Koṭumpāḷūr, Aivarkōyil, fragment, time of Rājakesarivarman, year 15

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00004.

Summary: Mentions Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy).

Version: (be0ce40), last modified (e8ce250).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ s(va)⟨sti⟩ śrī

kō-v-irācak¿o?⟨ē⟩cari-paruma¡k=ku!⟨rk=ku⟩ yāṇṭu pati¡n!⟨ṉ⟩¿a?⟨ai⟩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 by Emmanuel Francis

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

First edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1939-1943. 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.