Valérie Gillet is a specialist on South India. In 2007, she joined the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO); she was posted in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO between 2007 and 2016, and has been based in Paris since 2017. Gillet works primarily with material culture and Tamil epigraphy of the first millennium found on the territories of Pāṇḍya and Pallava dynasties, covering almost the entire Tamil-speaking South.

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• AcknowledgementsNote on the Transliteration of Tamil WordsAbbreviationsMaps, Plans, and FiguresIntroduction CHAPTER 1: A Tentative Biography of the Paluvettaraiyars CHAPTER 2. The Avanikantarpa / Avanigandharva Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple Complex (AIM) of Avanikantarpapuram / Avanigandharvapuram CHAPTER 3. The Pakaivitai Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple (PIM) and the Tiruttorramutaiyar of Mannupperumpaluvur CHAPTER 4. The Tiruvalanturai Mahadeva Temple of Cirupaluvur CHAPTER 5. The Maravanisvaragrhattu Mahadeva of Cirupaluvur CONCLUSION. The Configuration of Social and Political Powers of Paluvur Through Its Religious Centres Appendix 1. The Epigraphical Corpus of PaluvurAppendix 2. The Paluvettaraiyars in Inscriptions Outside PaluvurAppendix 3. Hymn 2.34 of the Tevaram by Campantar, Dedicated to PaluvurAppendix 4. Photographs of PaluvurBibliographyIndex

Valérie Gillet is a specialist on South India. In 2007, she joined the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO); she was posted in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO between 2007 and 2016, and has been based in Paris since 2017. Gillet works primarily with material culture and Tamil epigraphy of the first millennium found on the territories of Pāṇḍya and Pallava dynasties, covering almost the entire Tamil-speaking South.

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• AcknowledgementsNote on the Transliteration of Tamil WordsAbbreviationsMaps, Plans, and FiguresIntroduction CHAPTER 1: A Tentative Biography of the Paluvettaraiyars CHAPTER 2. The Avanikantarpa / Avanigandharva Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple Complex (AIM) of Avanikantarpapuram / Avanigandharvapuram CHAPTER 3. The Pakaivitai Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple (PIM) and the Tiruttorramutaiyar of Mannupperumpaluvur CHAPTER 4. The Tiruvalanturai Mahadeva Temple of Cirupaluvur CHAPTER 5. The Maravanisvaragrhattu Mahadeva of Cirupaluvur CONCLUSION. The Configuration of Social and Political Powers of Paluvur Through Its Religious Centres Appendix 1. The Epigraphical Corpus of PaluvurAppendix 2. The Paluvettaraiyars in Inscriptions Outside PaluvurAppendix 3. Hymn 2.34 of the Tevaram by Campantar, Dedicated to PaluvurAppendix 4. Photographs of PaluvurBibliographyIndex

Valérie Gillet is a specialist on South India. In 2007, she joined the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO); she was posted in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO between 2007 and 2016, and has been based in Paris since 2017. Gillet works primarily with material culture and Tamil epigraphy of the first millennium found on the territories of Pāṇḍya and Pallava dynasties, covering almost the entire Tamil-speaking South.

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• AcknowledgementsNote on the Transliteration of Tamil WordsAbbreviationsMaps, Plans, and FiguresIntroduction CHAPTER 1: A Tentative Biography of the Paluvettaraiyars CHAPTER 2. The Avanikantarpa / Avanigandharva Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple Complex (AIM) of Avanikantarpapuram / Avanigandharvapuram CHAPTER 3. The Pakaivitai Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple (PIM) and the Tiruttorramutaiyar of Mannupperumpaluvur CHAPTER 4. The Tiruvalanturai Mahadeva Temple of Cirupaluvur CHAPTER 5. The Maravanisvaragrhattu Mahadeva of Cirupaluvur CONCLUSION. The Configuration of Social and Political Powers of Paluvur Through Its Religious Centres Appendix 1. The Epigraphical Corpus of PaluvurAppendix 2. The Paluvettaraiyars in Inscriptions Outside PaluvurAppendix 3. Hymn 2.34 of the Tevaram by Campantar, Dedicated to PaluvurAppendix 4. Photographs of PaluvurBibliographyIndex