Nallūr, Vilvāraṇyeśvara, no king, no year author of digital edition Renato Dávalos Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00053

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Stone inscription (base of wall) providing the length of a measurement rod. Middle tier of northern base of the mukhamaṇḍapa.

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō.

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.

 Creation of the file
svasti śrī

nila-Aḷavu kōl

Prosperity! Fortune!

Rod for measuring land.

A "+" sign to the left of the inscription marks the beginning of the length of the rod, whereas another "+" sign further to the right of the inscription marks its end. The distance between the two "+" signs, thus the length of the measurement rod, is 4.35 m.

This edition by Renato Dávalos and Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy (2025), photos (R. Dávalos, 2025).