Cāḷuvaṉ Kuppam, time of (Kampa)varman, year 17

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Contributor: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp and of land to provide sacred food-offerings. Very similar (content, individual mentioned) to INSPallava00507.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00506.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00506.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 13:33 (d9e9623), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (ecb0276).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī (kampa-va)-
⟨2⟩ (r)mmaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉ-ēḻ-ā-
⟨3⟩ vatu tiru-v-iḻiccil subra-
⟨4⟩ hmaṇya-bhaṭārarkku maṉaiy-
⟨5⟩ yiṟ cāṇṭayalaṉ kiḻavaṉ
⟨6⟩ kayi [*********] caṉ makan
⟨7⟩ śrī-kampapatta¡n! pirāmaṇi va-
⟨8⟩ santa-pirāṭṭiyār [******]
⟨9⟩ kuṭutta patiṉ-āṟu kaḻañcu
⟨10⟩ poṉṉāl kaḻañciṉ vā-
⟨11⟩ y A¡r!u nāḻi-p palicai-y-āka Ā-
⟨12⟩ ṭṭāṇṭu tōṟum toṇṇū-
⟨13⟩ ru nāḻi Eṇṇai Ip-po-
⟨14⟩ ṉ koṇṭu Erikka [******]-
⟨15⟩ ttu-k koṇṭu nan(tā)-viḷakku
⟨16⟩ Erippōm āṉōm [**]
⟨17⟩ tiru-v-amirtukkuk kuṭutta
⟨18⟩ kiḻāṉ ceṟuvil [***]-
⟨19⟩ na kallilum tiru-v-a [*****]-
⟨20⟩ vippōm āṉōm [******]
⟨21⟩ [1 lost line]
⟨22⟩ [****************] lai mēl [***]
⟨23⟩ tirukkiṉ kiḻavar-āṉa [*******]
⟨24⟩ [******] maṉṉa [**********]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ °(va)⟨2⟩(r)mmaṟku ⬦ °(va)⟨2⟩mmaṟku B. — ⟨3⟩ subra⟨4⟩hmaṇya-bhaṭārarkku ⬦ cupra⟨4⟩maṇya patārarku B.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–3⟩ Seventeenth year of Kampavarmaṉ.¹

⟨3–13⟩ With the sixteen kaḻañcus of gold that Vasanta Pirāṭṭiyār, the Brahmin ⟨spouse⟩ of ... gave, ninety nāḻis of oil ⟨are to be provided⟩ ...

⟨13–16⟩ We have become those who, with this gold, […] will burn a perpetual lamp.

⟨16–20⟩ We have become those who have sacred food-offerings fed (tiru-v-a[mirtu ūṭṭu]vippōm) […] the field of the landowner given for sacred food-offerings.

⟨20–24⟩ […]. [The feet of he who protect this pious act are] on my head ([eṉ ta]lai mēl). …

Bibliography

Edited in Badhreenath 2015.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Badhreenath 2015. The distinction between initial and medial vowels, and between Grantha and Tamil letters could not be implemented with full confidence. The present digital edition is thus provisional and should be revised with proper visual documentation.

Primary

[B] Badhreenath, Sathyabhama. 2015. Śāḷuvan̤kuppam excavations 2005-07. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 149–150, item 2.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Kampavarman.

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