Tārācuram/Darasuram, Airavateśvara temple, labels to Nāyaṉmārs’ frieze
Version: (69e3379), last modified (b80acdf).
Edition
Label (painted) to panel G1
⟨1⟩ […]
Label (painted) to panel N1
⟨1⟩ tirun¡i!la(kaṇṭaṉ)
Label (painted) to panel N2
⟨1⟩ […]
Label (engraved) to panel N3
⟨1⟩ Iḷaiyamāṟaṅkuṭi māṟar katai
Label (painted) to panel N4
⟨1⟩ […]
Label (painted) to panel N5
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N6
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N7
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N8
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N9
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N10
⟨1⟩ […]
Label (painted) to panel N11
⟨1⟩ […]
Label (painted) to panel N12
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N13
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N14
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N15
⟨1⟩ murukāṉ
Label (painted) to panel N16
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (engraved) to panel N17
⟨1⟩ tirunāḷaippōvār
Label (engraved) to panel N18
⟨1⟩ (tirukkuṟipputtoṇṭar)
Label (engraved) to panel N19
⟨1⟩ ce⟨y⟩nallūr piḷḷaiyār katai
Label (painted) to panel N20
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N21
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N22
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N23
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N24
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N25
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (engraved) to panel N26
⟨1⟩ namina¡ṉ!ti Atikaḷ(ār)
Label (engraved) to panel N27
⟨1⟩ Āḷuṭaiya piḷḷaiyār
Label (engraved) to panel N28
⟨1⟩ Eyarkō¡n! kalikkāmāṇṭār
Label (painted) to panel N29
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N30
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N31
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (painted) to panel N32
⟨1⟩ cōmācimāṟaṉār
Label (engraved) to panel N33
⟨1⟩ cākkiyaṉār [***]
Label (painted) to panel N34
⟨1⟩ ciṟappuli Āṇṭār
Label (engraved) to panel N35
⟨1⟩ ciṟuttoṇṭar katai ↝
Label (engraved) to panel N36
⟨1⟩ cēramāṉ perumāḷ katai ௳
Label (engraved) to panel N37
⟨1⟩ kaṇanātāṇṭā⟨r⟩ katai ௳
Label (engraved) to panel N38
⟨1⟩ kūṟṟuvaṉār ↝
Label (engraved) to panel G2
⟨1⟩ poyyātimaiyillāta ‡ pulavar ↝
Label (engraved) to panel N39
⟨1⟩ pukaḻccōḻaṉār
Label (engraved) to panel N40
⟨1⟩ (nara)ciṅka(muṉaiya)raiyar
Label (engraved) to panel N41
⟨1⟩ Atipattar katai
Label (painted) to panel N42
⟨1⟩ ↜ kalikkampāṇṭār katai
Label (painted) to panel N43
⟨1⟩ kaliya¡n!ār
Label (engraved) to panel N44
⟨1⟩ cattiyāṇṭār
Label (painted) to panel N45
⟨1⟩ Aiyyaṭikaḷ kāṭavar kō¡n!ār
Label (engraved) to panel N46
⟨1⟩ kaṇampulāṇṭār
Label (engraved) to panel N47
⟨1⟩ kāriyār
Label (engraved) to panel N48
⟨1⟩ neṭumāṟaṉār
Label (engraved) to panel N49
⟨1⟩ vāyilār
Label (engraved) to panel N50
⟨1⟩ muṉaiyaṭuvar
Label (engraved) to panel N51
⟨1⟩ kalaṟcinka¡n!ār
Label (engraved) to panel N52
⟨1⟩ Iṭaṅkaḻiyāṇṭār
Label (engraved) to panel N53
⟨1⟩ ceruttuṇaiyāṇṭār
Label (engraved) to panel N54
⟨1⟩ pukaḻttuṇaiyār
