# Āvuṭaiyārkōyil, Ātmanāthasvāmi temple, time of Kulaśekhara, year [14]

Renato Dávalos, Margherita Trento, G. Vijayavenugopal and Emmanuel
Francis

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos, Margherita Trento, G.
Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00712

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00712.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-15 15:59 (9615181), last modified 2026-10-15 16:31
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## Summary

Built in. Seems to record a provision of rights to cultivate ⟨kāraṇmai⟩
for the recitation of the tiruvācakam in front of the image of
Tiruvātavūr Mutaliyār. This record seems to provide what may be the
earliest inscriptional attestation of the work Tiruvācakam.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [śrī]maṟk[ki](ttikku mēl)

śrī-kō-māṟa-[paṉmar-ā](ṉa) tripuva(ṉa)[ccakkarava]ttikaḷ
[śrī-ku]la-cēkara-tēvarkku yāṇṭu [patiṉāl-āvatu] kumpa-nāyaṟṟu pūrva-p
pa(kṣa)ttu [5+]

⟨2⟩ […] [brahmade]śan ta¡n!⟨ṉ⟩(i)⟨yūr ti⟩rup⟨pe⟩runtu(rai)-y-āṉa-(p
pavi)tt(i)ra-⟨mā⟩ṇ(i)kka-¿ś?⟨c⟩atu⟨r⟩vēt(i)maṅkalattu Āḷuṭaiya-nāyaṉār
kaṉm(i)kaḷukku k¿i?⟨ī⟩ḻ-kūṟṟu mañcakk-uṭaiyāṉ Uyyavantāṉ tirune

⟨3⟩ […] ai [6+] [u]ttama kālattil tiruvantikkāppu y-eṭuttāl tiruvaṭi
viḷa⟨k⟩k¡i!⟨u⟩ Amutu ce¡v!⟨y⟩taruḷa y-eṉ pērāl kaṭṭiṉa t(o)ṇṭ(ai)māṉ
cantikku Amutupaṭi cāttuppaṭi Uḷḷi⟨ṭṭa⟩ […]

⟨4⟩ […] lil [tiru]vātavūr mutaliyārai y-eṉ pi⟨ṟa⟩nta nāḷ
māta-v-āca(ṟu)ti y-avv¡a!⟨i⟩t⟨ta⟩ttu nāḷ y-eḻuntaruḷuvikkavum tirumuṉpu
tiruvācakam ōta niccayitta nimantattukkum nāṉ kārāṇ⟨m⟩ai […]

⟨5⟩ […] lē kārāṇmai y-āka-k kuṭutt[eṉ] y-ivvūril v¡i!⟨ī⟩ramaṅkalattil
n[ā]yaṉār v¡i!⟨ī⟩racekara y-¡i!⟨ī⟩śvaram uṭaiyaṉārku payir p¿a?⟨ā⟩rtta
nilattukku muṉpil āṇṭukaḷ kaṭamai y-iṟukkum paṭi (ka)[…]

⟨6⟩ [1 lost line]

⟨7⟩ […] ⟨kallilum cempi⟩(lu)m veṭṭi-k-koḷvat’ ākavum

Ippaṭi cammatittu piṭipāṭu paṇṇi-k kuṭuttē[ṉ] Āḷuṭaiya nāyaṉārkku
ka[ṭa]m[ai]kaḷukku-t t[oṇṭai]māṉ

Ippaṭikku Ivai ⟨8⟩ […] ku-p pa(c)cai viṉiyōkam eṉṟu vayyūr maṅkalattil
nāṅ k(ai)koṇṭu potumavai y-uṇṭākilun toṇṭaimān cantikku Iṟaiyili y-āka
cantirātittavaṟ celvatāka y-iṟai ⟨9⟩ […]

Ippaṭikku Ivai mātavarāyaṉ Eḻuttu ௳

poṉakaṉ civakki Eḻuttu ௳

Ippaṭikku-c civa-tēva-pāṭṭaṉ Eḻuttu ௳

Ippaṭikku Ivai cī-māṟaṉ Eḻuttu ௳

[Ippaṭikku] kumaṇarāyaṉ Eḻuttu [௳]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pa(kṣa)ttu [5+] • Reading after ASI transcript: pa(kṣa)ttu — ⟨1⟩
[patiṉāl-āvatu] ⬦ patiṉā⟨2⟩lāvatu I.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 2017-18 (ARIE/2017-2018/B/2017-2018/422).

This edition by Renato Dávalos, Margherita Trento, and G.
Vijayavenugopal based on autopsy, photographs (N. Ramaswamy, R. Dávalos;
M. Trento), and transcripts under the copyright of ASI, kindly supplied
by the Director of Epigraphy, Mysore.

### Primary

[I] Irācu, Ce. [2008] 2008. Aṟantāṅki toṇṭaimāṉkaḷ. First. Ceṉṉai:
Ulakat tamiḻārāycci niṟuvaṉam / International institute of Tamil
studies. Page 51.

### Secondary

ARIE 2017-18. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2017-18. Edited by
K. Munirathnam. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2018. Page
100, item 422.