Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Rājakesarin, year 11

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00006.

Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa, northern face, time of Rājakesarin (Sundaracōḻa?), year 11. AIM, southern shrine; middle inscription on the easternmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade; 11th regnal year of Kōrājakesarivarman = probably Sundaracōḻa (circa 968 A.D.); this inscription may have been engraved after the one below (#2): the line 7 is tightly engraved and lines 8 to 11 continue on the pilaster, probably because there was not enough space below; this inscription is also connected to #24, which is damaged but has a similar structure and the same vēḷaṉ is mentioned.

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Language: Tamil.

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

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-Irācakēcar(i)va(n)ma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu [[101Āvatu]] 10 1-Āvatu

Aṭikaḷ paḻuvēṭṭarai⟨2⟩yar maṟavaṉ [[kaṇṭaṉārkku]] kaṇṭa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ārkku karampi(ya)ṉ [[parāntakaṉāna]] parāntakaṉā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a karuviṭaip-perarai⟨3⟩yaṉ viṇṇappam Emperumāḷ paḻuvūr I(ra)ṇṭu [[taḷipatiyump pātamūlamum]] taḷipatiyum p-pātamūlamum Iraṇṭu nagaramu⟨4⟩m paṉ¿n?⟨ṉ⟩iraṇṭu kalaṉaiyum maṟṟu(m) Eppērppaṭṭāraiyu{m}ṅ kiḻpaṭa kalpaṭṭa ⟨5⟩ maṉṟupāṭum mēl maṉṟuvaṉavum ma(ṟ)ṟum [[Eppērppaṭṭanavum]] Eppērppaṭṭa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩avum paṇṭai nan=tipurama⟨6⟩(ṟṟ’ ā)tiyē koṇṭ’ aruḷuvatu Eṉṟu viṇṇap(pa)ñ ceyya nāmum paṇṭai nan=tipuramaṟṟ¿u?⟨’ ā⟩tiyē ⟨7⟩ koḷkav eṉṟu tattan(ū)r-kiḻavaṉ vēḷāṉ [[(c)iṉtāmaṇikku]] (c)i¡ṉ!⟨n⟩tāmaṇikku śrīmu(ka)m va(ra ca)ntrātit(taval niṟkka ka)lliḷ mēl veṭṭik⟨8⟩koṇṭōm ⟨9⟩ Iraṇṭu taḷipa⟨10⟩tiyum pātamu⟨11⟩lattōm

Apparatus

⟨7⟩ (ca)ntrātit(taval niṟkka ka)lliḷ ⬦ cantrātittaval niṟkka kalliḷ SII • This part is no longer clearly legible because it has been covered with cement.

Translation by Valérie Gillet

Commentary

(1) Rājakesarin is probably Sundaracōḻa, during whose reign the Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Maṟavaṉ Kaṇṭaṉār was ruling over Paḻuvūr.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923-1924 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/367).

Edited by Srinivasa Rao 1952 (SII 13.215). 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

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1952. South-Indian inscriptions (texts) (with introductory notes in English). Volume XIII: The Cholas. South Indian Inscriptions 13. Madras: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 116–117, item 215.

[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 139–140, item 6.

Secondary

ARIE 1923-1924. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1924. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1925. Page 73, appendix C/1924, item 367.

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