Tirunaḷḷāṟu, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, time of Vikramacōḻa, year undetermined

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   G. Vijayavenugopal.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00121

Summary: An originally incomplete or damaged inscription, consisiting in initial blessings and the beginning of the name of the ruling king Vikramacōḻa.

Hand Description:

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Additional Metadata

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Edition

1svasti śrī

t(i)r(i)puva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a-cakka(ra)-
2(vat)tikaḷ śrī-vik(ki)rama-cō

[unknown number of lines possibly lost]

Apparatus

1–2 t(i)r(i)puva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a-cakka(ra)/(vat)tikaḷ ◇ tiripuvanacakkara/vattikaḷ K+V; tiripuvana cakkara / vattikaḷ VVG
2 śrī-vik(ki)rama-cō ◇ śrīvikkiramaco K+V; śrī vikkirama co[...] VVG

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1 Prosperity! Fortune!

1-2 The emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikramacōḻa [...]

Commentary

It is not clear if the inscription was originally left incomplete after the end of line 2 or if one line at least is lost after line 2.

Bibliography

First edited in Kuppusamy 2006 (PI 470). First translated in Kuppusamy 2010 (PI 470). Re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 21), with photo.

This edition revised by G. Vijayavenugopal (2019). Reviewing, encoding, critical apparatus, and translation by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

Primary

Kuppusamy, Bahour S. 2006. Pondicherry Inscriptions. Part I: Introduction and Texts with Notes = Putuccēri Mānilak Kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Edited by G. Vijayavenugopal. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry.
№ 470, page 426. [siglum K+V]
Kuppusamy, Bahour S. 2010. Pondicherry Inscriptions. Part II: Translation, Appendices, Glossary and Phrases, [and] Preface = Putuccēri Mānilak Kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Edited by G. Vijayavenugopal. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry.
№ 470, page 201. [siglum K]
Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō., ed. 2017. Tirunaḷḷāṟu Aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar Tirukkōyil Kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam.
№ 21, pages 60–61. [siglum VVG]

Secondary

ARIE 1965-1966. Page 87, appendix B/1965–1966, № 449.