Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, no king, no year

Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00052.

Summary: Fragment on an orphan stone slab. The inscription was engraved on at least two stone slabs, of which the present one is the last. Mentions land boundaries.

Hand description:

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

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Version: (16a6206), last modified (711acd2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [1×] 1/16 (1/80) [3+] Itil ti ⟨2⟩ (1/16) [2+] 3 catirattu <nilam> 1/2 ⟨3⟩ ykālukku vaṭakku 1 <kaṇṇāṟu> 1 catira

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [1×] 1/16 (1/80) [3+][…] UV.

⟨3⟩ ykālukku ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored as [vā]ykālukku. — ⟨3⟩ catira ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored as catira[ttu].

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) [too fragmentary to allow a translation]

Bibliography

First reported and edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 52), based on autopsy and photos.

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 343, item 52.