Label (engraved) to panel N55
⟨1⟩ koḻppuliyāṇṭār ↝
Label (engraved) to panel G3
⟨1⟩ pattarāyppaṇivār
Label (engraved) to panel G4
⟨1⟩ paramaṉaiyē pāṭuvār
Label (painted) to panel G5
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (engraved) to panel G6
⟨1⟩ tiruvārūr piṟantār
Label (engraved) to panel G7
⟨1⟩ mukkālum tirumēṉi t¡i!ṇṭuvār
Label (engraved) to panel G8
⟨1⟩ muḻun¡i!ṟupūciya muṉivar
Label (engraved) to panel G9
⟨1⟩ Appālum Aṭiccarnta Aṭiyār
Label (painted) to panel N56 (Pūcalār)
[1 possibly lost line]
Label (engraved) to panel N57
⟨1⟩ pāṇṭimātēvi
Label (engraved) to panel N58
⟨1⟩ necāṇṭār
Label (engraved) to panel N59
⟨1⟩ kō-ciṅka-p-perumāḷ
Label (engraved) to panel N60
⟨1⟩ tiru-n¡i!lakaṇṭa-p-perum-pāṇaṉār
Label (engraved) to panel N61
⟨1⟩ caṭaiyaṉār
Label (engraved) to panel N62
⟨1⟩ Icaiñāṉiyār
Label (engraved) to panel N63.1
⟨1⟩ Uṭaiya-nampi Eḻuntaruḻukiṟār
Label (engraved) to panel N63.2
⟨1⟩ Āvaṇa-Olai kāṭṭiṉa paṭi
Label (engraved) to panel N63.3
⟨1⟩ Uṭaiya-nampiyai Āṇṭu koṇṭ-aruḷiṉa paṭi
Label (engraved) to panel N63.4
⟨1⟩ Uṭaiya-nampikku Ō¡ll! eṉṟ-aruḷiṉa paṭi ↝
Label (engraved) to panel N63.5
⟨1⟩ Uṭaiya-nampiyai vēṭar vaḻi pāritta v-iṭam
Label (engraved) to panel N63.6
⟨1⟩ tiru-murukaṉ-pūṇṭiyil peṟṟa paṭi ↝
Label (engraved) to panel N63.7
⟨1⟩ Avināciyāṇṭār mutaḷaivāy piḷḷai
Bibliography
Reported in ARIE 1907–08 (ARIE/1907-1908/C/1908/16).
Edited in Marr 1979. Edited counterclockwise and translated in Srinivasan 1987 in two discrete groups, on for engraved labels (a.XV, that is, 43 labels) and the other for painted labels (a.XVI, that is, 8 labels).
This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on previous editions and photos (E. Francis, 2025). The labels are here given in clockwise order following the nomenclature in Marr 1979 (N for Nāyaṉmār, from 1 to 63).
Primary
[S] Srinivasan, P.R. 1987. “Epigraphical study.” In: Darasuram. Epigraphical Study. Étude architecturale. Étude iconographique. Edited by Françoise L’Hernault. Mémoires Archéologiques 16. Paris: EFEO. Pages 30–31, items a.XV-XVI.
Marr, John Ralston. 1979. “The Periya Purāṇam frieze at Tārācuram: Episodes in the life of the Tamil Śaiva saints.” BSOAS 42, pp. 268–89.
Secondary
ARIE 1907–08. G.O. No. 574, 17th July 1908. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1907-1908. Edited by V. Venkayya. No place, 1908. Page 41, appendix C/1908, item 16.
ARIE 1919–20. G.O. No. 985, 31st August 1920. Epigraphy. Annual report ecording, with remarks, the progress report for the year 1919-1920 of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for --, Southern Circle. Recorded with remarks. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. No place, 1920. Pp. 102-107 and pl. II-VI.
Sivaramamurti, C. 1960. The Choḷa temples. New Delhi: ASI. Pages 37–43.
Sivaramamurti, C. 1992. The Choḷa temples. Fifth edition. New Delhi: ASI. Pages 40–46.
L’Hernault, Françoise. 1987. “Étude iconographique.” In: Darasuram. Epigraphical Study. Étude architecturale. Étude iconographique. Edited by Françoise L’Hernault. Mémoires Archéologiques 16. Paris: EFEO. Pages 96–107.
