Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, time of Kōpperuñciṅkaṉ, year lost

Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00047.

Summary: Fragment on an orphan stone slab. The inscription was engraved on at least two stone slabs.

Hand description:

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Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).

Version: (16a6206), last modified (711acd2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ la-puvaṉa-c-cakrava⟨r⟩ttikaḷ śrī-kō-p-peruñ-ciṅka-tēva ⟨2⟩ ṅkaḷukkum Uṭal-āka naṭuvil-nāṭ-āṉa Irā⟨ja⟩-rāja ⟨3⟩ ḷḷaiyār kōyi[li]l tiru-p-patiyam viṇṇappañ [c]e ⟨4⟩ ṉ-ṉila[m O]ṉṟē Oṉpatu māvum t[ē]vatāṉa-kā ⟨5⟩ […] ḻa-p-pal[la]varaiyaṉē

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ lapuvaṉa° ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored as [caka]lapuvaṉa°.

⟨3⟩ viṇṇappañ [c]e ⬦ UV • The lacuna can be restored with a form of viṇṇappañ cey-tal, litteraly "to make a request", a current expression for the recitation of hymns (tiruppatiyam).

⟨4⟩ ṉṉila[m] UV • The lacuna can be restored as [I]ṉ-ṉila[m]. — ⟨4⟩ t[ē]vatāṉakā ⬦ t[e]vatāṉa kā UV • The lacuna can be restored as t[ē]vatāṉa-kā[ṇi]

Bibliography

Reported in Krishna Sastri 1919 (ARIE/1918-1919/B/1918/367).

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12.252)

Re-edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 47), based on Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943.

This edition by Uthaya Veluppillai (2024). Curated by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[VVA] 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.

[UV] Veluppillai, Uthaya. 2013. “Cikāḻi : hymnes, héros, histoire. Rayonnement d’un lieu saint shivaïte au Pays Tamoul.” These de doctorat, Paris 3. Paris. [URL]. Pages 339–340, item 47.

Secondary

Krishna Sastri, H. 1919. G.O. No. 1003, 16th August 1919. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1918-1919. No place. Page 32, appendix B/1918, item 367.