Javantināthapuram, Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa temple, time of Māṟaṉ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 4 + 9 author of digital edition Valérie Gillet Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS Paris, EFEO DHARMA_INSPandya00341

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Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa temple, Javantināthapuram, Lālkuṭi taluk, Trichy district. On a stone (perhaps was it a doorjamb originally?), embedded in the right-side cement pillar of the gate. Regnal year 9 opposite to 4 of Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ, aviṭṭa day, which falls on Monday in the month of dhanus.M. Venkataramayya (EI 28.6, p. 40) calculates the date as Monday December 5th, 875 CE, date which conveniently fits the beginning of Varaguṇa’s reign around 862 CE. The last syllable of each line is not visible, even on the estampage published in 1940–1950 in EI 28, but can be easily guessed in most of the cases and thus restored in the text in square brackets with an asterisk. The inscription stops abruptly, the remaining part of it perhaps covered by cement.

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svasti śrī

kō-māṟañ caṭaiyarkki yāṇṭu ṉnāṉk-ām āṭṭaikk’ etir Oṉpat-ām yāṇṭu taṉu-ñāyaṟṟu-t tiṅ kaṭ-kiḻamai peṟṟa A viṭṭa mutal āka Iṭai yāṟṟu-maṅkalattu tiru-mayil-araṅkattu perumāṉ-aṭikaḷukku Iravum pakalummm Ira ṇṭu noṉtā-viḷakk’ e rippat’ āka kō-māṟañ ca ṭaiyar-āyiṉa pāṇḍya -Ativpati-varakuṇa-mahā rājar Aṇṭaṇāṭṭu vē ḷāṉ kaiyyil viṭu ta nta poṉ pāṭi

pakalummm pagalumm pakalum Ativpati-varakuṇa-mahā rājar adipati varaguṇa magā rājar adipati varaguṇa mahā rājar atipati varakuṇa mahā rājar

Hail! Prosperity!

This is the 9th year opposite to the 4th year of king Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ; from mutal āka aviṭṭam obtained on Monday tiṅkaṭ-kiḻamai in the month of dhanus; for Perumāṉaṭikaḷ of Tirumayilaraṅkam in Iṭaiyyāṟṟu maṅkalam, night and day, for burning erippatāka two iraṇṭu perpetual lamps, king kō Māṟañcaṭaiyar alias Varaguṇa Mahārājar, the great Lord of the Pāṇḍyans, released and gave viṭu-tanta into the hand kaiyyil of Aṇṭanāṭṭu Vēḷāṉ, gold

Reported in (ARIE/1946-1947/B/1946-1947/104).

Edited in , with visual documentation (EI 28.6). Text and translation in (IEP 41). Edited and translated in , based on autopsy and photographs (Valérie Gillet, 2009).

This revised edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

48 41 257 6 25 B/1946-1947 104