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: ...

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

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00043.

File path: DHARMA_INSCirkali00043.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ It-tēvaṟku Oṉpat-āvatu nāḷil
⟨2⟩ devi-y-āṉa kulōttuṅka-cōḻa-c-ca
⟨3⟩ ṟkku pūjaikkum tiru-p-paṇi-k kumuṭa
⟨4⟩ ya Iṟai-y-ili ceytu v-iṭṭa nilattu
⟨5⟩ lē mutal koṇṭu Ūrkiḻ i(ṉa/ṉ)
⟨6⟩ kku kiḻakku m¡u!la-paruṣa-vāykkāluk
⟨7⟩ Āṟāṅ kaṇṇāṟṟ’ iraṇṭān tuṇṭattu

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ vāykkāluk ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored as vāykkāluk[ku].

Bibliography

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

Edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 43), 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]. Page 338, item 43.

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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It-tēvaṟku Oṉpat-āvatu nāḷil

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Āṟāṅ kaṇṇāṟṟ' iraṇṭān tuṇṭattu

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