Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, no king, no year author of digital edition Renato Dávalos Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00034.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Installation of the image of Dakṣiṇā dakṣiṇamūrtti and endowment of wet lands both made by Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ, alias Muṭicōḻa Malaiyamāṉ from Cāttiyakkam.

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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svasti śrī

It-dakṣiṇāmuūrtti teva⌈ rai Eḻuṉntaruḷi vittāṉ cāttiyak kam uṭaiyāṉ maṇṭai-poṉnṉaṉ śrī cōḻa- malaiyamāṉ

vat' āka cantirātittavaṟ cel‡vat’ āka

Amu tu-paṭi celva cāttiyakkattu ‡ v-iṭṭa naṉ ⌈ cai nilam kā viṭṭēṉ ‡

cāttiyakka m uṭaiyāṉ maṇṭai-ponnṉṉa ‡ n muṭi cōḻa malaiyamānṉēṉ

Itu

cōḻa malaiyamāneṉ Reading after ASI transcript.

Prosperity! Fortune!

Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ from CāttiyakkamIt probably refers to a village located 8 km. southeast to Nallūr, nowadays known as Cattiyam. built this image of Dakṣiṇā.

I, Muṭi Cōḻa Malaiyamāṉ, as long as the sun and the moon remain

I have given a field of wetland from Cāttiyakkam as food offering amutu-paṭi

I, Muṭicōḻa Malaiyamāṉ, alias Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ, landowner uṭaiyāṉ from Cāttiyakkam

Reported in (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.

92 148 B/1940-1941