Cāḷuvaṉ Kuppam, rock

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSII0400380.

Summary: Donation of land for food-offerings and of gold for a lamp.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

Ic-ca[t]ta-pe⟨2⟩rumāṉārkku mati-cūta-bha⟨3⟩ṭṭar kumāra-paṭṭiyil tiru⟨4⟩-v-am¡i!⟨u⟩t¡i!⟨u⟩kku Oru mā nilamum ⟨5⟩ tiru-viḷakkukku kaḻañcu poṉ⟨6⟩ṉum kuṭutta[tu]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–6) For this Cattaperumāṉ1, what Maticūtabhaṭṭar gave [is]:

  • one of land, in Kumārapaṭṭi, for sacred food-offerings,
  • and one kaḻañcu of gold for a glorious lamp.

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1890 (ARIE/1889-1890/1890/56).

Edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.380).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923, on photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2011) and the estampage online on TNSDA website (accessed 2021-07-26).

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 115, item 380.

Secondary

Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. G.O. No. 355, 14th May 1890. Archaeology. Recording the progress report of the Epigraphist, Archaeological Survey, for February and April 1890. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 6, appendix 1890, item 56.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, most probably, a form of Śiva. See MTL, s.v. cattaṉ: “2. (Śaiva.) The formless Šiva, as the embodiment of energy”.