Centalai, Sundareśvara temple, time of Māṟañ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 10

Centalai, Sundareśvara temple, time of Māṟañ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 10 author of digital edition Valérie Gillet Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPandya00509.xml 2019-2026 as per external metadata

Sundareśvara temple, Centalai, Tiruvaiyāṟu taluk, Tañcāvūr district. On a pillar in the maṇḍapa at the entrance of the temple.

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svasti śrī

kō-māṟañ ca ṭaiyaṟku yāṇṭu 10 Ā vatu viṭēlviṭuku muttarai yanṉ Aṭiyāṉ kiṭakavanṉ kāttā ṉ niyama-mā-kāḷattu piṭāri yāṟk' oru tiru-viḷakkinuk kum Oru tiru-v-amurtukku mu tal-āka Ip-piṭāriyār Uḷ ḷūrkaḷil kalli-k kuṭutta nilam Arai kāṇi-k kaṭaṉ 5 10

Itu panmāheśva ra-rakṣai

Hail! Prosperity! This is the 10th year of king Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ. Kiṭakavan Kāttāṉ, servant aṭiyāṉ of Viṭēḷviṭuku Muttaraiyar, for the Piṭāri of Mākāḷam of Niyamam, for one sacred lamp and sacred food, gave kuṭutta as capital mutal āka half a kāṇi of land nilam along with 50 kalams for the taxes kaṭaṉ, having worked on the land kalli in the inside villages uḷḷ-ūr-kaḷ-il of this Piṭāri. This is under the protection of the Panmāheśvaras.

This inscription is engraved on three of the facets of the octagonal section of a pillar which square faces are engraved with long 8th century Muttaraiyar inscriptions (EI 13.10). The other facets of the octagonal section are engraved with a donation by the king Nandivarman III Pallava dated with his 12th regnal year (SII 6.447). At the end of the text on the middle facet, in a slightly different script, two words are engraved on two lines which read Amaru Ū tta.

Reported in (ARIE/1898-1899/B/1899/10), in (Tj 2614).

Edited in (SII 6.446). Edited and translated in , based on autopsy and photographs (Valérie Gillet, 2016).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

185 446 263 13 23 B/1899 10