No.
40 to 41 east wall of the Dharmesvara temple
No.
27 to 28 Rajgopala-Perumal temple
No.
29 outside of the east wall of the inner prakara
No.
30 north wall of the mandapa
No.
31 to 33 south, west wall of the mandapa
No.
34 to 35 outside of the east wall of the inner prakara
No.
36 to 39 south, east wall of the mandapa in the perumal temple
No.
40.- On the outside of the east wall of the inner Prakara of the
Rajagopala-Perumal Temple
This
inscription consists of a single Sanskrit verse in the Indravajra
metre and of a passage in Tamil prose.
It is dated on a week-day (1. 3) which will probably admit of
calculation, in the 18th year of the reign of Tribhuvanachakravartin
Rajarajadeva, and records the gift of two lamps to the image of
Vishnu, and to an image of Narasimha which was set up in the same
temple.
Hail
! Prosperity ! (Verse 1.) Srikrishna-Suri, a treasury of the
scriptures (Agama), the full-moon of the ocean (which is)
the Vadhula-gotra, gave a pair of lamps to the highest primal being
(Vishnu) who resides at Ratnagrahara.
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2.) In the 18th year (of the reign) of the emperor
of the three worlds, the glorious Rajarajadeva, on the day of Sravana,
which correspond to a Monday and to the first tithi of the first
fortnight of the month of Makara, - we two, Srirama-Bhattan,
who performs the worship in the temple of Mannanar (Vishnu)
at Manimangalam, alias Gramasikhamani-chaturvedimangalam, and
his younger brother Virrirundan Bhattan, received two kalanju
of pure gold from Srikrishna-Bhattan,
who performs the worship in the temple of Mannanar (Vishnu)
at Manimangalam, alias Gramasikhamani-chaturvedimangalam, and
his younger brother Virrirundan Bhattan, received two kalanju
of pure gold from Srikrihsna-Bhatta
. . . . . . . . . . .. ..
. . of Kundur, (a resident) of this village.
(L.
6.) We two have caused to be engraved on stone that, (in return)
for these two kalanju of pure gold, we shall have to burn, as
long as the moon and the sun exist, one sacred lamp in the morning
before the god Mannanar, and one sacred lamp in the evening before
the god Singa-Perumal who is pleased to reside in the same temple.
No.
41.- On the east wall of the Dharmesvara temple
Like
No. 40, this inscription is dated on a week-day which will probably
admit of calculation, in the 18th year of the reign of Tribhuvanachakravartin
Rajarajadeva. It
records that the same two brothers, who are mentioned in No. 39
above, paid to the authorities of the Dharmesvaa temple two kalanju
of gold, from the interest of which the cost of feeding two lamps
had to be defrayed.
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1.) Hail ! Prosperity ! With the approval of the god, - in the 18th
year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, Sri-Rajarajadeva,
on the day of Revati, which corresponded to a Tuesday and to
the second tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Simha,
- we, all the holders of the land (kani) of the Siva-Brahmanas
of the temple of the lord Tanmisvara at Manimangalam, alias
Gramasikhamani-chaturvedimangalam, in Kunrattur-nadu, (a
subdivision) of Puliyur-kottam, alias
Kulottunga-Sola-valanadu, (a district) of Jayankonda-Sola-mandalam,
(viz.,) Gautaman Ambalakkutta-Bhattan, Kasyappan
Gangadhara-Bhattan, and the partners
of Kasyapan
Truchchirrambala-Bhattan, received on interest from Brahmapriyan,
the eldest son of Panchanadi Lakshmanan Malaiginiyaninran, the
accountant of this village, and his younger brother Ahavamalladevan
2 kalanju of pure gold (under the condition) that we should
burn at early dawn from this day two sacred lamps which (those two
persons) had given (to the temple).
(L.
8.) We, all these persons, caused to be engraved on stone that,
having received these two kalanju of gold, we shall be bound
to burn (those two lamps) as long as the moon and the sun exist.
(L.
9.) This was written under order by Manimangalam-udaiyan Alumbiran.
