Koṭumpāḷūr, Aivarkōyil, no king (lost?), no year (lost?) author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00007.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Fragment. Appears to record a donation of gold for the upkeep of a lamp.

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vata poṉ Aiṅ koṇṭāṭaimārāṉ pāṇṭa ṟi ḷukku Erivvappa koṇṭōm

Aiṅ Aiṅ makes sense with kaḻañcu (beginning of line 4 of DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00008): aiṅ-kaḻañcu, "five kaḻañcus". koṇṭāṭaimārāṉ pāṇṭa None of these alternative readings makes sense in continuity with pakal noṉnt (end of line 5 of Kotumpalur 8), where one expects nontā viḷakku. Erivvappa Erippa makes sense with tāka (beginning of line 5 of Kotumpalur 8): erippatāka, "so as to burn" (a lamp).

gold

we have taken

Possibly a fragment to be read with another preserved fragment at the site. It could give the beginning of lines 4-6 of Kotumpalur 8, which is on the block continuous to the right, although a continuous reading is not warranted, which, however, could be explained if Kotumpalur 8 and the present inscription are two block fragments of an inscription, of which a third fragment block is lost.

This edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on autopsy and photographs (E. Francis, 2017).