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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 1.108: 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 1.110: 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 1.124: 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 1.130: 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 1.141: 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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SII 1.145: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 145. ON THE FLOOR OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Each line of this inscription is incomplete at the end. It is dated during the reign of Madirai-koṇḍa Ko-Parakesari[varman].1 Line 2 mentions “the holy stone-temple” (Tirukkaṟṟaḷi), i.e., the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Temple.2 According to lines 3 and 4, the inscription seems to have recorded an agreement made by the inhabitants of two quarters (śeri) of Kachchippeḍu (i.e., Kāñchīpuram), of which the second was called Ekavīrappāḍichcheri and the name of the first also ended in ppāḍichcheri. The term paḷḷichchandam3 occurs in line 5.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.146: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 146. ON THE ROOF OF THE MAHĀMAṆḌAPA OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This fragment is dated in the twelfth year of Ko-Rāja-Rājakesarivarman, “who built a jewel (-like) hall at Kāndaḷūr.” The mention of Kāndaḷūr shows, that the king has to be identified with that Rājarāja-deva, who caused the inscriptions Nos. 40, 41 and 66 to be engraved, and that he built the hall at Kāndaḷūr before his twelfth year. The inscription seems to have recorded, that the assembly (sabhā) of some village pledged themselves, to furnish a yearly supply of paddy to the temple-treasurers (Śiva-paṇḍārigaḷ) from the interest of a sum of money,1 which they had received from “the large holy stone-temple, alias Rājasiṁheśvara, at Kāñchipuram,” or to pay a fine of a quarter poṉ daily. The document is signed by [Pu]ṟambi Sūrya of Tiruviṛāpuṟam.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.147: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 147. ON THE FLOOR OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: These two fragments belong to the time of Ko-Rājakesarivarman. The second is dated in his 3rd year. Each of them records an agreement made by the inhabitants of some village, who pledged themselves to furnish daily one uṛakku of oil for a nondā1 or nandā lamp in exchange for a loan of 15 kaṛañjus of gold, and is signed by Māṉatoṅgaḷ Maḷḷerumāṉ, a member of the village-assembly (kūṭṭam). First inscription.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.148: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 148. ON THE ROOF OF THE MAHĀMAṆḌAPA OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This fragment, which is dated in the fifteenth year of Ko-Parakesarivarman, contains an agreement made by the inhabitants of some village, who had received a certain sum of money from “the large holy stone-temple (i.e., the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Temple) at Kachchippeḍu (i.e., Kāñchīpuram).” From the interest of this sum, they pledged themselves to supply ghee for a lamp at the rate of 1 uṛakku per day or 7 nāṛis and 1 uri per mensem.1 The measure to be used was a nāṛi, which was equal to a rājakesari.2 As the Choḷa kings alternately bore the surnames Rājakesarin and Parakesarin,3 it must be assumed, that this measure was called after one of the predecessors of the king, to whose reign the inscription belongs. The writer of the inscription was the village-headman Nāga Alappaḍi.4

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.149: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 149. ON THREE STONES AT THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: These are three fragments of what must have been a very long inscription. Its extent may be estimated from the fact, that line 1 of the first fragment corresponds to line 1 of No. 67, line 1 of the second fragment to line 5 of No. 67, and the first part of line 1 of the third fragment to the latter part of line 6 of No. 67. None of the fragments is in its original position. The first and second are built into the roof of the mahāmaṇḍapa of the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Shrine. The third fragment is built into the pavement of the veranda near the entrance into the mahāmaṇḍapa; some letters of each line are covered by a pillar. Although the name of the king, during whose reign the inscription was engraved, is lost, the existing fragments of the first line, which agree literally with parts of the first, fifth and sixth lines of the inscription No. 67, prove, that the inscription was one of Rājendra-Choḷa-deva. As the list of his conquests reaches here only as far as “the high mountains of Navanedikkula,”1 the date must fall between the 7th and 10th years of the king. The inscription seems to have recorded some gifts of paddy, gold and money.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 1.150: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 150. ON A PILLAR IN THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription is dated in the 26th year of Tribhuvanachakravartin Rājarāja-deva. According to the Poygai inscriptions (Nos. 59 to 64) this year would correspond to Śaka 1163-64. By the subjoined document, some person pledged himself, to supply daily one āṛākku1 of ghee for five lamps (saṁdhi-viḷakku) “to the lord of the holy stone-temple, alias Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara, at Kachchippeḍu,” i.e., Kāñchīpuram. The ghee had to be made over daily to those, who were in charge of the nāṛigai (measure) within the temple.

Language: Tamil.

