# Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, pillar inscription, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year
26

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0144

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: SII04_adapted/DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0144.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-13 15:30 (078960b), last modified 2026-11-11 17:46
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## Summary

Donation of a pillar.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

sundara-pāṇ⟨2⟩ṭiya-devaṟkku yāṇ⟨3⟩ṭu 2 10 6-vatu

cēlam⟨4⟩-āṉa Irājāśraya-{ś}ca⟨5⟩turvvedi-maṅkalattu ⟨6⟩ veḷḷāḷaṉ
vaḷḷi⟨7⟩marutam-uṭaiyāṉ cā⟨8⟩ttaṉ māṉentiya⟨9⟩kaiyaṉ dharmmam·
Ik⟨10⟩-kāl ௳

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–4⟩ 26th year of the king Sundara Pāṇḍya.

⟨4–10⟩ This stone[1] ⟨is⟩ the pious donation (dharma) of the veḷḷāḷaṉ,
magnate of (uṭaiyāṉ) Vaḷḷimarutam, from Rājāśrayacaturvedimaṅgala alias
Cēlam.

## Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887–88 (1/3) (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/46).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.144).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel
Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923.

### Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1923. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume
IV: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
countries and Ceylon. South Indian Inscriptions 4. Madras: Government
Press. Page 15, item 144.

### Secondary

ARIE 1887–88 (1/3). G.O. No. 424, 20th April 1888. Archaeology.
Recording letter from the Director-General forwarding Dr. Hultzsch’s
progress report from 21st September 1887 to 31st January 1888. Edited by
Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public
Department, 1888. Page 5, appendixes I/1887-1888, item 46.

[1] That is, the pillar on which the inscription is engraved.