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SII 14.76: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 76. (A.R. No. 270 of 1928.) KŌṬṬAI-KARUṄGUḶAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE RĀJASIMHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This damaged inscription in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters belongs to the time of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ and is dated in some year opposite to the 2nd year of his reign. It refers to the stone temple of Rājaśiṅgēchchuvaram at Karuṅguḷam and to the gift of something for a perpetual lamp to be burnt in it. The temple must have been built by Rājasimha, after whom the god appears to have been so named.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0076.

SII 14.77: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 77. (A.R. No. 301 of 1916.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE EṞICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This incomplete inscription of Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ, the date of which is lost, refers to a certain Māṉābharaṇaṉ-Podiyil-Vēḷāṉ, whose wife may have provided perhaps for the burning of a lamp in the temple of Tirupōttuḍaiya-Bhaṭāra at Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi. From the mention of Māṉābharaṇa as the surname of the person, it may be inferred that it was probably a biruda of the king Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ himself. It does not occur, however, in his copper plate grant from Śiṉṉamaṉūr.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0077.

SII 14.78: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 78. (A.R. No. 440 of 1907.) ŚIṈṈAMAṈŪR, PERIYAKULAM TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE LAKSHMĪNĀRĀYAṆA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This Tamil inscription is dated in the 46th year of a Śaḍaiya-Māṟaṉ, whose identity with the other king of the same name is not clear, in the absence of similar records bearing such high regnal years. It differs from the usual run of inscriptions of this period in its registering an order (kaichcham) of the sabhā of Arikēsarinallūr, a brahmadēya in Aḻa-nāḍu, regulating the supply of water from the channel called Śrīkaṇṭha-vāykkāl, apparently to temple lands.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0078.

SII 14.79: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 79. (A.R. No. 420 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record is dated in the 3rd year opposite to the 4th year of the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya ‘who took the head of the Chōḷa’ and registers a gift of sheep by Śoḷāntaka Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Māṟaṉ-Ādichchan of Pōḻiyūr in Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu for burning a lamp in the temple of god Sundara-pāṇḍya-Īśvarattu-Bhaṭāra at Tiruchchuḻiyal a dēvadāna in Paruttikkuḍi-nāḍu. Sundara-Pāṇḍya Īśvaram must have been named after a king or prince of that name. The village is called Paḷḷimaḍai or probably Paḷḷipāḍai, in which latter case, the shrine may have been built in memory of a Sundara-Pāṇḍya. A certain chieftain of Pōḻiyūr called Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ alias Teṉṉavaṉ-Pallavaraiyaṉ figures in a record dated 4+1st year, 593rd day of a Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ from Tirupputtūr1, and he was probably an earlier member of the family to which the Māṟaṉ-Āchchaṉ of this inscription belonged. Here he bears the title of ChōḷAntaka-Pallava raiyaṉ from the biruda of the king Vīra-Pāṇḍya namely ChōḷAntaka, i.e., ‘god of death to the Chōḷa’ which is equivalent to ‘Śōḻaṉṟalaikoṇḍa’ which is found in all his records. From this fact it is clear that a Chōḷa king had actually been killed by Vīra-Pāṇḍya. From a record of this king from Ambāsamudram2 it has been possible to fix his initial date as A.D. 946.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0079.

SII 14.7: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 7. (A.R. No. 358 of 1907.) ĀḌUTURAI, PAPANASAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE ĀPATSAHĀYĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription also from Āḍutuṟai is peculiarly dated as 4+1+1+1+1st year of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and relates to some provision for the supply of oil to the temple of Tirukkuraṅgāḍutuṟai-Mahādēva by the sabhā of Maruttuvakkuḍi in Tiraimūr-nāḍu. The significance of the regnal year, as cited here, instead of as 4 opposite to the 4th year, is not clear.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0007.

