# Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, no king, no year

Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00034

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00034.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-15 15:59 (9615181), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
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## Summary

Installation of the image of Dakṣiṇā (dakṣiṇamūrtti) and endowment of
wet lands both made by Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ, alias Muṭi[…]cōḻa Malaiyamāṉ from
Cāttiyakkam.

## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [svas]ti śrī

It-dakṣiṇām¡u!⟨ū⟩⟨r⟩tti te(va)[⌈]⟨2⟩[rai] Eḻu¡ṉ!⟨n⟩taruḷi vittāṉ
cātti[yak]⟨3⟩[kam u]ṭaiyāṉ maṇṭai-poṉ¡n!⟨ṉ⟩aṉ (śrī) ⟨4⟩ [4+] cōḻa-
(malai)yamāṉ [2+]

⟨5⟩ [3+] vat’ āka [canti]rātittavaṟ cel‡vat’ āka

Amu⟨6⟩[tu-pa]ṭi cel(va)[3+] (c)āttiyakka⟨t⟩tu ‡ v-iṭṭa naṉ ⌈ ⟨7⟩ [c]ai
[ni]lam kā [3+] viṭṭē⟨ṉ⟩ ‡

cāttiyakka ⟨8⟩ [m uṭai]yā[ṉ ma]ṇṭai-po¡nn!⟨ṉṉ⟩a ‡ (n) muṭi [1+] ⟨9⟩ [1+]
[cōḻa malaiyam]ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ē(ṉ)

Itu [2+] ⟨10⟩ [1 lost line]

## Apparatus

⟨9⟩ cōḻa malaiyamāneṉ • Reading after ASI transcript.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ [Prosperity!] Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ from Cāttiyakkam[1] built this image of Dakṣiṇā.

⟨5⟩ […] I, Muṭi[…] Cōḻa Malaiyamāṉ, as long as the sun and the moon
remain […]

⟨5–7⟩ I have given […] a field of wetland from Cāttiyakkam […] as food
offering (amutu-paṭi) […]

⟨7–9⟩ I, Muṭi[…]cōḻa Malaiyamāṉ, alias Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ, landowner
(uṭaiyāṉ) from Cāttiyakkam […]

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/148).

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

ASI estampage and transcript kindly supplied (2025) by the Director of
Epigraphy in Mysore.

### 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 148, appendixes
B/1940-1941.

[1] It probably refers to a village located 8 km. southeast to Nallūr,
nowadays known as Cattiyam.