Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 12

Editor: Valérie Gillet.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00007.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

Version: (3c07ce5), last modified (9c2f25b).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

ko Irāja(ca)⟨2⟩ripaṉmaṟku yāṇṭu 10 2Āvatu

kuṉṟakkūṟ⟨3⟩ṟattu devadāṉam Avanikandha(r)vva Īśvaragṛhattu mahā⟨4⟩devarkku Ivvūr mallan ātittaṉ kuḷam Apohanaṅ ⟨5⟩ kiṭanta bhumiyai pa¿ḻa?⟨ḻu⟩vūrc caṅkarappāṭi mallaṉ caṅ⟨6⟩karaṉ Ikkuḷamuṅ kalli kaḻanayuṅ kalli vaitta viḷa⟨7⟩kku Oṉṟu Ivviḷakku Oṉṟum Ikkuḷattiṉ poka(ṅ) [A]⟨8⟩(ka)vēriyum puṟavēriyil [kaḻaniyaḷ] pōkaṅ koṇṭu ⟨9⟩ cantrātittavat Iravum paka(lum) Oru noṉtāviḷakku Eri⟨10⟩ppōmānōm Ittaḷi paṭṭuṭaiyōm Eḻuvō⟨11⟩m Ikkuḷattiṉ minaṭai poḷ(ḷak) kuḷattilē kalluvatā⟨12⟩kavum Itu paṉmāheśvara rakṣai ||

Apparatus

⟨8⟩ [kaḻaniyaḷ]kaḻaniyaḷ SR • This part is no longer legible.

Translation by Valérie Gillet

Commentary

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

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1923-1924/C/1924/371 Venkoba Rao 1925; edited for the first time in SII 13, no. 227 Srinivasa Rao 1952; present edition by Valérie Gillet from autopsy and photographs.

Primary

[SR] 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. Pages 122–123, item 227.

Secondary

Venkoba Rao, G. 1925. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1924. Madras: Government Press. Page 73, appendix C/1924, item 371.