SII 1.47: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 47. ON A STONE AT ŚATTUVĀCHCHERI NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This and the next-following two inscriptions are dated on the same day of the yuva year, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1497, and during the reign of the mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Śrīraṅga-deva-mahārāyar. They record grants to the Vellore Temple, which were made at the request of Śiṉṉa-Bommu-nāyaka of Velūr by Kṛishṇappa-nāyaka Ayyaṉ, with the consent of Śrīraṅga-deva-mahārāyar. The Śrīraṅga-deva mentioned in Nos. 47 to 49 is Śrīraṅgarāya I. of Karṇāṭa, of whom we have copper-plate grants of Śaka 1497 and 15061. An inscription of his tributary Kṛishṇappa-nāyaka dated Śaka 1500 has been translated by Mr. Rice.2 On Śiṉṉa-Bommu-nāyaka of Velūr, see the introduction of No. 43. The inscription No. 47 records the gift of the village of Śattuvāchcheri, where it is still found.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0047.

SII 14.80: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 80. (A.R. No. 421 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the 4th year opposite to the 4th year of the same king’s reign. It registers a gift of sheep by Aruḷāḻi, the headman of a village in Veṇbu-nāḍu, for burning a lamp in the temple of god Sundara-Pāṇḍya-Īśvarattu-Dēvar at Tiruchchuḻiyal, for the merit of his son Kaṇḍaṉ-Dēvaṉ.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0080.

SII 14.81: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 81. (A.R. No. 87 of 1907.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE BASE OF A RUINED SHRINE IN THE TIRUMŪLANĀTHA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record dated in the 4th year opposite to the 4th year of the king, records the gift of land in Kīḻūr-kuṇḍukaḻam by a tiṇaikkaḷattāṉ of Nālkūr in Veṇbu-nāḍu, for providing for the expenses of feeding some brāhmaṇas, who chanted some portions of the Vēdas in the presence of god Tiruchchālaittuṟai-niṉṟaruḷiṉa-Emberumāṉ of Iḷaṅgōykkuḍi, a brahmadēya of Muḷḷi-nāḍu. A shrine or hall called Śrīkaraṇatiruchchittirakūtam is also referred to in this record. The astronomical details of the day, namely, Dhanus month and Svāti-nakshatra are of no use in determining the date of the record.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0081.

SII 14.82: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 82. (A.R. No. 424 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record dated in the 5th year opposite to the 4th year of the king’s reign relates to the assignment of the sheep belonging to the temple to several shepherds, for the supply of ghee for burning lamps therein.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0082.

SII 14.83: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 83. (A.R. No. 429 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE BASE OF THE WEST WALL OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record of Vīra-Pāṇḍya is dated in the 5th year opposite to the 4th year of his reign and is damaged and incomplete. It appears to enumerate the dēvaraḍaiyār who were connected with the temple of Sundara-Pāṇḍya-Īśvaram at Paḷḷipaḍai in Tiruchchuḻiyal, a dēvadāṉa in Paruttikkuḍi-nāḍu.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0083.

SII 14.84-85: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 84-85. (A.R. Nos. 625 and 627 of 1926.) KĪḶMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE. No. 84.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The inscription is dated in the 5th year opposite to the 4th year of the king’s reign. It states that the affairs of the stone temple named Śrikaṇṭhēśvaram erected by Teṉṉavaṉ Kaṇḍaṉ-Śāttaṉ for the god Bhaṭāra at Tirumāttūr, were examined by this officer, and that the wet and dry lands belonging to the temple priests (aganāḻigaiyār) drummers, etc., situated in Birundaiyūr, were also properly checked and regulated. The fact that the old dēvadāṉa lands were checked in the time of Vīra-Pāṇḍya indicates that the temple had existed from earlier times, probably as a brick structure, and that it was now rebuilt of stone by this chieftain, with the new name of Śrīkaṇṭhēśvaram, after his own name of Kaṇḍaṉ, and the flower-garden called ‘Śōḻāntakaṉ’ was endowed in the name of the king himself. This chieftain is called Teṉṉavaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ in another record.1

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0084.

SII 14.85: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 84-85. (A.R. Nos. 625 and 627 of 1926.) KĪḶMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE. No. 85.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Other fragmentary portions belonging to this record [[SII 14.84]] are: (A.R. No. 627 of 1926.). No. 85 which is fragmentary, probably belonging to the same record [[SII 14.84]], is engraved on several slabs in the same wall and relates to the apportionment of the taxes to be levied from the lands in Tirumāttūr belonging to the temple, among the aganāḻigaiyār, uvachhar and others.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0085.