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

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SII 12.100: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 100. (A.R. No. 188 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This is a highly damaged record of Vijaya-Kampavikramavarman dated in his 9th year. It registers a gift of 30 kaḻañju of gold by Amarnidi alias Pallavadiyaraiyar of Kañjanūr in Indaḷūr-nāḍu which was a subdivision of Śōḻa-nāḍu and another gift of a similar amount by a person whose name is lost, for burning two perpetual lamps in the temple at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr. It may be noted that Kañjanūr which may be identified with the village of the same name in the Kumbakonam taluk of the Tanjore district is not herein called Siṁhavishṇu-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, as is done in a record from Tiruviḍaimarudūr.1

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.102: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 102. (A.R. No. 116 of 1923). KĪḺPUTTŪR, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A STONE SET UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VILLAGE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription, dated in the 11th year of Vijaya-Kampavarman, registers a sale of the ērikkāḍi-right by the assembly of Kīḻppūdūr in Kāliyūr-kōṭṭam to Mādēvaṉār, son of Perumbāṇaṉ Śakkaḍi-Araiyar in return for the gold received from him. One kāḍi of paddy was ordered to be levied as ērikkāḍi (tank duty) on each paṭṭi of cultivated land, including those given to physicians as vaidya-bhōga.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.103: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 103. (A.R. No. 174 of 1912). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE VERANDAH ROUND THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ĀDHIPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The date of this record of Vijaya-Kampavarman is not clear. It might be 11, 13 or 16. The inscription records an agreement made by the assembly (ūr) of Vaikkāṭṭūr to provide offerings to the god Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, on the day of saṅkrānti, for the interest on 27 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Pūdi Aṟindigai, wife of Viḍēlviḍugu [Iḷaṅkōvē]ḷār of Koḍumbāḷūr1 in Kō-nāḍu. The chiefs of Koḍumbāḷūr (in the Pudukkottai state) figure largely in inscriptions as subordinates of the Chōḷas, but their connection with the Pallavas is not so well known. A chief of this family is also mentioned in a mutilated record from Kīḻūr,2 dated in the 11th year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman, where the donor is stated to be the wife of Śāttaṉ Maṟavaṉ and the daughter of Vikrama-Pūdi who is probably identical with Viḍēlviḍugu Iḷaṅkō-Adiaraiyaṉ mentioned in the same record.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.104: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 104. (A.R. No. 391 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR CLOSE TO THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VARADARĀJA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The subjoined record is dated in the 17th year of Vijaya-Kampavarman and in registers a gift of 736 kaḻañju of gold to the assembly of Chiṟṟambalam in Kāvadippākkam alias Avaṉinārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam for feeding a person daily, by a lady called Nampirāṭṭi, the elder sister of one Tiruvānaṅgamudi.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.105: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 105. (A.R. No. 372 of 1911). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA OF THE ĀDHIPURĪSVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The construction of a temple of Nirañjanēśvarattu-Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr by a certain Nirañjanaguravar of the place and the gift of 20,000 kuḻi of land by purchase from the assembly of Maṇali for its upkeep, are recorded in this inscription of Vijaya-Kampavarman dated in the 19th year. The document was drawn up by Rudrappōttar Kumāra-Kāḷan, the madhyastha of the village. The communities Mandirattār and Kombaṟuttār are mentioned in ll. 29-30. The inscription is stated to have been engraved by Tiruvoṟṟiyūr-Āchāryaṉ alias Paramēśvaran, son of Śāmuṇḍāchārya. The puḷḷis are marked in the inscription.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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SII 12.106: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 106. (A.R. No. 498 of 1908). MALLĀM, GUDUR TALUK, NELLORE DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP IN FRONT OF THE SUBRAHMAṆYA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription of Kampavarman, dated in the 20th year, is engraved above the figure of a person holding his severed head by the tuft in his left hand, while the right hand grasps a sword (Plate VI). It registers a gift of land made by the ūrār of Tiruvāṉmūr to Paṭṭai-Pōttaṉ for the pious act of Okkoṇḍanāgaṉ Okkatīndaṉ Paṭṭai-Pōttaṉ, probably his father, in cutting off flesh from nine parts of his body and finally his head as an offering to the goddess Bhaṭārī, i.e., Durgā. The rituals connected with human sacrifice offered to the goddess Durgā are described in the Kālikā-Purāṇa, Chapter 70. The modern Mallām or an ancient suburb of it was known as Tiruvāṉmūr in inscriptions.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.107: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 107. (A.R. No. 227 of 1915). BRAHMADĒŚAM, CHEYYAR TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE CHANDRAMAUḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: It is stated in this record of Vijaya-Kampavarman, dated in the 20th year, that a member of the āḷum-gaṇattār of Kāvadippākkam in Paḍuvūr-kōṭṭam made a gift of 11 kaḻañju of gold for supplying, from the interest on this amount, water to the temple of Tiruppondaip-Perumānaḍigaḷ at Rājamalla-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. This village may be identified with Brahmadēśam itself where the present inscription is found. Since we find an inscription of the Gaṅga king Rājamalla, the grandson of Śrīpurusha at Vaḷḷimalai1 not very far from Brahmadēśam, Rājamalla-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, may have been called so after this Gaṅga king. It may be mentioned that in the region surrounding Brahmadēśam there are villages called Srīpurushamaṅgalam2 and Raṇavikrama chaturvēdimaṅgalam3 which must have been named after the Gaṅga kings Śrīpurusha and Raṇavikrama, the grandfather and father respectively of Rājamalla. The name of the god at Brahmadēśam viz., Tiruppondai-Perumānaḍigaḷ is uncommon in the Tamil country and it is probably to be traced to some Gaṅga or Western Chāḷukya4 princess.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.108: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 108. (A.R. No. 345 of 1906). ŪTTUKKĀḌU, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE RUINED PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This is dated in the 25th year of Vijaya-Kampavarman and registers the agreement made by the tirunāmakkiḻavar of Uḻaichchēri in Ūṟṟukkāḍu to burn three lamps and to provide offerings (to the god) for the money and land received by them from Pūśāli Vāmaṉaṉ a resident of the village. The name of the temple is not mentioned in the record, but from the reference made in it to the māhēśvaras, it seems to have been dedicated to Śiva.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.109: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 109. (A.R. No. 82 of 1932-33). ĀṈŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ASTRAPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This is a damaged and incomplete record of Kampavikra[mavarman] dated in the 25th year. It registers an agreement made by the sabhā of Āṉiyūr to burn a perpetual lamp before the god Vambaṅkāṭṭu-Mahādēva for the interest on 40 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Periya Śrīdhara-Kramavittaṉ of Arivilimaṅgalam, a member of the āḷum-gaṇa, evidently of Āṉūr.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.110: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 110. (A.R. No. 283 of 1919). MAḌAM, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SIDE OF A BOULDER CALLED ŚAṞUKKĀMPĀṞAI ABOUT A FURLONG TO THE SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription records that in the 26th year of Vijaya-Kamapavarman, Jayavallavaṉ (Jayavallabha), a merchant of Kuḷattūr in Teṉṉāṟṟūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Palkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam purchased land from the ūrār of the village and presented it as ērippaṭṭi for the maintenance of a tank, evidently at Maḍam.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.111: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 111. (A.R. No. 144 of 1924). KOḌUṄGALŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB FIXED AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE GAṆAPATI SHRINE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record is dated in the [3]2nd year of Vijaya-Kampavarman, which is the latest known date for the king. It registers a sale of some land (?) by the ūrār of Kāvīḍu to a certain Kāḍandai Nakkaṉ Śaḍaiyaṉ, a resident of that village, probably for some charity, the details of which are not clear. Kāvīḍu may be identified with the village of the same name in the Wandiwash taluk.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.112: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – KAMPAVARMAN. No. 112. (A.R. No. 357 of 1909). OLAKKŪR, TINDIVANAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP NEAR THE VILLAGE CHĀVAḌI.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription records the death of a hero named Todupatti Mātiragaṉ (probably a mahout),1 on the day when the village (i.e. Olakkūr) was destroyed in the confusion caused by Kampapperumāḷ with his elephants. A figure of this hero advancing with a drawn sword in his right hand is also represented on the stone.

