Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 12

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-06-06Z

Editor:   Valérie Gillet.

DHARMA Identifier: INSMelKil00007

Hand Description:


Additional Metadata

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Edition

1svasti śrī

ko Irājakē(ca)-
2ripaṉmaṟku👤
yāṇṭu 10 2Āvatu

kuṉṟakkūṟ-
3ṟattu devadāṉam Avanikandha(r)vva Īśvaragṛhattu mahā-
4de
varkku🧭
Ivvūr mallan ātittaṉ kuḷam Apohanaṅ
5kiṭanta bhumiyai pa¿ḻa?⟨ḻu⟩vūrc caṅkarappāṭi mallaṉ caṅ-
6karaṉ👤
Ikkuḷamuṅ kalli kaḻanayuṅ kalli vaitta viḷa-
7kku Oṉṟu Ivviḷakku Oṉṟum Ikkuḷattiṉ poka(ṅ) [A-]
8(ka)vēriyum puṟavēriyil [kaḻaniyaḷ] pōkaṅ koṇṭu
9cantrātittavat Iravum paka(lum) Oru noṉtāviḷakku Eri-
10ppōmānōm Ittaḷi paṭṭuṭaiyōm Eḻuvō-
11m Ikkuḷattiṉ minaṭai poḷ(ḷak) kuḷattilē kalluvatā-
12kavum Itu paṉmāheśvara rakṣai |

Apparatus

8 [kaḻaniyaḷ]kaḻaniyaḷ SR • This part is no longer legible.

Translation by Valérie Gillet

Commentary

1Rājakesarin is probably Sundaracōḻa, during whose reign the Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Maṟavaṉ Kaṇṭaṉār was ruling over Paḻuvūr.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1923-1924/C/1924/371 ; edited for the first time in SII 13, no. 227 SR; present edition by Valérie Gillet from autopsy and photographs.

Primary

Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1952. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts) (with Introductory Notes in English). Volume XIII: The Cholas. South Indian Inscriptions 13. Madras: Archaeological Survey of India.
Pages 122–123, № 227. [siglum SR]

Secondary

ARIE 1923-1924. Page 73, appendix C/1924, № 371.
No identifier given for ko Irājakē(ca)-
2ripaṉmaṟku
No identifier given for pa¿ḻa?⟨ḻu⟩vūrc caṅkarappāṭi mallaṉ caṅ-
6karaṉ
No identifier given for kuṉṟakkūṟ-
3ṟattu devadāṉam Avanikandha(r)vva Īśvaragṛhattu mahā-
4de
varkku