Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Parāntaka I, year (3)8
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⟨01⟩ svasti śrī
⟨1⟩ matirai koṇṭa kōpparakēcaripanmarkki yāṇṭu mu[ppattu]
⟨2⟩ Eṭṭ{ā}-Āvatu kuṉṟa-kūṟṟattu Avani-ka¡n!taṟpa-Īśva⟨ra⟩gṛhattu [****]-
⟨3⟩ ṭai Ittaḷi vaṇṇa
Translation by Gillet 2024
Fortune! Prosperity! [This is] the [38th] year of Kōpparakesarivarman who has taken Madurai … of the temple (gṛhattu) of the Lord (īśvara) [of] Avanikaṉtaṟpa,1 a devadāna of Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam, … the checking of coins and gold (vaṇṇa2) of this temple (ittaḷi) …
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]. Page 138, item 4.
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<p>This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.</p>
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Commentary
⟨01⟩ svasti śrī. This phrase is at the beginning of the line on the pilaster, on the left of the main text, possiby later added. Gillet 2024: “svasti śrī is added on the pilaster.”
⟨1⟩ Gillet 2024: “The date is most probably 38: mu[ppattu] eṭṭu āvatu. Thus, we may supply about four letters at the end of each line of INSMelKil00003 and INSMelKil00004.”
⟨3⟩ The inscription is unfinished.