Koṭumpāḷūr, Aivarkōyil, time of Rājakesarivarman, year 15

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Mentions Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Version: 2025-11-13 23:30 (5e1d845), last modified 2025-11-01 12:24 (3fb04ec).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ s(va)⟨sti⟩ śrī kō-v-irācak¿o?cari-paruma¡k=ku! yāṇṭu pati¡n!¿a?ñc-āvatu Uṟattūr-⟨k⟩-kūṟṟat⟨Block b⟩[tu] […]

⟨2⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ naṅkaiyār Aṉantam paḻiyili vaḻiyu

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ s(va)⟨sti⟩ • The letter va looks like pa. — ⟨1⟩ -paruma¡k=ku!⟨rk=ku⟩ • It seems that the engraver first wrote kora and, realising his mistake, transformed the ra into ca.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ Fifteenth year of the king Rājakesarivarman.

⟨1⟩ […] [in the] Uṟattūrkkūṟṟam […]

⟨2⟩ Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili … (vaḻiyu)

Commentary

The inscription stops short in line 2 after vaḻiyu and seems to have been left unfinished.

⟨2⟩ Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili ("our unbounded and irreproachable lady"?) is possibly the donor.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939-43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/211).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photographs (E. Francis, 2017).

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1939-43. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu and N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 99, appendixes B/1940-41, item 211.

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