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No. 27.] UDAIYARGUDI INSCRIPTION OF RAJAKESARIVARMAN; A.D. 988. 165
21 vi[kra]mam-anya cha Khadgasithham-ajtjanat |29|| Alkynna vidyut-tati. taralatar-āsāra-tarunya-[dadhnim] Lakshmim-am-evam cha [ji]ta-mrigadṛisām pritim-spy-anganānām | -k-a[ptalye [tat-punar]-iha sukritair=[dri]shta - - pta-võ(bo)dhād=ētach-chakre navinam sahaja-subha-ma22 tir-mmandapam Bhutabharttuḥ ||30|| Mathaḥ kathōra-käshṭh-aughair-atr=aiv= äkäri dhimatā dēva-dakshina-dig-bhāge nivāsārthan-tapasvinām ||31|| Käritam vistrita[m] Sauri-mandapam1 punya-kāriņā Gangadharēņa [dharager-bhasham]-ev-atisundaram ||32|| Śrīmad-Ratnapurē cha
pratichyam Pushpak-õpamam | akarōd=fikavīrāyā mandapam giri-mürddhani ||33|| Mandapam vane Vadade [Palr-arater-vinirmitam | Hara-Hēramvayōs= chakre tatr-aiva vi[sa(sa)d]-alayau ||34|| Devi-Durgga-griham durgge Raveḥ Paha[take(?) purē]| Pōrathē bhavanaṁ Sambhōr-a
24 bhramkasham-achikarat ||35|| Ratnapurasy-ōdichyam digi Tumṭa-Ganapater-asau chakre mandapam-asesha-väñchhita-phala-datur-vighna-hantus-cha ||36|| ||* Saras [Ti]puruga-[gra]mē nirmmala[m] vikach-amvu(bu)jam tatha Girahali[grāmē] sphärām pushkariņim-api ||37||
23 ru
25 kritam-amalam sarasija-ruchiram sada jagat-sevyam tap-apaham=uru-harim=iva [U]luva-grāmē saras-chakre ||38|| Gunjan-muñja-madhuvrata-chaya-chumvita-vikacha-pankajam-akardt | pushkariņim-a[pi többana-8ëqâ[dâ]r-¡[bhijdha-[gr] |39|| Misht-anna-pana-sampanna[m sa]
26 rvasatri[m] vyadhad-asau Nārāyaṇapurē pushpa-vātikām-api śōbhanāṁ ||40|| Yaval-lilāvatināṁ nayana-sarasija-prānta-samsthō Manōbhūr-yavan-Mainākapaksh-avila-chaṭula-chalad-vichi-malaḥ payōdhiḥ chandr-ärkkau yāvad=ētau gagana-tala-samud[d*]yōtamānau prabhatas-ta
27 vad-Gangadharasya pravara-guna-nidhēḥ sthairyatām=ētu kirttiḥ 411 Dakshō lakshana-nirnna(rņņa)yễ kavi-kala-sarvva[sva]-viśrama-bhus-chhandaḥ-sundara-vu(bu)ddhir adbhuta matib sahitya-Chanakyayōḥ | khyātō Haihaya-vamsabhüḥ kavi-vrisha yasy-anujo Ja[lhana]s-ten-äkäri Kumarapala-kritinā [ch=eyam ?] 28 prasastir=mmuda ||42|| Aksharair-mauktik-ākārais-ten-aiv=ālēkhi kautukat | [Natū]nāmnā samutkīrņņā silpa-vijñāna-sālinā ||43|| Srēsḥthinā Ralhanen=ātra dharmma-karmm-adhikāriņā | kritā kalā kalapajña-jana-suśruta-vu(bu)ddhina||44|| Chedi Samvat 933 [*] Mangalam=astu ||
No. 27. THE UDAIYARGUDI INSCRIPTION OF RAJAKESARIVARMAN; A.D. 988,
BY PROFESSOR K. A. NILAKANTA SASTRI, M.A., MADRAS.
This inscription is engraved, along with some other Chōla inscriptions of the tenth century A.D., on the west wall of the central shrine in the Anantiévarasvamin temple at Uḍaiyārguḍi, a hamlet of Kaṭṭumaṇṇärköyil, in the Chidambaram taluk of the South Arcot District. The village is celebrated in the hagiology of South Indian Vaishnavism as the birth-place of Näthamuni and his grandson Yamunacharya, also called Alavandar, the spiritual preceptor of Ramanuja. In the inscriptions, the place is called Viranarayana-chaturvedimangalam, the same as the Viranarayanapuram of Vaishnava literature and our inscription further describes
1 Read Sauri. Probably the length is futroduced for the sake of the metre. The metre is irregular here.
Here in this and the next line enough space for 3 or 4 letters is left uninscribed.
No. 577 of 1920. Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1920-21, part II, paragraph 31.
