Tārācuram/Darasuram, Dvārapāla author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00171

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Stone-inscription (pedestal of statue). Eleventh-century CE trophy inscription in Tamil on the statue of a door-guardian seized by the Cōḻa king Vijayarājendra (Rājādhirāja Cōḻa) after the conquest of the capital of the rival dynasty of the Cāḷukya.

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svasti śrī

Uṭaiyār śrī-vijaya-rājendra-devar kalyāyāṇapuram Eṟin=tu koṇṭu van=tu tuvārapālakam

Prosperity! Fortune!

The door-guardian brought by the lord king Vijayarājendra after destroying Kalyāṇapuram.

ARIE/1907–1908/C/1908/24. ARIE 1907–1908, 65. Srinivasan 1987, 23. Nilakanta Sastri, Cōḷas, vol. 1, 1935, 275-6; 1975, 255. Davis 1997, 51–87.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on photos (E. Francis, 2013).