This is a Sanskrit inscription in early Grantha characters. It gives the genealogy of the family of Koḍumbāḷur Chiefs. The first line is mutilated and hence the name of the original ancestor is not known. He is said to have captured an elephant battalion evidently from some enemy. In his family was born Paravīrajit Vīratuṅga; his son was Atīvīra, the unrivalled (Anupama); his son was Saṅghakṛit to whom was born Nṛipakēsari; his son was Paradurgamarddana, the glorious conqueror of Vātāpi. To him was born Samarābhirāma who killed Chaḷukki in a battle at Adhirājamaṅgala. He married a princess named Anupamā the daughter of the Chōḷa king. His son by this princess was Bhūti who by his prowess in battle obtained the title Vikramakēsari. He is stated to have made the waters of the Kāvēri red with the blood of the Pallava army slain by him. He also conquered Vīra-Pāṇḍya in battle and destroyed one Vañchi-Vēḷ. It is stated that he was living at Koḍumbāḷūr with his two wives Kaṟṟaḷi and Varaguṇā, by the former of whom he had two sons Parāntakavarman and Ādityavarman. This Bhūti Vikramakēsari built three shrines in the name of himself and his two consorts for god Mahēśvara at Koḍumbāḷūr, and presented a maṭha to Mallikārjuna of Madura, a teacher of the Kāḷāmukha sect of Śaivas and eleven villages for feeding 50 ascetics of that sect (every day).
Since this chief Bhūti Vikramakēsari is known from other stone records to be identical with Teṉṉavaṉ Iḷaṅgōvēḷ a feudatory of Chōḷa Āditya I, it is possible that the destruction of the Pallava army claimed by him was in connection with his liege-lord Āditya's overthrow of Pallava Aparājita in battle and his annexation of the latter's territory sometime before A.D. 890. In this case Vīra-Pāṇḍya over whom also, Bhūti claims a victory cannot be equated with his namesake who was killed in fight by Āditya II Karikāla (vide An. Rept. for 1908, Part II, para 88), because that event took place more than 70 years later. He should have been a contemporary of Parāntaka Vīra-Nārāyaṇa and probably belonging to a collateral Pāṇḍya line as surmised by Mr. K.V.S. Aiyar (Q.J.M.S. Vol. XLIII, Nos. 3 and 4).
vīratuṃgo muto jā
ghakṛT Tsmāccrīnṛpakesarī vivadṛdhe yo bāla Ēvora
statsūnuḥ paradurggamarddana Iti khyātassavātāvijiT
maḥ putrassutrāmatejasaḥ kadhirājamaṃgalājau yonijaghāna ca
ḷukkiM tasyācyuta
harasya sākṣāT preyasyabhūdanupameti yathārtthanāmnā śrīcoḷarājadu
hitā yaduvaṃśaketoḥ
ndadhaN śramānvikramakesarīti samare labdhānyanāmā nṛpaḥ
vāri śoṇaṃ samakṛta rudhiraiḥ pal
vīrapāṇḍyaṃ vyajayata samare vañciveḷantako bhūT
hatvā vasanvikramakesarī koṭuṃ pāḷūppurādīndramābikāvivarodare
vidvatkalpatarau kṣītīśvarakaradvadvāMbujendau bhuvaṃ yasmiN śāsati
medinī
natā keśeṣu kārṣṇya ntanau tanvinā ntanutā bhavaTsta nayuge cānnyonya
gotrajasśrīmā nmādhuro
ṣyo śrahṛnmal
svanāmnā priyayo rnnāmnā sodāT bṛhanmaṭhaM
khyā na yati mukhyāya yādavaḥ prādādekādaśagrāma vinibandhaM bṛhanmaṭhaM
pañcāśatāma sitaktra tapodhanānāM bhuttyai brahanmaṭha
ve sa rājā naivedya gandhakusumākṣata dhūpadīpa tāMbūla
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