Koṭumpāḷūr, sluice inscription, no king, no year

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Stone-slab inscription. Records the foundation of the sluice on which it is engraved.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00051.

File path: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00051.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:30 (9040b06), last modified 2026-08-26 06:30 (9040b06).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ Aiñ-ṉ(ū)ṟṟuvar ra-

⟨3⟩ kṣai ceyvittāṉ

⟨4⟩ cāttaṉ ṉ¡i!laṉ

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ Aiñṉ(ū)ṟṟuvar ⬦ Aiñṉūṟṟuvar Āvaṇam • Possibly Aiñṉuṟṟuvar to be emended to Aiñṉūṟṟuvar.

⟨4⟩ ṉilaṉ ⬦ ṉīlaṉ Āvaṇam.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–3⟩ ⟨This is under⟩ the protection of the Ainnūṟṟuvars.¹

⟨3–4⟩ He who had ⟨this²⟩ made is Cāttaṉ Nīlaṉ.

Commentary

Two emblems (a goad and seemingly a fourk) are engraved at the end of line 1, whereas, below the 4 lines, are engraved another series of emblems including an arrow, a bow, a scythe, surmounted by an object flanked by lamps, itself surmounted by an umbrella flanked by fly-whisks.

Bibliography

Edited in Irājēntiraṉ 1991 (Āvaṇam 1.15.5).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on photos (N. Ramaswamy, 2017).

Primary

[Āvaṇam] Irājēntiraṉ, Karu. 1991. “putukkōṭṭai māvaṭṭak kumiḻik kalveṭṭukaḷ - 1.” Āvaṇam 1, pp. 38–40. Item 15.5, page 40.

Notes

1. That is, the Five Hundred, that is, the members of the so-named merchant guild.
2. That is, the sluice on which the inscription is engraved.

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