# Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, time of Kulottuṅga, year 34

Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00032

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00032.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

## Summary

In continuation with INSTamilNadu00031 and INSTamilNadu00033. It records
the endowment of 5 mās of land and the tax income granted by Araiyaṉ
Irumuṭicōḻa Mūvaraiyaṉ Amattai of Karuppūr.

## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kulō[t]⟨2⟩tuṅka-cōḻa-de⟨3⟩vaṟku yāṇṭu 3 10 4 Āva(tu)

⟨4⟩ karuppūr Ar¡a!⟨ai⟩ya¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ Iru-muṭi-[c](ō)⟨5⟩ḻa-m¿u?⟨ū⟩varaiya¡n!⟨ṉ⟩
Amattai-y-ē¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ na⟨6⟩llūr nalla-nāyaṉāṟk(u) [nā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩] ⟨7⟩ [kal]-veṭṭi
v-(ip)-paṭi

- In-nāya⟨8⟩ṉār tēvatā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩am nallūr nila⟨9⟩m munnūṟṟ’ aṟu-patu vēliyum

- ⟨10⟩(va)ṭa-[v-āṟṟaṅka]r(ai)-t tir(u)-nan=tavanam ⟨11⟩ nilam
  Ai-vēl(iyum)

- [kāccuva-ku]⟨12⟩ṭi-k kaḻaṉi Ai-vēliyum

- n¿i?⟨ī⟩kki ⟨13⟩ nilam Aiñ¿t?⟨c⟩u māvum

In-nilaṅ⟨14⟩kaḷil pāṭikāvalum Eppēṟ⟨15⟩paṭ=ṭa Āyaṅkaḷum taṟi-y-iṟai
k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ⟨16⟩iṟai-p-pāṭ=ṭamum Aṭaṅka nall(a)-nā⟨17⟩[ya]ṉāṟku v-[iṭ]ṭēṉ

Ik-kal-ve⟨18⟩ṭ=ṭ’ aḻittu-k kō[ḷ]vā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ taṅkaḷ ammai⟨19⟩ku-t tāṉē
maṇavāḷaṉ

Itu ⟨20⟩ śrī-māhe(śvara)-rakṣai ↝

## Apparatus

⟨6-7⟩ nāṉ kal • Reading based on ASI transcript: nānkal

⟨11-12⟩ kāccuva-kuṭi • Reading after the ASI transcript. Same village
mentioned in INSTamilNadu00031.

⟨17⟩ Ik-kal-ve • Reading after the ASI transcript.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–3⟩ 34th year of the king Kulottuṅga Cōḻa ⟨III⟩.

⟨4–17⟩ I, Amattai, also known as Araiyaṉ Irumuṭicōḻa Muvaraiyaṉ from
Karuppūr, after engraving it on stone for the Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār of
Nallūr as tēvatāṉam for this Lord, and excluding

- three hundred sixty vēlis of land from Nallūr,

- five vēlis of land for the sacred garden on the northern bank of the
  river, and

- five vēlis of paddy fields from Kāccuvakuṭi, and

- deducting 5 mās of land

the taxes for watching the lands ⟨pāṭikāval⟩, all types of ¿state? taxes
(āyam), and minor cesses (kīḻ iṟai pāṭṭam), ⟨which include⟩ the tax on
loom (taṟi iṟai).

⟨17–19⟩ Whoever destroys (aḻittu kōḷvāṉ) this inscription will become
himself the husband (maṇavāḷaṉ) to his own mother (ammaikku tāṉē).

⟨19–20⟩ This is under the protection of the maheśvaras.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/146).

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

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

### Secondary

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 146, appendixes
B/1940-1941.