SII 14.86: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 86. (A.R. No. 624 of 1926.) KĪḺMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record of Vīra-Pāṇḍya is dated in the 5th year opposite to the 5th year instead of being dated opposite to the 4th year, as in the earlier records. The stones of this record are disarranged, and some portion of the document is lost. It mentions that some lands in the village called Parāntakanallūr alias Vāmadēvamaṅgalam which was situated in the subdivision Māḍakkuḷakkīḻ and which belonged to the temple were examined by some officer apparently the one figuring in another record1 in the same temple, and the paddy derivable from them were fixed for the requirements of worship and offerings to the god Bhaṭāra at Tiruvāmāttūr.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0086.

SII 14.87: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 87. (A.R. No. 626 of 1926.) KĪḺMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The inscription in Tamil poetry is fragmentary; but from the available portion, it can be inferred that it refers to the building of the temple at Tirumāttūr by a certain Tamiḻavēḷ in about the 8th year of reign of Vira-Pāṇḍya. This record contains an eulogy of this chieftain. There is a reference to some who was well-versed in Sanskrit and Tamil works, such as the Vēdas, the Purāṇas, PAtañjala mudar-paṉuval, etc. As the name Teṉṉavaṉ is mentioned in another record, that word combined with Tamiḻavēḷ seems to give the full title ‘Teṉṉavaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ’ of the chieftain, who erected the ŚrIkaṇThēśvaram temple in stone. This chief figures in a record dated in the 12th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya at Ambāsamudram in the Tirunelveli district.1

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0087.

SII 14.88: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 88. (A.R. No. 423 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: To the same king Vīra-Pāṇḍya belongs this record dated in the 7th year opposite to the 4th year of his reign. It registers a gift of sheep for burning a lamp in the maṭha of Mahāvratigaḷ attached to the temple of Sundarapāṇḍya-Īśvaram at Paḷḷipaḍai. The existence of a Mahāvrati-maṭha at this place is of interest. The Mūvarkōyil inscription1 of the Koḍumbāḷūr chieftain Bhūti-Vikramakēsarin, who was probably a contemporary of this Pāṇḍya king, because he claims to have come into conflict with him, also refers to the fact that that chief favoured the Śaiva sect and that one of its teachers was a native of Madurai.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0088.

SII 14.89: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 89. (A.R. No. 13 of 1927.) VIJAYANĀRĀYAṆAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MANŌNMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record is dated in the 12th year of the king and refers to a gift of sheep for burning a lamp in the temple, whose name is given, namely, Manōmayaṉīśvaram at Vijayanārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. It is not known whose title ‘Maṉōmayaṉ was; but it already occurs in the time of Śaḍiaya-Māṟaṉ. It may be remarked that the regnal year which had been cited as some year opposite to the 4th up till the 11th year is now quoted as only one year, as the 12th in this record. This practice was in vogue up till the 15th year, when with that year as constant, the further years are quoted as 15+4 and 15+5. No. 91 below however cites the year 13+1. The significance of this is not clear.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0089.

SII 14.8: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 8. (A.R. No. 13 of 1908.) KUMBAKŌṆAM, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE SHRINE OF THE GODDESS IN THE NĀGĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This Tamil record dated in the 4+4th year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ registers a gift of 138 cows and 100 kāśu by the king for the supply of milk and ghee and for maintaining two perpetual lamps in the temple of Bhaṭāra of Tirukkīḻkōṭṭam in Tirukkuḍamūkku, i. e., Kumbakōṇam. The regnal year of this inscription corresponds apparently to the year 4+1+1+1+1, quoted in the Āḍuturai record. (No. 7 above.)

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0008.

SII 1.48: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 48. ON A STONE AT ŚAMAṄGINELLŪR NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The object of the grant is the village of Śeṇbaga-Perumāḷ-nallūr, i.e., the modern Śamaṅginellūr.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0048.

