# Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Parāntaka
I, year 36

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00002

Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr
(tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSMelKil00002.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-09-29 11:09 (3c1804e), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(3c1804e)

## 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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## 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

## Translation by Gillet 2024

Fortune! Prosperity! This is the 36th year of Kōpparakesarivarman who
has taken Madurai. For Mahādeva of Avanikaṉtaṟpapuram, a devadāna of
Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam, the lord (kiḻāṉ) of Kurukāṭi, Ūraṉ Piṭāraṉ, after
preparing (macakki) the land (bhūmiyai) which was lying (kiṭaṉta)
without enjoyment (apōhaṉam) in Pacuṅkuḷattūr, a devadāna of this temple
(ittaḷi), gave (kuṭutta) four mās (nāṅku māvum) of wet land (nīrnilam),
two mās (iraṇṭu māvum) of prepared land (macakkal) […] and two mās
(iraṇṭu māvum) of prepared land (macakkal) ⟨in Kalam Taṉkāri?⟩; having
taken (koṇṭu) ⟨these⟩ eight mās (eṭṭu māvum) of land, having taken
(koṇṭu) the produce (pōkam) which has come (vanta) from these (itināl),
we will burn (erippōmānōm) one perpetual lamp respectively (orō
nontāviḷakku) in the two temples (iraṇṭu taḷiyilum), we the Paṭṭuṭaiyārs
of this temple (ittaḷi paṭṭu uṭaiyōm), we the Seven (eḻuvōm).

## 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.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923–24 (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. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197757710.001.0001. [URL].
Page 137, item 2.

### Secondary

ARIE 1923–24. 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.