Tirunaḷḷāṟu 26, Tarppāraṇyēcuvarar, central shrine, south wall, time of Rājadhirāja Cōla, year 11 intellectual authorship of edition G. Vijayavenugopal EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00126

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svasti śrī ḥ kaṭal cūḻnta pār-mātarum kalai-mātarum Aṭal cūḻnta pōr-mātaruñ ciīr-mātarum amarntu vāḻa nāṟ-kaṭal cūḻ puvi-y ēḻum pāṟ-kaṭal pōṟ-pukaḻ parappa Ātiyukam-ām eṉṉa-c cōti muṭi puṉaint’ aruḷi Aṟu camaiyamum AIm-pūtamum neṟiyil niṉṟu pālippa cēralarum teṉṉavaruñ ciṅkaḷaruṅ koṅkaṇarup pēraracu peṟa vēṇṭi-p piriyātu cēvippa tamm aracu tām peṟṟu tammuṭaṉē muṭi cūṭi Am-maruṅkuṟa tēviyiarkaḷ Aṇimaṅkalam peṟṟ’ aruḷi vāḻi vāḻi maṇam puṇarntu Ūḻi-y Ūḻi pala-v ōṅki-c cem-poṉ-viīrasasiṅṅāsaṉattu Ulak-uṭai-mukkō-k-kiḻāṉaṭikaḷoṭum viīṟṟirunt’ aruḷiya kō-v-irāca-kēcari paṟmar-āṉa tiripuvaṉa-c-cakkaravattikaḷ śrī-Irājātija

tēvaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉ Oṉṟāvatu siṅṅa-nāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣattu pañcamiyum putaṉkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa cōti nāḷ Uyyak-koṇṭār-vaḷa-nāṭṭu muḻaiyūr-nāṭṭu Uṭaiyār tiru-naḷḷāṟ-uṭaiyār kōyil muppatu vaṭṭattu kāṇi Uṭaiya civap pirāmaṇa kautama-kōttirattu Uṇmai-coṉṉāṉum Āḷavantiyāṉ nāṟpatteṇṇāyira-paṭṭaṉum tēvarkaḷ cuntaraṉ-āṉa cāṉṟaruḷi ceyta paṭṭaṉum Umaiyāḻvāṉ-āṉa tirunaḷḷāṟṟu paṭṭaṉum maṇṭaiyāḻvāṉ-āṉa Ōti-nalla-vētiya-paṭṭaṉum kāciyapa-kōttirattu tēvarkaḷ cuntaraṉ-āṉa kolōttuṅka-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum Āḻvāṉ-āṉa vikkirama-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum nāṭuṭaip perumā ṉ tillai-nāyaka-paṭṭanum kūttāṭuvāṉ-āṉa tiyāka-camuttira-paṭṭaṉum nāṭuai-p-perumāḷ-āṉa kalliyāṇa-cuntara-paṭṭaṉum naṉ-Uṭai-p-perumāḷ-āṉa nāṟpatteṇṇāyira-paṇṭitaṉum nāṭuṭai-p-perumāḷ-āṉa nāṭuṭai-nāyaka-paṇṭitaṉum kāciyavpa-kōttirattu tirucciṟṟampalām-uṭaiyāṉ-āṉa Ēḻ-kaṭalum cūntāṉum Āvāṉ-āṉa nāṭuṭai-nāyaka-paṭṭaṉum Umai-y-āḻvāṉāṉa poṟ-kōyil-paṭṭaṉum piccāṇṭāṉ-āṉa cōḻa-kēraḷa-paṭṭaṉum tiru-k-kaṟṟaḷi-p-piḷḷai-y-āṉa tirunaḷāṟṟu-p paṇṭitaṉum-kōttirattu mū-v-āyiratt-oruvaṉ-āṉa karilakāla ṉ-āṉa pāñca-poṟ-pīṭa-paṭṭaṉum Iv-vaṉaivōm nitta-viṉōta-vaḷa-nāṭṭu Āvūr-k-kūṟṟattu viḻir-uṭaiyar cennāṭ-uṭaiyāṉ Uṭaiya-nampiyār-āṉa toṇṭaimāṉār pakkal Upaiyatu koṇṭu kalveṭṭik kuṭutta paric-āvatu Iṉṉāyaṉār kōyililēy iṉṉāḷāl

nāṟkaṭal kaṭal ciṅkaḷaruṅ ciṅkaḷarum koṅkaṇarup koṅkaṇarum Aṅkalam The gap can be restored from parallel line (aṭi) in other epigraphical versions of this royal eulogy in Tamil verse (meykkīrtti): aṇimaṅkalam. kolōttuṅka-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-paṭṭaṉum tiyāka-camuttira-paṭṭaṉum tiyāka-camuttira-paṭṭanum nāṟpatteṇṇāyira-paṇṭitaṉum nāṟpatteṇṇāyira-paṇṭitaṉum kāciyavpa-kōttirattu kācipa-kōttirattu An alternative reading is kāciyapa-kōttirattu ntāṉum cūḻntāṉum Āvāṉ-āṉa Āḻvāṉ-āṉa nāṭuṭai-nāyaka-paṭṭaṉum nāṭuṭai-nāyaka-paṭṭaṉum kōttirattu kevutama-kōttirattu viḻir-uṭaiyar viḻiyūr-uṭaiyan Āvūr-k-kūṟṟattu Āḻūr-k-kūṟṟattu

The meykkīrtti portion (line 1: kaṭal cūḻnta etc.) is split cīr- and aṭi-wise in the Tamil edition (following the parsing in ) and word-wise in the transliteration.

The line (aṭi) 3 of the meykkīrtti (nāṟkaṭal cūḻ puvi-y ēḻum pāṟ-kaṭal pōṟ-pukaḻ parappa) has one more word (ṟ) than in .

First edited in (PI 475). First translated in (PI 475). Re-edited in (Tirunaḷḷāṟu 26), with photos.

This edition revised by G. Vijayavenugopal (2019). Curated by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on photos (N. Ramaswamy, 2016).

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