Kāppalūr, Tirukkāmēśvara, pillar, no king, no year

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00021.

Summary: Lamp donation.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

Version: (4a0c02e), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

⟨Column A⟩ ⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kaliyācca-vi⟨3⟩ṇṇakarē kā⟨4⟩mai-nakkaṉ kō ⟨5⟩ yi(ṟ) pol(iyā) ⟨6⟩ (r) pu [ca. 3×] (mpu) ⟨7⟩ l [ca. 3×] ⟨Column B⟩ ⟨8⟩ ṭaippaṉ ⟨9⟩ na⟨n⟩tā-viḷa⟨10⟩kku vait⟨11⟩t […] [unknown number of possibly lost lines]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–11) In the the Kaliyāccaviṇṇakaram1, [of] the temple of Kāmainakkaṉ ... […]ppaṉ gave a perpetual lamp […]

Commentary

On the bottom square portions of the same two pillars which also bear INSTamilNadu00020 on their top square and middle octagonal portions.

Thus possibly, even probably, same date as INSTamilNadu00020.

Bibliography

Reported in Krishnamacharlu 1952 (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/249).

Edited and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on autopsy and photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2019).

Secondary

Krishnamacharlu, C. R. 1952. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1939. Delhi: Government of India. Page 36, appendixes B/1938-1939, item 249.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, the Viṣṇu temple of Kaliyāccaṉ. The temple of Kaliyātitta Viṇṇakar Tēvar is mentionned in another inscription from Kāppalūr (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/267)