Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, no king, no year

Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00044.

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

Hand description:

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

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Version: (6319caa), last modified (711acd2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ḻa-caturvēti-ma[ṅkalattu] veḷḷāṉ paṟṟil ⟨2⟩ kkum uṭal-āka Ivūr piṭākai tiru-k-kuru ⟨3⟩ ṉṟu Iṟukka niccayitta nilattu Ūr-k ⟨4⟩ Ip-paṭi nellukku Ivv-ūril taram ili ⟨5⟩ l koṇṭu nāṅkūr vatikku kiḻakku kaṇ ⟨6⟩ ṇāṟṟ’ iraṇṭāñ catirattu kiḻakk’ aṭaiya ⟨7⟩ ḻakk’ aṭaiyavum v-iṭṭa Ūr-paṭi nilam nālu mā

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ ṇāṟṟiraṇṭāñ ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored as [ka]ṇāṟṟiraṇṭāñ

⟨7⟩ ḻakkaṭaiyavum ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored as [ki]ḻakkaṭaiyavum

Bibliography

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

Edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 44), 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 339, item 44.

Secondary

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