# Koṭumpāḷūr, Muccukuṇḍeśvara temple, no king, no year

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00045

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00045.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

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## Summary

Stone-inscription recording the donation of a pillar.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ Ik-kāl ceyvit⟨2⟩tān koṭumpāḷūṟ ⟨3⟩ kaikkōḷa¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ maṅka¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ ⟨4⟩
tāmatta¡n!⟨ṉ⟩-āṉa k¡o!⟨u⟩⌈⟨5⟩lōttuṅka-cōḻa-k⟨6⟩[1 lost line] ⟨7⟩ […]
U⟨8⟩ṭaiyā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩

## Translation

⟨1–8⟩ He who had this stone[1] made ⟨is⟩ the lord Kulottuṅga […] alias
Maṅkaṉ Tāmattaṉ, a kaikkōḷaṉ[2] from Koṭumpālur.

## Commentary

For other pillars donated by others kaikkōḷaṉs in the same temple see
INSKotumpalur00018 and INSKotumpalur00044.

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.

ARIE 1968–69 reads the personal name as “Paṅgan Sāmantan alias
Kolōttuṅgaśōḻak-koṅganāyaṉ alias Ma . Amalan Śēṉaṉ Uḍaiyān”.

## Bibliography

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

Edited in Srinivasa Rao 1979 (SII 23.137B).

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 137B, 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 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.

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

[2] A member of the caste of weavers.