Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, time of Kōpperuñciṅkaṉ, year lost

Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00047.

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

Hand description:

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Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Version: (6319caa), last modified (c03e8cc).

Edition

⟨1⟩ la-puvaṉa-c-cakrava⟨r⟩ttikaḷ śrī-kō-p-peruñ-ciṅka-tēva ⟨2⟩ ṅkaḷukkum Uṭal-āka naṭuvil-nāṭ-āṉa Irāja-rāja ⟨3⟩ ḷḷaiyār kōyi[li]l tiru-p-patiyam viṇṇappañ [c]e ⟨4⟩ ṉ-ṉila[m O]ṉṟē Oṉpatu māvum t[ē]vatāṉa-kā ⟨5⟩ […] ḻa-p-pal[la]varaiyaṉē

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ lapuvaṉa° ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored as [caka]lapuvaṉa°.

⟨3⟩ viṇṇappañ [c]e ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored with a form of viṇṇappañ cey-tal, litteraly "to make a request", a current expression for the recitation of hymns (tiruppatiyam).

⟨4⟩ ṉṉila[m] UV • The lacuna can be restored as [I]ṉ-ṉila[m]. — ⟨4⟩ t[ē]vatāṉakā ⬦ t[e]vatāṉa kā UV • The lacuna can be restored as t[ē]vatāṉa-kā[ṇi]

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1918-1919 (ARIE/1918-1919/B/1918/367).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.252)

Re-edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 47), based on Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943.

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

Primary

[VVA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 157, item 252.

[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 339–340, item 47.

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 367.