# Koṭumpāḷūr, Aivarkōyil, time of Rājakesarivarman, year 15

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00004

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00004.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-09-29 11:09 (783a257), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Mentions Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ s(va)⟨sti⟩ śrī

kō-v-irācak¿o?⟨ē⟩cari-paruma¡k=ku!⟨rk=ku⟩ yāṇṭu
pati¡n!⟨ṉ⟩¿a?⟨ai⟩ñc-āvatu

Uṟattūr-⟨k⟩-kūṟṟat⟨Block b⟩[tu] […]

⟨2⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ naṅkaiyār Aṉantam paḻiyili vaḻiyu

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ s(va)⟨sti⟩ • The letter va looks like pa. — ⟨1⟩ -paruma¡k=ku!⟨rk=ku⟩
• It seems that the engraver first wrote kora and, realising his
mistake, transformed the ra into ca.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Fifteenth year of the king Rājakesarivarman.

⟨1⟩ […] [in the] Uṟattūrkkūṟṟam […]

⟨2⟩ Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili … (vaḻiyu)

## Commentary

The inscription stops short in line 2 after vaḻiyu and seems to have
been left unfinished.

⟨2⟩ Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili ("our unbounded and irreproachable
lady"?) is possibly the donor.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/211).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photographs (E.
Francis, 2017).

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1939–43. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the
years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu & N.
Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 99, appendixes
B/1940-41, item 211.