svasti śrī . pukaḻ cūḻn=ta puṇari Akaḻ cūḻn=ta puviyiṟpoṉṉemiyaḷavum tan nemi naṭappa vi ḷaṅku cayamakaḷai Iḷaṅkopparuvat=tu cak=karakoṭṭat=til vik=karamat=toḻilāl putumaṇam puṇa rt=ntu matavaraiyīṭṭam vayirākarat=tu vāri Ayinuṉaikkon=taḷavaraicar taṉ taḷamiriya vāḷuṟai kaḻit=tu toḻḷ valik=kāṭṭippeorppari naṭāt=tik=kiīrt=tiyai niṟut=ti vaṭaticai vākai cūṭit=teṉṟicait=temarukamalappū makaḷ potumaiyum poṉniyāṭai naṉṉilappāvaiyin=tanimaiyun=tavirt=tu puṉitaruttirumaṇi makuṭam Urimaiyiṟcūṭittaṉṉaṭi Iraṇṭun=taṭamuṭiyākat=toṉṉilaven=tar cūṭa muṉṉai manuvāṟu peruk=ka ka liyāṟu vaṟuppa ceṅkoliṉāvalpuvittoṟucñcella veṇkuṭai Irunilaviaḷākameṅkaṇun=tanatu tiruniḻal veṇṇilāt=tikaḻa O rutaṉi meruviṟpuli viḷaiyāṭa vārkaṭal tivān=tarat=tu pūvar tiṟai viṭut=ta kala ñcori kaḷiṟu muṟai niṟpa vilaṅkiya teṉṉavan karun=talai parun=talait=tiṭa tan poṉnakaṟpuṟat=tiṭaik=kiṭappa Iṉṉāṭpiṟkulappiṟai pol niṟppiḻai yeṉaṉum colletir koṭaiṟṟiallatu taṉ kai villetir koṭā viyk=ka lan kallatar naṅkili tuṭaṅki maṇalūr naṭuveṉat=tuṅkapat=tairaiyaḷa van=taṉ veṅkaḷiṟu viṭṭa mānamum kūṟiya vīramuṅkiṭappa Eṟiya malaikaḷu mutuku neḷippaviḻin=ta natikaḷum cuḻaṉṟuṭaintoṭa viḻun=ta kaṭalaḷkal ḷun=talaivirit=talamara kuṭaticait=tanṉāḷukan=ta tātaiyun=tāṉum paṉṉā ḷiṭṭa palapala mutukum payappntetir māṟiya cayapperun=tiruvum paḻiyukan=tu ku ṭut=ta pukaḻiṉ celviyum vāḷāviṭṭa maṭan=taiyarīṭṭamumiīḷātu kuṭut=ta veṅ kari niraiyum kaṅkamaṇṭalamum ciṅkaṇameṉṉum pāṇi Iraṇṭum Oruvicaik kaik=koṇṭīṇṭiya pukaḻoṭu pāṇṭimaṇṭalamum koḷḷat=tiruvuḷa t=taṭait=tu poṟikarit=talaṅkaḷum tan=tiravāriyum Uṭaiccāy vaṭakaṭal te ṉkaṭal mel kaṭal vanatu pol tan peruñceṉaiyaiyevippañcava raivarum poruta pork=kaḷat=tañci veru kaneḷit=toṭi Araṇenappuk=ka kāṭiaṟat=tu⌈ ṭait=tu ṉāṭaṭippaṭut=tu maṟṟavartammai vanacarar tiriyum koṟṟa veñcurameṟṟi koṟṟavijaiyajayastaṁbham ticaitoṟuniṟut=ti mut=tin calāpamum mut=tamiḻppotiyiṉil cat=tavaṉkari mukaṉṉi yāvakaik koṇṭaruḷi teṉṉāṭaṭṭelai kāṭṭi kauṭalmalaināṭuḷḷa cāveṟellān=tani vi cumpeṟa māveṟiya tan varun=ta nit=talaivarai kuṟukalar koṭṭāṟuṭppaṭa neṟi toṟunilaikaḷiṭṭaruḷi tiṟal koḷ ciṅkācanat=tu Irun=taruḷi poṅkoḷi yāramum tiruppuyat=talaṅkalum pol vīramum tiyākamum viḷaṅka pār micai mevalar vaṇaṅka viīṟṟirun=taruḷiya kovirājakecarivanmarāna cak=karavatti kaḷ śrīkulot=tuṅkacoḻadevaṟku yāṇṭu 10 4 Āvatu jayaṅko ṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalat=tuk=kaḷat=tūrkkoṭṭat=tu kaḷat=tūrnāṭṭu taṉ kūṟṟu devatānan=tiruk=kaḻu k=kuṉṟamāna Ulakaḷan=tacoḻapurat=tu śrīmuūlastthānamuṭaiyamahādevaṟku Oāymāṉāṭṭu cevūrāna coḻakeraḷanallūriruk=ku ppaḷḷi celvaṉ paḻumaṭaiyaṉāna kulot=tuṅkacoḻapperi yarayan vait=ta tirunun=tāviḷak=ku 1 Oṉṟinuk=ku Arumoḻitevanuḻak=kāl nicatamuḻak=ku neyk=ku viṭṭa cāvā mūvāpperāṭu toṇṇūṟu . Ivai cantrādityavaraiy celuttuvāṉ Aṭi En ta lai melina . Itu panmāheśvararakṣai . meṟpaṭiyāṉ yāṇṭu 10 5 Āvatu vait=ta tirunun=tāviḷak=kuk=ku viṭṭa Āṭu toṇṇūṟum cāvā mūvāpperāṭu . Ivaiy panmāheśvararakṣai .

