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) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0158.

File path: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0158.xml.

Version: 2026-10-19 18:42 (65fc39d), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09 (1120f60).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī cuntara-
⟨2⟩ pāṇṭiya-tē-
⟨3⟩ vaṟku yāṇṭu
⟨4⟩ 2 10 4-vatu veḷḷa-
⟨5⟩ ppa-nāṭṭu cantiraṉ-
⟨6⟩ kōṉ c¡e!vitta po-
⟨7⟩ tikai

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–4⟩ 24th year the glorious Sundara Pāṇḍya.

⟨3–6⟩ This is the pillar-capital (pōtikai) that Cantiraṉ Kōṉ of Veḷḷappanāṭu, had made¹.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887–88 (1/3) (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/56, bifurcated as 56A in SII 4.158).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.158).

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 158.

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 56.

Notes

1. That is, has offered.

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