Koṭumpāḷūr, Muccukuṇḍeśvara temple, no king (lost?), no year (lost?)

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Fragment. Two blocks out of at least three blocks.

Palaeographic description: Medial i with final right-side loop, looking thus like a medial ī.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00016.

File path: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00016.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ Uṭaiyār (ma)tur⟨Block b⟩āntakaṉ cuntara-cōḻaṉ-āṉa ⟨Block c⟩ […]

⟨2⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ vēḷattu-p peṇ⟨Block b⟩ṭāṭṭi kaḷḷicci Uttama-(c)⟨Block c⟩-[cōḻa] […]

⟨3⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ piṟantāṉ (Āṉa) ⟨Block b⟩ (p)ūti paṭṭālaka¡n! nakka¡n!-ōṭu vaḻakkā ⟨Block c⟩ […]

⟨4⟩ ⟨Block a⟩ koṭumpāḷūr Iraṇ(ṭu) va[k](ai) ⟨Block b⟩ k(o)ttārum Iruntu Ārā⟨y⟩ntu Eṉṉai ⟨Block c⟩ […]

Translation by Srinivasa Aiyar 1941

... ... ... ... ... ... also known as Uḍaiyar (King) Madhurāntakan Sundara Cōḻan (Sundara Cōḻa, the God of death to Madura). The woman servant of the vēḷam (vēḷattu peṇḍāṭṭi),¹, of the Kaḷḷa caste by name Uttama ... ... ... ... ... , who entered into a dispute with ... ... ... ... (?) Pūdi-Pattālakan Nāgan otherwise called ... ... ... ... rāndan ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (to settle which) the nagarattārs (the townsmen) of both sections of Koḍumbālūr being present, who after examining (the dispute declared) me ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1907–08 (ARIE/1907-1908/B/1907/139).

Edited in Vaidyanatha Aiyar & Swaminatha Aiyar 1929 and translated in Srinivasa Aiyar 1941 (IPS 82). Edited in Srinivasa Rao 1979 (SII 23.139).

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

Primary

[IPS] Vaidyanatha Aiyar, V. S. & N. Swaminatha Aiyar. 1929. Inscriptions (texts) of the Pudukkottai state arranged according to dynasties. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 82, page 30.

Srinivasa Aiyar, K. R. 1941. Inscriptions in the Pudukkóttai state: translated into English. Part I: Early, Pallava and Cola inscriptions. Pudukkottai: Pudukkottai Darbar. Item 82, page 51.

[SII] Srinivasa Rao, G.V. 1979. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXIII: inscriptions collected during the year 1906-07. South Indian Inscriptions 23. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director-General). Item 139, page 111.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1907–08. G.O. No. 574, 17th July 1908. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1907-1908. Edited by V. Venkayya. No place, 1908. Page 16, appendix B/1907, item 139.

Notes

1. Vēḷam was a fortified place where ladies of rank captured in war were kept as prisoners by the Cōḻas and treated as slaves. See also S. I. I. Vol. II, Part V, index, and Vol. II pp. 483, 484, 485 and 486.

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