaraya Rao and H. K. Narasimhaswami – No. 1. (B.K. No. 100 of 1928-29). BĀDĀMI, BADAMI TALUK, BIJAPUR DISTRICT. ON A ROCK BEHIND THE TEMPLE OF MALLIKĀRJUNADĒVA.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription in Pallava-Grantha characters is much obliterated. Of the king’s name, only the epithet or surname ‘Mahāmalla’ is preserved, and the record has to be assigned to king Narasiṁhavarman I of the Pallava dynasty of Kāñchī. It is dated in the 13th year of the king’s reign. From the characters it may be ascribed to about the 7th century A.D. Bādāmi is herein mentioned under the ancient name of ‘Vātāpi.’ According to Dr. Fleet, the present inscription will have to be assigned to the end of the reign of Pulakēśin II.1 (Published in Ind. Ant., Vol. IX, p 99. The revised text of the inscription is given below with a plate).

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.11: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART I. SANSKRIT INSCRIPTIONS. I. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PALLAVA DYNASTY. Nos. 1 TO 23. THE PALLAVA INSCRIPTIONS OF MĀMALLAPURAM AND CĀḶUVAṄKUPPAM. Nos. 1-17. INSCRIPTIONS ON THE DHARMARĀJA RATHA, MĀMALLAPURAM. B. Second storey: b. East. No. 11.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.120: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 120. INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE RIGHT, THIRD INSCRIPTION.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. Date: Śālivāhana-Śaka 1457 expired and the Nandana year current.1 2. King: the illustrious mahārājādhirāja-parameśvara Achyutadeva-mahārāyar (of Vijayanagara). 3. Donee: Mārgasahāya-deva2 of Iriñchipuram (!). 4. Remarks: The inscription mentions Śiṟaleri (see No. 123). The grant seems to have consisted of a number of kuṛis of land and to have been made for the benefit of two Brāhmaṇas, Timmappayaṉ and Śaivādirāyar Vasantarāya-guru, who taught the Ṛik-śākhā and Yajuḥ-śākhā respectively. The second donee belonged to the Bhāradvāja-gotra and followed the Bodhāyana-sūtra.3

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.121: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 121. ON THE BASE OF THE BACK OF THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE RIGHT.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara,1 the illustrious Vīrapratāpa, (the younger brother and successor of) Vīra-Narasiṁha-deva, Kṛishṇadeva-mahārāya (of Vijayanagara).2 2. Date: Śaka 1435 expired and the Śrīmukha year current.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.122: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 122. ON THE BASE OF THE BACK OF THE FRONT GOPURA, TO THE LEFT.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. Date: Śaka 1432 [expired] and the Pramodūta1 year current. 2. Remark: The name of the king is entirely effaced; but the inscription begins with the same birudas, as were borne by the king Kṛishṇadeva of the inscription No. 121.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.123: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 115-123. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MĀRGASAHĀYEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 123. INSIDE THE BACK GOPURA.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara rājādhirāja rājaparameśvara, the illustrious Achyutadeva-mahārāyar or Achyutarāya (of Vijayanagara). 2. Date: Śaka 1454 expired1and the Nandana year current. 3. Donee: Uḍaiyār Vaṛittuṇai-nāyaṉār or Śrī-Viriñcheśvara. 4. Donor: the karaṇikka (= karaṇam) Vīrappayaṉ or Vīraya, who belonged to the Gautamānvaya. 5. Object of the grant: (a) the village of Śiṟaleri within the boundaries (sīmā) of Kāvanūr;2 (b) the village of Vīraraśūr, excluding the agrahāra of Kīṛai-Vīraraśūr and including the open (i.e., unfortified) place (liṟappu) of Aṅgarāyaṉ-kuppam.3 6. Remark: The inscription mentions the maṇḍapa of Śamburāyaṉ, which may have formed part of the Viriñchipuram temple.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.124: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 124-129. ON STONES BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURT-YARD OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE. No. 124.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This and the next inscription belong to the same king, as No. 108. The present inscription is dated “in the ninth year of Ko-Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.125: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. ON STONES BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURT-YARD OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE. No. 125.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated “in the forty-seventh year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.126: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. ON STONES BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURT-YARD OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE. No. 126.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the third (?) year of Madirai-koṇḍa Ko-Parakesarivarman.1

