Uttiramērūr, Vaikuṇṭha-Perumāḷ, time of Parakesarivarman, year 12

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-06-06Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSUttiramerur00001

Summary: Procedure of election to the village committees.

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Edition

1svasti śrī

mat¡i!⟨u⟩rai koṇṭa [kō-p-para]kēca[r]i-va(r)mmarkku yāṇṭu pa¡ṉ!⟨ṉṉ⟩ira⟨ṇ⟩ṭu Āvatu

Uttiramēru-c(·)-catu⟨r⟩vvedi¡mm!⟨m⟩aṅ(·)kalattu sabhaiyōm Ivv-āṇṭu mutal Eṅkaḷ ūr śrī-mu¡ka!⟨kha⟩-p paṭi Āñai-
2yi(ṉ)āl tattanū(r m)¡u!⟨ū⟩vē(nta)vēḷāṉ Iruntu vāriyam-āka Āṭṭ’ oru-k-kālum sa¿mma?⟨m⟩v¿ā?⟨a⟩t(·)sara-vāriyamun tōṭṭa-vāriyamum Ēri{ṭu}-vāriyamum Iṭuvata(ṟ)ku vyavasthai cey-
3ta paric’ āvatu

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Apparatus

2 Iṭuvata(ṟ)kuIṭuvataṟku V • The letter seems to have been corrected from k.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1 Prosperity! Fortune!

1 12th year of the king Parakesarivarman who took Maturai.

1-3 This is the manner (pāric’ āvatu), in which, We, the members of the assembly of Uttirameruccaturvvedimaṅgala, made a deliberation / settlement (vyavasthai), according to a royal order (śrī-mukha-p paṭi)↓1, Tattanūr Mūvēntavēḷāṉ sitting [with us], as per order (āñai-y-iṉ-āl), so as to establish (iṭuvataṟku↓2), from this year onwards, [in] our village, as committees (vāriyam-āka), one time (oru-k-kālum) per year (āṭṭu), the annual committee (samvatsara-vāriyam), the garden committee (tōṭṭa-vāriyam), and the tank committee (ēri-vāriyam).

Translation by Venkayya 1908

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Commentary

Parāntaka I Cōḻa according to Venkayya 1908 (918/919 CE)and Mahalingam 1989 (919 CE).

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1897-1898 (ARIE/1897-1898/B/1898/1).

Edited and translated in Venkayya 1908 (ARASI 1904-1905). Edited and translated in Nilakanta Sastri 1932.

Re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2023), based on autopsy and on photographs (2019), with input from participants to the DHARMA workshop held in Pondicherry in August 2023.

Primary

Venkayya, V. 1908. “Two Inscriptions at Uttaramallūr.” ASI, Annual Report 1904-1905, 131–45.
Pages 136–139, № A. [siglum V]
Nilakanta Sastri, Kallidaikurichi Aiyah. 1932. Studies in Cōḷa History and Administration. Madras: University of Madras.
Pages 163–164, 169–170, № A. [siglum S]

Secondary

ARIE 1897-1898. Page 16, appendix B, № 1.
Mahalingam, T. V. 1989. A Topographical List of Inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala States. Volume Three: Chingleput District. 3. New Delhi: ICHR.
Pages 266–267, № Cg. 1074.

Notes

↑1. Alternatively: "according to a royal order [sent to / of / concerning] our village".
↑2. Literally: "to put".