Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, no king, no year

Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00048.

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⟩ Āḷuṭaiya-piḷḷaiyār pacāna-t tiruppu putiyutu tiru-p-pāvā ⟨2⟩ ṭay-āka Amutu ceyt-aruḷi śrī-māheśvarkkum tāṉattārkkum [li] ⟨3⟩ rumuṉappukkam-āka Āyiram maṭakkil Iṭṭu prasātikka pōṉaka-p ⟨4⟩ paḻa Arici paṉṉ-iru-kalattukkum Itukku vēṇṭuṅ kaṟi-y-amu[tu] ⟨5⟩ [vi]ñcaṉattukkum tēvai ce¡vv!⟨yv⟩ārkku vēṇṭuvaṉa vayi[ṟṟu] ⟨6⟩ koṇṭu celutta tiru-nāmattu-kāṇi-y-āka kollikuṟump-uṭai[ya] ⟨7⟩ [ā]ṇṭār celvamalku pakal pōlum pēr-oḷi-y-āka kācu tantu [n] ⟨8⟩ [ē] c[e]mpiyan paṇa-maṅkalattu piṟinta vikkirama-cōḻa-k-kollai ⟨9⟩ [āraiyil i]ṟai-mikuti [koṇṭu Ip-paṭi cantirātitta-val]

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1918-1919 (ARIE/1918-1919/B/1918/384).

Edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 48), based on autopsy, photos (U. Veluppillai) and 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 340–341, item 48.

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 33, appendix B/1918, item 384.