SII 14.87: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar No. 87. (A.R. No. 626 of 1926.) KĪḺMĀTTŪR, MADURAI TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆIKAṆṬHĒŚVARA TEMPLE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0087 DHARMAbase

The inscription in Tamil poetry is fragmentary; but from the available portion, it can be inferred that it refers to the building of the temple at Tirumāttūr by a certain Tamiḻavēḷ in about the 8th year of reign of Vira-Pāṇḍya. This record contains an eulogy of this chieftain. There is a reference to some who was well-versed in Sanskrit and Tamil works, such as the Vēdas, the Purāṇas, PAtañjala mudar-paṉuval, etc. As the name Teṉṉavaṉ is mentioned in another record, that word combined with Tamiḻavēḷ seems to give the full title ‘Teṉṉavaṉ-Tamiḻavēḷ’ of the chieftain, who erected the ŚrIkaṇThēśvaram temple in stone. This chief figures in a record dated in the 12th year of Vīra-Pāṇḍya at Ambāsamudram in the Tirunelveli district.No. 101 of 1905 published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV, p. 35. See No. 95 below.

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taṇṭamiḻoṭāri yanūl va— lla tamiḻaveḷ vaṇṭamaruñ colai cūḻ māttūriṟ caṇṭapaṭi Eṉṟuṅ kuṉṟāmaiy pārttiyaṟ ṟumā rāṭi Eṉṟum pūmpotavaṟku .. pūmicai maṭantaiyum puṉai tamiḻp pulae r nāmicai maṭantaiyum naṉakiṉi tirukka mārvu mukamu maṟṟavark kaḷitta tāḷkeḻu taṭantoṭ caturācāraṉa maiccaṉ Itto varkkuṅ kacci mūtūrk kāmak kiḻavor paṭuvaṇ kirtti marapuḷāṉ vāṭik kūṭi mutal van takoḷari malart teṉṉar komāṉ kaṉṉi naṉṉāṭṭup puḷaka vācaṟ poerarum puricaik kaṉaka māḷkaik kaḷan malaṉ Iṟaivarai makaḷireṟṟiya viḷakkamaṟurai kaṭaṟ pakkattāriruḷ kaṭiyum pu ṟai yūruṭai ya peruḷāṉ maṟai poruṭṭaricaṉa māṟun tamiḻkaḷ mūṉṟum varicaiyilamainta vaṭanūl vakaiyu nīti nūlaiyu metaku purāṇamum pātañcala mutaṟ paṉuvaṟ payaṉkaḷum meymai yuṇarn ṟu virapāṇ

taṇṭamiḻoṭāri. The inscription is fragmentary, the further stones being now missing.

Digital edition of SII 14.87 (ARIE/1926-1927/B/1926/626) by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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