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June, 1897.]
MISCELLANEOUS TRAVANCORE INSCRIPTIONS.
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MISCELLANEOUS TRAVANCORE INSCRIPTIONS. BY THE LATE RAO BAHADUR P. SUNDARAM PILLAT, M.A., M.R.A.S., F.R.H.S.
(Continued from p. 118.)
The Inscriptions. D ROCEEDING then to the inscriptions, I propose to record them in the order of their dates.
r As the collection is still continued, we shall have to insert later on in the series such of them as may be hereafter found to come between, according to their dates.
Puravari Inscription, 335 M. E. The earliest of the inscriptions with me which is yet to be published is one dated 335 in the Malabar era. It is found on the northern side of a mandapam in front of the old temple at Puravari-Chaturvedimangalam already referred to in another paper.13 It runs thus:
Tamil, 15 No.2 .
Tamil.
Text.16 1.17 [Svasti Sri Kollam-tôn]ri 335 m=åņdinn=edirâm=aņda Idapa-nayiru Köttir=ara
mammadi-chôlana2 Hůr Kurunkuļi Tiru-maru-marpanen Puravari Vinnagar-Å!varkku nittal
nimantam-achandira-taran-chelvatîka nêm vita nilam-kvidu Ivvûr en nilain
Uttama-ramankalukku terku kallarai. 3 kku mêkku (vadakku-åri-kkalukku)
Vitai-arivalukku 4 ki(lakku) nânk-ellai
nado[vil nilam
mukkaņi-] 5 yum Uttama-raman-kalukku vadakka A(ru)vitaikku mêkku chattu-mukkattukku
kilakka nedun6 tu(ru)valakku terku Innank-ellaiyil naduvil tavarai nilam kaniyam âka nilam
oru-mavam mêrpadi-yûril Sankars vidangan Ivv=Alvárku tiru-vamudukku
âchandira-târañ-chel7 vatáka vitta nilam Ivvar r u-půvil chêrada vayar-ka. 8 lukku vadakku kilakku Pa-muraikku (terkum) Naachi-nattu-kundu-(ni-) 9 lam X X Náñchisvaram=ndaiyar dêva-dâņam Piravaraikku mêrkum Inânk-el10 lai naduva nilam arai-mävarai-kkaniyum Ira-půvil nilam Årrukku mêkku
Anavaratan-vayarkalukku terku kuņdaraikku kilakku Vepparaikku
vadakku Innankellai naduva kidanda nilaú11 kâņi-yaraikkåņiyum aka n ilam
ога mâvam Ivv=iru12 võ(mu)m Innila[m] Irandu [mâvum kai-k] kondu Ita chem13 pilum vetti-kko!kavenru Tira-ppadiyile nir-vårtta-kkudattôm Ivv=Alvår
15 See Some Early Sovereigns of Travancore, ante, VoL XXIV. p. 257.
* The number above the line gives the serial number of this new series and the one below the number in my register.
16 The word above the line indicates the characters and the one below the language of the inscription. • 1 The stones bearing this inscription having been disturbed, the text has been reconstructed by bringing together bits of sentences engraved on stones now standing apart from one another.
11 Square brackets indicato words supplied and the B.nall ones those indistinct and doubtful.
