Epigraphia Indica Vol 05

SR No.: 032559
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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No. 6.]
VATTELUTTU INSCRIPTIONS OF CHOLA KINGS
TEXT. 1 Svasti eri (11) Tiru-[ma]ga! (pôl] [peru-ni]lai-Selviyum tanakké a[r]imai
p[Q]ndamai mana-[k*]kô! Kânda[û]r-Salai kala('m=a]rut2 t=araļi Vôngai-nadumn='Ga[nga-padi"]yum Nuļamba-padiyum Tadigai
[valliyum Kudamalai-nå[dujm Kollamum Kalingamum 3 en-disai pagal?) tara Ila-ma[ņdalamum tindiral venri-tandal [ko]pdu tan=ejil
valar û[li]yo! ella-yåņdu4 m tol-Udagai vila[nga] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
II.-Inscription in the Råmasvamin temple at Shermådévi. This inscription is dated in the 3rd year of the reign of the Chola king Rajendra-Chola 1., who ascended the throne in A.D. 1001-2. It records that certain Vaikhånasas pledged themselves to supply daily one half of the amount of ghee that was necessary to keep one lamp burning in the temple, which bore the name Nigarili-Sô18-Viņņagar. Shermadevi itself had theu the surname Nigarili-Śôla-chaturvedimangalam. These two surnames suggest that Nigarili-Solan, s.e. the unequalled Chola,' was a biruda of Rajendra-Chola I.
TEXT. 1 Svasti sri (11) K3=Pparakesarivan[ma]r-aga ści-Rájé[ndra)-Sbladêvarkk[0]
yandu [m]unråva[du] I[råjara]ja-mandalattu Musli2 náttu bra[hma]dêyam Niga[r]ili-[śôla]-chchaturvedimangalattu Nigarili-Bola
Viņ[ņa]gar Vaigånasa3 rô[m] [i*]vv-ûr [i]r[u]k[k]inga Ve![!]&!a[n] Kada[ñ]-Jôndan pakkal
[mun] nânga! ka[su kondu itte[va]rkku ti. ru-nundâ-viļakku eri[kka]-kkadavôm=ầy erichchu (va]råninga viļakku arai[y] [1*]
ivv-a[rai] vilakku5 kku[m] nisada[m] alâkkı neyy=&ga [e]rippðun=agavum [] i-sri-k8[y]ilaļi=
aļavu[m] sandir-a6 dict]targa! u!=alavum e[r]ippom=&gavum [1*] eriyâd=oli[yil] anru r i-koyil
våri(yam] se7 y[v&]rey mattina ney[y]=iratti attuvichchu ervippâr=agavum [18] [i]-ppari[sv]
ni[sa]da[m] 8 Lâkku neyyu[m] mut[tåma] [e]rippó[m]=A[y]inò[
m V ]aigånasarôm [*] i. pparisu 0[t]ți 9 [i]-kkasu konda Vaigåpasar[ôm]il (mun)-ni[*][:]ôme erippom=anom [11]
TRANSLATION. Hail! Prosperity! In the third year of the reign) of king Parakesarivarman, alias the glorious Rajendra-Soladêva, -we, the Vaikhånasas of the Nigarili-Sola-Viņņagar (temple) at Nigarili-Sola-chaturvedimengalam, a brahmadêya in Mulli-nadu, (a district) of Rajaraja-mandalam, having previously received money from the cultivator (Vellalan) Kada Sendan, who resides in this village, and having (thereby) become bound to burn a sacred perpetual lamp for this god, have been burning half a lamp. We shall have to barn (one) álåkku of ghee per day in this half lamp. As long as this holy temple exists, and as long as
* No. 179 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1895.
1 Read -riaduna. : Above, Vol. IV. p. 266.
* On Vinnagar or Vippagaram, 2; and p. 344, note 3.
5 Read
Vishnu temple," ceu South-Ind. Inser. Vol. II. p. 115, note 6; p. 260, note