SII 3.138: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri XIV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN UTTAMA-CHOLA. No. 138.—ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE MAHALINGASVAMIN TEMPLE AT TIRUVIDAIMARUDUR. No. 265 of 1907. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0138 DHARMAbase

The importance of this inscription consists in the fact that it furnishes both the Kaliyuga year and the regnal year of king Uttama-Chōḷa and thus enables us to fix the year of accession of this sovereign. Since the 13th year of the king corresponded to Kali 4083 (= A. D. 981-82), it follows that he must have ascended the throne in A.D. 969-70. His latest year known so far is the 16th which brings the close of his reign down to the date of accession of his successor Rājarāja I. which has been calculated and found to be 985-6 A.D.

The name Siṁhavishṇu-chaturvēdimaṅgalam given to Kañjaṉūr shows that the conquest of the Chōḷa dominion by the Pallava king Siṁhavishṇu so specifically claimed for him in the Vēlūrpāḷaiyam plates,Above, Vol. II, part V, page 503. must evidently have been based on actual facts.

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svasti śrī . kaliyuga varuṣaM nālāyiratteṇpattumuṉṟu Ut=tamacoḻarāki ya kopparakesaripanmaṟku yāṇṭu 10 3 Āvatu vaṭaka rai nallāṟṟūrnāṭṭu brahmadeyaM kañcaṉūrākiya siṁ haviṣṇuccaturvvedimaṃgalattu peruṅkuṟip

Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 13th year of (the reign of) Uttama-Chōḷa alias king Parakēsarivarman, (corresponding to) the Kaliyuga year four thousand and eightythree, . . . . the big assembly of Kañjaṉūr alias Siṁhavishṇu-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Vaḍagarai Nallāṟṟūr-nāḍu . . . . . . . . . . .

peruṅkuṟip. The inscription stops here.

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