Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 10

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet (vagi), Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa, northern face.

AIM, southern shrine; middle inscription on the central wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade; 10th regnal year of Kōrājakesarivarman = probably Sundaracōḻa (circa 967 A.D.).

Language: Tamil (tam).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī kō-Irācakēcarivanmaṟku yāṇṭu 10-Āvatu paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar

⟨2⟩ maṟavaṉ kaṇṭaṉār Avanikandha⟨r⟩vvapurattu maṉṟupāṭu Eppērpaṭṭatu paṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭai nan=tipuramaṟṟ’ ātiyē koḷka Eṉṟ’ aruḷicceyya kalliṉ mēl ve-

⟨4⟩ ṭṭikkoḷḷap peṟṟār Avanikandha⟨r⟩vvapurattu nakarattār ⁋

Translation by Gillet 2024

Fortune! Prosperity! This is the 10th year of Kōrājakesarivarman. When Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Maṟavaṉ Kaṇṭaṉār graciously ordered (lit. having said, graciously made, eṉṟu-aruḷic-ceyya): “take (koḷka) the tax collection (maṉṟupāṭu) of whatever name (eppērppaṭṭatu) of Avanikandhavvapuram, the old (paṇṭai) Nantipuram being otherwise (maṟṟu) the model (ātiyē)”, the Nagarattārs of Avanikandhavvapuram obtained (peṟṟār) to get [it] engraved (veṭṭi-koḷḷa) on stone (kalliṉ mēl).

Commentary

⟨1⟩ Rājakesarin is probably Sundaracōḻa, during whose reign the Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Maṟavaṉ Kaṇṭaṉār was ruling over Paḻuvūr.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923-1924 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/365).

Edited in Srinivasa Rao 1952 (SII 13.208). Edited and translated in Gillet 2024, based on autopsy and photographs (by Valérie Gillet, 2016-2018).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1952. South-Indian inscriptions (texts) (with introductory notes in English). Volume XIII: The Cholas. South Indian Inscriptions 13. Madras: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 113, item 208.

[VG] Gillet, Valérie. 2024. Minor Majesties: The Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyars and their South Indian Kingdom of Paḻuvūr, 9th-11th centuries A.D. New York: Oxford University Press. [URL]. Page 139, item 5.

Secondary

ARIE 1923-1924. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1924. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Madras: Government Press, 1925. Page 73, appendix C/1924, item 365.

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