# Kaṭalūr, On a stone outside temple, no king, no year

Renato Dávalos

Author of digital edition: Renato Dávalos

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv30p0i0206

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: SII30_adapted/DHARMA_INStfaSIIv30p0i0206.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 200 kuḻis of land for a maṭam called Tiruvācakaṉ.

## Palaeographic description

On paleographical grounds, it may be assigned to the
thirteenth-fourteenth century.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tiruvāca⟨2⟩kaṉ tirumaṭam kuḻi ⟨3⟩ Irunūṟu ūravar taṉ⟨4⟩mam ௳

## Commentary

The unclear passages and gaps are due to the illegibility of the copy.

The transcript mentions that the inscription might be from the
thirteenth century, but the printed edition mentions the fourteenth.

## Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1915–16 (ARIE/1915-1916/B/1915/282).

First edited in Marxia Gandhi et al. 2011 (SII 30.206).

This edition by Renato Dávalos, based on transcript kindly provided by
the Archaeological Survey of India, Mysore.

### Primary

[SII] Marxia Gandhi, N., A. Padmavathy & S. Swaminathan. 2011. South
Indian inscriptions. Volume XXX: Inscriptions collected during the year
1915. South Indian Inscriptions 30. New Delhi; Chennai: Archaeological
Survey of India; Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamilnadu.
Page 193, item 206.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1915–16. G.O. No. 99, 29th August 1916. Epigraphy.
Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant
Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the
year 1915-1916. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1916. Page 25,
item 282, appendixes B/1915-1916.