South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

TRANSLATION

Hail ! Prosperity ! (Issued) with the royal signature affixed, in the fourteenth year, current, of Viraśōla-Kalimūrkkap-Perumānār. This well had been caused to be made by Āṭkōvan Kaṅguppai residing in [Kō]nāḍu, on behalf of Mūtta-Āśār.

II.─Piramiyam Inscription of the 17th year of king Vīraśōla- Kalimūrkkap-Perumāḷ

This inscription, in Vaṭṭeluttu alphabet and Tamil language, is engraved on the base of the south wall of the central shrine of the Tiruvalañjulināthasvāmin temple at Piramiyam. It records a gift of land purchased from the wife of a certain Vikramaśōlap-Pallavaraiyan and Tirumāḍalan Parāntakan, residents of Villiyam, by Nārāyaṇan-Māran alias Āśārakānta-Brahmādhirājan of Ayirūr, a village in Vaḍagarai-Mala-nāḍu.

Grantha letters are used in writing svasti śrī, brahmaº, śrī, mahāº and sa (l. 1) ºndhi, abhishēº, brāhmaṇa, brahmadēya and brahmāº in lines 2 and 6, and brahmādhiº (line 7).

TEXT^[1]

1 Svasti śrī [||*]Kō-Vīra[śō]la-Kalimūrkkap-Perumāḷuk[ku] tiruvelutt=iṭṭu=[ch*]chellāninra yāṇḍu padinēlā^[2]…..ḍu Tenkarai-nāṭṭu brahmadēyam śrī-Vīrasaṅgāda-chchatur- vēdimaṅgalattu Tiruvalañjuli-Mahādēvarkku niśadamum mūnru-sa-
2 ndhiyum abhishēkam-śeyyum brāhmaṇanukkum Ālvārkku tirumeyppuchchuch…… . .[Va]ḍagarai-Mala-nāṭṭu brahmadēyam Ayirūr=kKavuṇiyan Nārāyaṇan-Māran-āna Āśārakānta-Brahmādirāśa[nē]n i-vVīrasaṅ-
3 gāda-chchaturvēdimaṅgalattil Vi[ll]iyatt=irundu vālum veḷḷāḷan [Śō]ma …..kkira- maśōla-pPal[l*]avaraiyan maṇavāṭṭi. .dināgai pakkal vilaikoṇḍa paṅg=iraṇḍum ivv- ūrt-Tirumāḍalan
4 Parāntakan…tti pakkal i-chchadukkattu vilaikoṇḍa paṅgu.^[3] āga=ppaṅ^[4]…… [pam baḍu kūrum] sva-derri^[5]yum para-derri^[5]ppērum i-ppaṅgu suṭṭivanda nilam e…^[6] paṭṭadum i-[t*]-
5 Tiruvalañjuli-Mādēvarkku tirumeyppūchchu śandanakkāppukkum…. kkum-āga śandirādittaval nirka śey[du]kuḍuttēn Nārāyaṇan-Māra[n-ā]na Āśārakānta…^[7] śanēn [|] I-ppaṅ-
6 gu mūnrukkum vanda iraiyum=echchōrrukkūrru- variyum iravum veṭṭive……^[8] [kaḍa-] mai eppērppaṭṭadukkum-āga Nārāyaṇan-Māran-āna Āśārakānta-Brahmādirā- śaniḍai Parakē[sari-ka]llā(l)r-ruḷai-nirai
7 śem pon pa[dinai]ṅ-kalañju…^[9] ḍuppichchu kaikkoṇḍu iraiy-ilichchu sa^[10]….ttōm ivv-ūr sabhaiyōm[|*]=Idu śandirādittaval nirka śeydukuḍuttēn Nārāyaṇan-Māra[n]^[11]. . [Āś]ārakānta-Brahmādhirāśanē[n*] [||*]

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^[1] ARSIE, 1920, No. 189.
^[2] The date which is in letters has been read as thirteen instead of seventeen is ARSIE. The gap may be filled with the letters vasu ivvāṇ.
^[3] The word onru required here seems to be indicated in figure.
^[4] Some of the letters lost here are ºgu mūnru.
^[5] Read datti.
^[6] The gap may be filled up with ºppēr.º
^[7] The aksharas Brahmādirāº may be supplied here as at the end of l. 7.
^[8] The letters lost after ve cannot be determined.
^[9] The dotted portion is not clear in the original, but may be filled up with the letters ponnum kuº.
^[10] The gap may be filled up with ºruvamāniyam=āga kuḍu or ºndirādittaval nirka kuḍuº.
^[11] The letters āṇa may be supplied here.