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script (with some Grantha characters) is engraved on two blocks of granite (with writing on one side) in the base of the central shrine of the Trichambaram Temple. * The inscription records an endowment of the Manavepala Manaviyadan, the chieftain of Eranadu, for thiruvilakku at "Trichemmaram Temple". * It also mentions a person named Kapali Narayanan Bhattavijayan, some plot, and the arrangements for weekly supply of oil for the thiruvilakku. * Manavepala Manaviyadan was the hereditary title of the chieftains of Eranadu in central Kerala.

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