Tirunaḷḷāṟu 31, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar temple, Tiyākarājacuvāmi shrine, southern base, time of Vīramohaṉ Kāṭavarāyaṉ

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   G. Vijayavenugopal.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00131

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Edition

1(svas)ti śrī

(vi)ramōhaṉṉāṉa kāṭava-
2(r)āyaṉṉ aḻakiya-nampirāṭṭiyēṉ tiruppa

[unknown number of lines possibly lost]

Apparatus

2 tiruppa ◇ tiruppa(ṇi) K+V; tiruppaṇi VVG • The full word is most probably tiruppaṇi.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1 Prosperity! Fortune!

1-2 Sacred service (tiruppaṇi) of Aḻakiya-Nampirāṭṭi, (wife of) the Kāṭavarāyar alias Vīṟamōhaṉ [...]

Commentary

Vīramohaṉ Kāṭavarāyaṉ may be Ēḻicaimohaṉ, the son of the Kāṭavarāya King Āṭkolliyār.

Since this inscription is found on the base of a small shrine, it may refer to the construction of this small shrine, as a service.

Bibliography

First edited in Kuppusamy 2006 (PI 480). First translated in Kuppusamy 2010 (PI 480). Re-edited in Vicayavēṇukōpāl 2017 (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 31), with photos.

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.
№ 480, page 447. [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.
№ 480, page 209. [siglum K]
Vicayavēṇukōpāl, Kō., ed. 2017. Tirunaḷḷāṟu Aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar Tirukkōyil Kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tirunaḷḷāru: aruḷmikku Tarppāraṇyecvarar tirukkōyil tēvastānam.
№ 31, page 86. [siglum VVG]

Secondary

ARIE 1965-1966. Page 89, appendix B/1965–1966, № 458.