Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, time of Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, 9th year

Editors: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00030.

Summary: Unfinished. Seems to record sale of rights [prob. of singing] to the dēvaraḍiyāḷ named Mādu[mai] alias Kōvaṇavarkulā

Hand description:

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

Version: (2267c18), last modified (eac90f4).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (suva)st(i) śr[ī]

t[i]r[u]-puva¿pā?⟨ṉa⟩-c-cakkara-(v)⟨2⟩vaṟtikaḷ śrī-k¿o?⟨u⟩lōttuṅka-[cō]⟨3⟩ḻa-tēvarkku yāṇṭu 9-Āvatu

(U)⟨4⟩ṭaiyār nalla-nāyanār kō(y)i[li]⟨5⟩[l] t(ē)(var A)[i]yāḷ mātu[3+]⟨6⟩-Āṉa kōvaṇavarkulāvukku t¿a?⟨i⟩ruv¿a?⟨e⟩m⟨7⟩pāvai mutal-pāṭṭun tiru-vēṭṭai ⟨8⟩ mun neṟavum tiru-t-tēr mu⟨ṉ⟩ neṟavu⟨9⟩m 5 Āṇṭu māṟi-c ce(m)

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ mātu[3+]mātu(mai) ARIE.

⟨9⟩ Āṇṭu māṟi-c ce(m) • The inscription appears to stop short here. The intended, but never inscribed, is probably similar to that found in line 13 of inscription Tamil Nadu 29.

Translation by Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

(1) (Prosperity! Fortune!)

(2–3) 9th year of ...

(3–9) ...

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939-1943 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/144).

This edition by Renato Davalos and Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on photos (E. Francis, 2024).

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1939-1943. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu and N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 92, item 144, appendixes B/1940-1941.