Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Parāntaka I, year [3]8

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00004.

Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa, northern face, western section of the wall, time of Parāntaka I, year [3]8. AIM, southern shrine; lowest inscription on the westernmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade (below #3); 38th (?) regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 945 A.D.); the end of the inscription is built over by a wall and the record is unfinished.

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Language: Tamil.

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

Version: 2025-05-29 11:47 (10e9cb0), last modified 2025-05-29 11:47 (10e9cb0).

⟨01⟩ svasti śrī

⟨1⟩ matirai koṇṭa kōpparakēcaripanmarkki yāṇṭu mu[ppattu] ⟨2⟩ Eṭṭ{ā}-Āvatu

kuṉṟa-kūṟṟattu Avani-ka¡n!⟨ṉ⟩taṟpa-Īśva⟨ra⟩gṛhattu[ca. 4+]⟨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) …

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 #3 and #4.”

(3) The inscription is unfinished.

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.

Notes

1. That is, Kaṉtaṟpa upon earth.
2. for unfinished vaṇṇakku?

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