Pūñcēri, list of names

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00052.

Summary: A series of names found on a group of rocks. The six first names (A, B, C, D, E, F) are found on the rock locally known as noṇṭi vīrappaṉ kutiraitoṭṭi ("the watering place of the horse of Noṇṭi Vīrappaṉ"), the seventh name (G) on a second rock nearby (G), the eighth name (H) on a third rock in the same place.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

First Name

⟨1⟩ ke(v)āta-peru⟨2⟩n·tac·caṉ·

Second Name

⟨1⟩ kuṇamal·laḥ

Third Name

⟨1⟩ pay(·)yami⟨2⟩ḻip·pāṉ·

Fourth Name

⟨1⟩ cātamukkiyaṉ· ⟨2⟩ (ma) [1×] […]

Fifth Name

⟨1⟩ kaliyā(ṇi)

Sixth Name

⟨1⟩ pe[2×][…]

Seventh Name

⟨1⟩ namaḥ tiruvoṟṟiyūr Ābhājar

Eighth Name

⟨1⟩ kol·laṉ(·) (s)emakaṉ·

Apparatus

First Name

⟨1⟩ ke(v)āta° ⬦ ke(vā)ta° SII.

Second Name

⟨1⟩ kuṇamal·laḥkuṇamal·la ARIE 1932–1933.

Fourth Name

⟨2⟩ ma [1×] […] SII • This line is not read by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943.

Seventh Name

⟨1⟩ tiruvoṟṟiyūr ⬦ tiruvoṟṟiyūr ARIE 1932–1933; tiruveṟṟiyūr SII • It seems that this reading tiruveṟṟiyūr by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 is a typo. The ARIE reads tiruvoṟṟiyūr. Kasinathan 2007 also reads tiruvorriyūr or interprets the reading as such. This reading could not however be checked by lack of visual documentation.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

First Name

The great carpenter Kevātaṉ.

Second Name

The virtue wrestler.

Third Name

Payyamiḻippāṉ.

Fourth Name

Cātamukkiyaṉ […].

Fifth Name

Kaliyāṇi1.

Sixth Name

Pe[…].

Seventh Name

Homage! Ābhājar of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr.

Eighth Name

Koḷḷaṉ Semakaṉ.

Commentary

Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 notes about A-E, G-H: “The following seven labels are engraved in archaic Tamil and Grantha characters on a group of rocks, one of which, on account of a natural cavity in it, is locally known as ’Noṇḍi Vīrappaṉ Kudiraitoṭṭi’. The names Kēvādaperundachchaṉ and Kollaṉ Śēmagaṉ found in this place indicate that the persons bearing these names belonged to the artisan class. One of the labels also gives the name Guṇamallaḥ.”

Bibliography

A, B, C, D, E, and F Reported in Krishnamacharlu 1936 (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/105).

G Reported in Reported in Krishnamacharlu 1936 (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/106).

H Reported in Reported in Krishnamacharlu 1936 (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/107)

A, B, C, D, E, F and G, H Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, n° 23A.1-7), with facsimiles (of A, B, C, D, H); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 52.1-7); re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020) based on published visual documentation and photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2011).

F Reported here and edited by Emmanuel Francis (2020) based on photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2011).

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 11, items 23-A, plate II.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 168, item 52.

Secondary

[ARIE 1932-1933] Krishnamacharlu, C. R. 1936. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1933. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Page 17, appendixes B/1932-1933, items 105, 106, 107.

Kasinathan, Natana. 2007. Ancient industries of Tamilnadu. Reprint 2007. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum New Series, General Section, 15.5. No place. Page 14.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, Sanskrit Kalyāṇi.