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Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Madhyasthanātha temple - on the north and west walls of the central shrine and the west wall of the mukhamaṇḍapa. Iṟandakālameḍutta perumāḷ Śrīvallabhadēva: year 7, Śaka 1463, piḷava, Āvaṇi, 22, su. di. 7, Tuesday, Anusha: 1541 A.D.
This inscription records a gift of one kuḻi and eight mā of land freed from taxes at Paṭṭakuṟichchi in Āri-nāḍu, to Kaṇdēru Sōmanātha Bhaṭṭa for compiling pañchāṅga (calendar).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv30p0i0216.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record which is dated in the 29th year of Parakēsarivarman Parāntaka I. registers a grant of 30 kaḻañju of pure gold for a lamp to the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr. The donor was Iravi Nīlī, the daughter of the Chēra king Vijayarāgadēva. From the inscriptions published so far we do not know of any Chēra king of name Vijayarāga who was a contemporary of Parāntaka. It has been noted above that Kōkkaṇḍaṉ Sthāṇu Ravi was a contemporary and friend of Rājakēsarivarman Āditya I., father of Parāntaka I. Perhaps Vijayarāga (i.e., Vijayarāghava), if at all he was an actual ruler of the Chēra country, might have succeeded Sthāṇu Ravi either as his son or his brother. The friendly relations that thus existed between the Chōḷas and the Chēras during the reigns of Āditya I. and Parāntaka I. deserve to be noted.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0103.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This is a record of Parāntaka I. of his 30th year, which mentions a grant by prince (piḷḷaiyār) Arindigai or Arindigai-Perumāṉār, one of the sons of Śōḻa-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ (i.e., Parāntaka I.). The Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates call this prince Arindama and elsewhere we find the forms Ariñjigai, Ariṁjaya, and Arikulakēsariyār. The term nishka which occurs in the Sanskrit portion of the grant corresponds to kaḻañju of the Tamil portion, as in No. 103 above. According to Monier Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary, nishka is a coin varying in value at different times; but kaḻañju in Tamil has invariably represented a particular weight of gold bullion (= about 80 grains).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0104.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The subjoined record is also dated in the 30th year of king Parakēsarivarman Parāntaka I. Later on, in the body of the inscription (l. 11) his 35th year is mentioned. It follows that the epigraph must have been engraved on the stone not earlier than the 35th year of the king and that till then it must have been preserved in the royal archives. It registers a gift of gold for a lamp to the temple of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr by prince Kōdaṇḍarāma, the eldest son of (the Chōḷa king) Śōḻa-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ (Parāntaka I.).
A portion of this gold is stated to have been invested with the residents of Veḷḷivāyil who agreed to pay interest once in six months on the deposited amount and to give two meals every day to the man that came to demand the interest thereon. The rate of interest was three mañjāḍi per kaḻañju per annum (i.e., fifteen per cent). Veḷḷivāyil is evidently the same as Tiruveḷḷavāyal, eight miles east of Poṉṉēri.