SII 14.90: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 90. (A.R. No. 426 of 1914.) PAḶḶIMAḌAM, ARUPPUKKOTTAI TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH BASE OF THE KĀLANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record dated in the 13th year of the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya registers a gift of 100 sheep by a certain Araṅgam-Pūdi alias Pōḻiyūrnāṭṭu-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Śuḍuvūr in Pōḻiyūr-nāḍu, for burning a lamp in the temple of Sundara-Pāṇḍya-Īśvaram at Pallimadai. These sheep were left in charge of several individuals, who had to measure stipulated quantities of ghee to the temple.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0090.

SII 14.91: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 91. (A.R. No. 548 of 1926.) ŚRĪVILLIPUTTŪR, SRIVILLIPUTTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE maṇḍapa IN THE PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record which belongs to Vīra-Pāṇḍya is dated in the year opposite to the 13th year of his reign, different from the usual method in which the years quoted were opposite to the 4th year. It is stated that the sabhā of Villipputtūr, a brahmadēya in Malli-nāḍu, which had met in the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Mahādēva, sold some lands newly constituted into a hamlet called Agara-dhanma-maṅgalam, to a certain official named Śatrubhayaṅkara-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ alias Vēḷāṉ-Parañjōti of Peruṅguḷam in Tiruvaḷudi-vaḷanāḍu, for instituting some charities in the two temples of Jalaśayanattu-kkiḍandaruḷiṉa-Paramasvāmin and Tirukkaṟṟali-Mahādēvar in the village. Among the boundaries of the village are mentioned the names of Māṟapputtūr, Irambāḍu, and Śrīkāntamaṅgalam. Śatrubhayaṅkara was evidently a title borne by a Pāṇḍya king, possibly Vira-Pāṇḍya himself. The penalty to be imposed on those who obstruct this charity is specified, namely, in the case of an individual, it was 50 poṉ but if the Sabhā itself was at fault, the fine was 500 poṉ.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0091.

SII 14.92: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 92. (A.R. No. 233 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḶUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record, dated in the 15th year of the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, registers a gift of cows for maintaining a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruvaḻudīśvaram in Tiruva udi-vaḷanāḍu. by a private person of the same village. The aganāḻigaiyār or the men in charge of the inner precincts of the temple undertook to burn the lamp.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0092.

SII 14.93: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 93. (A.R. No. 238 of 1932-33.) PERUṄGUḶAM, SRIVAIKUNTAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE TIRUVAḶUDĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This incomplete inscription is dated in the 15th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya and relates to the gift of buffalœs by the wife of Pāṇḍimārttāṇḍa-Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Śe2ṉṉappi of Kuṟuṅguḍi in Māṉavīra-vaḷanāḍu, a subdivision of Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷanāḍu, to burn a lamp in the temple of Tiruvaḻudīśvarattu-Āḻvār at Peruṅguḷam in Tiruvaḻudi-vaḷanāḍu, for the merit of her husband and herself. The titles Tiruvaḻudi, Māṉavīra and Pāṇḍimārttāṇḍa are noteworthy. ‘Vaḻudi,’ though it is a general title of Pāṇḍya kings has perhaps special reference to the early Pāṇḍya king Palyāgaśālai Mudukuḍumi-Peruvaḻudi who is referred to in the Vēḷvikkuḍi copper plate grant. ‘Māṉavīra’ must have been a title assumed by a Pāṇḍya king, presumably earlier than Vīra-Pāṇḍya. Pāṇḍimārttāṇḍa-vaḷanāḍu occurs as the name of a district in the time of Rājasimha himself, and as such it must have been probably a title of Rājasimha.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0093.

SII 14.94: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 94. (A.R. No. 474 of 1909.) EDIRKŌṬṬAI, SATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A ROCK CLOSE TO THE ŚUṆAIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription of the 15+4th year of the king relates to a gift of sheep by Āchchaṉ, a resident of the cloth merchants’ quarters (aṟuvai-vāṇiya-chchēri) for burning a lamp in the temple of Śuṉaikkuḍi-Bhaṭāra.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0094.

