# Poṟkuṇam, time of Kampapōttairavikramavarman, year 25

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00504

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00504.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(6edbbfa)

## Summary

ARIE 2018–19 (p. 85): “Damaged and Incomplete. Seems to record the
renovation of sluice in the lake named Kalkili-ēri at Poṟkuṉṟam in
Manṭaikkuḷa-nāṭu. Further it refers to the village Putaṉaṭpaṭiyūr
Pūtiyūr in Kāntalūr-kūṟṟam of Kīḻvēṇāṭu of Palkuṉṟa-Kōṭṭam. In
characters of the 10th century A.D.”

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## Edition

⟨Face A: Front side⟩ ⟨1⟩ (sva)st(i) śrī

kō-vicaiya⟨2⟩-kampa-pōttaraiya⟨3⟩-vikkirama-parumaṟki yā⟨4⟩ṇ(ṭ’
iru)patt’ aint-āvatu

pa⟨5⟩l-kuṉṟa-k-kōṭṭattu-k k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ⟨6⟩vēṇāṭṭu-k
kāntaḷūr-k⟨7⟩-kūṟṟa(t)tu-p putaṉāṭp(pā)⟨8⟩ṭ(iyiṟ p)utiyūr-uṭaiya
(kōvā)⟨9⟩ṟ ceyyappaṭṭatu ma⟨10⟩ṇṭ¡aiy!⟨ai⟩kuḷa-nāṭṭu-p ⟨11⟩ poṟkuṉṟam
piruti-kaṇka⟨12⟩raiyar piritiyi-rāc⟨Face B: Back side⟩⟨13⟩yañ ceytā(ḷa)
v-i⟨14⟩p-poṟkuṉṟat⟨15⟩t’ ēri k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ-tūm⟨16⟩piṉ (pāṭēy) put⟨17⟩taṟai
tirutti-k kal⟨18⟩-k-kili-y-ēri-c ceṟu⟨19⟩v’ eṉṟu pēriṭṭē ⟨20⟩
(Ivv-ē)rikku-k kuṭutta⟨21⟩r

itu niṟuttiṉāṉ kā⟨Face C: Back side, top portion⟩⟨22⟩l eṉ ṟalai
mēli⟨23⟩ṉa

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (sva)st(i) ⬦ s⟨va⟩sti P.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ Twenty-fifth year of the victorious king
Kampapōttairavikramavarman.

⟨4–21⟩ That which Kōvār, landowner ⟨in⟩ Putiyūr ⟨itself⟩ in Putaṉāṭppāṭi
in the Kāntalūrkkūṟṟam ⟨itself⟩ in Kīḻvēṇāṭu, ⟨itself⟩ in the
Palkuṉṟakkōṭṭam had made: in Poṟkuṉṟam in the Maṇṭaikuḷanāṭu, while
Pr̥thīvi Kaṅkaraiyar was ruling the earth, he gave ... ...

⟨21–23⟩ The feet of he who maintains this are on my head.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 2018–19 (ARIE/2018-2019/B/2018-2019/370).

Edited in Pālamurukaṉ et al. 2019, with photos (Āvaṇam 30.11).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Pālamurukaṉ et al.
2019 and photos therein, which however do not cover lines 18-23.

### Primary

[P] Pālamurukaṉ, Ca., Vē. Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ & Ta. Ma. Pirakaṣ. 2019.
“poṟkuṇam ērikkalveṭṭu.” Āvaṇam 30, pp. 17–18.

### Secondary

ARIE 2018–19. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2018-19. Edited by
K. Munirathnam. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2019. Page
85, appendixes B/2018-2019, item 370.