Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, time of Parakesarivarman (?), year 5

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0400140.

Summary: Donation of gold for one perpetual lamp and donation of two other lamps.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Version: (bbe36dc), last modified (d9c7a93).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ Iyāṇṭu Aiñ⟨3⟩c-āvatu

vāṭaṉ [1+] te⟨4⟩[4+] yiraṉuk[ku]⟨5⟩-t teviyār [muri A]⟨6⟩mutaṉār kiḷivaṇ⟨7⟩ṇa-tēvarkku no⟨8⟩⌉ntā-viḷakk’ o⟨9⟩ṉṟukku vait⟨10⟩ta po¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ ai⟨11⟩ṅ-kaḻañcu

tēvi⟨12⟩yār muri A[mu]tiṉā⟨13⟩r tamakku vaitta vi⟨14⟩ḷakk’ oṉṟu

Ēkav¡i!⟨ī⟩⟨15⟩raṉ ko[la]kka-p-pāvai⟨16⟩kku vaitta viḷak⟨17⟩k’ oṉṟu

paṉmā¡yē!he⟨18⟩śvarar· rakṣai

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–3) Fifth year/In this fifth year (iyāṇṭu1).

(3–11) The gold given for one perpetual lamp ... [is] five kaḻañcus.

(11–14) One lamp given for ...

(14–17) One lamp given for ...

(17–18) This is under the protection of the Paṉmāheśvaras.

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/42).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.140).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923.

Primary

[SII] Krishna Sastri, H. 1923. South-Indian inscriptions (texts). Volume IV: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada countries and Ceylon. South Indian Inscriptions 4. Madras: Government Press. Page 14, item 140.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1888. G.O. No. 424, 20th April 1888. Archaeology. Recording letter from the Director-General forwarding Dr. Hultzsch's progress report from 21st September 1887 to 31st January 1888. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 5, appendixes I/1887-1888, item 42.

Notes

  1. 1. It is not clear whether the i prefixed to yāṇṭu is epenthetic or deictic. In the latter case it would refer to the year, similarly the fifth, of Parakesarivarmn, in which another record (SII 4.141) nearby is dated to. The present inscription is found right of entrance into the garbagṛha of the Cukavaṉēśvara, whereas SII 4.141 is found left of entrance.