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

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00005.

Summary: 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.).

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Language: Tamil.

Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).

Version: (0c6f29a), last modified (a9f31c6).

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

Apparatus

Translation by Gillet 2024

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.