Fortune! Prosperity! This is the 15th year of Kōpparakesarivarman. To us, the Nāṭṭār of Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam, Aṭikaḷ Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar Kaṇṭaṉ Maṟavaṉār ordered: having removed nīkki the old paḻaṅ cultivators kuṭiyum and the old paḻam name pērum of Uṟattūr of this nāṭu, as birth-land janma bhūmiyai to the chieftain kōṉār of Viṟaināṭu, lord uṭaiyaṉ of Karuppūr, Veṅkaṭavaṉ Araṅkaṉ alias Cempiyaṉ, having made it into a kāṇi kaṇi-ceytu with the name pēriṉāl of Karuppūr karuppūr eṉṉum; to this itukku, every year āṭṭai-vaṭṭam, twenty five irupattayaṅ kaḻancus of wordly tālamtāla is clearly legible but it is very difficult to make sense of it here in relation with gold. It means, besides “earth” and “world”, “Palmyra tree, metal plate, tongue”. fine gold cemmai poṉ, as long as the sun and the moon endure, are set āvatākavum as a permanent tax nilai iṟai; having come pōtu to make ceyyum the assessment tarañ of this nāṭu, the assessment tarañ should not be made ceyyātākavum more than allatu ēṟa, lit. so that it does not rise above twenty five kaḻañcus; in this manner ipparicu, having made ceytu it into a kāṇi kāṇiyāka, as long as the sun and the moon endure, we gave kuṭuttōm; when heThe Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar is probably the one uttering the order. graciously ordered aruḷicceyya, lit. graciously made “you also niṅkaḷum the Nāṭṭār, having made ceytu in this manner ipparicu, you give kuṭuṅkaḷ” eṉṟu, we, all the Nāṭṭār nāṭṭōmum, having removed nīkki the old paḻaṅ cultivators kuṭiyum and the old paḻam name pērum of Uṟattūr of this nāṭu, having taken ākki, lit. having become the name pēyar of Karuppūr karuppūr eṉṉum, having fixed ākki, lit. having become twenty five kaḻañcus of wordly tāla fine cemmai gold poṉ for permanent tax nilai iṟai every year āṭṭai-vaṭṭam, we the Nāṭṭar nāṭṭōm, when making ceyyum the assessment tarañ, we should not make ceyyātatākavum the assessment tarañ above ēṟa that which is not allatu twenty five kaḻañcus of gold poṉ; in this manner ipparicu, as birth-land janma-pūmiyāka to the chieftain kōṉār of Viṟaināṭu, lord uṭaiya of Karuppūr, Veṅkaṭavaṉ Araṅkaṉ alias Cempiyaṉ, as kāṇi kāṇiyāka, as long and the sun and the moon endure, with the name Karuppūr, having made ceytu the palm-leaf ōlai drum-beating aṟai,It is traditionally considered that they were reciting the text inscribed of the palm-leaf along with the beating of the drum, and hereaṟai-tal should be taken as referring to the beating of the drum. we gave kuṭuttōm, we the Nāṭṭār nāṭṭōm of Kuṉṟakkūṟṟam; all small taxes ciṟṟiṟaiyum

These ivai, I Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyaṉ Kaṇṭaṉ Maṟavaṉ, I have written eṉṉ-eḻuttu these ivai; we have agreed icaintōm in this manner ipparicu; I the Lord uṭaiya of Marutūr, Kāṭaṉ Māṟuyaṉ, I have written eṉṉ-eḻuttu these ivai.

That which is signed eḻutiya, lit. written by the signatories eḻutaṉār-ai, having signed eḻuttu I, lord uṭaiya of mallūr, Caṅkaṉ Nakekamāṉ, have signed eḻuttu; I, lord of Puttūr, Tūcaṭikōṉ, have signed eṉattu > eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Āraṇitallūr, Ceruvanuta Cōmitēvaṉ Cuvāmi, has signed ettu > eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Cāttaṉūr, Tiṇeyāṉ Māyilaṭṭi, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Mēlmaruttūr, Tiṇaiyāṉ Kuṭitaraṅki, has signed eḻuttu; the Paṭṭuṭaiyāṉ Ciṅkaṉeyyoṟaṉ has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Umapaḷakkāṉattūr, Oṉeṉpāmpaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Āṇpāṉcukūr, Cāttaṉ Nampaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Kuṟṟūr, Ne ; the lord uṭaiya of Vākūr, Oṉeṉvampal, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of , Velitaraṅki, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Āttūr, Cāttaṉ Tara, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Kuḷattūr, Aṉaiyaṉamutaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Varākupāṭi, Māṉtaṉpperaiyaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Caṅkaṇamur, Kāramukaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of , Vaṭukaṉ Pūti, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Timmi, Cuntara Cōḻapperuntiṇai, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Puttūr, Āramālakkōṉ Peraiyaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Peraṟconi, Araiyaṉāccaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Ciṅkaraṉattūr, Perumāṉ Maḻapāṭi, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of ppaṭi, Kaliyiva, has signed eḻuttu; the Lord uṭaiya of Kūraṅku, Maṟava Kōṉ Peruntiṇai, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Kaṟakāṭṭur, Vempaṉuḷveli, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Pokaḻi, Kaṇṭamalaiyamaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Kiḷi, Nāraṇaṉāṅkay, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of , Kaṇṭappe, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Ciṅkaṇamur, Paṭaipperaiyaṉ Addhayāṟaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Aruṅkarayil, Āccaṉ Nakkaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the Lord uṭaiya of Āṉaiñallūr, Nakkaṉ Kumaraṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the Lord uṭaiya of Vaṭavacukūr, Nirupa/va Kacaramalaiyaṉ, has signed eḻuttu; the lord uṭaiya of Mālvāyil, Manavakōṉ Peraiyaṉ, has signed eḻuttu.

The epigraph is inscribed on 3 wall sections: A and B on the eastern side of the main niche of the southern façade; C on southernmost wall section of the eastern façade. Moreover, it is not inscribed continuously: from lines 1 to 22, inscribed from the middle of wall section A; from lines 23 to 33, inscribed on the bottom of wall section B; lines 34 to 37, inscribed on top of wall section A; lines 38 to 64, inscribed on the upper part of wall section B; lines 65 to 96, inscribed on the wall section C. From the line 34, this is a series of signatures. The editions in SII do not consider the signatures after the line 37. Only the revised edition in Āvaṇam includes them.

Reported in (ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/356).

Edited (36 lines) in (SII 19.378), in (SII 32.2.166). Edited (93 lines), in (Āvaṇam 3.2). Edited and translated in , based on autopsyand photographs (by Valérie Gillet, 2016-2018).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.