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JAINA EPIGRAPHS IN TAMIL
No. 18.
Kalugumalai, Kovilpatti Taluk, Tirunelveli District. Between the second and third sections on the rock at Kalugumalai.
King Marañjaḍaiyan
Dynasty Pandya
Date: Regnal year 3 (A.D. 865)
Language and Alphabet : Tamil, Vaṭṭeluttu
Purport: This inscription, worn out in parts, refers to the Jaina god Tirumalaidēvar of Tiruneccuram in Neccura-nāḍu and records an arrangement made by Gunasagara-bhațara for feeding ten ascetics (vairāgyar) including one bhaṭāra who expounded the sacred doctrine (siddhantam uraikkum bhaṭārar).
TEXT
1. Sri-kō-Māṛañjaḍaiyaṛku yāṇḍu [3 vadu] Neccu2. ra-nāṭṭu-Ttiruneccurattu Tirumalaitte
3. varkku Guņasagara-bhaṭārar seyvitta [Ku]
4. Juva[painallur Tumbūr-kkūṛṇattu Kaḍan
5. daikudi Dharmmacittan-āņa. yāmāṛar Tirumā6. l-aḍaiñjirundu siddhāntam uraikkum pa7. tarar-ullittu-ppadiņmar vayirāgyarkku [ā]8. hara-dānam-aga-ttan-mudal kudutt-aḍippit9. ta kiņaņu mēlai Vīranāraņa ēṛi . . na . 10. naduvil Dharmmacittanum Kīļaittirumālu[ṛa]
11. vāraņai niccilu šīḍa-ppaṭārarē niccilum Uttamasilanum Varasundharie
12.
13. niccilum Tirumal ta . e. nicci
14.
lum.. ngaviraṇum nāṭṭu-ccerue [nicci]15. lum [niccilum] seyvi[k*]ka kaḍvar [| | *]
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