Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Parakesarin, year 16

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2025-01-09Z

Editor:   Valérie Gillet.

DHARMA Identifier: INSMelKil00009

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Edition

¹svasti śrī

(kō)[ppara]kēca-
²ripaṉmaṟkku^👤 yāṇṭu 10 6
³Āvatu

kuṉṟakkūṟṟattu^🧭 tēva-
⁴tā⟨ṉa⟩m Avaṉikantaṟva Īśva⟨ra⟩gṛha-
⁵ttu ¿mā?⟨ma⟩hādevaṟkku Ittaḷi
⁶tēvaṉār makaḷ nakka[1+]ai natiri ma-
⁷kaḷ nakkaṉ kaṇṭa pirāṭṭi^👤 Ittaḷi
⁸tēvatāṉam po(ykai)nāṭṭu (Ū)-
⁹kaṉkuṭi^🧭 Apohanaṅ kiṭanta bhū-
¹⁰miyai kalli macakki kuṭutta (ṇir ṉi)-
¹¹lam Iraṇṭu pū viḷaiyak kuṭutta nila-
¹²m ṉāṉaṅku mā Iṉṉāṉku māvuṅ
¹³koṇṭu Itiṉil Iraṇṭu pūvum
¹⁴viḷainta bhogaṅ koṇṭu O-
¹⁵ru nontā viḷakku cantrātittava-
¹⁶l Erippōmmānōm Ittaḷi-
¹⁷p paṭṭ⟨uṭ⟩ai(yōm Eḻuvōm)
¹⁸Itu panmāheśvara rakṣai|

Apparatus

¹ [ppara] ◇ ppara SR • This part is no longer legible.
⁸ (Ū) ◇ Ū(ra) SR • The first letter of the name of this village, Ūkaṉkuṭi, may be read Ū or Ura, but not Ūra.

Translation by Valérie Gillet

Commentary

¹Parakesari is probably Uttamacōḻa.

^6-7These two lines were forgotten in the edition of South Indian Inscriptions. They give the name of the donor.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1923-1924/C/1924/366 ; edited for the first time in SII 19, no. 402 SR; present edition by Valérie Gillet from autopsy and photographs.

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