Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 6

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00010.

Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the northern façade of the sanctuary, on the two consecutive wall sections on the eastern side of the niche of Brahmā; 6th regnal year of Kōvirājakesarivarman = king difficult to identify; identified with Gaṇḍarāditya by Balasubrahmanyam (1963: 62–63) and Balambal (1978: 183); identified with Rājarāja I in SII; inscription similar to #34.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: 2025-06-01 14:42 (0c6f29a), last modified 2025-06-01 13:43 (a9f31c6).

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kōvirāca[kēsaripan]akku yānṭu 6-Āvatu

kunṟakku⟨2⟩ṟṟattu devatānam Avanikantaṟppa-Īśvaragṛhattu tenvāyi⟨l⟩ śrī⟨3⟩kōyil mahādevaṟku It(t)aḷi tēvaṉār makaḷār piḷḷai cēramāṉār (d)e⟨4⟩viyār ṉakkaṉ Akkāra naṅkaiyār cantrādittavaṟ Iravum pakalum Eri (vai)⟨5⟩tta ṉondā-viḷakku Onṟiṉukku paṭi Uḻakkiṉāl nicatam Uḻakku ṉeyy eriya ⟨6⟩ vaitta poṉ 10 2-m paṉṉiru kaḻañcu Ivviḷakk’ eriya vaitta (ti)rā viḷakk’ o⟨7⟩[ṉṟu] ṉirai 2 100 15 Iruppu nā‡rāyam U‡(ḷ)paṭa ce(ruvi)ṭaiyāl 2 100 10 5

Itu pa⟨8⟩nmāyeśvara rakṣai

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [kesaripan] ⬦ kesaripan SR • This part is no longer legible.

⟨7⟩ [ṉṟu] ⬦ ṉṟu SR • This part is no longer legible.

Translation by Gillet 2024

Commentary

(1) Rājakesarin is a king difficult to identify; identified with Gaṇḍarāditya by Balasubrahmanyam (1963: 62–63) and Balambal (1978: 183); identified with Rājarāja I in SII.

(1) The inscription is engraved over two consecutive wall sections.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923-1924 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/364).

Edited by Srinivasa Rao 1952 (SII 13.153). Edited and translated in Gillet 2024, based on autopsy.

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

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. Page 81, item 153.

[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 143–144, item 10.

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 364.

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