Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 6

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00010.

Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the northern façade of the sanctuary, on the two consecutive wall sections on the eastern side of the niche of Brahmā; 6th regnal year of Kōvirājakesarivarman = king difficult to identify; identified with Gaṇḍarāditya by Balasubrahmanyam (1963: 62–63) and Balambal (1978: 183); identified with Rājarāja I in SII; inscription similar to #34.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

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

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kōvirāca[kesaripan]akku yānṭu 6-Āvatu

kunṟakku⟨2⟩ṟṟattu devatānam Avanikantaṟppa Īśvaragṛhattu tenvāyi⟨l⟩ śrī ⟨3⟩ kōyil mahādevaṟku It(t)aḷi tēvaṉār makaḷār piḷḷai cēramāṉār (d)e⟨4⟩viyār ṉakkaṉ Akkāra naṅkaiyār cantrādittavaṟ Iravum pakalum Eri (vai)⟨5⟩tta ṉondā viḷakku Onṟiṉukku paṭi Uḻakkiṉāl nicatam Uḻakku ṉeyy eriya ⟨6⟩ vaitta poṉ 10 2m paṉṉiru kaḻañcu Ivviḷakk’ eriya vaitta (ti)rā viḷakk’ o⟨7⟩[ṉṟu] ṉirai 2ḷakaru Iruppu nārāyam U(ḷ)paṭa ce(ruvi)ṭaiyāl 2 100 10 5 Itu pa⟨8⟩nmāyeśvara rakṣai

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [kesaripan] ⬦ kesaripan SR • This part is no longer legible.

⟨7⟩ [ṉṟu] ⬦ ṉṟu SR • This part is no longer legible.

Translation by Valérie Gillet

Commentary

(1) Rājakesarin is a king difficult to identify; identified with Gaṇḍarāditya by Balasubrahmanyam (1963: 62–63) and Balambal (1978: 183); identified with Rājarāja I in SII.

(1) The inscription is engraved over two consecutive wall sections.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923-1924 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/364).

Edited by Srinivasa Rao 1952 (SII 13.153). 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

[SR] 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. Page 81, item 153.

[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 143–144, item 10.

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 364.

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