The temple of Kōdaṇḍarāmēśvara at Toṇḍamaṉāḍ was also called Ādityēśvara and Mr. Venkayya surmised from this that Kōdaṇḍarāma must have been a surname either of Rājāditya, the eldest son of Parāntaka I., or of his second son Gaṇḍarāditya1. The subjoined inscription calling Kōdaṇḍarāma the eldest son of Parāntaka proves conclusively that the former must be identical with Rājāditya of the large Leyden plates. It might further be remarked that in the Tirumālpuram inscription (No. 142) printed below, the Chōḷa king Āditya I. is called Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūr-tuñjiṉadēva. Mr. Venkayya identifies the village Toṇḍaimāṉāṟṟūr with Toṇḍamaṉāḍ. If this identification is correct it follows that the temple of Kōdaṇḍarāmēśvara or Ādityēśvara at Toṇḍamaṉāḍ may have been so called after Āditya I. who died at Toṇḍamaṉāḍ and who, it is not improbable, also held the title Kōdaṇḍarāma, just like his grandson Rājāditya.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0105.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The inscription is dated in the 34th year of king Parakēsarivarman who took Madura and records the gift of 90 sheep for a lamp to the Śiva temple at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr (Ādhipurī), by the chief Māṟaṉ Paramēśvaraṉ alias Śembiyaṉ Śōḻiyavaraiyaṉ of Śiṟukuḷattūr, on his return from conquering Śīṭpuli and destroying Nellūr. The mutilated Sanskrit verse at the beginning gives the king the title Vīrakīrti. This military campaign reveals for the first time the extent to which the sway of the Chōḷa king Parāntaka I. extended on the east coast.1
The name Śīṭpuli is Tamil and means ‘the fierce tiger.’ The corresponding Sanskrit equivalent, if any, must end in the word vyāghra. We do not know of any names of contemporaneous kings of the Telugu country at this period which ended either with vyāghra or puli. In the time of Nandivarman Pallavamalla, however, there was, according to the Udayēndiram plates, a chief named Pṛithivivyāghra whom Udayachandra drove out of the district of Vishṇurāja (i.e., the Eastern Chalukya king Vishṇuvardhana III.). It is not impossible that our Śīṭpuli was a later member of the Nishāda family to which Pṛithivivyāghra belonged.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0108.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This Sanskrit inscription supplies some additional information about [Pirāntakaṉ] Iruṅgōḷār alias Śiṟiyavēḷār mentioned in the two previous records. He is here called Śiruvēḷā the foremost member in the family of the daughter of king Pirāntaka and the light of the Iruṅgōḷa race. The first of the attributes is interesting and has perhaps to be understood with reference to the marriage of a member of the Koḍumbāḷūr family named Samarābhirāma to the Chōḷa princess Anupamā1 mentioned in an inscription from Mūvarkōyil. If this is so, it follows that Anupamā was a daughter of king Parāntaka I. It is also known that prince Arikulakēsari, son of Parāntaka I., married Pūdi Āditta-Piḍāri, daughter of Teṉṉavaṉ Iḷaṅgōvēḷār, another member of the same family which was called Irukkuvēḷ, Iḷaṅgōvēḷ or Iruṅgōḷa.
In the 5th year of king Sundara-Chōḷa this chief Śiruvēḷa (i.e., Śiṟiyavēḷār) is stated to have given to the god at Śrīviśalūra (i.e., Tiruviśalūr), some māshakas of gold for rice offering and the gatānakas (gadyāṇakas) which accrued to the king as revenue from the village Nimba or Nimbāgrahāra for repairs, and a lamp. Nimba or Nimbāgrahāra on the northern bank of the Kāvērī is apparently the modern Vēppattūr called Amaninārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Tamil inscriptions.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0121.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This mutilated inscription dated in the 3rd year of [Pār]thivēndravarman mentions the Brahman assembly (sabhā) of Ilai-Vallam in Dāmar-kōṭṭam and the measure called Ūragattu-niṉṟār, by which oil was evidently measured out for maintaining a lamp in the temple of Gōvindapāḍi-Āḷvār. Ūragattu-niṉṟār must refer to the Vishṇu temple of Ulagaḷanda-Perumāḷ at Conjeeveram whose name according to the Vaishṇava scriptures (Nālāyiraprabandham) was Ūragam.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0165.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the north and west walls, central shrine, Gaṅgājaṭādhara temple.
Year 14: 985 A.D.
This inscription has two sections. The first one is in Sanskrit and the second portion in Tamil.
The first portion eulogises that Ambalavan Paḻuvūr-Nakkaṉ of Kuvuḷālapuram was born in a good caste and that he founded one dynasty. He was an embodiment of munificience and his foes knew him as a personification of bravery. The damsels knew him as an incarnation of cupid and scholars knew him as dharma incarnate. He had gained the appreciation of Vikramachōḻa by the show of his valour. In the 14th regnal year of the King he converted the temple of Sambhu at Vijayamaṅgalam in the agrahāra of Śrī Vānavanmahādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam into stone and gifted the village Neḍuvāyil, attached to the same greater Vānavaṉmahādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, after purchasing it and getting it made tax-free from the Mahāparishad of the same agrahāra for the worship of the god and celebration of festivals in the said temple.
