# Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of
Rājakesarin, year 12

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00007

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

File path: DHARMA_INSMelKil00007.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

AIM, southern shrine; on the wall section immediately to the west of the
niche of Brahmā, northern façade of the sanctuary; 12th regnal year of
Kōrājakesarivarman = Cōḻa king unidentified.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ _ svasti śrī

kō-Irājakē(ca)⟨2⟩ripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 10 2-Āvatu

kuṉṟakkūṟ⟨3⟩ṟattu devadāṉam Avanikandha(r)vva-Īśvaragr̥hattu
mahā⟨4⟩devarkku Ivvūr mallan ātittaṉ kuḷam Apōhanaṅ ⟨5⟩ kiṭanta bhumiyai
pa¿ḻa?⟨ḻu⟩vūrc caṅkarappāṭi mallaṉ caṅ⟨6⟩karaṉ Ikkuḷamuṅ kalli kaḻanayuṅ
kalli vaitta viḷa⟨7⟩kku Oṉṟu Ivviḷakku Oṉṟum Ikkuḷattiṉ pōka(ṅ)
[A]⟨8⟩(ka)vēriyum puṟavēriyil [kaḻaniyaḷ] pōkaṅ koṇṭu ⟨9⟩ cantrātittavat
Iravum paka(lum) Oru noṉtāviḷakku Eri⟨10⟩ppōmānōm Ittaḷi paṭṭuṭaiyōm
Ēḻuvō⟨11⟩m Ikkuḷattiṉ minaṭai poḷ(ḷak) kuḷattilē kalluvatā⟨12⟩kavum

Itu paṉmāheśvara rakṣai ∥

## Apparatus

⟨8⟩ [kaḻaniyaḷ] ⬦ kaḻaniyaḷ SII • This part is no longer legible.

## Translation by Gillet 2024

Fortune! Prosperity! This is the 12th year of Kōrājakesarivarman. For
Mahādeva of the temple (gr̥hattu) of the Lord (īśvara) ⟨of⟩
Avanikandharvva, a devadāna of Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam; the tank Mallan Ātittaṉ of
this village ⟨and⟩ the land which lies (kiṭanta) without enjoyment
(apōhanam); Caṅkarappāṭi[1] Mallaṉ Caṅkaraṉ of Paḻuvūr (paḻavūr, that
is, paḻuvūr), having cleared (kalli) this tank (ikkuḷamum) and having
cleared (kalli) the field (kaḻanayum), gave (vaitta) one lamp (viḷakku
oṉṟu); ⟨for⟩ this one lamp (ivviḷakku oṉṟum); having taken (koṇṭu) the
produce (pōkaṅ) of this tank (ikkuḷattiṉ) ⟨and⟩ the produce (pōkaṅ) of
the land (kaḻaniyaḷ?[2]) in the akavēri and the puṟavēri,[3] we will
burn (erippōmāṉōm) a perpetual lamp night and day as long as the sun and
the moon endure, we, the Paṭṭuṭaiyārs of this temple (ittaḷi), we the
Seven (ēḻuvōm); we have to clear (kalluvatākavum) in the tank
(kuḷattilē), in order to dig (poḷḷa) ⟨for⟩ an elevated (mī) road / bank
(naṭai / aṭai) of this tank (ikkuḷattiṉ). This is under the protection
of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

## Commentary

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

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923–24 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/371).

Edited by Srinivasa Rao 1952 (SII 13.227). Edited and translated in
Gillet 2024, based on autopsy.

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 122–123,
item 227.

[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 140, item 7.

### Secondary

ARIE 1923–24. 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 371.

[1] Oil monger.

[2] The meaning of kaḻaniyaḷ remains unclear to me. It may come from
kaḻaṉi, which means paddy field or agricultural tracts.

[3] For these expressions, see INSMelKil00001