Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, no year, no king
Version: (1bab47a), last modified (1bab47a).
Edition
⟨1⟩ [svasti śrī] [nallū]-
⟨2⟩ r na(l)[la]-(nāya)ṉāṟku
⟨3⟩ A(r)ccana-pōkam-āka dha(n)[ma]-pu-
⟨4⟩ ttira¡n! v-iṭṭa ni(lam) nal(lūr na)[ṟ]-
⟨5⟩ pāṟk’ el(l)ai (cu)ṟṟu⟨m⟩ mēṭu-
⟨6⟩ [m] (nava-k-kiraka-k kuḷam) [O¡n!patum A]-
⟨7⟩ [kappaṭi nilam munnūṟṟ’ aṟu-patiṟṟu vē]-
⟨8⟩ liyum n vaṭa-v-āṟṟaṅkarai-t tiru-nan=tā-
⟨9⟩ ṉam Ai-vēliyum k¿k?ccuva-k-kuṭi [ni]-
⟨10⟩ lam Ai-vēliyum Āka na(lla)-n[ā]-
⟨11⟩ ya(nāṟku) [v-iṭṭa nilam muṉṉū]-
⟨12⟩ ṟ’ eḻu patiṟṟu vēli I[tu panmā]-
⟨13⟩ heśvara-rakṣai ↝
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī nallūr • Reading after ASI transcript.
⟨3⟩ pōka • Reading after ASI transcript. — ⟨3⟩ dha(n)[ma]-pu • Reading after ASI transcript.
⟨6⟩ m navagrāka-k kuḷam Onpatum A • Reading after ASI transcript.
⟨7⟩ kappaṭi nilam munnūṟṟ’ aṟu-patiṟṟu vē • Reading after ASI transcript.
⟨11⟩ v-iṭṭa nilam muṉṉūṟ • Reading after ASI transcript.
Translation
⟨1⟩ Hail! Prosperity!
⟨1–4⟩ ⟨I⟩, Dhanmaputtiraṉ, have given the land to the Lord Nalla-Nāyaṉar of Nallūr the ⟨following⟩ endowment to cover the requierements of temple worship (arccana-bhoga):
360 vēlis including the raised mound (mēṭum) surrounding the four boundaries of Nallūr and the nine ponds for the Navagrahas (navakkiraka kuḷam oṉpatum),
5 vēlis of land for the sacred garden on the northern bank of the river, and
5 vēlis of land from the village Kāccuvakuṭi
⟨10–12⟩ The land amounting to 370 vēlis of land have been given to the Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār.
⟨12–13⟩ This is under the protection of the paṉmaheśvaras.
Bibliography
Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/147).
This edition by Renato Davalos and Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on photos (E. Francis, 2024).
ASI transcript consulted in Mysore by Renato Dávalos (September 2025) with the kind permission of the Director of Epigraphy.
