# Tirumaṅkalam Pēṭṭai grant, Śaka year 1648

Margherita Trento

Author of digital edition: Margherita Trento

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00009

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00009.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-18 14:25 (53e5dee), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
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## Summary

This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨1r=1⟩ svasti śrī sakāttam 1000 6 100 4 10 8 -k=ku mēṟ cellā niṉṟa
parāpava {varuṣam} tai {mācam} ⟨2r=2⟩ 10 5 ௳ cuk=kira vāramum Aviṭṭa
nakṣattiramum tritikai{yum} cupayōka cupakaraṇa⟨3r=3⟩mum peṟṟa
cupatiṉat=til

tirumaṅkalam pēṭṭaiyiṟ kūṭi Aṉpat=tāṟu tēcat=tup palarum caracu ⟨4r=4⟩
vatip paṇṭāram avarkaḷuk=ku tarma-cātaṉa-p-paṭṭaiyaṅ kuṭut=tapadi

## Translation

⟨1–2⟩ ....

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1986–87 (ARIE/1986-1987/A/1986-1987/46).

Edited in Kiruṣṇamūrtti 2000 (no. 60). This edition is not taken
systematically into account since the editor regularly adapts Sanskrit
words to Tamil spelling.

This edition by Margherita Trento (2024), based on EFEO photographs
(2015).

### Primary

[K] Kiruṣṇamūrtti, Ca. 2000. Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉac ceppēṭu. Citamparam:
Ā. Uṇṇāmalai. Pages 244–248, item 53.

### Secondary

ARIE 1986–87. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1986-87. Edited by
Madhav N. Katti. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1998. Page
28, item 46.