# Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, time of Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, year 20

Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00035

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00035.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

## Summary

Registers the sale of the right to sing the closing verse
(kaṭai-k-kāppu) of the Tiruvempāvai in the temple of Nalla-Nāyaṉār to
the tēvaraṭiyāḷ Uṭaiyanācci alias Kulōttuṅgacōḻa-māṇikkam, daughter of
Tiruvēkampam Naṅkai, alias Peṟṟi (cf. INSTamilNadu00046).

## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tiri-puvaṉa-c-ca(kka)[ra]⟨2⟩(va)rttikaḷ
śrī-kulōt(tu)⟨3⟩(ṅ)ka-cōḻa-tēvaṟk[ku yā]⟨4⟩ṇṭu (I)[ru]pat[āva]tu

U(ṭ)ai[y]⟨5⟩ār nalla {nalla} nāyaṉār kō⟨6⟩⌉yiliṟ tēva[raṭi]yāḷ
peṟṟi-y⟨7⟩(ā)ṉa tiruv¿a?⟨ē⟩kampam naṅkai ⟨8⟩ (ma)kaḷ
U(ṭ)ai(ya-nā)cci-(y-āṉa) ⟨9⟩ [ku]lōttuṅ(ka)-[cōḻa] ⟨10⟩ māṇikkattu(kku)
[Iṉṉā]⟨11⟩yaṉār kōyili(l) [tāṉat]⟨12⟩tōm tiruv¿a?⟨e⟩mpā(vai) [1+] ⟨13⟩
(Ik)ka[ṭ]ai[k](kā)p(pu)

Ivaḷuk⟨14⟩k(u) [4+] vilai y-āka ⟨15⟩ (k)[6+] kaḻañca ⟨16⟩ [4+]
[tā]ṉattōmē ⟨17⟩ (kai)kkoṇṭu kāṇi-y-(ā)⟨18⟩ka-k kallu veṭṭi-(k
ku)[ṭu]⟨19⟩ttōm It-tā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩attōm

⟨20⟩ (ti)rucā[t]tucāttu[1]

## Apparatus

⟨8⟩ (ma)kaḷ U(ṭ)ai(ya-nā)cci-(y-āṉa) • Reading after ASI transcript.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ [Prosperity!] Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ This is the 20th year of king Kulottuṅga Cōḻa.

⟨4–13⟩ We, the temple administrators in the temple of this god, ⟨have
given the rights to sing⟩ the closing stanza (kaṭai kāppu) of the
tiruvempāvai, to Kulottoṅga Cōḻa Māṇikkam, alias Uṭaiyanācci[2],
daughter of Tiruvēkampam Naṅkai, alias Peṟṟi, a tēvaraṭiyāḷ in the
temple of the Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār.

We, these temple administrators, have granted the hereditary rights
(kāṇi) to her after accepting (kaikkoṇṭu) the gold[3] estipulated as
price (vilai āka) and engraving it on stone.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/149).

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

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

ASI estampage kindly supplied by the Director of Epigraphy in Mysore.

### Primary

[ARIE] 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 149,
appendixes B/1940-1941.

[1] Line 20 appears to have been inscribed by another hand, and in a
more shallow manner.

[2] There is a village less than 20km. to the northwest of Nallūr that
bears this exact name.

[3] The amount of gold is lost.