Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Parakesarin, year 16

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00009.

Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the northern façade of the sanctuary; 16th regnal year of Kōpparakesarivarman = perhaps Uttamacōḻa (circa 987 A.D.).

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

(kō)[ppara]kēca⟨2⟩ripaṉmaṟkku yāṇṭu 10 6 ⟨3⟩ Āvatu

kuṉṟakkūṟṟattu tēva⟨4⟩tā⟨ṉa⟩m Avaṉikantaṟva-Īśva⟨ra⟩gṛha⟨5⟩ttu ¿mā?⟨ma⟩hādevaṟkku Ittaḷi ⟨6⟩ tēvaṉār makaḷ nakka[.]ai natiri ma⟨7⟩kaḷ nakkaṉ kaṇṭa pirāṭṭi Ittaḷi ⟨8⟩ tēvatāṉam po(ykai)nāṭṭu (Ū)⟨9⟩kaṉkuṭi Apōhanaṅ kiṭanta bhū⟨10⟩miyai kalli macakki kuṭutta (ṇir ṉi)⟨11⟩lam Iraṇṭu pū viḷaiyak kuṭutta nila⟨12⟩m ṉāṉaṅku mā

Iṉṉāṉku māvuṅ ⟨13⟩ koṇṭu Itiṉil Iraṇṭu pūvum ⟨14⟩ viḷainta bhogaṅ koṇṭu O⟨15⟩ru nontā-viḷakku cantrātittava⟨16⟩l Erippōmm ānōm Ittaḷi⟨17⟩p paṭṭ⟨uṭ⟩ai(yōm Ēḻuvōm)

⟨18⟩ Itu panmāheśvara rakṣai <gomutra>

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [ppara] ⬦ ppara SII • This part is no longer legible.

⟨8⟩ (Ū) ⬦ Ū(ra) SII • The first letter of the name of this village, Ūkaṉkuṭi, may be read Ū or Ura, but not Ūra.

Translation by Gillet 2024

Commentary

(1) Parakesari is probably Uttamacōḻa.

(6–7) These two lines were forgotten in the edition of South Indian Inscriptions. They give the name of the donor.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923-1924 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/366).

Edited by Srinivasa Rao 1952 (SII 19.402). Edited and translated in Gillet 2024, based on autopsy.

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V., Dines Chandra Sircar and G.S. Gai. 1967. South-Indian inscriptions. Volume XIX: Inscriptions of Parakesarivarman. South Indian Inscriptions 19. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Page 211, item 402.

[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]. Pages 142–143, item 9.

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 366.

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