# Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Parāntaka I, year (3)8

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00004

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

File path: DHARMA_INSMelKil00004.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

## Summary

Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa,
northern face, western section of the wall.

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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## Edition

⟨01⟩ svasti śrī

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

kuṉṟa-kūṟṟattu Avani-ka¡n!⟨ṉ⟩taṟpa-Īśva⟨ra⟩gr̥hattu [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 (gr̥hattu) of the Lord (īśvara)
⟨of⟩ Avanikaṉtaṟpa,[1] a devadāna of Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam, … the checking of
coins and gold (vaṇṇa[2]) 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
INSMelKil00003 and INSMelKil00004.”

⟨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. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197757710.001.0001. [URL].
Page 138, item 4.

[1] That is, Kaṉtaṟpa upon earth.

[2] That is, unfinished vaṇṇakku?