Current Version: draft, 2024-09-06Z
Editors: Eugen Hultzsch and Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSSII0300004
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śrī-kō-rājakēsa-rivanmar-āṉa śrī-rājarāja-devarkku yāṇ--
4ṭu 2 10 9-Āvatu
jayaṅ-koṇṭa-cōḷa-maṇṭala(t)tu-k kāliyūr-k-kōṭṭattu-t taṉiyūr Uk=kal-ākiya śrī-vik=kiramāpa⟨ra⟩ṇa-c-catu(r)vveti-maṅkalattu{ṉ} mēlai-
5-p-peru-vaḻiyil śrī-rājarāja-devar tiru-(n)āmattāl-k kiṇaṟun toṭṭiyum camaippittāṉ Uṭaiyār śrī-rā(ja)rāja-devar paṇi-makaṉ cōḷa-(ma)ṇṭalattu t(e)ṉ-kar(ai)-nā(ṭ)ṭu nitt¿ā?⟨a⟩-
6-viṉō(ta)-vaḷanāṭṭu Āvūr-k-kūṟṟattu (Ā)vūr-uṭaiyāṉ kaṇṇaṉ ār¡u!⟨ū⟩raṉ
Ivaṉē
I⟨n⟩-nelluk=ku Ivaṉ pakkal (Ivv-ū)r sa(bh)ai(yōm I)ṟ(ai)-(dra)vya(mu)m (kraya)-(dra)vya(mu)m koṇṭu Iṟai Iḻ¡iy!⟨i⟩cci [9+]
1 pōla ◇ pol SII — 1 maṉa-k-k(o)ḷa-k ◇ maṉakk(o)ḷk SII
3 koḷ ◇ koḷa SII
4 maṅkalattu{ṉ} ◇ maṅkalatt¿u?⟨i⟩ṉ SII
1Hail! Prosperity! In the 29th year [of the reign] of the glorious king Rājakesarivarman, alias Śrī-Rājarājadeva, who, in his life of growing strength, during which,——[in] the belief that, as well as the goddess of fortune, the goddess of the great earth had become his wife,——he was pleased to destroy the ships [at] Kāntaḷūr-Cālai, and conquered by [his] army, which was victorious in great battles, Vēṅkai-nāṭu, Kaṅka-pāṭi, Nuḷampa-pāṭi, Taṭikai-pāṭi, Kuṭamalai-nāṭu, Kollam, Kaliṅkam, Īḻa-maṇṭalam, [which was the country] of the warlike↓1 Ciṅkaḷas, the seven and a half lakṣas of Iraṭṭa-pāṭi, and twelve thousand ancient islands of the sea,——deprived the Ceḻiyas of [their] splendour at the very moment when Utakai,↓2 which is worshipped everywhere, was [most] resplendent;——Kaṇṇaṉ Ārūraṉ, a native of Āvūr, [a village] in Āvūr-kūṟṟam, [a subdivision] of Nittaviṉōta-vaḷanāṭu, [a district] of the country on the southern bank [of the Kāvērī] in Cōḷa-maṇḍalam, [and] a servant (paṇimakaṉ) of the lord Śrī-Rājarājadeva, caused to be constructed, in the royal name of Śrī-Rājarājadeva, a well (kiṇaṟu) and a cistern (toṭṭi) on the high-road to the west of Ukkal, alias Śrī-Vikramābharaṇa-caturvedimaṅgalam, a village forming its own subdivision↓3 of Kāliyūr-kōṭṭam, [a district] of Jayaṅkoṇṭa-cōḷa-maṇṭalam.
6The same person assigned to those who draw water for the cistern from the well of Śrī-Rājarāja, 2 kuṟuṇis of paddy per day, [measured] by the marakkāl [called after] Arumoḻitēvaṉ,↓4 i.e. 30 kalams of paddy for 6 months; to those who distribute water [in the name of] Śrī-Rājarāja, 2 kuṟuṇis of paddy per day, i.e. 30 kalams for 6 months; to those who supply earthen pots for this water-shed (pantal), 2 tūṇis of paddy per month, i.e. 4 kalams of paddy for 6 months; and for the repair of cracks in the well of Śrī-Rājarāja and in the cistern, 2 kalams and 2 tūṇis of paddy per year; altogether, 66 kalams and 2 tūṇis of paddy.
9In order to [supply] this paddy, we, the assembly of this village, having received from him the revenue and the purchase-money, having exempted [the land granted] from taxes [9+]
1Prosperity! Fortune!
3-429th year of ...,
1-3who ... [meykkīrtti of Rājarāja I Cōḻa]
4-6Kaṇṇaṉ Ārūraṉ ...
6-9[There are also] ... that he (ivaṉē) has given
9For this paddy ...
Reported in ARIE 1892-1893 (ARIE/1892-1893/B/1893/22).
Edited in Hultzsch 1899, with English translation (SII 3.4).
This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Hultzsch 1899.