Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Parāntaka I, year lost

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00003.

Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade (above #4); lost regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I; the end of the inscription is built over by a wall, rendering impossible a full translation.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (10e9cb0), last modified (10e9cb0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

matirai koṇṭa kōpparakēcaripanma(rku/kku) yāṇṭu […]

⟨2⟩ kuṉṟakkūṟṟattu tēvatāṉam Avaṉikantaṟpapu[rattu][…]⟨3⟩ḷi śāsanabaddhavaṇṇakkuṭaiya kallaṟai kollatti(l) […] [i]⟨4⟩ttaḷip paṭṭu-Uṭaiyāṉ Īśvaranakkaṉ vi(lai)koṇṭu[…]⟨5⟩raṉē¡ṉn!⟨ṉ⟩ ittaḷi vaṇṇakku ce⟨y⟩tu kaṭamaip paṭṭ(a) poṉṉukku […]

Apparatus

Translation by Valérie Gillet

Commentary

Bibliography

Reported, 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

[VG] 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]. Pages 137–138, item 3.