Kāñcipuram, Mukteśvara, no king, no year
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00202.
Summary: Fragment. 6 lines of an inscription, the beginning of which is lost.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (f8dc812), last modified (eecdbd5).
Edition
⟨1⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ […] ⟨Zone 2⟩ [ca. 8+] ⟨2⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ […] ⟨Zone 2⟩ [ca. 8+] ⟨3⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ […] ⟨Zone 2⟩ [ko]ḷvōm ākavu ⟨4⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ [m] […] ⟨Zone 2⟩ [ca. 8×] ⟨5⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ […] ⟨Zone 2⟩ [1+](m) It-taṇṭam ⟨6⟩ ⟨Zone 1⟩ […] sa ⟨Zone 2⟩ (bh)[ai]yār coll(i)
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) … we should obtain … this fine … the members of the assembly having said …
Bibliography
Not reported in Hultzsch 1893 (ARIE 1892-1893) nor edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4).
Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (Emmanuel Francis 2003; Nicolas Cane, 2015).
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. Pages 286–287, item 828.
Secondary
Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1893. G.O. Nos. 642-43, 14th August 1893. Epigraphy. Directing, with remarks, Dr. Hultzsch's report on Epigraphical work done during 1892-93 be forwarded to the Govrnement of India and approving of the programme for the next field season. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 13, appendix B/1893, item 15.
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It is in fact not clear if these 6 short lines, on the base of the western facade of the vimāna, should be read in continuity one with another or, if assumed in the present edition, they are each one the end of a line, now lost, on the base of the northern facade of the vimāna.