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.127: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. ON STONES BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURT-YARD OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE. No. 127.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The stone, which bears the subjoined inscription, is unfortunately very much worn. The text, as far as it can be made out, runs as follows: [[see below]] An inscription of the same Rājendra-deva, which is dated in the ninth year and is found in a niche of the Varāhasvāmin Temple at Māmallapuram, was published by Sir Walter Elliot.1 He identified Āhavamalla with the Western Chālukya king Āhavamalla II. or Someśvara I. (about Śaka 964 to about 990), who, according to inscriptions2 and according to the Vikramāṅkacharita (sarga i, verses 90, 115, 116), fought with the Choḷas. The Rājendra-deva of the present inscription and of Sir Walter Elliot’s inscription may be identified with that Rājendra-deva of the Sūryavaṁśa, whose daughter Madhurāntakī was married to the Eastern Chalukya king Rājendra-Choḍa (Śaka 985 to 1034) according to verse 12 of the Chellūr grant (No. 39).3

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.128: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. ON STONES BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURT-YARD OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE. No. 128.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription mentions Sakalalokachakravartin Rājanārāyaṇa Śambuvarāya[ṉ]1 and seems to record a gift to Vaṛittuṇai-appaṉ.2

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.129: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. ON STONES BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURT-YARD OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE. No. 129.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: On this stone, the name of Śambuvarāya and part of one of his birudas (Aṛagiya) are visible; see the introduction of the Poygai inscriptions (Nos. 59 to 64).

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.12: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART I. SANSKRIT INSCRIPTIONS. I. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PALLAVA DYNASTY. Nos. 1 TO 23. THE PALLAVA INSCRIPTIONS OF MĀMALLAPURAM AND CĀḶUVAṄKUPPAM. Nos. 1-17. INSCRIPTIONS ON THE DHARMARĀJA RATHA, MĀMALLAPURAM. B. Second storey: c. South. No. 12.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.130: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 130-132. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT AMMUṆḌI NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 130.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The southern wall of this temple is covered with several Choḷa inscriptions. None of them can be made out completely, as the letters are much obliterated, and as the stones are, to all appearance, not in their original order. This is dated “in the 11th (?) year of Ko-Rājakesarivarman, alias Chakravartin Śrī-Kulottuṅga-Śoṛa-deva.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.131: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 130-132. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT AMMUṆḌI NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 131.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is engraved to the right of No. 130 and may have been intended for its continuation. It records a gift of land from the inhabitants of Aimbūṇḍi (the modern Ammuṇḍi)1 to their Śiva temple, which bore the name of Muppaṉaiyīśvara. The gift was made before the god Ādidāsa Chaṇḍeśvara-deva.2

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.132: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 130-132. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT AMMUṆḌI NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 132.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated “in the 10th (?) year of Tribhuvanachakravartin Koṉeri Meṉ-koṇḍa Kulottuṅga-Śoṛa-deva.” The donor was Śeṅgeṇi-Ammaiyappa . . . . Perumāḷ, alias Vikrama-Śoṛa-Śambuvarāyaṉ.1