The Tamil version of the record states that Ambalavaṉ Paḻuvūr Nakkaṉ alias Vikrama chōḷa mahārājan of Kuvaḷālapuram, the perundaram official of the king had constructed the temple of Vijayamaṅgalattu-Mahādēvar at Śrī Vāṉavanmahādēvichaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēyam on the northern bank (of the river) in stone. He also gifted Neḍuvāyil, a northern hamlet of the village of Vānavaṉmahādēvichaturvēdimaṅgalam with all its appurtenances, after purchase from the peruṅkuṟipperumakkaḷ of the above village and donated it as a bhōgam to the god of Vijayamaṅgalam for providing food offerings and also for conducting various services, worship and festivals to the deity. He also gave seven hundred kāśu and got the donated village freed from taxes by the same sabhā. The madhyastha of the village Niṉṟāṉ Āra Amudan Vānavamādēvipperuṅgāvidi wrote this charter.
Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 357.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv32p2i0138.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Prākrama Pāṇḍya Year Śaka 1384, Mithuna 28, ba. di. 13, Monday, Mṛigaśīrisha = 25th June 1462 A.D. but the day was Friday.
This incomplete inscription records the creation of a brāhmaṇical settlement, which consisted of forty eight ma wet land twenty four mā of dry land, named after the prince Sheṇbagarāma pāṇḍyadēvar alias Vīrapāṇḍyadēvar, Vīrapāṇḍyach-chaturvēdimaṅgalam by the king infavour of eighteen Vēdic brāhmaṇas and one brāhmaṇa, who was to read Pañchāṅga. It is also stated that they were to recite Vedas and Purāṇas and read Pañchāṅga before the king.
Besides these, land shares were also set apart to five brāhmaṇas. They were Mālādhara Bhaṭṭaṉ in Śaka 1378, Śrī Kṛishṇa Bhaṭṭaṉ in Śaka 1382, Padmanābha Bhaṭṭaṉ, Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭaṉ Parākrama Pāṇḍya Brahmādarāyaṉ and Kailāśanātha Bhaṭṭaṉ along with the above nineteen brāhmaṇas in Śaka 1384. The latter, Kailāśanātha Bhaṭṭaṉ, was to expound Purāṇas. The inscription also narrates in detail matters relating to the land shares i.e., boundaries, extent and other details. The nativity of these donees, their gōtras and sūtras are also given.
It is evident that each of them was to get two mā of wet land and one mā of dry land.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0010.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Aḻagaperumāḷ Kulasēkharadēva Year: 2+42. Śaka 1395, Kaṟkkaṭaka 22, ba. di. 11, Tuesday, Mṛigaśrīsha = July 20, 1473. However, the star was Rōhiṇi.
This incomplete inscription records the gift of two mā of land, exempted from taxes, (bhūdāna-iṟaiyili) to a certain Vīra Pāṇḍya Sundarapāṇḍya Bhaṭṭaṉ of Kauśika-gōtra and to some other brāhmaṇas, well-versed in Vēdas, (chaturvēdi-bhaṭṭargaḷ) for reciting Vēdas at the above temple.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0011.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription (No. 66 of 1892) is engraved on the left of the entrance to the north wall of the fourth prākāra of the Raṅganātha temple on the island of Śrīraṅgam near Trichinopoly. It is dated in the 19th year of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III. on a day which corresponds to Tuesday, the 12th November A.D. 1196,1 and recorded an order of the king, the contents of which are lost.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0088.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1030.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: [Note.—Letters enclosed in square brackets are doubtful on the stone. Those enclosed in round brackets are superfluous and must be omitted. Those in brackets with asterisks are inserted by the editor. The gaps are represented by dots but not always by as many dots as the number of lost or damaged letters.]
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0130.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0136.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1396.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1399.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1401.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1405.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0221.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0252.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0257.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0268.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0288.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0297.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0302.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0352.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0397.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0398.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0416.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0498.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0501.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0503.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0504.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0505.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0506.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0507.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0526.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0553.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0623.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0625.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0626.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0627.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0628.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0629.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0630.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0631.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0632.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0649.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0650.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0826.