# Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, time of Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, year 10

Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00040

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00040.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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## Summary

Sale of seven mā of land after purchasing it from the temple by the
tēvaraṭiyār Tappili Tāḻviyāḻvi alias Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭi-Naṅkai.

## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (svasti śrī)

kulōttuṅka-(cō)ḻa-tēvar⟨k⟩ku (yā)ṇṭu 10-vatu

⟨2⟩ U(ṭ)ai(y)ār nalla nāyaṉa⟨ṟ⟩ kōyil Āticaṇ⟨ṭe⟩(su)⟨ra⟩-[t]ē(va)r
ka⟨3⟩ṉmika(ḷ)⟨ō⟩m Iṉ-ṉāya¡ṉy!⟨ṉ⟩ā[ṟ] kōyil tēvaraṭiyāl
[ta](p)pil(i)⟨4⟩[t]āḷ(vi)yāḻvi-y-āṉa tiru-k-kaḷiṟṟuppaṭi-naṅkaikk(u
I)[ṉ]-(ṉāya) ⟨5⟩ (ṉār tēvatāṉat)tu-[p puṉ]-cēy [ni]lattu vaṇāttūr
peruva(ḻikku) karuṅkaḻik(ku) ⟨6⟩ ceṉ⟨ṟu⟩ taṭattē-y viṭṭa nilam Eḻu
māvukkum

Ivaḷ śrī-paṇṭārat⟨t⟩u Oṭukki Eḻu mā(vu) ⟨7⟩ (kaḻañcē muṟṟu)m
(ma)[ñ](c)ā(ṭi)yu nālu māvu⟨m⟩ śrī-(paṇtāra)⟨t⟩tu Oṭukk(i)⟨8⟩[k ko]ṇṭa
(nilam E)[ḻu] māvu(ṅ) kaikkoṇṭu Iṉṉ¿ū?⟨ā⟩yaṉār-t(itta) [2+]

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ This is the 10th year of king Kulottuṅga ⟨III⟩

⟨2–6⟩ We, the administrators (tevarkaṉmi) of the Āticaṇḍeśvara shrine in
the temple of Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār, have granted to Tappili Tāḷviyāḻvi,
alias Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭi[1] Naṅkai, a tēvaraṭiyār of this temple, seven
mās of wet-land belonging to the devadāna of this Lord—the plot granted
is on the ridge (taṭattē), extending (ceṉ⟨ṟu⟩) to the Vaṇāttūr highway
(peruvaḻi) and the black backwaters (karuṅkaḻi).

⟨6–8⟩ After depositing (oṭukki) in the temple treasury (śrīpaṇṭāram) one
full kaḻañcu ⟨for⟩ the seven (mā)s, and depositing one mañcāṭi ⟨for⟩
four (mā)s, she took possession (kaikkoṇṭu) of seven (mā)s of land.[2]

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/154).

This edition by Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy
(2024), photos (E. Francis, 2024), ASI estampage and transcript kindly
supplied by the Director of Epigraphy in Mysore (2025).

### Secondary

[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 93, item 154,
appendixes B/1940-1941.

[1] Her name alludes to the famous elephant-carved doorsteps (kaḷiṟu +
paṭi) of the Naṭarāja shrine at Chidambaram. The same place is also used
for the title of the Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭiyār, the second-earliest
theological treatise among the Meykaṇṭa Cāttiraṅkaḷ.

[2] The syntax of this clause is elliptical. It may be understood as
giving two different rates (7 mās = one full kaḻañcu; 4 mās = one
mañcāṭi), but the expected dative markers are absent. Moreover, the
beginning of l. 7 was not clear to us in the three visits we did to the
temple, and the photographs and the estampages do not clearly show the
first akṣaras. Therefore, the exact relation between the amounts of gold
and the area(s) remains unclear; the interpretation offered here is
merely tentative.