SII 14.95: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 95. (A.R. No. 101 of 1905.) AMBĀSAMUDRAM, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE EṞICHCHĀVUḌAIYĀR TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record dated in the 5th year opposite to the 15th year of the king is the latest record found for him. It confirm a royal order made in the 12th year of the king, which was carried into effect now. It is important as mentioning the occurrence of a solar eclipse in the month of Mithuna in the 12th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya’s reign and helps to fix A.D. 946-47 as the date of his accession. It registers a gift of 10 vēli of land by the king for providing worship and offerings to the deities in the temple of Tiruppōttuḍaiya-Mahādēva at Iḷaṅgoykkuḍi, a brahmadēya in Muḷḷi-nāḍu. An officer of the king named Chōḷāntāka-Brahmamārāyar and another named Tamiḻavēḷāṉ figure in the record.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0095.

SII 14.96: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 96. (A.R. No. 12 of 1927.) VIJAYANĀRĀYAṆAM, NANGUNERI TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆŌṆMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This damaged record belongs to the reign of Vīra-Pāṇḍya. The regnal year is list. It relates to a gift of sheep for a lamp to be burnt apparently in the temple of Vijayanāraṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam a brahmadēya in Nāṭṭāṟṟuppōkku by a certain Nārāyaṇapirāṉ-Dēvaṉ of Perumarudūr in Śāḻagrāmam.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0096.

SII 14.97: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. No. 97. (A.R. No. 294 of 1916.) ŚIṄGAMPAṬṬI, AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK, TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT. ON A ROCK IN A FIELD IN MĒLAI-ŚIṄGAMPAṬṬI

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscription of eight short lines is engraved in early characters but owing to the damaged condition of the rock, as well as the peculiar nature of the script, its purport cannot be clearly made out. It is not dated in the reign of any Pāṇḍya king known to epigraphy, but appears, however, to refer to the death of some hero probably in one of the frontier skirmishes, which were frequent events in early, Pāṇḍya history. The writing may be attributed to the 7th century A.D. and may be compared with the label inscription of two lines engraved in the rock-cut cave at Piḷḷaiyārpaṭṭi,1 Ramanathapuram district and another label at Aivarmalai,2 Madurai district.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0097.

SII 14.98: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. No. 98. (A.R. No. 66 of 1905.) ĀṈAIMALAI, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE maṇḍapa. OF THE CAVE NEAR THE NARAŚIṄGA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is engarved in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters of the early 9th century A.D. It states that a certain Nambirāṉbhaṭṭa-Sōmāśi-Parivirājakar renovated (pudukkudi) something, which refers evidently to the maṇḍapa, where it is found. Though no king’s name is mentioned, the record may be attributed to the early Pāṇḍya times.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0098.

SII 14.99: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. No. 99-106. (A.R. Nos. 67 to 74 of 1905.) ĀṈAIMALAI, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON A ROCK WITH SCULPTURES OVERHANGING A NATURAL CAVE. No. 99. (A.R. No. 67 of 1905.)

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The following label inscriptions in Vaṭṭeḻuttu and Tamil characters are engraved below the images of the Jaina gods sculptured in half-relief on the rock near the cavem at Āṉaimalai. They are attributable to about the beginning and end of the 9th century A.D., and as they must have been incised in Pāṇḍya times only, their texts are reproduced below.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0099.

SII 14.9: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 9. (A.R. No. 136 of 1908.) TIRUPPATTŪR, TIRUPPATTUR TALUK, RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT. ON A SLAB IN THE FIRST prākāra OF THE TIRUTTAḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ is dated in the 4th year opposite to the 6th, which apparently is a wrong citation for 4+6th year. The Sanskrit ślōka at the beginning states that Paṭṭā, the daughter of Māṟaṉ and the wife of Śaṅkara donated 10 dināra for a lamp to the god Śrīsthalīśa. The Tamil portion records the same fact in greater detail. The brāhmaṇa Mōśi Kaṇḍaṉ Śaṅkaraṉ is stated to be the son fo the kiḻār of Arukandūr and the amount of gift is specified as 10 kāśu. The endowment was left under the protection of Āyiratteḻunūṟṟuvar. What exactly is meant by this name is not clear.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0009.

SII 1.49: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 49. ON A STONE AT PERUMAI NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The object of the grant is the village of Perumugai (?), i.e., the modern Perumai.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0049.

