SII 3.132: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri XIV.—INSCRIPTIONS OF PARAKESARIVARMAN UTTAMA-CHOLA. No. 132.—ON THE NORTH BASE OF THE SECOND PILLAR IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE IN THE PUNDARIKAKSHA-PERUMAL TEMPLE AT TIRUVELLARAI. No. 534 of 1905. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0132 DHARMAbase

This unfinished inscription is dated in the 8th year of Parakēsarivarman and registers a gift of [2]0 kaḻañju of gold for offerings to the god Kṛishṇa and his consort Rukmiṇī. The donor was Īrāyiraṉdēvi-Ammaṉār, the wife of ‘the lord who died on the back of an elephant’.

This is the earliest reference in South-Indian Inscriptions to the worship of Kṛishṇa and Rukmiṇī. By the clause ‘the lord who died on the back of an elephant’ we have probably to understand Prince Rājāditya who, in the large Leyden grant, is stated to have met with his death on the back of an elephant in an encounter with Kṛishṇarāja (i.e., the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Kṛishṇa III.)See Madras Epigraphical Report for 1912, page 62, paragraph 14. King Parakēsarivarman must, therefore, be identified with either Madhurāntaka Uttama-Chōḷa or with Āditya-Karikāla II.

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svasti śrī . kopparakesaripanmaṟkku yāṇṭu 8 Āvatu tiruveḷḷaṟai periyaśrī koyilil śrīkṛūṣṇarkkum śrīrukmiṇip=pirāṭṭiyārkkum Uṭaiyār Āṉaimeṟṟu ñciṉār deviyār IĪrāyiraṉṟeviyammaṉār kuṭuttapaṭi Eḻutiyatu śrīkṛūṣṇarkku Iraṇṭu vāvum Aṣṭamiyum saṃgkrān=tiyum Innāḷḷoṉṟaikku nāṉāḻi nāṉāḻi Arici yāl Amutupaṭimyamutu ceyvikka vaitta poṉ tiruveḷḷaṟaikallāl mutala rupatiṉ kaḻañcum viḷakkoṉṟukku vaitta poṉ tiruveḷḷaṟaikallāl

nāṉāḻi nāṉāḻi nāṉāḻi which is repeated in the original may be cancelled.

Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 8th year of (the reign of) king Parakēsarivarman, (the following) was engraved (i.e., recorded) as the gift (made) by Īrāyiraṉdēvi-Ammaṉār, the consort of ‘the lord who died on the back of an elephant’ (Uḍaiyār Āṉaimēṟṟuñjiṉār) to the glorious (god) Kṛishṇa and the glorious goddess Rukmiṇī in the sacred big temple (periya-śrīkōyil) at Tiruveḷḷaṟai. [Twenty] kaḻañju of gold (weighed) by the stone (called after) Tiruveḷḷaṟai, were deposited for offering food prepared from four nāḻi of rice to the glorious (god) Kṛishṇa on each one of the (following) days (viz.,) the two vāvu (?), Ashṭami (eighth tithi) and Saṅkrānti. And for one lamp, was deposited . . . . gold (weighed) by the stone (called after) Tiruveḷḷaṟai.

tiruveḷḷaṟaikallāl. The record stops here.

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