Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Parāntaka I, year 36
Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00002.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; lowest inscription on the easternmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade; ARE 1924, no. 369; 36th regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 943 A.D.).
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Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
Version: (10e9cb0), last modified (10e9cb0).
Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
matirai koṇṭa kōpparakēcaripaṉma¡rki!⟨rkku⟩ yāṇṭu ⟨2⟩ 3 10 6vatu
kuṉṟakūṟṟattu devatā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩am Ava¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ika¡ṉ!⟨n⟩taṟpapurattu ⟨3⟩ mah¿a?⟨ā⟩devarkku kurukāṭikiḻāṉ Ūraṉ piṭāraṉ Ittaḷi devatāṉam pa⟨4⟩cuṅkuḷattūr Apohaṉaṅ kiṭa¡ṉ!⟨n⟩ta bhūmiyai macakki kuṭutta n¡i!⟨ī⟩rnila⟨5⟩m
nāṅku māvum (param) [2×] (macak)[ka]l Iraṇṭu māvum kalam taṉkāri macakka⟨6⟩l Iraṇṭu māvum Āka
ni(la)m Eṭṭu māvum koṇṭu Iti¡n!⟨ṉ⟩āl ⟨7⟩ vanta pōkam koṇṭu Irav(u)m pakalu⟨m⟩ Iraṇṭu taḷiyilum Orō no⟨8⟩ntā viḷakku Erippōm ānōm Ittaḷi paṭṭu Uṭaiyōm eḻuvōm
Apparatus
Translation by Valérie Gillet
Bibliography
Reported in ARIE 1923-1924 (ARIE 1923-1924/C/1924/369).
Edited and translated in Gillet 2024, based on autopsy and photographs (by Valérie Gillet, 2016-2018).
This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.
Primary
Gillet, Valérie. 2024. Minor Majesties: The Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyars and their South Indian Kingdom of Paḻuvūr, 9th-11th centuries A.D. New York: Oxford University Press. [URL]. Page 137, item 2.
Secondary
ARIE 1923-1924. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1924. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1925. Page 73, appendix C/1924, item 369.
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What preceeds <foreign>macakkal</foreign> in both its occurrences (<foreign><unclear>param</unclear> <gap reason="illegible" unit="character" quantity="2"/></foreign> and <foreign>kalam taṉkāri</foreign> or <foreign>kalam taṉ kāri</foreign>) is not clear. It could be the names of plots or specifications about the grain measures yielded from these plots.</p>
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Commentary
(5–6) What preceeds macakkal in both its occurrences ((param) [2×] and kalam taṉkāri or kalam taṉ kāri) is not clear. It could be the names of plots or specifications about the grain measures yielded from these plots.