SII 14, appendix, no. 1: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 1. (A.R. No. 26 of 1930-31). TIRUKKŌḌIKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. On the west wall of the Tirukkōṭīśvara temple.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record in Tamil is dated in the 5th regnal year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ and states that the assembly of Mahēndrakoṭṭūr including Kañjaṉūr agreed to supply 15 kalam of paddy per year measured by eṇṇāḻīkkāl and to arrange for the daily food offerings to god Mahādēva at Tirukkōḍikā, in lieu of 12 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Paramiñakkaṉ of Kāṟaṉūr in Pērāvūr-nāḍu.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 14, appendix, no. 2: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 2. (A.R. No. 29 of 1930-31.) TIRUKKŌḌIKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. On the south wall of the Tirukkōṭīśvara temple.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This epigraph, dated in the eleventh year of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ records a gift of 30 kaḻañju of gold for a lamp in the temple. It is stated that the original stray stone on which this inscription was engraved, became useless and that this is a copy of the old record (Vide No. 36 of 1930-31)

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv14p2i0002.

SII 1.4: 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. A. First storey: c. South. No. 4.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Sanskrit.

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

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SII 1.50: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 50. ON A STONE AT ŚEKKAṈŪR NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription records the gift of the village of Śekkaṉūr to the Vellore Temple.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0050.

SII 1.51: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 51. ON A ROCK ON THE TOP OF THE BAVĀJI HILL NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This rock-inscription is written in bold archaic letters; the lines are irregular and very close to each other. The inscription is dated in the twenty-sixth year of a king called Kaṉṉara-deva, and records that Velūr-pāḍi was given to the temple of Paṉṉapeśvara on the top of the hill of Śūdāḍupārai (Śūdāḍupārai-malai) by Nuḷambaṉ Tribhuvanadhīra, alias Muḍi-melaṉ Śrī-Pallava-Murāri. Another Nuḷambaṉ, the first part of whose name is indistinct on the stone, and who was probably a relation of Nuḷambaṉ Tribhuvanadhīra, seems to have received Velūr-pāḍi together with the hill of Śūdāḍupārai from Vīra-Choḷa. Velūr-pāḍi is probably the same as Velapāḍi, a suburb of Vellore, near which the Bavāji Hill is situated, and which is supposed to be the oldest part of the town.1 Śūdāḍupārai-malai must have been the old name of the Bavāji Hill. It was situated in the north of Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu, a division of Paḍuvūr-koṭṭam. The Śiva temple on its top had been founded by, and was called after, a certain Paṉṉappai. Besides the present Tamil inscription, five obliterated Telugu inscriptions are found on the top of the Bavāji Hill. Four of them mention a certain Nallaguruvayya; one of these four inscriptions is dated in Śaka 1539, the Piṅgaḷa year.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0051.

SII 1.52: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 52. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE AT GĀṄGANŪR NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the Pramāthin year, which was the 17th year of Sakalalokachakravartin Śambuvarāya. This date is at variance with that of a Kāñchīpuram inscription, according to which the Vyaya year and the Śaka year 1268 corresponded to the 9th year of Sakalalokachakravartin Rājanārāyaṇa Śambuvarāyar,1 and we must either assume that the 9th year is a misreading for the 24th year, or that the king mentioned at Kāñchīpuram and that of the present inscription are two different persons. The inscription is a receipt for the cost of a kāṇi,2 which a certain Tiruveṅgaḍamuḍaiyāṉ seems to have sold3 to the villagers of Nīlakaṇṭha-chaturvedi-maṅgalam and of Śrī-Mallinātha-chaturvedi-maṅgalam. The first of these two villages was also called Gāṅgeya-nallūr4 (the modern Gāṅganūr) and was situated in Karaivaṛi-Āndi-nāḍu.5

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0052.

SII 1.53: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 53. ON THE INNER WALL OF THE PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE AT ŚOṚAPURAM NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is written in archaic characters; it is much obliterated, and incomplete at the end. The date is the twenty-third year of Ko-Vijaya-[Siṁha]vikramavarman. The inscription records a grant to the Vishṇu temple at Kāṭṭuttumbūr, which was probably another name of Śoṛapuram. The temple had been founded by the same person or persons who made the grant. The object granted was a piece of land at Kanakavalli, which, like Kāṭṭuttumbūr itself, belonged to Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu, a division of Paḍuvūr-koṭṭam.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0053.

