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: (2267c18), 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 ARIE 1939-1943 (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

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 148, appendixes B/1940-1941.