Cēlam, Saundararājaperumāḷ, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 24

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of a pōtikai (capital of a pillar).

Language: Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-09-13 12:59 (af744bb), last modified 2025-03-18 14:55 (36884e2).

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⟨1⟩ kō-c-caṭ¡a!-parmar-āṉa tiru-pu⟨va⟩ṉa-c-cak-
⟨2⟩ kara-va⟨r⟩ttikaḷ ciṟi-cuntara-pāṇṭi-
⟨3⟩ ya-tēvaṟku 2 10 4-vatu cēlattil ka-
⟨4⟩ ṇmāḷaril Aṇṇāmalai-t-taṭṭā-
⟨5⟩ ṉ cūriya¡ṉṉ!-āṉa nūṟṟ-e⟨ṇ⟩ma-t-tāṭ-
⟨6⟩ ṭāṉ c¡e[v]!vitta pōtikai

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ c¡e[v]!⟨ey⟩vitta ⬦ ce[v]vitta SII.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

⟨1–3⟩ 24th year the glorious Sundara Pāṇḍya, the emperor of the three worlds, alias the king Caṭaivarman (kōccaṭaiparmar).

⟨3–6⟩ This is the pillar-capital (pōtikai) that Nūṟṟeṇmattāṭṭāṉ alias Aṇṇāmalaittāṭṭāṉ Cūriyāṉ, [one] among the smiths/artisans (kaṇmāḷar²) of Cēlam, had made¹.

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/56).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.157).

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 18, item 157.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1888. 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. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 6, appendixes I/1887-1888, item 56.

Notes

1. See MTL, s.v. pañca-kammāḷar: “n. pañcan +. The five castes of artisans, viz., taṭṭāṉ, kaṉṉāṉ, ciṟpaṉ, taccaṉ, kollaṉ”. By his name, we know that the donor is a gold or silver smith. See MTL, s.v. taṭṭāṉ1: “n. Gold or silver smith, one of 18 kuṭi-makkaḷ.”

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