Shiyali, Brahmapurīśvara temple, time of king Kōpperuciṅkaṉ, no year

Editor: Renato Dávalos.

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv12p0i0252.

Summary: Fragmentary inscription. Seems to record gift of land for reciting tiruppatiyam in the temple of Aḷḷuṭaiya-Piḷḷaiyār.

Hand description:

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (05cda97), last modified (36884e2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [3+][caka]lapuvaṉa-c cakravattikaḷ śrī-kō-p-peruñ-ciṅkatēva [6+]

⟨2⟩ [5+] ṅkaḷukkum uṭalāka naṭuvil nāṭāṉa Irā[ja]rāja [6+] ⟨3⟩ [3+][pi]ḷḷaiyār kōyi(li)l tiruppatiyam viṇṇappañ(-c)e [5+] ⟨4⟩ [5+] ṉṉila[m o]ṉṟē oṉpatu māvum (t)ēvatāṉa kā [7+]

⟨5⟩ [5+] ḻa-p pal(la)varaiyaṉe [7+]

Translation by Renato Dávalos

(1) […] king Kōpperuciṅkaṉ, emperor of all worlds […]

(2–4) […] as capital for […] a tēvatāna comprising 1 9/20 (vēli) of land […] request for the holy hymns (tiruppatiyam) in the temple of [Āḷuṭaiya-Pi]ḷḷaiyār […]

(5) […] Pallavaraiyaṉ […]

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1917-1918 (ARIE/1917-1918/B/1917/367).

First edited Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.252).

Digitally encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Renato Dávalos (2024), based on Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943. First translated by Renato Dávalos (2024).

Primary

[VA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 157, item 252.

Secondary

ARIE 1917-1918. G.O. No. 1172, 6th September 1918. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1917-1918. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1918. Page 34, appendix B/367, item 367.