Koṭumpāḷūr, Aivarkōyil, fragment

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00007.

Summary: Appears to record a donation of gold for the upkeep of a lamp.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy).

Version: (cf4a6dc), last modified (e8ce250).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [ca. 12+] (vata) poṉ Ai(ṅ) ⟨2⟩ (koṇṭāṭai/mārāṉ pāṇṭa) [ca. 2+] ṟi [ca. 2+](u)kku Eri(vva/ppa) ⟨3⟩ [ca. 12+] koṇṭōm [ca. 1+]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ai(ṅ)Ai(ṅ) makes sense with kaḻañcu (beginning of line 4 of DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00008): aiṅ-kaḻañcu, "five kaḻañcus".

⟨2⟩ (koṇṭāṭai/mārāṉ pāṇṭa) • None of these alternative readings makes sense in continuity with pakal no¡ṉ!⟨n⟩t (end of line 5 of Kotumpalur 8), where one expects nontā viḷakku. — ⟨2⟩ Eri(vva/ppa)Erippa makes sense with tāka (beginning of line 5 of Kotumpalur 8): erippatāka, "so as to burn" (a lamp).

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) […] gold […]

(2) […]

(3) […] we have taken […]

Commentary

Possibly a fragment to be read with another preserved fragment at the site. It could give the beginning of lines 4-6 of Kotumpalur 8, which is on the block continuous to the right, although a continuous reading is not warranted, which, however, could be explained if Kotumpalur 8 and the present inscription are two block fragments of an inscription, of which a third fragment block is lost.

Bibliography

First reported, edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2020).