# Cēlam, Saundararājaperumāḷ, pillar, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 29

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0153

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0153.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-19 18:42 (65fc39d), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Donation of a pillar.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sva⟨sti⟩ śrī

cu¡ṉ!⟨n⟩tara⟨2⟩-pāṇṭiya-tēva⟨r⟩⟨3⟩kku yāṇṭu 2 10 9

⟨4⟩ vaḷḷa [2+] ta¡mm!⟨m⟩-u⟨5⟩ṭaiya [3+] ttar ⟨6⟩ Aḻaka[r tar]mam
I⟨7⟩t-tūṇ

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–3⟩ Year 29 of Sundara Pāṇḍya

⟨4–7⟩ This pillar is the pious gift (tarmam) of ... Āḻakar.

## Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887–88 (1/3) (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/52).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.153).

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 17, item 153.

### 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 6, appendixes I/1887-1888, item 52.