Saint-Pierre de la Réunion, temple des Casernes, fondation of Māriyammaṉ temple author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis Darlini Canabady Moutien DHARMA Aubervilliers DHARMA_INSTamilOutsideTN10001

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 2019-2026 DHARMAbase Inscription on a stone-slab (49,5 x 28,5 cm) recording the construction of the Māriyammaṉ temple, that is, the temple currently known as chapelle des Casernes or temple des Casernes.

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō. No puḷḷi. Spelling n instead of expected ṉ.

The project DHARMA has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 809994).

Public URIs with the prefix bib to point to a Zotero Group Library named ERC-DHARMA whose data are open to the public.

Internal URIs using the part prefix to point to person elements in the DHARMA_idListMembers_v01.xml file.

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1000 8 100 2 10 7 cit tirai 7

maāriyam manṉ kōvīil vēṅ kaṭ=ṭṭa-reṭṭiyar tammattālē kaṭṭa -p-paṭṭatu

1000 8 100 2 10 7 The figure "2" is of an unstandard form, which looks like a piḷḷaiyār cuḻi. Unstandard form. Unstandard form.

1827, month of Cittirai, date 7.

The Māriyammaṉ temple has been constructed kaṭṭappaṭṭatu through the pious act tammattālēInstrumental case of tammam, that is, Sanskrit dharma. of Vēṅkaṭa Reṭṭiyar .

1827, mois de Cittirai, date 7.

Le temple de Māriyammaṉ a été construit par Vēṅkaṭa Reṭṭiyar .

The era of the year 1827 is not specified and this millesime is not followed, as one would expect, by a symbol for year. In the context of production of the inscription (colonial La Réunion, antiquity of the Māriyammaṉ temple), it appears that date is in the common era and not in the Śaka era as one would expect in a inscription from Tamil Nadu itself. It thus appears to correspond, as kindly confirmed to us by Marco Franceschini, to April 18, 1827.

This edition by Emmanuel Francis and Darlini Canabady Moutien, based on autopsy (2025), photos and estampages (E. Francis, 2025). Thanks to Renato Davalos and Margherita Trento for their suggestions.