Āṭutuṟai, Aparādhakṣamēśvara Temple author of digital edition Dorotea Operato European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INStfaSIIv28p0i0034.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Records a resolution of the 98 sub-castes of Left-hand and Right-hand castes to meet to hear complains about royal officials, Brahmins and Veḷḷāḷars.

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ṣavumiya varuṣam· cittirai 10 6

kāveri vaṭa-karai virutarāca-payaṅkara-vaḷa-nāṭṭu meēṟkā nāṭṭu iruṅkoḷappāṭi-p-pāṇṭiya-vaḷa-nāṭṭu-p poṉparappi cūḻnta patiṉ-eṭṭu-p paṟṟil viṭṭa-paṟṟu Ukaḷḷūṟ-kūṟṟattu Ukaḷḷūṟ-paṟṟu kuraṅkāṭiyatuṟai Uṭaiyār kuṟṟam poṟutt’ aruḷiya nāyiṉār  koōyilil tiru-k-kaṭṭaḷaiyil vaḻutalampaṭṭu-Ucāvaṭiyil valaṅkai toṇṇūṟṟ’ eṭṭum Iṭaṅ kai toṇṇūṟṟ’ eṭṭum niṟai-vaṟa niṟaintu kuṟai-vaṟa-k kūṭi iruntu kal-veṭṭiṉa paṭi

Inta maṇṭala ttil Ucāvaṭi-p piṟatāṉi vaṉṉiyar ciīvitakāṟar ṉeṭukkam paṇṇiṉālum

kāṇiyāḷar-āṉa pirāmaṇar veḷḷāḻar ip-paṭi-k-kotta maṉittar Irāca-karattārai-k koṇṭu namakku Oru tāḻvu niṉaittālum

nammilo rkku Iṭaṅ kuṭukkutal koṭcollukutal cannācar paṭṭaiyattai koviṉātaṉ kālāl Iru-pattu-nālu AṭiA detached piece which seems to be a continuation of line 8 and 9 reads i) yum vāla-k ii) vum Intam according to kuṭiyaiyum Aḻittāl Ivaṉai-y-varum y-iṉṟu-poōla kūṭi Iruntu keṭṭu-k-koḷḷa-k kaṭavoōm āka

ṇṭalattukkuḷḷeē y-ātoruttar nāṭṭu-t turoōkam paṇṇukutal kāriyam ceyttal kaṇakku Eḻutukutal eThe rest of the inscription is lost.

ṇeṭukkam Probably read naṭukkam. ṇṭalattukkuḷḷē Probably read maṇṭalattukkuḷḷē.

Prosperity! Fortune!

On the 16th day of the month of Cittirai, in Saumya year.

As stated in the stone inscription, the ninety-eight sub-castes of the Right-hand caste and the ninety-eight sub-castes of the Left-hand caste in Vaḻutalampaṭṭu-ucāvaṭi, having assembled in full without deficiency in the glorious endowed land tiru-kaṭṭalai of the temple of Kuṟṟampoṟuttaruḷiya Nāyiṉār of Kuraṅkāṭiyatuṟai, in Viṭṭapaṟṟu-ukaḷḷūṟ-kūṟṟam, in the eighteen villages that surround Poṉparappi in Iruṅkoḷappāṭipāṇṭiya-vaḷanāṭu, in Mēṟkā-nāṭu, in Virutarācapayaṅkara-vaḷanāṭu, on the northern banks of the Kāveri,

since the ucāvaṭippiṟatāṉis, the vaṉṉiyars, and the cīvitakāṟars in this region have caused us distress,

and since the Brahmanas who own the lands, the Veḷḷāḷars, and men such as these ip-paṭikkotta plan niṉaittālum our degradation, allying with the royal officials irāja-karattārai,

made an agreement so that we should all gather and sit like today and hear the complaints. anyone yātoruttar inside the region behaves and acts as a traitor to the country, writes a report to the assembly,

Date = c.a. 14th-15th century according to .

Reported in (ARIE/1912-1913/C/1913/34).

Edited in (SII 28.34).

This digital edition by Dorotea Operato, based on .

49-51 34 71 C/1913 34