tivān=tarat=tu Read tīvara. van=taṉ The Tanjore inscription (above, Vol. II. No. 58) reads vum veṅkaṇum (read Eṅkaṇum) paṭṭa veṅkaḷiṟum viṭṭa tan māṉa. vāḷāviṭṭa Other inscriptions read vāḷāroṇkaṇ. t=taṭait=tu Other inscriptions insert veḷḷavaruparittaraṅkamum or corruptions of it. poṟikarittalaṅkaḷum No. 73 reads porukarikkalaṅ kaḷun. koṟṟa Read poṟṟai. potiyiṉil Read pokiyilum mat=taveṅkari paṭum maiyaccaiyamuṅkaṉṉiyuṅkaik. varun=ta This is probably a corruption of varūtiṉi. kuṟukalar Other inscriptions insert kulaiya. Oāymā Read Ōymā. The ā is added in order to mark the length of the preceding vowel o; compare above, p. 16, note 2. The y is engraved below the line.

(Line 1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! While the wheel of his (authority) went as far as the golden circle (i.e. Mount Mēru) on the earth, which was surrounded by the moat of the sea, that was (again) surrounded by (his) fame, (the king) newly wedded, in the time (when he was still) heir-apparent, the brilliant goddess of victory at Śakkarakōṭṭam by deeds of valour and seized a herd of mountains of rut (i.e. rutting elephants) at Vayirāgaram.

(L. 3.) (He) unsheathed (his) sword, showed the strength of (his) arm, and spurred (his) war-steed, so that the army of the king of Kondaḷa, (whose spear had) a sharp point, retreated.

(L. 4.) Having established (his) fame, having put on the garland of (the victory over) the Northern region, and having stopped the prostitution of the goddess with the sweet and excellent lotus-flower (i.e. Lakshmī) of the Southern region, and the loneliness of the goddess of the good country whose garment is the Poṉṉi, (he) put on by right (of inheritance) the pure royal crown of jewels, while the kings of the earth bore his two feet (on their heads) as a large crown.

(L. 6.) The river (of the rules) of the ancient king Manu swelled, (and) the river (of the sins) of the Kali (age) dried up.

(L. 7.) (His) sceptre swayed over every (quarter of) this continent of the nāval (tree); the white light of the sacred shadow of (his) white parasol shone everywhere on the circle of the great earth; (and his) tiger (-banner) fluttered unrivalled on the Mēru (mountain).

(L. 9.) (Before him) stood a row of elephants showering jewels, which were presented (as) tribute by the kings of remote islands whose girdle is the sea.

(L. 10.) The excellent head of the refractory king of the South (i.e. the Pāṇḍya) lay outside his (viz. Kulōttuṅga's) beautiful city, being pecked by kites.

(L. 11.) Not only did the speech (of Vikkalaṉ):—“After this day a permanent blemish (will attach to Kulōttuṅga), as to the crescentThe spot in the moon is alluded to. (which is the origin) of (his) family,”The Eastern Chālukya family, from which Kulōttuṅga I. was descended in the male line, claimed the Moon as its ancestor. —turn out wrong, but the bow (in) the hand of Vikkalaṉ was not (even) bent against (the enemy).

(L. 13.) Everywhere from Naṅgili of rocky roads—with Maṇalūr in the middle—to the Tuṅgabhadrā, there were lying low the dead (bodies of his) furious elephants, his lost pride and (his) boasted valour.

(L. 14.) The very mountains which (he) ascended bent their backs; the very rivers into which (he) descended eddied and breached (the banks) in their course; (and) the very seas into which (he) plunged became troubled and agitated.

