# Kāppalūr, Tirukkāmēśvara temple, pillar, no king, no year

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00021

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00021.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-15 15:59 (9615181), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
(5251b7d)

## Summary

Lamp donation.

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## Edition

⟨Column A⟩ ⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kaliyācca-vi⟨3⟩ṇṇakarē kā⟨4⟩mai-nakkaṉ kō ⟨5⟩ yi(ṟ) pol(iyā) ⟨6⟩ (r)
pu [ca. 3×] (mpu) ⟨7⟩ l [ca. 3×] ⟨Column B⟩ ⟨8⟩ ṭaippaṉ ⟨9⟩
na⟨n⟩tā-viḷa⟨10⟩kku vait⟨11⟩t […]

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–11⟩ In the the Kaliyāccaviṇṇakaram[1], … ⟨of⟩ the temple of
Kāmainakkaṉ ... […]ppaṉ gave a perpetual lamp […]

## Commentary

On the bottom square portions of the same two pillars which also bear
INSTamilNadu00020 on their top square and middle octagonal portions.

Thus possibly, even probably, same date as INSTamilNadu00020.

More lines are possibly lost after line 11.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1938–39 (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/249).

Edited and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel
Francis (2024), based on autopsy and photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2019).

### Secondary

ARIE 1938–39. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year
ending 31st March 1939. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu. Delhi:
Government of India, 1952. Page 36, appendixes B/1938-1939, item 249.

[1] That is, the Viṣṇu temple of Kaliyāccaṉ. The temple of Kaliyātitta
Viṇṇakar Tēvar is mentionned in another inscription from Kāppalūr
(ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/267)