Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, no king, no year

Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, no king, no year author of digital edition Renato Dávalos Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00034

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Installation of the image of Dakṣiṇā dakṣiṇamūrtti and endowment of wet lands both made by Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ, alias Muṭicōḻa Malaiyamāṉ from Cāttiyakkam.

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svasti śrī

It-dakṣiṇāmuūrtti teva⌈ rai Eḻuṉntaruḷi vittāṉ cāttiyak kam uṭaiyāṉ maṇṭai-poṉnṉaṉ śrī cōḻa- malaiyamāṉ

vat' āka cantirātittavaṟ cel‡vat’ āka

Amu tu-paṭi celva cāttiyakkattu ‡ v-iṭṭa naṉ ⌈ cai nilam kā viṭṭēṉ ‡

cāttiyakka m uṭaiyāṉ maṇṭai-ponnṉṉa ‡ n muṭi cōḻa malaiyamānṉēṉ

Itu

Prosperity! Fortune!

Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ from Cāttiyakkam built this image of Dakṣiṇā.

as long as the sun and the moon remain

I have given a field of wetland, which was taken from Cāttiyakkam as food offering amutu-paṭi

I, Muṭi*cōḻa Malaiyamāṉ, alias Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ, land-owner uṭaiyāṉ from Cāttiyakkam

Reported in (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/148).

This edition by Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy (2024), photos (E. Francis, 2024), ASI estampage and transcript kindly supplied (2025) by the Director of Epigraphy in Mysore.

92 148 B/1940-1941