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

Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis and Margherita Trento

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita
Trento

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00030

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00030.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-09 18:23 (fbd1441), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
(5251b7d)

## Summary

Sale of rights to the tēvaraṭiyār Mātumai, alias Kōvaṇavarkulā, to sing
the first song (mutal pāṭṭu) of the Tiruvempāvai, carry out the hunting
festival (tiruveṭṭai) and climbing up the processional car (tiruttēr).

## Palaeographic description

Consonants aligned horizontally rather than vertically in Grantha
ligature sva. No distinction between Tamil e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (sva)st(i) śr[ī]

t(i)r(i)-puvaṉa-c-cakkara⟨2⟩vaṟtikaḷ
śrī-k¡o!⟨u⟩lōttuṅka-[cō]⟨3⟩ḻa-tēvarkku yāṇṭu 9-Āvatu

(U)⟨4⟩ṭaiyār nalla-nāya¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ār kō(y)i⟨5⟩[l] t(ē)(var-A)ṭ[i]yāḷ
mātu[m](ai) [1+] (m/ṭi)⟨6⟩-Āṉa kōvaṇavarkulāvukku
t¿a?⟨i⟩ruv¿a?⟨e⟩m⟨7⟩pāvai mutal-pāṭṭun ⟨pāṭavum⟩[1] tiru-vēṭṭai ⟨8⟩
mu¡nn!⟨ṉṉ⟩ēṟavum tiru-t-tēr mu¡n!⟨ṉṉ⟩ēṟavu⟨9⟩m

I⟨vai⟩ Āṇṭu māṟi-c ce(m)[2]

## Apparatus

⟨5⟩ mātu[m](ai) [1+] (m/ṭi) ⬦ mātu(mai) ARIE.

⟨9⟩ Āṇṭu māṟi-c ce(m) • The inscription appears to stop short here. The
intended, but never inscribed text is probably similar to that found in
ll. 11-12 of inscription INSTamilNadu00029: Ivai Āṇṭu māṟi cempāti cey
āṭavarkaḷ.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ (Prosperity! Fortune!)

⟨2–3⟩ This is the 9th year of king Kulottuṅga Cōḻa III.

⟨3–9⟩ For Kōvaṇavarkulā, alias Mātumai, a tēvaraṭiyāḷ from the temple of
Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār, ⟨so that she would sing⟩ the first song
(mutal-pāṭṭu) of the Tiruvempāvai, carry out the hunting festival
(tiruvēṭṭai), and lead the sacred car (tiruttēr muṉṉēṟavum).

⟨9⟩ These ⟨duties⟩ [shall be carried out] in alternating years.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/144).

This edition by Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, and Margherita Trento,
based on autopsy, photos (E. Francis, 2024), and ASI transcript.

ASI transcript consulted in Mysore by Renato Dávalos (September 2025)
with the kind permission of the Director of Epigraphy.

### Secondary

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

[1] ⟨pāṭavum⟩ is supplied on the basis of the parallel passage in
INSTamilNadu00047.

[2] Inscription stops short.