Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, no king, no year

Authors of digital edition: Uthaya Veluppillai (utve), Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Fragment on an stray stone slab. The inscription was engraved on at least two stone slabs.

Palaeographic description: No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00039.

File path: DHARMA_INSCirkali00039.xml.

Version: 2026-07-28 15:44 (2172d1e), last modified 2026-07-17 15:31 (a52394c).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […] yanāṟku I¡ṉ-ṉ!āṭṭu tiruvāli-y-āṉa mu-muṭi-cōḻa […]
⟨2⟩ […] cempaṅ-kuṭi kuḷa-k-kuṭi-y-āna kulōttuṅka-cōḻa […]
⟨3⟩ […] Iṟuttu varukiṟa nilattukku Ivv-ūril tām peṟā […]
⟨4⟩ […] tu varukiṟa nilattilē mutal koṇṭu I […]
⟨5⟩ […] tirunāmattu-k-kāṇiyum-āka Ūravar pūjaikkum tiru […]
⟨6⟩ […] kku kiḻakku tiru-ñāṉa-campanta-vāykkālukku […]
⟨7⟩ […] catirattu mēṟk’ aṭaiya v-iṭṭa nilam muṉṟu mā […]
⟨8⟩ […] ṟṟili-y-āṉa Ūr-p-paṭi nilam oru mā ௳

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1918–19 (ARIE/1918-1919/B/1918/369).

Edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 39), based on ASI transcript (consulted in Mysore).

Edited in Swaminathan 2024 (SII 44.369). 7 line sonly, skipping line 4.

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]. Page 337, item 39.

[SII] Swaminathan, S. 2024. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XLIV: Inscriptions collected during the year 1917-18. South Indian Inscriptions 44. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director General). Page 568, item 369.

Secondary

ARIE 1918–19. 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. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1919. Page 32, appendix B/1918, item 369.

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