# Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, no king, no year

Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00049

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00049.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

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

Records an endowment of land at […] Vindalūr, a suburb of Pāṇṭapuram in
Ālāṟṟūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Malāṭu, alias Jananātha-[vaḷanāṭu], for
a perpetual lamp in the temple at Na[llūr] which is stated to be in the
same kūṟṟam, by Māṇikkanāyaṉ Gangayarāyaṉ, son of Cempōti
Villa-vataraiyar of Paḻampaṭṭiṉam in Paṭṭiṉa-nāṭu, a subdivision of
Śembūr-kōṭṭam

## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī […]

⟨2⟩ vicuvā-varuṣattu malāt-ākiya [janaṉāta]⟨3⟩-vaḷanāṭṭu
Ā[l]aṟṟūr-kūṟṟattu na[llūr] […] ⟨4⟩ [U](ṭ)ai(y)ār na[l]la nāyaṉār
kōy[il] […] ⟨5⟩ […] ttu […] ⟨6⟩ paḻam-paṭṭiṉattu c[e]mpōti
villa[vatavaraiyar] ⟨7⟩ […] māṇikkaṉāyaṉ kaṅkaya […] ⟨8⟩ ṉāyaṉār
tiru-muṉpē nān vaitta tiru-nontā-viḷa⟨9⟩kku Oṉṟum
ca¿tre?⟨ntrā⟩[di]tya-varaiyum Ahorā{s}tramum ⟨10⟩ Erivat’ āka v-iṭṭa
nila[m] āvatu

malāṭ-ākiya janaṉāta⟨11⟩-vaḷaṉāṭṭu Ālāṟṟ[ū](r)-kūṟṟattu p[ā](ṇ)ṭapura-p
pa ⟨12⟩ [1 lost line] ⟨13⟩ […] villavarāyarum [m]utaliyar ṉāyaṉ ⟨14⟩
naraci[ṅ]ka-tēvarum Āṉai-vīra-r[ā](ya)rum cellaṉ ⟨15⟩ […] ṉum pakkal
(nāṉ) koṇṭa (kācu) ⟨16⟩ [1 lost line]⟨17⟩vār (10) […] ⟨18⟩ vu Āka taṭi
Iraṇṭum tiru-ṉāmattu-k-kāṇi Iṟai-(y-i)⟨19⟩li Āka Utakam paṇṇi
tiru-c-cūla-t-tāpaṇamum pa[ṇ]⟨20⟩ṇi-k koṇṭu * * m pa(c)āṉamum
Iru-pūvu[m] [2+] ⟨21⟩ [1 lost line] ⟨22⟩ [2+] viḷakku Oṉṟum
(ca)n(ti)[rātitta-va]rai [1+] Ahorā⟨23⟩tramum Erivat’ āka kallilum
cempilum veṭṭi-k⟨24⟩koḷḷum paṭikku koppaṇa Uṭaiyar nirupaṅ kuṭu⟨25⟩tta
[1+](ṉ) vukku Im-mariyāti tāḻvaṟa naṭatti koḷḷavum

⟨26⟩ […] [paṇṇiṉavarkaḷ kaṅkai-k-karaiyiṟ kurāṟ]‡pacuvai koṉṟa pāvattai
Aṉupavi(t)[tu kaṭava⟨27⟩rkaḷ]

[panmāheśvara-rakṣai]

## Apparatus

⟨8⟩ ... • Line presently (2024) lost/illegible. Text after ASI
trasncript.

⟨26-27⟩ ... • Most of these 2 lines presently (2024) lost/illegible.
Text after ASI trasncript.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/163).

### 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 94, item 163,
appendixes B/1940-1941.