Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, time of Rājarāja, year 2

Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00038.

Summary: Fragment on an orphan stone slab. The inscription was engraved on at least two stone slabs, of which the present one is the first.

Hand description:

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Version: (3ebdd62), last modified (711acd2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ svasti śrī

tiri-puvaṉa-c-cakkara-va⟨r⟩ttika⟨ḷ⟩ śrī-Irāja⟨Block 2⟩[…]⟨2⟩⟨Block 1⟩ ku yāṇṭu 2

Irājādhija-vaḷanāṭṭu tiru-k-kaḻumala ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨3⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ brahmadeśam tiru-k-kaḻumalattu-k k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ-piṭākai Anupa ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨4⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ […] r uṭaiyār rājajeśvaram-uṭaiya ¡ṉ!⟨n⟩āyanār tē ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨5⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-tēvarkku yāṇṭu 3 10 5 pariṉa ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨6⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ cimpiyatta-rayanum civālaiya-tēvar piḷḷai-karai⟨Block 2⟩[…]⟨7⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ lukku Uḷ irukkum nalluḻāṉ pirā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ āṇṭār[k]ku kai⟨Block 2⟩[…]⟨8⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ ṟ piḷḷaikaḷal kuḷakk-uṭaiyāṉ ampalavaṉ uḷḷi⟨Block 2⟩[…]⟨9⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ k-uṭaiyāṉ kōva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩um pāṭu Āṇṭār akara-tēvar ko⟨Block 2⟩[…]⟨10⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ ṭuvaṉtu maturai civa-tavanavāsi-paṭṭa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ uḷḷiṭ⟨Block 2⟩[…]⟨11⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ lai māṭilaṉ tiru-t-tōṇi-puram-uṭaiyāṉ civa-⟨Block 2⟩[…]⟨12⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ r mutukaṇ paṭṭu piramāṇa-p paṭi talai-c-caṅkāṭṭu ⟨Block 2⟩ […]

Bibliography

Reported in Krishna Sastri 1919 (ARIE/1918-1919/B/1918/368).

Edited, with summary, in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 38), based on ASI transcript (consulted in Mysore).

This edition by Uthaya Veluppillai (2024). Curated by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[UV] Veluppillai, Uthaya. 2013. “Cikāḻi : hymnes, héros, histoire. Rayonnement d’un lieu saint shivaïte au Pays Tamoul.” These de doctorat, Paris 3. Paris. [URL]. Pages 335–338, item 38.

Secondary

Krishna Sastri, H. 1919. G.O. No. 1003, 16th August 1919. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1918-1919. No place. Page 32, appendix B/1918, item 368.