Kāppalūr, Tirukkāmēśvara temple, pillar, no king, no year

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Lamp donation.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00021.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00021.xml.

Version: 2026-04-17 20:52 (f13bb6a), last modified 2026-03-20 19:01 (2d5cee8).

Edition

⟨Column A⟩
⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
⟨2⟩ kaliyācca-vi-
⟨3⟩ ṇṇakarē kā-
⟨4⟩ mai-nakkaṉ kō
⟨5⟩ yi(ṟ) pol(iyā)
⟨6⟩ (r) pu [***] (mpu)
⟨7⟩ l [***]

⟨Column B⟩

⟨8⟩ ṭaippaṉ

⟨9⟩ na⟨n⟩tā-viḷa-

⟨10⟩ kku vait-

⟨11⟩ t […]

Translation

⟨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.

More lines are possibly lost after line 11.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1938-39 (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

ARIE 1938-39. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1939. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 36, appendixes B/1938-1939, item 249.

Notes

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)

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