Koṭumpāḷūr, Muccukuṇḍeśvara temple, no king, no year

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Stone-inscription recording the donation of a pillar.

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

Version: 2025-11-13 23:30 (5e1d845), last modified 2025-10-30 15:06 (0a710fb).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī I-
⟨2⟩ k-kāl ceyvit-
⟨3⟩ tāṉ koṭump-
⟨4⟩ āḷūr-k kaikkō-
⟨5⟩ ⌉ḷaṉ murukkaṉ
⟨6⟩ toṇṭa¡n!-āṉa
⟨7⟩ muṭi-koṇṭa-p-
⟨8⟩ -pallavaraiya¡n!

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ toṇṭa¡n!⟨n⟩āṉa ⬦ koṇṭanāṉa Āvaṇam.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–8⟩ He who had this stone¹ made [is] Muṭi Koṇṭa Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Murukkaṉ Toṇṭaṉ, a kaikkōḷaṉ² from Koṭumpālur.

Commentary

For other pillars donated by others kaikkōḷaṉs in the same temple see INSKotumpalur00044 and INSKotumpalur00045.

Bibliography

Edited in Pāskaraṉ and Irājēntiraṉ 2003 (Āvaṇam 14.9.2).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis based on autopsy and photos.

Primary

[Āvaṇam] Pāskaraṉ, Irā. and Karu. Irājēntiraṉ. 2003. “putukkōṭṭai māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ - 1.” Āvaṇam 14, pp. 15–17. Page 15, item 9.2.

Notes

1. That is, the pillar on which the inscription is engraved.
2. A member of the caste of weavers.

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