Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, pillar inscription, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 26

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0400143.

Summary: Donation of a pillar.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

Version: 2024-12-18 14:17 (ba872b0), last modified 2024-06-06 16:20 (d9c7a93).

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

sundara-pāṇ⟨2⟩ṭiya-devaṟkku yāṇ⟨3⟩ṭu 2 10 6-vatu

cēlam⟨4⟩-āṉa Irājāśraya-{ś}ca⟨5⟩turvvedi-maṅkalattu ⟨6⟩ kāśyapan nampi-p-pi⟨7⟩ḷḷai Eṭuttakai-y-aḻa⟨8⟩kiyāṉ-āṉa sundara-pāṇ⟨9⟩ṭiya-brahmārāyaṉ dha⟨10⟩rmmam· Ik-kāl

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–4) 26th year of the king Sundara Pāṇḍya.

(4–10) This stone¹ [is] the pious donation (dharma) of the a kāśyapa², Sundara Pāṇḍya Brahmarāja alias Eṭuttakkaiyaḻakiyāṉ, son of Nampi, from Rājāśrayacaturvedimaṅgala alias Cēlam.

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/45).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.143).

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 15, item 143.

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 45.

Notes

1. That is, the pillar on which the inscription is engraved.
2. That is, belonging to the gotra of Kaśyapa.

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