Koṭumpāḷūr, Muccukuṇḍeśvara temple, no king, no year

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Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī Ik-kāl

⟨2⟩ ceyvittā-

⟨3⟩ n koṭumpā-

⟨4⟩ ḷūṟ kaikkō-

⟨5⟩ ḷa¡n! ceṭṭi kam-

⟨6⟩ pa¡n!¡n!a caṉanāta A-

⟨7⟩ ṇukka-pallava-

⟨8⟩ raiya¡n!

Translation

⟨1⟩ Fortune!

⟨1–8⟩ He who had this stone1 made [is] Cananāta2 Anukka Pallavaraiyaṉ alias Ceṭṭu Kampaṉ, a kaikkōḷaṉ3 from Koṭumpālur.

Commentary

For other pillars donated by others kaikkōḷaṉs in the same temple see INSKotumpalur00018 and INSKotumpalur00045.

INSKotumpalur00044 and INSKotumpalur00045 have been copied as one entry in ARIE 1907-1908. INSKotumpalur00044 has been later copied as a single entry in ARIE 1968-1969. It seems that we have two pillars, each with an inscription naming its donor.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1907-08 (ARIE/1907-1908/B/1907/137), in ARIE 1968-69 (ARIE/1968-1969/B/1968-1969/295).

Edited in Srinivasa Rao 1979 (SII 23.137A).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on Srinivasa Rao 1979.

Primary

[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 137A, page 110.

Secondary

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 137.

[ARIE] ARIE 1968-69. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1968-69. Edited by G. S. Gai. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India, 1974. Page 54, appendixes B/1968-1969, item 295.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, the pillar on which the inscription is engraved.

  2. 2. Sanskrit Jananātha.

  3. 3. A member of the caste of weavers.