The temple inscriptions printed here are the primary record of the Tamil country in 1200. The records of Kulottunga III (reigning 1178 to 1218) give his regnal years, his campaigns against the Pandyas at Madurai and the Hoysalas, his titles and the officers and local assemblies who administered the Kaveri delta and Tondaimandalam. The Pandya records of Jatavarman Kulasekhara (from 1190) and his successors at Madurai show the Pandya recovery that was under way in 1200. The early volumes (1 to 3) give English translations; later volumes (texts only) include vol. 14 for the Pandyas and vol. 10 for Telugu records of the Andhra coast. Dates are regnal years and need the astronomical tables in the introductions.
About this source
- Title
- South Indian Inscriptions
- Author
- Various (Chola, Pandya and other chanceries and temple scribes), edited by E. Hultzsch, V. Venkayya, H. Krishna Sastri and successors
- Written
- inscriptions of the 7th to 17th centuries; the series ran from 1890
- Language
- Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu and Kannada, with English introductions and (in the early volumes) translations
- Covers
- the whole span of south Indian epigraphy; this entry is for the Chola and Pandya records of about 1180 to 1220
- Kind
- Inscriptions
The Annual Reports on South Indian Epigraphy (from 1887) summarise thousands more records not yet printed in full. For Kulottunga III's reign, see also the Larger and Smaller Leiden plates entry for Chola dealings with Srivijaya.
Where to read it
Editions
- E. Hultzsch (ed.), South Indian Inscriptions vol. 3, part 1 (Madras, 1899), with translations
- South Indian Inscriptions vol. 3, part 4 (texts of later Chola records)
- K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer (ed.), South Indian Inscriptions vol. 7 (1932), texts
- K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer (ed.), South Indian Inscriptions vol. 8 (1937), texts
- J. Ramayya Pantulu (ed.), South Indian Inscriptions vol. 10: Telugu inscriptions (1948)
- A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar (ed.), South Indian Inscriptions vol. 14: Pandya inscriptions (1962)