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.133: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 133. ON THE RIGHT OF THE FRONT WALL OF A MAṆḌAPA AT KAṚAṈIPĀKKAM NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. A Telugu translation of this inscription is ongraved on the loft.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated during the reign of Vīra-Veṅkaṭapatirāyar and in the Śrīmukha year. This is Śaka 1556, two years before No. 107 and three years before an inscription of Veṅkaṭa II. published in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIII, p. 125. The inscription records that Govindappa-nāyaka caused the maṇḍapa to be built and allotted some land in Kaṛaṉipākkam for the maṇḍapa, which was to be used as a watershed and sattram.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.134: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 134-137. INSCRIPTIONS AT KĪṚ-MUṬṬUGŪR NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 134.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: At this village, there are four stones with sculptures and rough inscriptions. The sculptures are the following:—on stone No. 134, a man with a bow; on stone No. 135, an elephant and a bird; on stone No. 136, an armed man; and on stone No. 137, a man fighting with a tiger. This and the next inscription are dated in the third and eighteenth year, respectively, of Ko-Vijaya-Narasiṁhavarman.1

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.135: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 134-137. INSCRIPTIONS AT KĪṚ-MUṬṬUGŪR NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 135.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.136: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 134-137. INSCRIPTIONS AT KĪṚ-MUṬṬUGŪR NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 136.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This and the next inscription are dated in the twenty-ninth and thirty-second year, respectively, of Madirai-koṇḍa Ko-Parakesarivarman.1

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.137: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 134-137. INSCRIPTIONS AT KĪṚ-MUṬṬUGŪR NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 137.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.138: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 138. ON A STONE IN THE VĪRA TEMPLE AT MALAYAPAṬṬU NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Veṅkaṭadeva-mahārāyar.1 2. Date: Śaka 15[2]4 expired and the Śubhakṛit year current. 3. Donor: Bommu-nāyaṉ Nāṅgama-nāyaka,2 i.e., Nāṅgama-nāyaka, the son of Bommu-nāyaka.3 4. Donee: the Vīra Temple at Mariḷiyappaṭṭu.4

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.139: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 139. AT THE ŚRĪRAṄGANĀYAKA-SVĀMIN TEMPLE AT PAḶḶIKOṆḌA NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM, TO THE LEFT OF THE FRONT DOORWAY.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the Durmati1 year, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1554. The third symbol of the Śaka date is not quite clear. There is a mistake either in the Śaka or in the cyclic year, as the only Durmati year of the 16th century corresponded to the current Śaka year 1544. The inscription mentions the temple of Raṅganātha-Perumāḷ at Paḷḷikoṇḍai.2

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.13: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART I. SANSKRIT INSCRIPTIONS. I. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PALLAVA DYNASTY. Nos. 1 TO 23. THE PALLAVA INSCRIPTIONS OF MĀMALLAPURAM AND CĀḶUVAṄKUPPAM. Nos. 1-17. INSCRIPTIONS ON THE DHARMARĀJA RATHA, MĀMALLAPURAM. B. Second storey: c. South. No. 13.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.140: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 140. ON A STONE AT ŚEDUVĀLAI NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 1. King: the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, the illustrious Sadāśivadeva-mahārāyar (of Vijayanagara).1 2. Date: Śālivāhana-Śaka 1489 expired and the Prabhava year current. 3. Donee: the liṅga of Mārgasahāya2 at Tiru-Viriñchapuram.

Language: Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.141: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 141. INSIDE THE GOPURA AT TIRUMALAI NEAR POLŪR, ON THE BASE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The inscription is a fragment, dated in some year of Rājarāja-deva.1 In the second line the word Śoṛa-koṉ, “the Choḷa king,” occurs.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.142: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 142. ON THE BASE OF THE SOUTH WALL OF THE AMMAIAPPEŚVARA TEMPLE AT PAḌAVEḌU.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The beginning of both lines of this inscription is buried underground. From that part, which I have copied, it appears that the inscription refers to some gift (mānya, i.e., sarvamānya). At the beginning of the second line, the word paḍaivīḍu occurs in the plural and seems to be used in the sense of “encampments.”1 The inscription ends with “the signature of Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śoṛa-Brahmā-rāyaṉ”; the same name is borne by a villageaccountant in a Tirumalai inscription.2

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 1.143: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 143. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE SOMANĀTHEŚVARA TEMPLE AT PAḌAVEḌU.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is an incorrect duplicate of the first four lines of No. 81, above.

Languages: Tamil, Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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