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Kanyakumari District
139
Findspot
On a pillar to the left of the entrance into the main shrine of the same temple.
Dynasty
King
Date
Kollam 820, Saka 1567 (1645 A.D.)
Tamil
Language
and Script
Contents
Records that Māluvanambiyār Māļuvanambi and Tambirankuțți Sadaiyan collected money from several people and set up a makaratorana--viļakku (lamp with a makara tõrana) in the shrine of Nāgar, and provided two nali of oil daily from the interest of six hundred paņams which they had utilised for redeeming some lands of the temple from the debts which the Nā garāja temple had incurred there on.
Reference
ARE, 58/1896, TAS, Vol. IV, pt. 2, No. 123, pp. 166-167, Kanyakumari Inscriptions, pt. III, No. 281/1968.
