NDLI: In the Second Gopura - Left of Entrance: No. 90 (Elevation)

Content Provider	IGNCA - Brihadiswara Temple
Description	This inscription records the gift, by the priest Isanasiva Pandita, of 8 gilt copperpots "until the 29th year of Rajarajadeva" and of one receptacle for sacred ashes, in the 2nd year of Rajendra-Chola. A ninth pot was presented by Pavana-Pidaran, the Saiva acarya of the temple, in the 3rd year of Rajendra-Choḷadeva. Sarvasiva Pandita mentioned in No. 20, dated during the 19th year of the same King was apparently a successor of Pavana-Pidaran in the office of Saiva acharya of the temple. The gilt copper-pots were all intended to be used as pinnacles. Nine of them were presented, of which one is said to have been for "the temple of the Lord" (paragraph 9) and another for the temple of the Lord Sri-Rajarajesvaramudaiyar (paragraph 11). The other seven appear to have been intended as pinnacles for the shrines of the regents of the eight quarters. The regents are eight in number, viz. Indra, Agni, Yama, Nrrti, Varuna, Vayu, Soma and Isana. As the inscription is damaged, we have not got the names of all of them. The names of Nairitiyar, Agnidevar, Yamaraja and Varunaraja are preserved. The shrine of Indra who is the regent of the East seems to have been in the second gopura for which five pinnacles had apparently been provided by the King himself. Consequently, seven pinnacles would be enough. The shrine of Isanamurti is mentioned in No. 57 above as being to the north of the gate of Rajaraja, i.e. the second gopura, while the shrine of Agnideva was to the south of the same gate according to No. 70 above. It is worthy of note that some of the copper-pots (paragraphs 3, 4 and 5) were weighed with the scale (tulakkol) called Adavallan and the rest with the stone used in the city, bearing the same name. The original is mutilated.
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Subject Keyword	Dravidian Architecture Rajarajeswaram Chola Dynasty Shaivism Shaktism Great Living Chola Temples Iconography Vaishnavism Chola Emperor Rajaraja UNESCO World Heritage Site Tamil Architecture Tamizhism
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Photograph

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