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<div type="textpart" n="16"><head>Label (painted) to panel N15</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>murukāṉ
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<div type="textpart" n="17"><head>Label (painted) to panel N16</head>
<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<div type="textpart" n="18"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N17</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>tirunāḷaippōvār
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<div type="textpart" n="19"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N18</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/><unclear>tirukkuṟipputtoṇṭar</unclear>
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<div type="textpart" n="20"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N19</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>ce<supplied reason="omitted">y</supplied>nallūr piḷḷaiyār katai
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<div type="textpart" n="21"><head>Label (painted) to panel N20</head>
<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<div type="textpart" n="25"><head>Label (painted) to panel N24</head>
<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<lb n="1"/>namina<choice><orig>ṉ</orig><reg>n</reg></choice>ti Atikaḷ<unclear>ār</unclear>
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<lb n="1"/>Āḷuṭaiya piḷḷaiyār
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<lb n="1"/>Eyarkō<choice><orig>n</orig><reg>ṉ</reg></choice> kalikkāmāṇṭār
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<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<div type="textpart" n="31"><head>Label (painted) to panel N30</head>
<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<div type="textpart" n="32"><head>Label (painted) to panel N31</head>
<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
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<div type="textpart" n="33"><head>Label (painted) to panel N32</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>cōmācimāṟaṉār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>cākkiyaṉār <gap reason="illegible" quantity="3" unit="character"/>
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<div type="textpart" n="35"><head>Label (painted) to panel N34</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>ciṟappuli Āṇṭār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>ciṟuttoṇṭar katai <g ref="sym:flourish-taperOut" type="punctuation">.</g>
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<lb n="1"/>poyyātimaiyillāta ‡ pulavar <g ref="sym:flourish-taperOut" type="punctuation">.</g>
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<lb n="1"/>pukaḻccōḻaṉār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/><unclear>nara</unclear>ciṅka<unclear>muṉaiya</unclear>raiyar
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<lb n="1"/>Atipattar katai
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<lb n="1"/><g ref="sym:flourish-taperIn" type="symbol">*</g> kalikkampāṇṭār katai
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>kaliya<choice><orig>n</orig><reg>ṉ</reg></choice>ār
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<div type="textpart" n="46"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N44</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>cattiyāṇṭār
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<div type="textpart" n="47"><head>Label (painted) to panel N45</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Aiyyaṭikaḷ kāṭavar kō<choice><orig>n</orig><reg>ṉ</reg></choice>ār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>kaṇampulāṇṭār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>kāriyār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>neṭumāṟaṉār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>vāyilār
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>muṉaiyaṭuvar
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>kalaṟcinka<choice><orig>n</orig><reg>ṉ</reg></choice>ār
</p>
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<div type="textpart" n="54"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N52</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Iṭaṅkaḻiyāṇṭār
</p>
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<div type="textpart" n="55"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N53</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>ceruttuṇaiyāṇṭār
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<div type="textpart" n="56"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N54</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>pukaḻttuṇaiyār
</p>
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<div type="textpart" n="57"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N55</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>koḻppuliyāṇṭār <g ref="sym:flourish-taperOut" type="punctuation">.</g>
</p>
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<p>
<lb n="1"/>pattarāyppaṇivār
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<div type="textpart" n="59"><head>Label (engraved) to panel G4</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>paramaṉaiyē pāṭuvār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="60"><head>Label (painted) to panel G5</head>
<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="61"><head>Label (engraved) to panel G6</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>tiruvārūr piṟantār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="62"><head>Label (engraved) to panel G7</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>mukkālum tirumēṉi t<choice><orig>i</orig><reg>ī</reg></choice>ṇṭuvār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="63"><head>Label (engraved) to panel G8</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>muḻun<choice><orig>i</orig><reg>ī</reg></choice>ṟupūciya muṉivar
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="64"><head>Label (engraved) to panel G9</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Appālum Aṭiccarnta Aṭiyār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="65"><head>Label (painted) to panel N56 (Pūcalār)</head>
<p>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="66"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N57</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>pāṇṭimātēvi
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="67"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N58</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>necāṇṭār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="68"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N59</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>kō-ciṅka-p-perumāḷ
