# Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 29 Emmanuel Francis Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0151 Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy) File path: SII04_adapted/DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0151.xml Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil] Commit: 2026-11-13 15:30 (078960b), last modified 2026-11-11 17:46 (9feb835) ## Summary ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Edition ⟨1⟩ svasti śrī su⟨2⟩ndara-pāṇṭiya⟨3⟩tevaṟk=ku yāṇ⟨4⟩ṭu 2 10 9-vatu cēla⟨5⟩m-āṉa irājā⟨6⟩śraya-¡śc!⟨c⟩aturvvedi⟨7⟩maṅkalattu veḷ⟨8⟩ḷāḷa-vaḷḷimanta⟨9⟩m-uṭaiyāṉ nilai⟨10⟩yiṭṭāṉ cokki dha⟨11⟩⟨r⟩mmam Ik-kāl ## Translation ⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune! ⟨1–4⟩ 29th year of the king Sundara Pāṇḍya. ⟨4–11⟩ This stone[1] is the pious donation (dharma) of the Veḷḷāḷar Nilaiyiṭṭāṉ Cokki, magnate of/at Vaḷḷimantam, from Rājāśrayacaturvedimaṅgala, alias Cēlam. ## Bibliography First reported in ARIE 1887–88 (1/3) (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/51). First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.151). 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 16, item 151. ### 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 51. [1] That is, the pillar on which this inscription is engraved.