Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, time of Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, year 10 author of digital edition Renato Dávalos Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00040.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Sale of seven mā of land after purchasing it from the temple by the tēvaraṭiyār Tappili Tāḻviyāḻvi alias Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭi-Naṅkai.

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svasti śrī

kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-tēvarkku yāṇṭu 10-vatu

Uṭaiyār nalla nāyaṉaṟ kōyil Āticaṇṭesura-tēvar ka ṉmikaḷōm Iṉ-ṉāyaṉyṉāṟ kōyil tēvaraṭiyāl tappili tāḷviyāḻvi-y-āṉa tiru-k-kaḷiṟṟuppaṭi-naṅkaikku Iṉ-ṉāya ṉār tēvatāṉattu-p puṉ-cēy nilattu vaṇāttūr peruvaḻikku karuṅkaḻikku ceṉṟu taṭattē-y viṭṭa nilam Eḻu māvukkum

Ivaḷ śrī-paṇṭārattu Oṭukki Eḻu māvu kaḻañcē muṟṟum mañcāṭiyu nālu māvum śrī-paṇtārattu Oṭukki k koṇṭa nilam Eḻu māvuṅ kaikkoṇṭu Iṉṉūāyaṉār-titta

Prosperity! Fortune!

This is the 10th year of king Kulottuṅga III

We, the administrators tevarkaṉmi of the Āticaṇḍeśvara shrine in the temple of Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār, have granted to Tappili Tāḷviyāḻvi, alias TirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭiHer 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. 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 ceṉṟu to the Vaṇāttūr highway peruvaḻi and the black backwaters karuṅkaḻi.

After depositing oṭukki in the temple treasury śrīpaṇṭāram one full kaḻañcu for the seven mās, and depositing one mañcāṭi for four mās, she took possession kaikkoṇṭu of seven mās of land. 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.

Reported in (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).

93 154 B/1940-1941