Tiruviṭaivācal, Puṇyanāthasvāmin, time of Tribhuvanacakravartin Kulōttuṅga Cōḻa, year 5 Intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis EpiDoc Encoding Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00199

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tripuvana-c-cakkara-varttikaḷ śrī ṅka-cōḻa-devaṟku yāṇṭu 5-Āva tu

Arumoḻi-tēva-vaḷanāṭṭu maṅkala-nāṭṭu putuk kuṭi tiru-viṭaivāyil tiru-viṭaivāyil-u ṭaiya mahā-devar kōyilil kāṇi Uṭaiya ci vap=pirāmaṇanṉ bhāradvāji marutanṉ ṣebha-devanṉ-ānṉa panmāheśva ra-paṭṭanṉum kautamanṉ Arumoḻi-tēva nṉ niṟaiñcānṉ-ānṉa nāṟ-pa tt’ eṇṇāyira-paṭṭanṉum Attiraiyanṉ maheśva ra Āḷ-uṭaiyānṉ paṭṭanṉ-ēnṉum Im-mu vōm In-nāṭṭu takkaḷūr-nāṭṭu viṭaiya-pura m-ānṉa virutarāja-payaṅkara-purattu I vāṅkamuṭaiyānṉ nampi pakka l nāṅkaḷ Upayam-āka koṇṭa can=ti-viḷakku I-viḷakku Onṉṟukkum nāṅkaḷ koṇ ṭa kācu 4

Ik-kācu nāluṅ koṇṭu I-viḷakku Onṉ rṟum nāṅkaḷum Eṅkaḷ vaṅśattarum Ik-kōyilil śrī-māheśva rar Āriya Ic-canti-viḷakku Oṉṟu m āka nāṅkaḷum Eṅka ḷ vaṅcattārum cantirātittavaṟ cācutikam E rikka kaṭāvōm āka-c cimmatit tu Ik-kācu nāluṅ koṇṭō m Ivv-aṉaivōm .

According to , the inscription is on the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine, which seems to mean the northern wall of the mahāmaṇḍapa.

In July 2024, we observed that inscribed blocks making this inscription are found disonnected and disordered on various buildings of the temple complex (on the eastern, southern, western and northern base of the mahāmaṇḍapa and on the western base of the Goddess’ shrine, itself attached to the north of the mahāmaṇḍapa), whereas other blocks have been lost (or built in without showing the inscriptions any more). The temple indeed has been renovated in 1960. This would account for the fact that these blocks are now found disonnected and disordered.

There is one gap in the inscription, consisting in one missing inscribed block (block no. 2).

Reported in (ARIE/1917-1918/C/1918/23).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on autopsy (2024) and photos (2024).

ASI transcript and estampage(s), if any, yet to be consulted.

91 23 C/1918/