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="69"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N60</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>tiru-n<choice><orig>i</orig><reg>ī</reg></choice>lakaṇṭa-p-perum-pāṇaṉār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="70"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N61</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>caṭaiyaṉār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="71"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N62</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Icaiñāṉiyār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="72"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N63.1</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Uṭaiya-nampi Eḻuntaruḻukiṟār
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="73"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N63.2</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Āvaṇa-Olai kāṭṭiṉa paṭi
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="74"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N63.3</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Uṭaiya-nampiyai Āṇṭu koṇṭ-aruḷiṉa paṭi
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="75"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N63.4</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Uṭaiya-nampikku Ō<choice><orig>ll</orig><reg>l</reg></choice> eṉṟ-aruḷiṉa paṭi <g ref="sym:flourish-taperOut" type="symbol">*</g>
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="76"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N63.5</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Uṭaiya-nampiyai vēṭar vaḻi pāritta v-iṭam
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="77"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N63.6</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>tiru-murukaṉ-pūṇṭiyil peṟṟa paṭi <g ref="sym:flourish-taperOut" type="symbol">*</g>
</p>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="78"><head>Label (engraved) to panel N63.7</head>
<p>
<lb n="1"/>Avināciyāṇṭār mutaḷaivāy piḷḷai
</p>
</div>
</div>
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<p>The Nāyaṉmārs’ frieze comprised 78 panels, as described in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Marr1979_01"/></bibl>: 62 panels for 62 different Nāyaṉmārs (N1 to N62), 7 panels for Cuntarar (N63.1 to N63.7), 9 panels for groups of saints (G1 to G9). They are distributed clockwise, from eastern edge of southern base of the <foreign>maṇḍapa</foreign> up to the eastern edge of northern base of the <foreign>maṇḍapa</foreign>, as follows: G1, N1-N38, G2, N39-N55, G3-G9, N56-N62, N63.1-N63.7. Most of the Nāyaṉmārs' panels are labelled, with engraved and/or red-painted labels.</p>
<p>The palaeography of the engraved and painted labels appears to be similar. It is possible that all panels were intended to be labelled and first received a painted label to be converted into an engraved label. The conversion from painted to engraved labels was started from the eastern edge of northern base of the <foreign>maṇḍapa</foreign> with the panels concerning Cuntarar and, for some reasons, not completed up to the eastern edge of southern base of the <foreign>maṇḍapa</foreign>. All the 78 panels are thus represented in the above edition even though presently no trace of painted label is visible.</p>
<p>As for the existing painted labels, it is possible that they have been reproduced exactly in the course of the past centuries. Note that some engraved labels have also been painted, that is, the engraved letters have been enhanced with paintings.<note>The label for panel N17 is peculiar in that the painted label starts on the left of the shallowly engraved label.</note> This might explain why some engraved labels have been wrongly taken for painted labels only.<note>For instance, the labels for panels N3, N19 and N26 are engraved, not only painted, <hi rend="italic">pace</hi> <bibl><ptr target="bib:Marr1979_01"/></bibl>.</note> Some red-painted labels seem to have escaped attention so far (for instance, N1 and N15) and might be exact reproductions of earlier painted labels or additions.</p>
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<p>Reported in <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1907-1908"/></bibl> (ARIE/1907-1908/C/1908/16).</p>
<p>Edited in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Marr1979_01"/></bibl>. Edited counterclockwise and translated in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Srinivasan1987_01"/></bibl> in two discrete groups, on for engraved labels (a.XV, that is, 43 labels) and the other for painted labels (a.XVI, that is, 8 labels).</p>
<p>This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on previous editions and photos (E. Francis, 2025). The labels are here given in clockwise order following the nomenclature in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Marr1979_01"/></bibl> (N for Nāyaṉmār, from 1 to 63).</p>
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Commentary
The Nāyaṉmārs’ frieze comprised 78 panels, as described in Marr 1979: 62 panels for 62 different Nāyaṉmārs (N1 to N62), 7 panels for Cuntarar (N63.1 to N63.7), 9 panels for groups of saints (G1 to G9). They are distributed clockwise, from eastern edge of southern base of the maṇḍapa up to the eastern edge of northern base of the maṇḍapa, as follows: G1, N1-N38, G2, N39-N55, G3-G9, N56-N62, N63.1-N63.7. Most of the Nāyaṉmārs’ panels are labelled, with engraved and/or red-painted labels.
The palaeography of the engraved and painted labels appears to be similar. It is possible that all panels were intended to be labelled and first received a painted label to be converted into an engraved label. The conversion from painted to engraved labels was started from the eastern edge of northern base of the maṇḍapa with the panels concerning Cuntarar and, for some reasons, not completed up to the eastern edge of southern base of the maṇḍapa. All the 78 panels are thus represented in the above edition even though presently no trace of painted label is visible.
As for the existing painted labels, it is possible that they have been reproduced exactly in the course of the past centuries. Note that some engraved labels have also been painted, that is, the engraved letters have been enhanced with paintings.1 This might explain why some engraved labels have been wrongly taken for painted labels only.2 Some red-painted labels seem to have escaped attention so far (for instance, N1 and N15) and might be exact reproductions of earlier painted labels or additions.