Centalai, Sundareśvara temple, time of Māṟañ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 16 author of digital edition Valérie Gillet Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPandya00507 DHARMAbase

Sundareśvara temple, Centalai, Tiruvaiyāṟu taluk, Tañcāvūr district. On the southern doorjamb of the Gaṇeśa shrine. The inscription is engraved on a stone which was probably re-used because the inscription on the opposite doorjamb (SII 6.444) records the construction of this shrine at a much later period, probably during the Nāyaka period. The last syllable at the end of each line is not visible, but it appears in brackets in the edition of SII.

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svasti śrī

kō-mā ṟañ caṭaiyaṟku y āṇṭu 10 6 Āvatu ti ru-p-perun-tuṟai ma hā-devark=ku narikku ṭi cātokaraṇi nārā yaṇaṉ māṟaṉ brāhma ṇi nilaṉāraṇi paka l-viḷakku Erippa tāka vaiytta po ṉ Eṇ kaḻañcu

Ip-poṉ ko ṇṭōm Ita ṉ palicaiyāl pakal-viḷakku Erippōm ā ṉōm tiru-p-pe run-tuṟai tiru -k-kōyil-uṭai yōm

Ivv-ū rum peru-makkalu m māheśvara rum Irakṣai

Hail! Prosperity! This is the 16th year of king Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ. For Mahādeva of Tirupperuntuṟai, Nilanāraṇi, the Brahmin wife of Cātokaraṇi Nārāyaṇaṉ Māṟaṉ of Narikkuṭi, for burning a day lamp pakal viḷakku, endowed 8 kaḻañcu of gold; having taken this gold, with the interests of it itaṉ, we will burn erippōmāṉōm a day lamp, we the lords of the temple/priests tiruk-kōyiluṭaiyār of Tirupperuntuṟai. The people of this village ivvūr-um, the Great people perumakkaḷ-um and the Māheśvaras protect this endowment.

Reported in (ARIE/1898-1899/B/1899/9), in (Tj 2613).

Edited in (SII 6.445). Edited and translated in , based on autopsy and photographs (Valérie Gillet, 2016).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

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