(L. 16.) (The Chōḷa king) seized simultaneously the two countries (pāṇi) called Gaṅgamaṇḍalam and Śiṅgaṇam, troops of furious elephants which had been irretrievably abandoned (by the enemy), crowds of women, (the angles of) whose beautiful eyes were as pointed as daggers, the goddess of fame, who gladly brought disgrace (on Vikkalaṉ), and the great goddess of victory, who changed to the opposite (side) and caused (Vikkalaṉ) himself and (his) father, who were desirous of the rule over the Western region, to turn their backs again and again on many days.

(L. 20.) Having resolved in (his) royal mind to conquer also the Pāṇḍi-maṇḍalam (i.e. the Pāṇḍya country) with great fame, (he) despatched his great army,—which possessed [excellent horses (resembling) the waves of the sea], war-elephants (resembling) ships, and troops (resembling) water,—as though the Northern ocean was overflowing the Southern ocean.

(L. 22.) (He) completely destroyed the forest which the five Pañchavas (i.e. Pāṇḍyas) had entered as refuge, when they were routed on a battlefield where (he) fought (with them), and fled cowering with fear.

(L. 24.) (He) subdued (their) country, drove them into hot jungles (in) hills where woodmen roamed about, and planted pillars of victory in every region.

(L. 25.) (He) was pleased to seize the pearl fisheries,This refers to the coast of the Gulf of Maṉṉār. the Podiyil (mountain) where the three kinds of Tamiḻ (flourished),See above, Vol. II. p. 236, notes 1 and 2. [the (very) centre of the (mountain) ŚaiyamThis is the Tamil form of Sahya, the Sanskrit name of the Western Ghāṭs.] where furious rutting elephants were captured, and Kaṉṉi,See above, Vol. II. p. 236, note 3. and fixed the boundaries of the Southern (i.e. Pāṇḍya) country.

(L. 27.) While all the heroesIn Malayāḷam, chāvēṟ (Tamil śāvēṟu) means ‘one who has elected to die, moriturus.’ Interesting details about the Chāvēṟs are found in Mr. Logan's Malabar, Vol. I. pp. 162 to 169. in the Western hill-country (Kuḍamalai-nāḍu)This term does not refer to Coorg as I suggested in Vol. I. p. 63, but is probably identical with the modern Malayāḷam or Malabar. ascended voluntarily to heaven, (he) was pleased to bestow on the chiefs of his army, who were mounted on horses, settlements on every road, including (that which passed) Kōṭṭāṟu,This is the well known town near Cape Comorin; see Ep. Ind. Vol. V. p. 104, note 3. in order that the enemies might be scattered, and took his seat on the throne acquired in warfare.

(L. 29.) (He) was pleased to be seated (on it) while (his) valour and liberality shone like (his) necklace of great splendour and (like) the flower-garland on (his) royal shoulders, (and) while (all his) enemies prostrated themselves on the ground.

(L. 31.) In the [1]4th year (of the reign) of this king Rājakēsarivarman, alias the emperor Śrī-Kulōttuṅga-Śōḻadēva, 1—one—perpetual lamp was given to Mahādēva, the lord of the Śrī-Mūlasthāna (temple) at Tirukkaḻukkuṉṟam, alias Ulagaḷanda-Śōḻapuram, a dēvadāna) in its own circle (kūṟu)See p. 3 above, note 7. in Kaḷattūr-nāḍu, (a subdivision) of Kaḷattūr-kōṭṭam, (a district) of Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Śōḻa-maṇḍalam, by . . . . ppaḷḷi Śelvaṉ Paḻumaḍaiyaṉ, alias Kulōttuṅga-Śōḻa-periyarayaṉ, who resided at Śēvūr,In accordance with the next following note, this must be Chēvūr near Tiṇḍivaṉam; see Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 207. alias Śōḻakēraḷanallūr, in Ōymāṉāḍu.According to the inscriptions of the Tintriṇīśvara temple at Tiṇḍivaṉam, this place belonged to Ōymāṉāḍu.

(L. 36.) In order (to supply) to (this lamp) one uḻakku of ghee per day, (measured) by the Arumoḻidēvaṉ-uḻakku,See above, p. 8, note 3. (he) granted ninety full-grown ewes, which must neither die nor grow old.See above, Vol. II. p. 375, note 3.

(L. 37.) The feet of him who will continue this (grant) as long as the moon and the sun exist, shall be on my head. This (is placed under) the protection of all Māhēśvaras.

(L. 38.) In the 15th year (of the king's reign) the above-mentioned person (also) granted ninety full-grown ewes, which must neither die nor grow old, for 1 (other) perpetual lamp which (he) had given. This (is placed under) the protection of all Māhēśvaras.

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