SII 1.54: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 54. ON THE BASE OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT TEḶḶŪR NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the reign of the mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Vīrapratāpa-Devarāya-mahārāya (of Vijayanagara) and in Śaka 1353, the Sādhāraṇa year. It records that the family (kuḍi) of Māraṇaṉ-uḷḷiṭṭār, which belonged to Pallava-nallūr, was given to the temple at Teḷḷaiyūr (the modern Teḷḷūr), alias Pukkaḷappuram, which belonged to Vaḍapuri-Āndi-nāḍu in Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu, a division of Paḍuvūr-koṭṭam in Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Choḷa-maṇḍalam.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.55: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 55. ON THE WEST AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE VIRŪPĀKSHEŚVARA TEMPLE AT VEPPAMBAṬṬU NEAR VELŪR.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in Śaka 132[8] expired and the Vyaya year current. It is a deed of sale of the revenue in gold and the revenue in rice of one half of the village of Veppambaṭṭu and of the village of Śiṟu-Kaḍambūr. The first-mentioned village belonged to Āndi-nāḍu, a division of Agara-paṟṟu. Both villages are stated to have been granted to the temple of Virūpāksha-deva1 at Veppambaṭṭu by Vīrapratāpa-Bukka-mahārāyar (of Vijayanagara), and the temple itself is said to have been consecrated one year before the date of the inscription in the Pārthiva year, i.e., Śaka 1328 current. This date is puzzling, as it does not agree with other inscriptions, according to which Bukka’s son Harihara II. was reigning in Śaka 1301 and 1321.2 The cost of one half of the first village and of the second village as well as the total are given in kuḷapramāṇas or kuḷas of gold (poṉ) and in paṇas. In line 2 of the south wall another gold standard, called kovai, seems to be mentioned. The numerous signs for fractions, which occur throughout the inscription, are palaeographically interesting.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.56: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 56. INSIDE THE FRONT GOPURA OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE, SECOND INSCRIPTION TO THE RIGHT.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated during the reign of Vīrapratāpa-Devarāya-mahārāja (of Vijayanagara) and in the Viśvāvasu year, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1347. It refers to a question of the sacred law (dharma) of the Brāhmaṇas, which was settled by the Brāhmaṇas of the kingdom of Paḍaivīḍu, among whom Karṇāṭa, Tamiṛ, Telugu and Lāṭa Brāhmaṇas are mentioned. Their representatives signed an agreement to the effect, that henceforth marriages among their families had only to be concluded by kanyādāna, i.e., that the father had to give his daughter to the bridegroom gratuitously. Both the father who accepted money, and the bridegroom who paid money for the bride, should be subject to punishment by the king and to excommunication from their caste. This practice was evidently adopted on the authority of the canonical works on sacred law, which condemn in strong terms the payment of money for the bride, and use the term āsura-vivāha for a marriage thus concluded. The four forms of marriage permitted to Brāhmaṇas are mere varieties of the marriage by kanyādāna. To the end of the inscription a large number of signatures of Brāhmaṇas are attached. This part of the original is obliterated to such an extent that a satisfactory transcript cannot be given. In some cases, the places where the single Brāhmaṇas came from, are registered. As the identification of these localities might be useful for fixing the extent of the kingdom of Paḍaivīḍu, I subjoin those which may be read with certainty: Kaḷañjiyam, Kamalapādam, Marudam, Maṅgalam, Araiyapāḍi, Kaṇṇamaṅgalam,1 A[ga]tterippaṭṭu, Enādapāḍi. Two other inscriptions mention Guḍiyātam2 and Vallam3 as belonging to the kingdom of Paḍavīḍu4 or Paḍaveḍu.5 The kingdom of Paḍaivīḍu (Paḍaivīṭṭu rājyam) was called after the town of Paḍaivīḍu, now Paḍaveḍu in the Polūr Tālluqa of the North Arcot District.6 According to two Vijayanagara inscriptions, it formed a district of Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam.7 The name Paḍaivīḍu means “an encampment” and seems to owe its origin to a temporary camp of some king, around which a city arose in course of time.8

