Tārācuram/Darasuram, Airavateśvara temple, <foreign>dvārapāla</foreign>

Tārācuram/Darasuram, Airavateśvara temple, <foreign>dvārapāla</foreign> author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00601

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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 Cāḷukyas.

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svasti śrī

Uṭaiyār śrī-vijaya-rājendra-devar kalyāṇapuram Eṟin=tu koṭu-van=ta tuvārapālakam

kalyāṇapuram The ṇa looks like yā. koṭu-van=ta koṇṭuvanta in modern Tamil.

Prosperity! Fortune!

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

Reported in (ARIE/1907-1908/C/1908/24).

Edited and translated in , in .

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

275-276 255 22 a.I 42 C/1908 24 51-87