Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Rājakesarivarman, year [unspecified]

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00020.

Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the wall section to the west of the central niche of the southern façade of the sanctuary; lost regnal year of Kōrājake[sarivarman]; unidentified king; this is just the beginning of an unfinished inscription.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (bf3fb67), last modified (3ae1a4f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-Irājak(ē) [3+] maku ⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu

Translation by Gillet 2024

(1) Fortune! Prosperity!

(1–2) [This is] the year of Kōrājakesarivarman.

Commentary

Unfinished inscription.

Bibliography

Reported, 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

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]. Page TBC, item TBC.