Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, no king, no year

Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00055.

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 Śivabrāhmaṇas.

Hand description:

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

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Version: (3ebdd62), last modified (711acd2).

Edition

[unknown number of lost lines]

⟨1⟩ [.]ya-tēva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩u⟨2⟩ kku kama Ivū⟨3⟩ [1+][1+] camupaya⟨4⟩ ku śiva-brā⟨5⟩ yānupaya ⟨6⟩

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [.]yatēvanu ⬦ [1+]kevatu UV.

⟨4⟩ śivabrā • Probably to be restored as śivabrā[hmaṇar]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–6) [too fragmentary to allow a translation]

Bibliography

First reported and edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 55), 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 344, item 55.