Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, no king, no year
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Edition
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī It-tiru-maṇṭapam Irā(ja)rā(ja)-tēvaṉ-āṉa
⟨2⟩ poṉparapp¿a?ṉāṉ Itu ceytā(ṉ) Āṟ-
⟨3⟩ ṟūr-u¿p?aiyāṉ cunta-paṭṭaṉ-āṉa tillai-nāyaka-vēḷāṉ
Translation
⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!
⟨1–2⟩ This sacred maṇḍapa ⟨is named after⟩ Rājarājatēvaṉ, alias Poṉparappiṉāṉ.
⟨2–3⟩ He who made this is Tillai Nāyaka Vēḷāṉ, alias Cunta⟨ra⟩paṭṭaṉ2, Lord of Āṟṟūr.
Bibliography
Reported in ARIE 1939-43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/159).
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 159, appendixes B/1940-1941.
Notes
1. A pillared hall.
2. Since Cuntaraṉ is a fairly common name in Tamil inscriptions, we assume it is Cuntaraṉ, although INSTamilNadu00052 also contains the same Cuntaṉ.
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Prosperity! Fortune!
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The record is presently incomplete. Only two blocks are extant and one of them appears to be missing. Furthermore, one block is now found to the right of the entrance to the <foreign>garbagṛha</foreign>, while the other lies on the floor of the <foreign>mukhamaṇḍapa</foreign>, on the floor. Since the stones are no longer in their original position, it is unclear whether the maṇḍapa mentioned here is the same referred to in <ref target="DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00052"/>.
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Commentary
The record is presently incomplete. Only two blocks are extant and one of them appears to be missing. Furthermore, one block is now found to the right of the entrance to the garbagṛha, while the other lies on the floor of the mukhamaṇḍapa, on the floor. Since the stones are no longer in their original position, it is unclear whether the maṇḍapa mentioned here is the same referred to in INSTamilNadu00052.
Compare with INSTamilNadu00038. That record, dated to the 18th year of king Kulottuṅga III, may suggest a related local patronage context.