Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 29

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0400151.

Summary: ...

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

su⟨2⟩ndara-pāṇṭiya⟨3⟩tevaṟk=ku yāṇ⟨4⟩ṭu 2 10 9-vatu

cēla⟨5⟩m-āṉa irājā⟨6⟩śraya-¡śc!⟨c⟩aturvvedi⟨7⟩maṅkalattu veḷ⟨8⟩ḷāḷa-vaḷḷimanta⟨9⟩m-uṭaiyāṉ nilai⟨10⟩yiṭṭāṉ cokki dha⟨11⟩⟨r⟩mmam Ik-kāl

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–4) 29th year of the king Sundara Pāṇḍya.

(4–11) This stone1 is the pious donation (dharma) of the Veḷḷāḷar Nilaiyiṭṭāṉ Cokki, magnate of/at Vaḷḷimantam, from Rājāśrayacaturvedimaṅgala, alias Cēlam.

Bibliography

First reported in Hultzsch 1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/51).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.151).

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 16, item 151.

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 51.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, the pillar on which this inscription is engraved.