Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, time of Rājendra Cōḻa, no year

Editors: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00034.

Summary: In characters of about the 12th century A.D. Records the consecration of the image of Dakśiṇāmūrtti and an endowment of wet lands for worship to the deity by a certain Maṇḍai Ponnaṉ alias .... śōḻa-Malaiyamāṉ of [the village of] Śāttiyakkam.

Hand description:

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

Version: (12f3008), last modified (eac90f4).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [svas](ti) śrī

It-dakṣiṇām¡u!⟨ū⟩⟨r⟩tti te [1+] ⟨2⟩ [1+] ḻu¡ṉ!⟨n⟩t-aruḷi-vittāṉ cātti ⟨3⟩ [3+](yām/māṉ) maṇṭai poṉa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ (ṉaṭa/ṭai) ⟨4⟩ [1 lost line] ⟨5⟩ [7+] ta ta ta[3+][2+] (ṭaṟaṉa?) ⟨6⟩ [7+] ttiya ka ka tuvi ‡ tiyakk(a/u) ⟨7⟩ [7+] viṭṭe cāta ‡ (ṉ) (m/ḻ)uṭi [1+] ⟨8⟩ [7+] (ṇ)(a/ai) po¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ [1+] ‡ I((tuku)) [1+] ⟨9⟩ [10+] te [1 lost line][5+]

Translation by Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Prosperity!] Fortune!

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Bibliography

Reported in Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/148).

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

Krishnamacharlu, C. R. and N. Laksminarayan Rao. 1952. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Delhi: Government of India. Page 92, item 148, appendixes B/1940-1941.