# Corakkuṭi, Cōmanātacāmi temple

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00534

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00534.xml

Languages: Sanskrit [Grantha], Tamil [Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-04 20:32 (e2dd903), last modified 2026-10-27 12:14
(3137dcf)

## Summary

Ardhamaṇḍapa, entrance, base. Ca 16th century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ grāme ⟨’⟩tra hi

1. Anuṣṭubh

⟨2⟩ grāme ⟨’⟩tra hita-bhāgeṣu
bhāgārthaM kauśiko dvijaḥ |
⟨3⟩ pradoṣa-kāla-pūjārthaM
somanāthāya dattavaN ∥

⟨4⟩ Iṉāṉilamkaḷu⟨m⟩ kuḻikkar¡aiI!⟨aiyi⟩lē ku⟨ṭu⟩t=ta mānyam

## Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ In this village ...

1.

In this village the brāhmaṇa of the Kauśika-gōtra gave, among the shares
distributed, for the sake of one share[1] to Sōmanātha for the worship
during the twilight (pradoṣa).

⟨4⟩ These four lands were gifted in Kuḻikkarai.

## Commentary

⟨1⟩ Line 1 is a draft or abandoned line for the text stating in line 2.

## Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE.

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 534) and translated in
Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 534).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Kuppusamy &
Vijayavenugopal 2006. This translation adapted from Kuppusamy &
Vijayavenugopal 2010 and corrected.

### Primary

[PI] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2006. Pondicherry
inscriptions. Part I: Introduction and texts with notes = Putuccēri
mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient;
Institut français de Pondichéry. Page 521, item 534.

[PI] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2010. Pondicherry
inscriptions. Part II: Translation, appendices, glossary and phrases,
[and] preface = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole
française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Page 238,
item 534.

[1] Pace Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010: “half of the friend’s share
of this village”.