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                <title>Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Rājakesarivarman, year 12</title>
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                        <summary><p>AIM, southern shrine; on the central wall section of the southern façade of the <foreign>ardha-maṇḍapa</foreign>; 12th regnal year of Kōvirājakesarivarman = probably Āditya I (<foreign>circa</foreign> 883 A.D.).</p>
                            
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                    <lb n="1"/><hi rend="grantha">svasti śrī</hi>
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                    <hi rend="grantha">ko</hi>vi<hi rend="grantha">rājakeśaripamma</hi>ṟku yāṇṭu <num value="12"><g type="numeral">10</g> 2</num> Āvatu
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                    <lb n="2"/>kuṉṟakūṟṟattu Avani-kan=ta<hi rend="grantha"><reg>r</reg><choice><unclear>vv</unclear><unclear>pp</unclear></choice>a-Īśvaragr̥ha</hi>ttu <hi rend="grantha">mah<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>de</hi>varku Iṉṉāṭṭu paḻuvūr
                    <lb n="3"/>pakaiviṭai <hi rend="grantha">Īśvara</hi>ttu tevanār maka nakkaṉ pūti paḻuvēṭṭarayaṉ kumaraṉ kaṇ
                    <lb n="4" break="no"/>ṭaṉ <hi rend="grantha">prasāda</hi>t=tiṉāl Aruḷicceyya Ittaḷi tēvatānam Ūkaṉkuṭi A<hi rend="grantha">bho<unclear>ha</unclear></hi>
                    <lb n="5" break="no"/>ṉaṅ kiṭaṉta <hi rend="grantha">bhūmi</hi>yai kalli Iraṇṭu pū<unclear>v</unclear><choice><sic>ū</sic><corr>u</corr></choice>m viḷaiya macakki kuṭu
                    <lb n="6" break="no"/>tta nilam Eṭṭu mā
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                    <lb n="8" break="no"/>ṭu Uṭaiyōm Ēḻuvōm                    
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                <p>Fortune! Prosperity! <supplied reason="subaudible">This is</supplied> 
                    12th year of Kōvirājakesarivarman. To
                    Mahādeva <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>mahadevarku</foreign>, that is, <foreign>mahādevarkku</foreign></supplied> of the temple <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>gr̥hattu</foreign></supplied> of the Lord
                    <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>īśvara</foreign></supplied> <supplied reason="subaudible">of</supplied> Avanikantappa/vva, of Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam, Nakkaṉ Pūti,<note>The editor of SII as well as G. Vijayavenugopal think that Nakkaṉ Pūti is the Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar. I propose that the <foreign>tēvaṉār makaṉ</foreign> Nakkan Pūti is the donor, and that the Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar appears to validate the donation.</note> son of god
                    <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>tēvanār maka</foreign>, that is, <foreign>tēvanār makaṉ</foreign><note>The <foreign>ṉ</foreign> of <foreign>makaṉ</foreign> was probably dropped because it was followed by a word beginning with <foreign>n</foreign>, <foreign>nakkaṉ</foreign>. However, it is also possible to consider that they forgot the final <foreign>ḷ</foreign> and we would thus have <foreign>makaḷ</foreign>. The fact that Nakkaṉ Pūti sounds more like a male name would not be a problem, women often bearing male names.</note></supplied> of the Lord <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>īśvarattu</foreign></supplied> <supplied reason="subaudible">of</supplied> Pakaiviṭai of
                    Paḻuvūr in this country, by the grace of <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>prasādattiṉāl</foreign></supplied> Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyaṉ Kumaraṉ
                    Kaṇṭaṉ who graciously ordered <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>aruḷicceyya</foreign></supplied> <supplied reason="subaudible">the following</supplied>: having worked on
                    the soil <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>kalli</foreign></supplied> of this land <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>bhūmiyai</foreign></supplied> which was lying <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>kiṭaṉta</foreign>
                    </supplied>without enjoyment
                    <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>abhohaṉam</foreign></supplied>
                    in Ūkaṅkuṭi, a <foreign>devadāna</foreign> of this temple, having prepared the
                    land <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>macakki</foreign></supplied> so that two crops <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>iraṇṭu pūvūm</foreign>, that is, <foreign>pūvum</foreign></supplied> grow <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>viḷaiya</foreign></supplied>, <supplied reason="subaudible">he, i.e.
                        Nakkaṉ Pūti</supplied> gave eight <foreign>mā</foreign>s of this land; having taken <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>koṇṭu</foreign>, i.e. with</supplied> the produce
                    <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>pōkan</foreign></supplied> which came <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>poṉta</foreign></supplied> out of this land <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>ippūmiyil</foreign></supplied>, we, the Paṭṭuṭaiyārs
                    of this temple <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>ittaḷi</foreign></supplied>, we the Seven <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>ēḻuvōm</foreign></supplied>, have to burn <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>erikkakaṭavōm</foreign></supplied> night
                    and day a perpetual lamp respectively <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>orō nontāviḷakku</foreign></supplied> in the two temples
                    <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>iraṇṭu taḷilu</foreign>, that is, <foreign>taḷiyilum</foreign></supplied>.</p>
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                <p>Reported in <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1923-1924"/></bibl> (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/357).</p>    
                <p>Edited in <bibl><ptr target="bib:SrinivasaRao1952_01"/></bibl> (<ref target="DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0235.xml">SII 13.235</ref>). Edited and translated in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Gillet2024_01"/></bibl>, based on autopsy and photographs (<ref target="https://didomena.ehess.fr/concern/data_sets/37720p71p">Valérie Gillet, 2016-2018</ref>).</p>
                <p>This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.</p>
                
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