Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, time of Kulottuṅga Cōḻa, year 10

Authors of digital edition: Renato Dávalos (reda), Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Damaged. Records an endowment of 7 mā of land after purchasing it from the temple itself by Tappili Tāḻviyāḻvi alias Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭi-Naṅkai, a dēvaraḍiyāḷ of the temple for special worship on festival days..

Palaeographic description: No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00040.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ (svasti śrī) kulōttuṅka-(cō)ḻa-tēvar⟨k⟩ku (yā)ṇṭu 10-vatu
⟨2⟩ U(ṭ)ai(y)ār nalla nāyaṉa⟨ṟ⟩ kōyil Āticaṇ⟨ṭe⟩(su)⟨ra⟩-[t]ē(va)r ka-
⟨3⟩ ṉmika(ḷ)⟨ō⟩m Iṉ-ṉāya¡ṉy!ā[ṟ] kōyil tēvaraṭiyāl [ta](p)pil(i)-
⟨4⟩ [t]āḷ(vi)yāḻvi-y-āṉa tiru-k-kaḷiṟṟuppaṭi-naṅkaikk(u I)[ṉ]-(ṉāya)
⟨5⟩ (ṉār tēvatāṉat)tu-[p puṉ]-cēy [ni]lattu vaṇāttūr peruva(ḻikku) karuṅkaḻik(ku)
⟨6⟩ ceṉ⟨ṟu⟩ taṭattē-y viṭṭa nilam Eḻu māvukkum Ivaḷ śrī-paṇṭārat⟨t⟩u Oṭukki Eḻu mā(vu)
⟨7⟩ (kaḻañcē muṟṟu)m (ma)[ñ](c)ā(ṭi)yu nālu māvu⟨m⟩ śrī-(paṇtāra)⟨t⟩tu Oṭukk(i)-
⟨8⟩ [k ko]ṇṭa (nilam E)[ḻu] māvu(ṅ) kaikkoṇṭu Iṉṉ¿ū?yaṉār-t(itta) [**]

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ This is the 10th year of king Kulottuṅga ⟨III⟩

⟨2–6⟩ We, the administrators (tevarkaṉmi) of the Āticaṇḍeśvara shrine in the temple of Lord Nalla Nāyaṉār, have granted to Tappili Tāḷviyāḻvi, alias Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭi¹ Naṅkai, a tēvaraṭiyār of this temple, seven mās of wet-land belonging to the devadāna of this Lord—the plot granted is on the ridge (taṭattē), extending (ceṉ⟨ṟu⟩) to the Vaṇāttūr highway (peruvaḻi) and the black backwaters (karuṅkaḻi).

⟨6–8⟩ After depositing (oṭukki) in the temple treasury (śrīpaṇṭāram) one full kaḻañcu ⟨for⟩ the seven (mā)s, and depositing one mañcāṭi ⟨for⟩ four (mā)s, she took possession (kaikkoṇṭu) of seven (mā)s of land.²

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939-43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/154).

This edition by Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy (2024), photos (E. Francis, 2024), ASI estampage and transcript kindly supplied by the Director of Epigraphy in Mysore (2025).

Secondary

[ARIE] 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 93, item 154, appendixes B/1940-1941.

Notes

1. Her name alludes to the famous elephant-carved doorsteps (kaḷiṟu + paṭi) of the Naṭarāja shrine at Chidambaram. The same place is also used for the title of the Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭiyār, the second-earliest theological treatise among the Meykaṇṭa Cāttiraṅkaḷ.
2. The syntax of this clause is elliptical. It may be understood as giving two different rates (7 mās = one full kaḻañcu; 4 mās = one mañcāṭi), but the expected dative markers are absent. Moreover, the beginning of l. 7 was not clear to us in the three visits we did to the temple, and the photographs and the estampages do not clearly show the first akṣaras. Therefore, the exact relation between the amounts of gold and the area(s) remains unclear; the interpretation offered here is merely tentative.

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Prosperity! Fortune!

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