Koṭumpāḷūr, Mūvarkōyil, donation, time of Bhūti Vikramakesarin

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-06-06Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSKotumpalur00001

Summary: Donation of a maṭha by Bhūti Vikramakesarin and provisions for the cult of Maheśvara by the same in the temple that he had founded.

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Edition

Zone 1

1‡nātha-gaja-yūtha-haraḥ ‡ purāsīt∙ |

Śārdūlavikrīḍita
tad-vaṃśyaḥ para-vīrajin maḷava-jic chrī-2‡vīra-tuṃgo [’]muto
jā‡to [’]smād ati-vīra Ity anupamas tasmād abhūt saṃ3‡ghakṛt∙
Asmāc chrī-nṛpa-‡kesarī vivavṛdhe yo bāla Evoragai4s
tat-sūnuḥ para-durgga-mardda‡na Iti khyātas sa vātāpi-jit∙ |

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1907-1908 (ARIE/1907-1908/B/1907/129).

Edited in Vaidyanatha Aiyar and Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929 (IPS 14); in Nilakantha Sastri 1933, with a facsimile; in Srinivasa Rao 1979 (SII 23.129).

Translated in Srinivasa Aiyar 1941 (IPS 14), Nilakantha Sastri 1933.

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on the facsimile in Nilakantha Sastri 1933, autopsy and photographs (Emmanuel Francis).

Primary

Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. & Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Inscriptions (Texts) of the Pudukkottai State Arranged According to Dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar.
№ 14, pages 9–10. [siglum IPS]
Nilakantha Sastri, K. A. 1933. “The Koḍumbāḷūr Inscription of Vikrama-Kēsarī.” JORM 7 (1): 1–10.
[siglum S]
Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1979. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XXIII:  Inscriptions Collected during the Year 1906-07. South Indian Inscriptions 23. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director-General).
№ 129, pages 101–102. [siglum SII]

Secondary

ARIE 1907-1908. Page 15, appendix B/1907, № 129.
Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. & Swaminatha Aiyar, N. P. 1929. Chronological List of Inscriptions of the Pudukkóttai State Arranged According to Dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar.
№ 14, page TBC.
Srinivasa Aiyar, K. R. 1941. Inscriptions in the Pudukkóttai State: Translated into English. Part I: Early, Pallava and Cola Inscriptions. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar.
№ 14, page TBC.