Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, pillar inscription

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0400145.

Summary: Donation of a pillar.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

Version: (e031092), last modified (d9c7a93).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kuḷatt-u⟨2⟩ṭaiyā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ pūmaṉ ⟨3⟩ nampi taṉmam I⟨4⟩t-tūṇ

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–4) This pillar [is] the pious donation (taṉmam1) of Pūmaṉ Nampi, magnate of Kuḷam.

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/46, bifurcated as 46A in SII 4.145).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.145).

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 145.

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 46.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit dharma.