# Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Parakesarivarman, year 25

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00017

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

File path: DHARMA_INSMelKil00017.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-09-29 11:09 (3c1804e), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(3c1804e)

## Summary

AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the southern
façade of the sanctuary (8th line continues on the pilaster and the 9th
line goes through the pilaster and on the next wall section); 25th
regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa
932 A.D.).

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ _ svasti śrī

mati⟨2⟩rai koṇṭa kōparakēcaripa⟨3⟩ṉmakki yāṇṭu 2 10 5 ⟨4⟩ Āvatu

Uttamataranica⟨5⟩tu⟨r⟩vvetimaṅkalattu ⟨6⟩ sabh¿a?⟨ai⟩yōm Ittaḷi
ta⟨7⟩ṇḍiśvarariṭai koṇṭu kaṭa⟨8⟩va t¡i!⟨ī⟩ppokku cempoṉ ‡ Oṉpatiṉ ⟨9⟩
kaḻañcu

Ippoṉṉāl pa‡licai nicati ‡ Uḻakku ney Aṭṭuvōmm ānōm
Uttama⟨10⟩taranisabh¿a?⟨ai⟩yōm ↝

## Apparatus

⟨6⟩ sabh¿a?⟨ai⟩yōm ⬦ sabhaiyōm VG.

## Translation by Gillet 2024

Fortune! Prosperity! This is the 25th year of Kōpparakesarivarman who
has taken Madurai. We of the Sabhā (sabhaiyōm) of
Uttamataranic-caturvvedimaṅgalam, from Caṇḍeśvara (taṇḍīśvarar-iṭai) of
this temple (ittaḷi), have to take (koṇṭu kaṭava) nine (oṉpatiṉ)
kaḻañcus of pure (tī-pokku, lit. which entered fire) fine gold
(cem-poṉ); with the interests (palicai) of this gold (ippoṉṉāl), we will
supply (aṭṭuvōmm ānōm) one uḻakku of ghee (ney) everyday (nicati), we of
the Sabhā of Uttamatarani.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923–24 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/359).

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

[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].
Pages 150–151, item 17.

### 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 TBC, appendix C/1924, item 359.