Koṭumpāḷūr, Aivarkōyil, fragment, time of Rājakesarivarman, year 15 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00004

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svasti śrī

kō-v-irācakoēcari-parumak=kurk=ku yāṇṭu patinṉaaiñc-āvatu

Uṟattūr-k-kūṟṟat tu

naṅkaiyār Aṉantam paḻiyili vaḻiyu

svasti The letter va looks like pa. -parumak=kurk=ku It seems that the engraver first wrote kora and, realising his mistake, transformed the ra into ca.

Prosperity! Fortune!

Fifteenth year of the king Rājakesarivarman.

in the Uṟattūrkkūṟṟam

Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili vaḻiyu

The inscription stops short in line 2 after vaḻiyu and seems to have been left unfinished.

Naṅkaiyār Aṉantam Paḻiyili ("our unbounded and irreproachable lady"?) is possibly the donor.

Reported in (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/211).

First edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

99 B/1940-41 211