Mēlpāṭi, Cōḻēśvara temple, time of Rājarāja Rājakesarivarman Rājarāja, year 29 author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0017.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata ...

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svasti śrī tiru-makaḷ pōla-p peru-nila-c-celviyun= taṉakkē y-urimai pūṇṭamai maṉa-k-koḷa-k kān=taḷūr-c cālai kalam aṟutt-aruḷi vēṅkai-nāṭuṅ kaṅka-pāṭiyum nuḷampa-pāṭiyun= taṭikai-pāṭiyuṅ kuṭa-malai-nāṭuṅ kollamuṅ kaliṅkamum Eṇ-ṭicai pukaḻ tara v-īḻa-maṇṭalamum iraṭṭa-pāṭi y-ēḻ' arai y-ilakkamun= tiṇ-ṭiṟal veṉṟi-t taṇṭāṟ koṇṭa taṉṉṉ eḻil vaḷar avuūḻi y-ellā yāṇṭun= toḻutakai viḷaṅkum yāṇṭē ceḻiyarai-t tēcu koḷ

śrī-kō-rāja-rāja-rāja-kēsari-varmmar-āṉa śrī-rāja-rāja-devaṟku yāṇṭu 2 10 9-Āvatu

jayaṅ-koṇṭa-cōḻa-maṇṭalattu-p perum-pāṇa-p-pāṭi-t-tū-ñāṭṭu mēṟ-pāṭi-y-āṉa rājāśraya-purattu Āṟṟūr-t tuñciṉa devaṟku-p paḷḷi-paṭai -y-āka Uṭaiyār śrī-rāja-rāja-devar Eṭuppitt-aruḷiṉa tiru-v-aṟiñciīśvarattu mahā-devaṟku veṇkuṉṟa-k-kōṭṭattu maruta-nāṭṭu veḷḷāḷaṉ Aruvā-k kīḻāḷ mutti-kaṇṭaṉ-ēṉ vaitta tiru-nantā-viḷakku Oṉṟiṉukku vaitta cāvā-muūvā-p-pēr-āṭu toṇṇūṟṟ' āṟuṅ kai-k-koṇṭu nicatam Uḻakku ney rāja-kēcariyāl cantirātitta-vaṟ Aṭṭuvatān-ēṉ Irājāśraya-purattu Iṭaiyan Ēṇi keaṅkātiran-ēṉ

maṉakkoḷak maṉakkoḷk

Hail! Prosperity! In the 29th year of the reign of the glorious king Rājarāja-Rājakesarivarman, alias Śrī-Rājarājadeva, who, etc.,The historical introduction of this inscription is identical with that of No. 15; it reads, however, taṭikaipāṭi (l. 4), while Nos. 15 and 16 have taṭīkapāṭi.——I, the cultivator Veḷḷāḷaṉ Aruvā-Kīḻāḷ Muttikaṇṭaṉ of Maruta-nāṭu in Veṇkuṉṟa-kōṭṭam, gave one perpetual lamp to the god Mahādeva of the holy Aṟiñcīśvara temple,——which the lord Śrī-Rājarājadeva had been pleased to build as a resting-place for the king who fell asleep at Āṟṟūr, in Mēṟpāṭi, alias Rājāśrayapuram, a city in Tūñāṭu, a subdivision of Perumpāṇa-pāṭi in Jayaṅkoṇṭa-Cōḻa-maṇṭalam,——and assigned to this lamp ninety-six full-grown ewes, which must neither die nor grow old.Compare Vol. II. p. 375, note 3.

Having received these ewes, I, the shepherd Ēṇi Gaṅgādharaṉ of Rājāśrayapuram, shall pour out daily, as long as the moon and the sun endure, one uḻakku of ghee, measured by the Rājakēsari.

Prosperity! Fortune!

29th year of the glorious king Rājarāja, alias the glorious king Ṟājarāja Rājarājakesarivarman,

who ... [meykkīrtti of Rājarāja I Cōḷa]

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Edited in , with English translation and facsimile (SII 3.17).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on and photos (E. Francis, 2024).

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