Tirucciṟṟampalam, Purātanavaṉeśvara temple, time of Varaguṇa, year 4 + 12 author of digital edition Valérie Gillet Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPandya00014 DHARMAbase

Purātanavaṉeśvara temple, Tirucciṟṟampalam, Pattukkōṭṭai taluk, Tañcāvūr district. On the southern doorjamb of the entrance to the ardhamaṇḍapa. There is a damaged inscription dated to the 29th regnal year of Parāntaka I on the opposite doorjamb (ARIE/1925-1926/C/1926/186).

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svasti śrī

vara kuṇa-mahā-rāja ṟku yāṇṭu nāṉ k-āvataṟku Etir panniraṇṭum ā ṇṭu Āvatu tirucci ṟṟemattu kāṇi U ṭaiyārkku Añ

panniraṇṭum panniraṇṭām ā ṇṭu ā ṇṭu Āvatu tirucci ṟṟemattu kāṇi U ṭaiyārkku Añ Āvatu tirucci ṟṟemattu kāṇi U ṭaiyārkku Añ

Hail! Prosperity! This is the 12th year opposite to the 4th year of Varaguṇa Mahārāja to the Lords/Lord uṭaiyār of the land kāṇi of Tirucciṟṟemam

The middle part of the inscription is not legible anymore: it is at the level of the hand of those who enter the sanctuary, and everybody touches it when entering, damaging the inscription. Valérie Gillet has counted between 25 to 26 lines in this inscription instead of the 16 lines given in both the editions: only a few letters at the beginning or at the end of the lines are legible.

Reported in (ARIE/1925-1926/C/1926/185). TLI Pk 559.

Edited in (SII 14.14), in (IEP 45). Edited and translated in , based on autopsy and photographs (Valérie Gillet, 2016).

This edition by Valérie Gillet. Curated by Emmanuel Francis.

TBC 14 TBC 45 268-269 21 52 C/1926 185