Cāḷuvaṉ Kuppam, rock

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0380.

Summary: Donation of land for food-offerings and of gold for a lamp.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: 2025-05-22 13:42 (9dba97d), last modified 2025-03-18 14:55 (36884e2).

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

Ic-ca[t]ta-pe⟨2⟩rumāṉārkku mati-cūta-bha⟨3⟩ṭṭar kumāra-paṭṭiyil tiru⟨4⟩-v-am¡i!⟨u⟩t¡i!⟨u⟩kku Oru mā nilamum ⟨5⟩ tiru-viḷakkukku kaḻañcu poṉ⟨6⟩ṉum kuṭutta[tu]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–6) For this Cattaperumāṉ¹, what Maticūtabhaṭṭar gave [is]:

one mā of land, in Kumārapaṭṭi, for sacred food-offerings,
and one kaḻañcu of gold for a glorious lamp.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1889-1890 (ARIE/1889-1890/1890/56).

Edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.380).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923, on photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2011) and the estampage online on TNSDA website (accessed 2021-07-26).

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 115, item 380.

Secondary

ARIE 1889-1890. G.O. No. 355, 14th May 1890. Archaeology. Recording the progress report of the Epigraphist, Archaeological Survey, for February and April 1890. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1890. Page 6, appendix 1890, item 56.

Notes

1. That is, most probably, a form of Śiva. See MTL, s.v. cattaṉ: “2. (Śaiva.) The formless Šiva, as the embodiment of energy”.

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