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.57: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 57. ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURTYARD OF THE VIRIÑCHIPURAM TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription records that in the Saumya year, which was current after the expiration of Śaka 1471, the pavement of the outer courtyard of the Viriñchipuram Temple was laid by Bommu-nāyaka, who is evidently the same person as Śiṉṉa-Bommu-nāyaka or Bomma-nṛipati of Velūr.1 On this occasion, the other inscribed stones which are noticed in part III, must have found their way into the floor of the temple.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.58: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 58. ON A STONE AT THE SOUTH ENTRANCE OF VIRIÑCHIPURAM.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated during the reign of Veṅkaṭapati-deva-mahārāyar1 and in the Nandana year, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1514. It records that Periya-Eṟama-nāyaka of Puṉṉāṟṟūr granted a house (maṉai) and some land for a maṭha to Ānanda-Namaśivāya-paṇḍāram. The grant was made at the Mārgasahāyeśvara Temple of Tiru-Viriñchapuram (Viriñchipuram).

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.59: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 59. ON THE BASE OF THE NORTH WALL

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the twenty-second year of Tribhuvanachakravartin Rājarāja-deva and in the Śaka year 1160. It records the gift of the village of Kumāramaṅgalam, which was situated east of Koṟṟa-maṅgalam, north-west of Aimbūṇḍi— which lay to the north of Poygai, alias Rājendra-Choḷa-nallūr—and south of the Pālaṟu. Aimbūṇḍi is the old name of the modern village of Ammuṇḍi; it occurs also in an Ammuṇḍi inscription, which will be noticed in Part III (No. 131). The Pālāṟu is the well-known Pālār, the chief river of the North Arcot District.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.5: 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. A. First storey: c. South. No. 5.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Sanskrit.

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

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SII 1.60: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 60. ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE EAST WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Of this inscription only the date remains, which is the same as in No. 59.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.61: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 61. ON THE BASE OF THE SOUTH WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the twenty-fourth year of Tribhuvanachakravartin Rājarājadeva, and in the Śaka year 1161. It records the gift of the village of Puttūr.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.62: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 62. ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE EAST WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is a duplicate of No. 61. At the end some words are lost.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.63: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 63. ON THE BASE OF THE EAST WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This short inscription refers to the gift of the village of Puttūr, which is also recorded in the two preceding inscriptions.

Language: Tamil.

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

DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0063.

SII 1.64: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 64. ON THE NORTH WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the 28th year of Rājarāja-deva, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1165. It records the gift of the village of Attiyūr.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.65: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. III. INSCRIPTIONS AT AND NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM. No. 65. ON THE WEST AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE ĪŚVARA TEMPLE AT VAKKAṆĀPURAM NEAR VIRIÑCHIPURAM.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription records, that a number of people agreed to found a temple, called Okkaniṉṟa-nāyaṉār, and granted to it three velis1 of land belonging to Tiru-Viruñchapuram, i.e., Viriñchipuram, and a tirumaḍaiviḷāgam.2 Okkaniṉṟa-nāyaṉār was evidently the name of the Vakkaṇāpuram Temple, and may be connected with the modern name of the village. A shrine of Chaṇḍeśvara-nāyaṉār,3 the god, who is supposed to preside over the temple treasury, seems to have been attached to the temple. Further, some land was granted to Vaṛittuṇai-nāyaṉār, “the lord who is a companion on the road.” This is the Tamil equivalent of Mārgasahāyeśvara, the name of the Viriñchipuram Temple, which occurs in No. 58. The whole grant was entrusted to a certain Kambavāṇa-bhaṭṭa, whose name also appears among the signatures, which are attached to this document. Among these there are some curious denominations, which show that the villagers were fond of bearing royal names. Thus we find Vīra-Śoṛa-Brahmā-rāyaṉ, Mīṉavarāyaṉ,4 Devarāyaṉ, Nandivarman, Muvendirayaṉ,5 and Chedirāyaṉ. One of the witnesses signs half in Tamil, half in Sanskrit;6 another was called after Śiṟṟambalam7 and a third hailed from Periya-nāḍu.

Language: Tamil.

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

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