Secondary
ARIE 1939–43. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu and N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 92, item 147, appendixes B/1940-1941.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erc-dharma/project-documentation/master/schema/latest/DHARMA_Schema.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erc-dharma/project-documentation/master/schema/latest/DHARMA_Schema.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<?xml-model href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erc-dharma/project-documentation/master/schema/latest/DHARMA_SQF.sch" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<?xml-model href="https://epidoc.stoa.org/schema/latest/tei-epidoc.rng" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="https://epidoc.stoa.org/schema/latest/tei-epidoc.rng" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="eng">
<teiHeader>
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, no year, no king</title>
<respStmt>
<resp>author of digital edition</resp>
<persName ref="part:reda">
<forename>Renato</forename>
<surname>Dávalos</surname>
</persName>
<persName ref="part:emfr">
<forename>Emmanuel</forename>
<surname>Francis</surname>
</persName>
</respStmt>
</titleStmt>
<publicationStmt>
<authority>DHARMA</authority>
<pubPlace>Paris</pubPlace>
<idno type="filename">DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00033</idno>
<availability>
<licence target="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported
Licence. To view a copy of the licence, visit
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to
Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View,
California, 94041, USA.</p>
<p>Copyright (c) 2019-2025 by Emmanuel Francis & Vincent Tournier.</p>
</licence>
</availability>
<date from="2019" to="2025">2019-2025</date>
</publicationStmt>
<sourceDesc>
<msDesc>
<msIdentifier>
<repository>DHARMAbase</repository>
<idno/>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<summary>Seems to be the continuation of <ref target="DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00031.xml"/> and <ref target="DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00032.xml"/>. The donor's name, Dharmaputtiraṉ, may be another alias for Kāṭavarāyaṉ. This record would therefore summarise the other two endowments, which was originally intended for sacred services and food offerings, to include the expenses of temple worship <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>arccana-bhoga</foreign></supplied>.</summary>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<handDesc>
<p>No distinction between <foreign>e</foreign> and <foreign>ē</foreign>, <foreign>o</foreign> and <foreign>ō</foreign>.</p>
</handDesc>
</physDesc>
</msDesc>
</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>
<encodingDesc>
<projectDesc>
<p>The project DHARMA has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC)
under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant
agreement no 809994).</p>
</projectDesc>
<schemaRef type="guide" key="EGDv01" url="https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02888186"/>
<!-- UPDATE the link once the release is made official -->
<listPrefixDef>
<prefixDef ident="bib" matchPattern="([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+)" replacementPattern="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1633743/erc-dharma/items/tag/$1">
<p>Public URIs with the prefix bib to point to a Zotero Group Library named
ERC-DHARMA whose data are open to the public.</p>
</prefixDef>
<prefixDef ident="part" matchPattern="([a-z]+)" replacementPattern="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erc-dharma/project-documentation/master/DHARMA_IdListMembers.xml#$1">
<p>Internal URIs using the part prefix to point to person elements in the
<ref>DHARMA_IdListMembers.xml</ref> file.</p>
</prefixDef>
</listPrefixDef>
</encodingDesc>
<revisionDesc>
<change who="part:reda" when="2024-10-28">Creation of the file</change>
</revisionDesc>
</teiHeader>
<text xml:space="preserve">
<body>
<div type="edition" xml:lang="tam-Latn" rendition="class:tamil maturity:83215">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost"><hi rend="grantha">svasti śrī</hi></supplied>
</ab>
<p>
<supplied reason="lost">nallū</supplied>
<lb n="2" break="no"/>r na<unclear>l</unclear><supplied reason="lost">la</supplied>-<unclear>nāya</unclear>ṉāṟku
<lb n="3"/>A<hi rend="grantha"><unclear>r</unclear>cca</hi>na-<hi rend="grantha">pōka</hi>m-āka <hi rend="grantha">dha</hi><unclear>n</unclear><hi rend="grantha"><supplied reason="lost">ma</supplied></hi>-pu
<lb n="4" break="no"/>ttira<choice><orig>n</orig><reg>ṉ</reg></choice> v-iṭṭa ni<unclear>lam</unclear>
