SII 3.129: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri XIV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN UTTAMA-CHOLA. No. 129.—ON THE WEST AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE NAGESVARASVAMIN TEMPLE AT KUMBAKONAM. No. 245 of 1911. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0129 DHARMAbase

This inscription is dated in the 4th year of Parakēsarivarman and registers the gift of a lamp to the temple of Tirukkīḷ-kōṭṭam at Tirukkuḍamūkkil (i.e., the Nāgēsvara temple at Kumbhakōṇam). The astronomical details given in the record were verified by Diwan Bahadur L. D. Swamikkannu Pillai and found to be correct for Madhurāntaka Uttama-Chōḷa, the uncle of Rājarāja I. The date corresponds to Thursday, the 22nd April A. D. 975Vide Madras Epigraphical Report for 1912, page 65, paragraph 20. .

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kopparakeśaripatmaṟkku yāṇṭu 4 Āvatu vaṭakaraippā mpūrnāṭṭut tevatānam meṣanāyaṟṟu viyāḻakkiḻamaiyum navamiyum peṟṟa makattaṉṟu tirukkuṭamukkil mulaparuṭaip perumakkaḷom Aṟivāḷaṉaḻittā kaṇkaṇṭā ykkoḷaril kāri koḻampaṇṉai ccārttit tirukkiḻkkoṭṭattu paramasvāmikku vaiytta tirunontāviḷakku Oṉṟiṉukku viṟṟukkuṭutta nilamāvatu

In the 4th year of (the reign of) king Parakēsarivarman, on the day of Makhā which corresponded to a Thursday and to the ninth tithi of the month of Mēsha, we the great men of the chief assembly (mūlaparuḍai) of Tirukkuḍamūkkil . . . . . which was a dēvadāna in Pāmbūr-nāḍu on the northern bank (of the Kāvērī), sold the following land . . . . . on account of one sacred perpetual lamp which was placed for the great god (paramasvāmin) at Tirukkīḻ-kōṭṭam on behalf of Kāri Koḻambaṉ, one of the [Kai]kkōḷas . . . . .

nilamāvatu. The inscription stops here.

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