SII 3.145: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri XIV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN UTTAMA-CHOLA. No. 145.—ON A PILLAR LYING TO THE SOUTH OF THE TANK IN FRONT OF THE ADHIPURISVARA TEMPLE AT TIRUVORRIYUR. No. 245 of 1912. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0145 DHARMAbase

This inscription is dated in the 16th year of Parakēsarivarman Uttama-Chōḷa. It refers to a scrutiny of accounts of the temple of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr made in this year and registers the assignment of a gold salver to the temple by the headman of Eḻinūr in Puṟaṅgarambai-nāḍu. The district in which Puṟaṅgarambai-nāḍu was situated is not given; but we know from other records that it was in Arumoḻidēva-vaḷanāḍu also called Teṉ KaḍuvāySee above, Vol. II, Introduction, pages 21-22.. The village of Eḻinūr mentioned in the record may be identified with Eḻalūr in the Tirutturaippūṇḍi taluk of the Tanjore district.

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svasti śrī . śrīUttamacoḻatevarāṉa koppara keśaripanmaṟkku yāṇṭu patiṉāṟāvatu tiruvo ṟṟiyūr Āḷvār śrīkāryyamārāykinṟa coḻaṇā ṭṭup puṟaṅkarampaināṭṭu Eḻiṉūr kiḻavaṉ nanticuraṉṉāṉa para kesariviḻupparaiyaṉ devarāyamey kūṭṭi cantrātittavaṟ Āḻvār kkamutuceyya Iṭṭa poṉṉiṉ kuḻittaṭṭu Oṉṟiṉāl niṟai paṇṭāra kkallāṟ tuḷainiṟai Eṇṇūṟṟeṇpatteṇkaḻañcu . Itaṉuḷ vaḷa ñciyar cīyan puṟavariṉirañcaṉan kāḷattukku māṇikkaceṭṭikkumāka Uttamāgram Iraṇṭu kalattiṉukku ḷi vaitta pon tuḷai niṟai nāṟpatiṉ kaḻañcu .

svasti śrī There is a gap between this and the next letter which must have contained a punctuation. patiṉāṟāvatu The length of ṟā in patiṉāṟāvatu is denoted by a separate symbol. kalattiṉukku ḷi The gap may be filled up with the syllables kuḻitta.

Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 16th year of (the reign of) the glorious Uttama-Chōḷadēva alias king Parakēsarivarman, Nandīśuran alias Parakēsari-Viḻupparaiyaṉ, the headman of Eḻinūr, (a village) in Puṟaṅgarambai-nāḍu (which was a subdivision) of Śōḻa-nāḍu, who scrutinises the sacred business of the god (āḷvār) at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, assigned, after adding up the king's income, one gold salver with pits, weighing eight hundred and eighty-eight kaḻañju marked and pure (as tested by) the stone (-weight) of the treasury (paṇḍārakkal), for offering food to the god, as long as the moon and the sun (endure). In this (are included) the forty kaḻañju of marked and pure gold deposited by Śīyaṉ Puravariṉirañjaṉaṉ, (one of the) Vaḷañjiyar, for offering two dishes of superior food (uttamāgram), (in order to secure merit) for KāḷaṉKālattukku apparently stands here for Kāḷaṉukku. and Māṇikkaśeṭṭi.

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