# Cāḷuvaṉ Kuppam, rock

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0380

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: SII04_adapted/DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0380.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-13 15:30 (078960b), last modified 2026-11-11 17:46
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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

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

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–6⟩ For this Cattaperumāṉ[1], 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 1889–90 (2/3) (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 1889–90 (2/3). 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.

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