Language: Tamil.

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DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0112.

SII 12.113: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – VAYIRAMEGAVARMAN. No. 113. (A.R. No. 150 of 1916). POYYAṈŪR, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE NORTH WALL OF THE AGASTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription, which is highly damaged, seems to record a gift made for providing offerings to the god Tiruvagattīśvara[muḍaiya-Mahādēva], by the assembly of Poygainallūr in Dāmaṟ-kōṭṭam, in the 2nd year of Vayiramēgavarman. The surname Vayiramēgaṉ1 is applied to Dantivarman in the Triplicane inscription.2 As the characters of the present and the following inscription belong to a later period than Dantivarman, the king figuring in these two records was probably different. A certain chieftain named Vayiramēgaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyar figures in two inscriptions from Tiruvoṟṟiyūr,3 with whom Vayiramēgavarman of the present record may be identified.

Language: Tamil.

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SII 12.114: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – VAYIRAMEGAVARMAN. No. 114. (A.R. No. 152 of 1916). KĪḺPULAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This record registers a gift of land made in the 2nd year of Vayiramēgavarman by Muḷḷikkuḍaiyāṉ Ādittaṉāḷi for conducting the tiruppali (i.e., śrībali) ceremony and for offerings during the three services in the temple of Tirukkūḷīchcharattu-Āḷvār at Palkalam in Dāmar-kōṭṭam, with five persons including one for beating the gong (śēgaṇḍigai) and two for blowing the trumpets (kāḷam). The assembly (ūr) of Palkalam entrusted the endowed land to Arayaṇichchiṅgaṉ, a drummer (uvaichchaṉ) residing in the village. The village Palkalam may be identified with Kīḻpulam itself.

Language: Tamil.

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