SII 2.78: original edition by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch III. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHOLA DYNASTY. No. 78. ON THE SOUTH BASE OF THE ANEKATANGAPADAM TEMPLE AT KANCHIPURAM. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv02p0i0078 DHARMAbase

Like No. 77, this inscription belongs to the time of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷadēva I. It is dated in the 34th year of his reign, and records that the king granted 2 vēlis of land to the Aṉēkataṅgāpadam temple at Kāñchipuram. The land granted was situated in the southern portion of Kāñchipuram, to the north of the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Mahādēva, i.e., of the Rājasiṁhavarmēśvara (now Kailāsanātha) temple,See Vol. I, p. 118. to the east of the hamlet of Puttēri,Puttēri-teruvu is still the name of the street which leads from Conjeeveram to the Kailāsanātha temple. to the west of ‘the royal wall of Rājēndra-Chōḷa,’It appears from this that Rājēndra-Chōḷa had built a fortification wall round Kāñchipuram. and to the south of the hamlet of Kīṛ-Puttēri, i.e., ‘Eastern Puttēri.’

As the land granted bordered on the Kailāsanātha temple, it is not impossible that it formed part of those gifts of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷadēva, which were declared to be unlawful and were restored to the Kailāsanātha temple in the time of Kambaṇa-Uḍaiyar.See Vol. I, p. 118.

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svasti śrī . pukaḻmātu viḷaṅka jayamātu virumpa nilamakaḷ nilava malarmakaḷ puṇara Urimaiyiṟciṟanta maṇimuṭi cūṭi miīṉavar nilai keṭa villavar kulaitara Eṉai manṉavar Iriyaluṟṟiḻitarattikkaṉaittuntan cak karaṉaṭātti vijayaAbhiṣekam paṇṇi vīrasiṁhāsaṉattuppuvaṉamuḻutumuṭaiyāḷoṭum vīṟṟiruntaruḷiya śrīkulottuṅkacoḻadevarkku yāṇṭu muppattuṉālāvatu tiruvāy moḻintaruḷa jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭa lattu Eyiṟkoṭṭattu nakaraṅkāñcipurattu Āḷuṭaiyār tiruvaṉekataṅkāpatamuṭaiya mahādevarkku nittanimantañceluttukaikku Antarāyamuṭpaṭa Iṟaiyili tevatāṉamiṭṭa niīrnilam kāñcipurattuttuṇnṇilattuttirukkaṟṟaḷimahādevar koyilu kku vaṭakkum putterikkukkiḻakkum rājentiracoḻan tirumatuiḷukku meṟkum kiīḻputterikkutteṟkum naṭuvuṭpaṭṭa vaṭatāḻampaḷḷattuṭaippuṭpaṭatteṟakaṭaiy Iṭṭa nilam Iruveliyum kallu veṭṭikkoḷkavenṟu tiruvāy moḻinta ruḷappallavataraiyar kal veṭṭivitta paṭi ..

Hail! Prosperity! In the thirty-fourth year (of the reign) of Śrī-Kulōttuṅga-Śōṛadēva, who, etc.,The introduction of this inscription is identical with that of No. 77.—the king was pleased to order that it should be engraved on stone that two vēlis of wet land on the southern side of the land belonging to Kāñchipuram were given,—for defraying the daily expenses, including the antarāyam, free of taxes, as a dēvadāna, including the breach (uḍaippa) in the pit on the north where pandanus trees grow (vaḍa-tāṛam-paḷḷam),The same term occurs in an inscription of Kambaṇa-Uḍaiyar, Vol. I, p. 119, text line 45 f. (and) which is situated within (the land granted),—to (the god) Mahādēva of the holy Aṉēkataṅgāpadam (temple), who is the lord of Kāñchipuram, a city in Eyiṟ-kōṭṭam, (a district) of Jayaṅkoṇḍa-Śōṛa-maṇḍalam.

(The land granted) is situated to the north of the temple of Tirukkaṟṟaḷi-Mahādēvar, to the east (of the hamlet) of Puttēri, to the west of the royal wall of Rājēndra-Śōṛaṉ, and to the south (of the hamlet) of Kīṛ-Puttēri.

The king having ordered thus, Pallavadaraiyar caused (the above) to be engraved on stone.

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