Kōlār, Kōlārammā, no king, no year

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilOutsideTN00010.

Summary: Foundation of a pīṭam (Sanskrit pīṭha), that is an altar or a pedestal.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Outside of Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy).

Version: (daf2540), last modified (daf2540).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

Ip-p¡i!⟨ī⟩ṭañ ceyvittān (A/Ā)ṇṭa(kku)⟨2⟩ṭaiyāṉ mātavaṉ pōr-ēṟu

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °p¡i!⟨ī⟩ṭañ. ⬦ piṭañ EC. — ⟨1⟩ (A/Ā)ṇṭa(kku)⟨2⟩ṭaiyāṉ ⬦ Aṇṭa[2+]⟨2⟩ṭaiyāṉ EC • See (A/Ā)ṇṭakkuṭaiyāṉ in TIOTN 13 (EC 10 Kl 109b).

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1–2) He who had this pīṭam made [is] Mātavaṉ, Lord of (A/Ā)ṇṭa(kku)ṭi, the fighting bull.

Commentary

The same individual—Mātavaṉ, Lord of (A/Ā)ṇṭakkuṭi, the fighting bull—is the donor of a pillar in TIOTN 13 (EC 10 Kl 109b).

Bibliography

Edited and translated in Rice 1905 (EC 10 Kl 109b).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on EFEO pictures (2004, 2017).

Primary

[EC] Rice, Benjamin Lewis. 1905. Epigraphia Carnatica. Vol. X. Inscriptions in the Kolar district. Mysore Archaeological Series. Epigraphia Carnatica 10. Mangalore: Basel Mission Press. Item Kl 109b.