Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, time of Vīrarā(jendra), year lost
Editors: Uthaya Veluppillai, Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSCirkali00050.
Summary: Fragment on an orphan stone slab. The inscription was engraved on at least two stone slabs, of which the present one is the first. Land donation.
Hand description:
No distinction between e and ē, o and ō, i and ī.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Cīrkāḻi (tfa-cirkali-epigraphy).
Version: (3ebdd62), last modified (711acd2).
Edition
⟨1⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ svasti śrī
v[ī]ra-rā(je)(ntira) [ca. 3+] ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨2⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ tiru-k-kaḻumala-¡ṉ!⟨n⟩āṭu v¡(i)!⟨ī⟩ra-cōḻa [ca. 2+] ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨3⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ viṭaṅkana¡l!⟨ll⟩ūr (I)rāj¡i!⟨ī⟩curam-uṭai [ca. 2+] ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨4⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ nāṅkal v-iṭṭa nilam
Ivv-ūril ti ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨5⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ ca-vāy⟨k⟩kālu¿k?⟨kk⟩u teṟku mutaṟ kaṇṇāṟṟu mutaṟ ⟨Block 2⟩ […] ⟨6⟩ ⟨Block 1⟩ [I](ru)-mā v-araiyum cantirātitta-varai ce(l) ⟨Block 2⟩ […]
Apparatus
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) Prosperity! Fortune!
(1–4) [Emptieth year of] […] Vīrarājendra […] in the Tirukkaḻumalanāṭu, Vīracōḻa […] […] Viṭaṅkanallūr, the Lord of the Rājeśvara […] the land that we have given [is as follows].
(4–6) In this village […] south of the […] canal (vāykkāl), in the first canal (kaṇṇāru) […] up to (two) mās, [this should] proceed as long as the moon and the sun […]
Bibliography
First reported and edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 50), based on autopsy and photos (G. Ravindran, EFEO, 2005).
This edition by Uthaya Veluppillai (2024). Curated by Emmanuel Francis. Translation (2024) by Emmanuel Francis.
Primary
[UV] Veluppillai, Uthaya. 2013. “Cikāḻi : hymnes, héros, histoire. Rayonnement d’un lieu saint shivaïte au Pays Tamoul.” These de doctorat, Paris 3. Paris. [URL]. Page 342, item 50.
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Prosperity! Fortune!
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