</p>
<p>
<list>
<item>
nal<unclear>lūr na</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ṟ</supplied>
<lb n="5" break="no"/>pāṟk’ el<unclear>l</unclear>ai <unclear>cu</unclear>ṟṟu<supplied reason="subaudible">m</supplied> mēṭu
<lb n="6" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">m</supplied> <unclear>nava-k-kiraka-k kuḷam</unclear> <supplied reason="lost">O<choice><orig>n</orig><reg>ṉ</reg></choice>patum A</supplied>
<lb n="7" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">kappaṭi nilam munnūṟṟ’ aṟu-patiṟṟu vē</supplied>
<lb n="8" break="no"/>liyum n
</item>
<item>
vaṭa-v-āṟṟaṅkarai-t tiru-nan=tā
<lb n="9" break="no"/>ṉam Ai-vēliyum
</item>
<item>k<choice><sic>k</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>ccuva-k-kuṭi <supplied reason="lost">ni</supplied>
<lb n="10" break="no"/>lam Ai-vēliyum</item>
</list>
Āka na<unclear>lla</unclear>-n<supplied reason="lost">ā</supplied>
<lb n="11" break="no"/>ya<unclear>nāṟku</unclear> <supplied reason="lost">v-iṭṭa nilam muṉṉū</supplied>
<lb n="12" break="no"/>ṟ' eḻu patiṟṟu vēli
</p>
<p>
I<supplied reason="lost">tu pa<hi rend="grantha">nmā</hi></supplied>
<lb n="13" break="no"/><hi rend="grantha">heśvara-rakṣai</hi> <g ref="sym:flourish-taperOut" type="punctuation">.</g>
</p>
</div>
<div type="apparatus">
<listApp>
<app loc="1">
<lem><hi rend="grantha">svasti śrī nallūr</hi></lem>
<note>Reading after ASI transcript.</note>
</app>
<app loc="3">
<lem>pōka</lem>
<note>Reading after ASI transcript.</note>
</app>
<app loc="3">
<lem><hi rend="grantha">dha</hi><unclear>n</unclear><hi rend="grantha"><supplied reason="lost">ma</supplied></hi>-pu</lem>
<note>Reading after ASI transcript.</note>
</app>
<app loc="6">
<lem>m nava<hi rend="grantha">gr</hi>āka-k kuḷam Onpatum A</lem>
<note>Reading after ASI transcript.</note>
</app>
<app loc="7">
<lem>kappaṭi nilam munnūṟṟ’ aṟu-patiṟṟu vē</lem>
<note>Reading after ASI transcript.</note>
</app>
<app loc="11">
<lem>v-iṭṭa nilam muṉṉūṟ</lem>
<note>Reading after ASI transcript.</note>
</app>
</listApp>
</div>
<div type="translation" resp="part:reda part:emfr">
<p n="1">
Hail! Prosperity!
</p>
<p n="1-4">
<supplied reason="subaudible">I</supplied>, Dhanmaputtiraṉ, have given the land to the Lord Nalla-Nāyaṉar of Nallūr the <supplied reason="subaudible">following</supplied> endowment to cover the requierements of temple worship <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>arccana-bhoga</foreign></supplied>:
</p>
<p>
<list>
<item>360 <foreign>vēli</foreign>s including the raised mound <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>mēṭum</foreign></supplied> surrounding the four boundaries of Nallūr and the nine ponds for the Navagrahas <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>navakkiraka kuḷam oṉpatum</foreign></supplied>,</item>
<item>5 <foreign>vēli</foreign>s of land for the sacred garden on the northern bank of the river, and </item>
<item>5 <foreign>vēli</foreign>s of land from the village Kāccuvakuṭi</item>
</list>
</p>
<p n="10-12">
The land amounting to 370 <foreign>vēli</foreign>s of land have been given to the Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār.
</p>
<p n="12-13">
This is under the protection of the <foreign>paṉmaheśvara</foreign>s.
</p>
</div>
<div type="commentary">
<p>
This record continues <ref target="DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00031.xml"/>. Given that the present inscription is carved after this early record and <ref target="DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00032.xml"/> and the three of them seem to be part of the same administrative dossier, this one may be the summary of the previous ones.
</p>
</div>
<div type="bibliography">
<p>Reported in <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1939-1943"/></bibl> (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/147).</p>
<p>This edition by Renato Davalos and Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on photos (E. Francis, 2024).</p>
<p>ASI transcript consulted in Mysore by Renato Dávalos (September 2025) with the kind permission of the Director of Epigraphy.</p>
<!--<listBibl type="primary">
</listBibl>-->
<listBibl type="secondary">
<bibl>
<ptr target="bib:ARIE1939-1943"/>
<citedRange unit="page">92</citedRange>
<citedRange unit="item">147</citedRange>
<citedRange unit="appendix">B/1940-1941</citedRange>
</bibl>
</listBibl>
</div>
</body>
</text>
</TEI>
Commentary
This record continues INSTamilNadu00031. Given that the present inscription is carved after this early record and INSTamilNadu00032 and the three of them seem to be part of the same administrative dossier, this one may be the summary of the previous ones.