# Tiruvallam, time of ..., year 17

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0309

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0309.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 land for food-offerings and of gold for a lamp.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

sakala-lōka-c-cakkara-va⟨r⟩tti veṉṟumaṇkoṇṭārkku yāṇṭu 10 7-Āvatu

Uṭaiyār tiruvallam-uṭaiya nāyaṉā⟨r⟩kku tiru-veṇṇainallūril
mā⟨2⟩hecuraril perumāṉ Irācākkaḷ-nayaṉār kāṅkēyar cāttiṉa paṭṭam Oṉṟiṉāl
poṉ Eṭai Iru-kaḻañcu nārācattukku va[ṭa]kku maṉaikku kuṭutta paṇam
Iru-patu

Ip-poṉ Iru-kaḻañ⟨3⟩cukkum paṇam Iru-patukkum tiru-p-pāṭṭu-p paṇiyum
Im-maṉaiyum Ivaṟku [ca]ntirā¿k?⟨t⟩itta-varaiyum kāṇi Ākavum

Im-maṉai ṉāṟkolum tiru-k-kai-koṭṭi paṇiyum kā⟨4⟩ṇi y-ākavum

paṇi O[ṉ]ṟukku tūṇi nellum Iru-pattu ṉālu paṇamum Iṭuvat-āka kāṇi-y-āka
kuṭuttōm tiru-vallattil tāṉattārōm

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1⟩ 17th year of ...

⟨1–2⟩ The coins (paṇam) that ... has given ⟨is⟩ twenty.

⟨2–3⟩ There should be a kāṇi ...

⟨3–4⟩ There should be a kāṇi ...

⟨4⟩ So that there be ... We, the trustees in Tiruvallam, have given
⟨this⟩ as kāṇi.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1889–90 (1/3) (ARIE/1889-1890/A/1889/80).

Edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.309).

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 86, item 309.

### Secondary

ARIE 1889–90 (1/3). G.O. No. 189, 11th March 1890. Archaeology.
Recording the progress report of the Epigraphist, Archaeological Survey,
for October 1889 to January 1890. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor
Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1890. Page 5,
appendix A/1889, item 80.