# Koṭumpāḷūr, sluice inscription, no king, no year

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00051

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00051.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-09-29 11:09 (783a257), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(783a257)

## Summary

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ Aiñ-ṉ(ū)ṟṟuvar ra⟨3⟩kṣai

ceyvittāṉ ⟨4⟩ cāttaṉ ṉ¡i!⟨ī⟩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 ⟨this[2]⟩ 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.

[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.