Mēlappaḻuvūr, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Parakesarivarman, year 25

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMelKil00017.

Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the southern façade of the sanctuary (8th line continues on the pilaster and the 9th line goes through the pilaster and on the next wall section); 25th regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 932 A.D.).

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Language: Tamil.

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

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

mati⟨2⟩rai koṇṭa kōparakēcaripa⟨3⟩ṉmakki yāṇṭu 2 10 5 ⟨4⟩ Āvatu

Uttamataranica⟨5⟩tu⟨r⟩vvetimaṅkalattu ⟨6⟩ sabh¿a?⟨ai⟩yōm Ittaḷi ta⟨7⟩ṇḍiśvarariṭai koṇṭu kaṭa⟨8⟩va t¡i!⟨ī⟩ppokku cempoṉ ‡ Oṉpatiṉ ⟨9⟩ kaḻañcu

Ippoṉṉāl pa‡licai nicati ‡ Uḻakku ney Aṭṭuvōmm ānōm Uttama⟨10⟩taranisabh¿a?⟨ai⟩yōm ⁋

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ sabh¿a?⟨ai⟩yōm ⬦ sabhaiyōm VG.

Translation by Gillet 2024

Fortune! Prosperity! This is the 25th year of Kōpparakesarivarman who has taken Madurai. We of the Sabhā (sabhaiyōm) of Uttamataranic-caturvvedimaṅgalam, from Caṇḍeśvara (taṇḍīśvarar-iṭai) of this temple (ittaḷi), have to take (koṇṭu kaṭava) nine (oṉpatiṉ) kaḻañcus of pure (tī-pokku, lit. which entered fire) fine gold (cem-poṉ); with the interests (palicai) of this gold (ippoṉṉāl), we will supply (aṭṭuvōmm ānōm) one uḻakku of ghee (ney) everyday (nicati), we of the Sabhā of Uttamatarani.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1923-1924 (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/359).

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

[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 150–151, item 17.

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 TBC, appendix C/1924, item 359.

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