# Pirammatēcam / Brahmadesam, Pirammapurīcuvarar / Brahmapurīśvara
temple , pillar donation

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00196

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00196.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-09 18:23 (fbd1441), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
(5251b7d)

## Summary

Stone inscription recording the donation of the pillar on which it is
inscribed.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

It-tūṉ nāṭṭu⟨2⟩vittā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ Ōkūr paṉaiyūr āḻvā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ ⟨3⟩ viḷākattu-k
kuṭi-p-paḷḷi pātā⟨4⟩ḷi-paṭiyaṉ-ā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩a paṉaiyūr (n)āṭāḻvā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩

## Apparatus

⟨0⟩ paṉaiyūr āḻvān ⬦ paṉaiyūrrāḻvān C.

⟨3⟩ °paṭiyaṉ° ⬦ °ppaṭiyaṉ° C.

⟨4⟩ (n)āṭāḻvān ⬦ nāṭṭāḻvān C.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ He who had this pillar set up is Paṉaiyūr Nāṭāḻvāṉ alias
Pātāḷipaṭiyaṉ ...

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1917–18 (ARIE/1917-1918/C/1918/163).

Edited in Civāṉantam 2021, with visual documentation (p. 307).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the visual documentation in
Civāṉantam 2021.

### Primary

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2021. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XX. Viḻuppuram
māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti III. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 59. Chennai:
Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 45, item
390/2021.

### Secondary

ARIE 1917–18. G.O. No. 1172, 6th September 1918. Epigraphy. Recording,
with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological
Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1917-1918.
Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1918. Page 104, appendix C/1918,
item 163.