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

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00020

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

File path: DHARMA_INSMelKil00020.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 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.

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## 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. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197757710.001.0001. [URL].
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