Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Parāntaka I, year <unclear>3</unclear>8 author of digital edition Valérie Gillet Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSMelKil00004.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata

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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svasti śrī

matirai koṇṭa kōpparakēcaripanmarkki yāṇṭu muppattu Eṭṭā-Āvatu

kuṉṟa-kūṟṟattu Avani-kanṉtaṟpa-Īśvaragr̥hattu ṭai Ittaḷi vaṇṇa

Fortune! Prosperity! This is the 38th year of Kōpparakesarivarman who has taken Madurai of the temple gr̥hattu of the Lord īśvara of Avanikaṉtaṟpa,That is, Kaṉtaṟpa upon earth. a devadāna of Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam, the checking of coins and gold vaṇṇaThat is, unfinished vaṇṇakku? of this temple ittaḷi

svasti śrī. This phrase is at the beginning of the line on the pilaster, on the left of the main text, possiby later added. : svasti śrī is added on the pilaster.

: The date is most probably 38: muppattu eṭṭu āvatu. Thus, we may supply about four letters at the end of each line of and .

The inscription is unfinished.

Reported, edited and translated in , based on autopsy and photographs (by Valérie Gillet, 2016-2018).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

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