Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara temple, no king, no year

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

Summary: Records an endowment of land at […] Vindalūr, a suburb of Pāṇṭapuram in Ālāṟṟūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Malāṭu, alias Jananātha-[vaḷanāṭu], for a perpetual lamp in the temple at Na[llūr] which is stated to be in the same kūṟṟam, by Māṇikkanāyaṉ Gangayarāyaṉ, son of Cempōti Villa-vataraiyar of Paḻampaṭṭiṉam in Paṭṭiṉa-nāṭu, a subdivision of Śembūr-kōṭṭam

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_INSTamilNadu00049.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00049.xml.

Version: 2026-09-22 21:22 (350f192), last modified 2026-09-09 14:19 (2b8e588).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī […]⟨2⟩ vicuvā-varuṣattu malāt-ākiya [janaṉāta] ⟨3⟩ -vaḷanāṭṭu Ā[l]aṟṟūr-kūṟṟattu na[llūr] […] ⟨4⟩ [U](ṭ)ai(y)ār na[l]la nāyaṉār kōy[il] […] ⟨5⟩ […] ttu […] ⟨6⟩ paḻam-paṭṭiṉattu c[e]mpōti villa[vatavaraiyar] ⟨7⟩ […] māṇikkaṉāyaṉ kaṅkaya […] ⟨8⟩ ṉāyaṉār tiru-muṉpē nān vaitta tiru-nontā-viḷa ⟨9⟩ kku Oṉṟum ca¿tre?[di]tya-varaiyum Ahorā{s}tramum ⟨10⟩ Erivat’ āka v-iṭṭa nila[m] āvatumalāṭ-ākiya janaṉāta ⟨11⟩ -vaḷaṉāṭṭu Ālāṟṟ[ū](r)-kūṟṟattu p[ā](ṇ)ṭapura-p pa ⟨12⟩ [1 lost line] ⟨13⟩ […] villavarāyarum [m]utaliyar ṉāyaṉ ⟨14⟩ naraci[ṅ]ka-tēvarum Āṉai-vīra-r[ā](ya)rum cellaṉ ⟨15⟩ […] ṉum pakkal (nāṉ) koṇṭa (kācu) ⟨16⟩ [1 lost line] ⟨17⟩ vār (10) […] ⟨18⟩ vu Āka taṭi Iraṇṭum tiru-ṉāmattu-k-kāṇi Iṟai-(y-i) ⟨19⟩ li Āka Utakam paṇṇi tiru-c-cūla-t-tāpaṇamum pa[ṇ] ⟨20⟩ ṇi-k koṇṭu * * m pa(c)āṉamum Iru-pūvu[m] [**] ⟨21⟩ [1 lost line] ⟨22⟩ [**] viḷakku Oṉṟum (ca)n(ti)[rātitta-va]rai [*] Ahorā ⟨23⟩ tramum Erivat’ āka kallilum cempilum veṭṭi-k ⟨24⟩ koḷḷum paṭikku koppaṇa Uṭaiyar nirupaṅ kuṭu ⟨25⟩ tta [*](ṉ) vukku Im-mariyāti tāḻvaṟa naṭatti koḷḷavum⟨26⟩ […] [paṇṇiṉavarkaḷ kaṅkai-k-karaiyiṟ kurāṟ]‡pacuvai koṉṟa pāvattai Aṉupavi(t)[tu kaṭava ⟨27⟩ rkaḷ][panmāheśvara-rakṣai]

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⟨26-27⟩ ... • Most of these 2 lines presently (2024) lost/illegible. Text after ASI trasncript.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/163).

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1939–43. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu & N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 94, item 163, appendixes B/1940-1941.

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