Pirammatēcam/Brahmadesam, Pirammapurīcuvarar/Brahmapurīśvara, pillar donation

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Stone inscription recording the donation of the pillar on which it is inscribed.

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00196.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00196.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 13:24 (69e3379), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (b80acdf).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī It-tūṉ nāṭṭu-

⟨2⟩ vittā¡n! Ōkūr paṉaiyūr āḻvā¡n!

⟨3⟩ viḷākattu-k kuṭi-p-paḷḷi pātā-

⟨4⟩ ḷi-paṭiyaṉ-ā¡n!a paṉaiyūr (n)āṭāḻvā¡n!

Apparatus

⟨0⟩ paṉaiyūr āḻvān ⬦ paṉaiyūrrāḻvān C.

⟨3⟩ °paṭiyaṉ° ⬦ °ppaṭiyaṉ° C.

⟨4⟩ (n)āṭāḻvān ⬦ nāṭṭāḻvān C.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ He who had this pillar set up is Paṉaiyūr Nāṭāḻvāṉ alias Pātāḷipaṭiyaṉ ...

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1917–18 (ARIE/1917-1918/C/1918/163).

Edited in Civāṉantam 2021, with visual documentation (p. 307).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the visual documentation in Civāṉantam 2021.

Primary

[C] Civāṉantam, Irā. 2021. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XX. Viḻuppuram māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti III. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 59. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 45, item 390/2021.

Secondary

ARIE 1917–18. G.O. No. 1172, 6th September 1918. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1917-1918. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1918. Page 104, appendix C/1918, item 163.

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