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Inscription in Modi script unearthed in Perumagalur temple near Thanjavur
An inscription in Modi script belonging to the Maratha ruler of Thanjavur Prathaba Simhan period was found at Sri Somanathar Temple at Perumagalur village near Peravurani by a team of epigraphists recently, said archaeologist Mani Maran of Saraswathi Mahal Library on Saturday.
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Based on information from the public that a stone inscription was found while undertaking renovation works at Sri Somanathar Temple, situated in Perumagalur about 15 km away from Peravurani in the Peravurani-Aththani-Kattumavadi Road, a team led by Mani Maran and a group of epigraphists, including Jambulingam, Thillai Govindarajan and Ramamurthi went to the village and studied the stone inscriptions. The inscription recorded the donations made by Prathaba Simhan (A.D. 1753) to the temple in Modi script. Further, it had the stampings usually found on palm leaf or copper plate inscriptions. The experts pointed out that they had found idols of Natarajar and Vinayagar and more than 10 copper plates while digging for laying the pipelines of the Cauvery drinking water scheme and they were placed at the Tahsildhar office in Thanjavur.
The same information is chiselled in Tamil on another side of the stone, measuring five feet in height and two feet in width, he said. But the Tamil inscription is badly damaged.
What is Modi script
Modi script is used for writing the Marathi language spoken in Maharashtra. The script was an official script used to write Marathi till the 20th century when the Balbondh style of Devanagari script was promoted as the standard writing system for Marathi. There are as many as 1,342 bundles of Maratha Raj records available at the Sri Saraswathi Mahal Library in Thanjavur. The Maratha Raj records were written in the Modi script of the Marathi language and these records encompass the information of the political and social administration of the Maratha kings of Thanjavur. Recently, they were digitised.
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