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śrī-mahārāja-parameśvara-varummaṟkku yāṇṭu talaitt-ā vatu

tūṇāṅ-kiḻavar-uḷ ālavāyil cōmāciyā ru maru-maḵaṉ kumāraṉ e ṭuppitta kōyil

Aḻivum ce ytār taṭumāv ēṟkka

talaitt-āvatu talaittāvatu Aḻivum Aḻivum 's reading makes sense, but is not warranted on the facsimile, where one would read at once yuḻime or yuḻimē.

First year of the glorious Mahārāja Parameśvaravarman.

The temple that Kumāraṉ, nephew (sister’s son) of Cōmāciyār in that is, from Ālavāy, one among the tūṇaṅ-kiḷavars has built.

He who does ceytār harm aḻivu will be considered like ēṟkka taṭumāv.

talaitt-āvatu. See 1993: The expression talaittu from talai is used adjectively in the sense of 'first'. The same usage may also be noted in the familiar phrase talaittu kuḷaṇḍai meaning 'first child'. For epigraphic usage of the word talai meaning 'first,' we may note the expression Āṉi-ttalai-ppiṟaiyāl in the Takkōlam inscription (above, Vol. XIX, p. 87).

ālavāyil. connects this word with eṭuppitta (lines 3-4), suggesting that Ālavāy is the ancient name of Ciṟṟampākkam/Teṉkāraṇai. We follow Sircar's opinion (editor's note to ) that Ālavāy is the residence of Cōmāciyār. So does 147 1 .

cōmāciyāru. See 2001: Sōmāśiyār may be contracted either from Sōmayājiyār or Sōmājiyār.

maru-maḵaṉ. This term means more precisely "sister's son" in the present case.

Edited in (EI 32, no. 23) with a facsimile; text and summary in (IP n° 44); re-edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the facsimile published in .

146-147 44 12 B/1947-1948 83