Trichy, cave, time of Māṟañ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 4

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-06-07Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPandya00002

Summary: Endowment of gold for maintaining perpetual lamps.

Hand Description:

Tamil script. The puḷḷi is used, almost consistently.

Additional Metadata

No metadata were provided in the table for this inscription

Edition

1svasti śrī

Śārdūlavikrīḍita
ka2lpāpāya-hutāśa-dhū3ma-paṭala-krūram‧ viṣaṁ līla4yā
kaṇṭhe yaḥ kalayām‧ babhūva v[i-]5budhai⟨r⟩ bibhyattir abhya⟨r⟩tthitaḥ
ya[s tā] 6⟨r⟩ṇīr iva ni⟨r⟩ddadāha vitatīś śuṣkāḥ purī7r āsurī⟨r⟩
yyaś cākṣi-jvalane juhāva 8 madanam‧ pāyād apāyāt sa vaḥ {wavy line}

kō-māṟa[ñ-]
9caṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu nāṅ(·)ku nāḷ Ir[ā-]
10yirat(·)t’ ainnūṟṟ’ oṉṟu

vem·pil· mati[ḷ a-]
11ḻit(·)tup pōntu niyamat(·)t’ irunt’ aruḷi [so-]
12ma-sū⟨r⟩yyānvaya-dvaya-tilakāraṁgārar-āyina [pā-]
13ṇḍyādhirājar varaguṇa-devar tirumal(ai)-bhaṭāra[rk-]
14ku-k kuṭutta poṉ pāṭi-k-kallāl 100 (2 10) 5 kaḻañcu nūṟ(ṟ)’ [i-]
15rupatt’ aiṅ-kaḻañcum

Ip-poṉ· mutaṉiṟka-
16poli koṇṭu muppatiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉiṉ
17poliyāl Oru nontā-viḷakk’ āka (nū)ṟṟ’ iru-
18patin kaḻañcu poṉṉāl· nālu non-
19tā viḷakk’ eriya-k kāṇa-nāḻiyāl nicati Aṭṭa-k ka-
20ṭava ney Iru-nāḻi

niṉ·ṟa Aiṅ-kaḻañcu po-
21ṉṉālun tiṅkaṭoṟum tiṅkaṭ ṭiruvāti-
22rai nāṉṟ’ avv-irā-p pularum aḷavum Aintu
23viḷakk’ eriya Aṭṭa-k kaṭava ney Iru-nāḻi U-
24ri

Ivv-oṭṭiṉa paricu ney Aṭṭi It-ti-
25ru-viḷakk’ erippāṉ(·) Ip-poṉ· nūṟṟ’ irupatt’ ai-
26ṅ-kaḻañcuṅ koṇṭōm· ciṟ(·)ṟampar naka[rat-]
27tōm

Ivv-oṭ·ṭiṉa paricu ney Aṭ·ṭuvip·[p-]
28taṟku Amain·tu puṇai-p· paṭṭōm· ciṟ·ṟam·par· [pa-]
29tiyum(·) pātam(u/ū)lattōmum

Itu pan·māhe-
30_ śvararar Iraikṣai

Apparatus

12 °tilakāraṁgārar° ◇ °tilakāraṁgārar° RA; °tilakāraṅgārar° G
20 niṉ·ṟa ◇ niṉṟu RA; niṉṟu G
24 paricu ◇ paricu RA G

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1Prosperity! Fortune!

I.
...

8-10Year four, day two thousand five hundred one of the king Mārañ Caṭaiyaṉ

10-15...

15-20...

20-24...

24-27...

27-29...

29-30This is under the protection of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1904-1905 (ARIE/1904-1905/A/1904/414).

Edited in Ramanatha Ayyar 1962 (SII 14.10); edited and translated in Gillet 2017.

Edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2023), based on autopsy and photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2004).

Primary

Ramanatha Ayyar, A. S. 1962. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XIV: The Pāṇḍyas. South Indian Inscriptions 14. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications).
Page 6, № 10. [siglum RA]
Gillet, Valérie. 2017. “Devotion and Dominion: Ninth-Century Donations of a Pāṇḍyan King in Temples along the River Kāvēri.” IIJ 60 (3): 219–83. [DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06003002].
Pages 11–23, plate II. [siglum G]

Secondary

ARIE 1904-1905. Page 15, appendix A/1904, № 414. [siglum ARIE 1904-1905]