This important record, dated in the 10th year, is unfortunately damaged and left unfinished. It refers to a battle that was fought at Perumbalūr (probably Perambalūr in the Trichinopoly district) wherein Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva is said to have defeated and killed some Hoysaḷa generals of whom the names of Kēśava, Harihara and Tīkkāṉaip-perumāḷ are legible in the record, and also to have captured their ladies and treasures. In expiation of this act Avaṉiāḷappiṟandāṉ alias Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva of Kūḍal in Kīḻ-Āmūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Tirumuṉaippāḍi, made a gift of a gold forehead-plate called ‘Avaṉi-āḷappiṟandāṉ’ set with jewels for the god Tirumudukuṉṟamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār and of cows for the maintenance of sacred lamps in the temple.
The Hoysaḷa general Kēśava is probably identical with the officer of the same name figuring in a record of the 24th year of Rājarāja III at Conjeeveram.A.R. No. 612 of 1919.
In the astronomical details given, śu must be a mistake for ba, for the former cannot combine with nakshatra Rēvatī in the month of Siṁha. There is not corresponding Christian date in the reign of Kōpperuñjiṅga II for the details given, but they work satisfactorily for A.D. 1241, July 29, Monday. This date falls in the reign of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva I, assuming that, as suggested elsewhere,Ep. Ind. Vol. XXIII, p. 176.
svasti śrīḥ sakalabhuvanaccakravattikaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇ
ṭu siṁhanāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣattu pañcamiyum tiṅkaḷkiḻa
ṟa revatināḷ vaṭakarai virutarāja
ppāṭip paruvūṟkūṟṟattu Uṭaiyār tirumutukuṉṟamuṭaiyanāyaṉārkku tirumuṉai
ppāṭik kiḻāmūrnāṭṭuk kūṭal
perumpalūril pocaḷaṉār daṇḍanhariharadaṇḍanāyakaṉum daṇḍanā
ya
ra muḷpaṭak kavarntukoṇṭa Itukku prā
aruḷa AvaṉiĀḷappiṟantāṉ Eṉṉum tirunāmattāl cāruratnamayaMpaṭṭamavanyava
nasaMbhavaḥ dideśa tridaśeśāya śrīvṛddhagirivāsine
ruppaṭṭam 1
Āṇiyum Uṭpaṭppaṭi poṉ
pāl ĀṭiAruḷa viṭṭa pacu
The inscription is left unfinished.
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