SII 1.148: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 148. ON THE ROOF OF THE MAHĀMAṆḌAPA OF THE RĀJASIṀHAVARMEŚVARA SHRINE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0148 DHARMAbase

This fragment, which is dated in the fifteenth year of Ko-Parakesarivarman, contains an agreement made by the inhabitants of some village, who had received a certain sum of money from “the large holy stone-temple (i.e., the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Temple) at Kachchippeḍu (i.e., Kāñchīpuram).” From the interest of this sum, they pledged themselves to supply ghee for a lamp at the rate of 1 uṛakku per day or 7 nāṛis and 1 uri per mensem.As 1 nāṛi is equal to 4 uṛakkus or 2 uris, 30 uṛakkus are exactly equal to 7 nāṛis and 1 uri. The measure to be used was a nāṛi, which was equal to a rājakesari.The same measure is mentioned in line 4 of the fragment No. 146, and probably in line 13 of No. 150. As the Choḷa kings alternately bore the surnames Rājakesarin and Parakesarin,See lines 18 to 20 of the large Leyden grant in Dr. Burgess' Arch. Survey of S. India, Vol. IV, p. 206. The rule holds good in the case of the two kings Rājarāja-deva and Rājendra-Choḷa-deva, Nos. 10 and 11 of the table on page 112, above. it must be assumed, that this measure was called after one of the predecessors of the king, to whose reign the inscription belongs. The writer of the inscription was the village-headman Nāga Alappaḍi.Compare the village-headman Alappaḍi in No. 84.

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kopparakesarivarmmakku yāṇṭu patiṉaiñcāvatu kāliyūrkkoṭṭattu r Ūrom kaiyyeḻuttukkaccippeṭṭupperiya tirukkaṟṟaḷi yāṅkaḷ koṇṭu kaṭava poṉ tuḷai patiṉaṟu kaḻañcu ṉ palicaikkāka Oru nan=tāviḷakkiṉukku nicatam Uḻakku ṉey yarkaḷ vaḻi rājakecariyoṭokkunāḻiyāl tiṅkaḷ Eḻu nāḻi Uri ney Itaṟtiṟampil dharmmāsaṉamuḷḷiṭṭa tarmaveṇṭu kovukku nicatam kā Ūrom Ūr colla Eḻutiṉeṉ Ivūr vicavaṉ nākaṉ Alappaṭi

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