Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, pillar inscription

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0400142.

Summary: Donation of a pillar.

Language: Tamil.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ mala-maṇṭalattu ma⟨2⟩laiyāḷaril tā⟨3⟩vaikkuṟicci cātta ⟨4⟩ ¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ tiṟai⟨ya⟩¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ ta¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ma⟨m⟩ I⟨5⟩-k-kāl

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–5) This stone1 [is] the pious donation (taṉmam2) of Cāttaṉ Tiṟaiyaṉ [from] Tāvaikuṟicci, among the malaiyāḷars of the Malamaṇṭalam.

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/44).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.142).

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 142.

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 44.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, the pillar on which the inscription is engraved.
  2. 2. Sanskrit dharma.