Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, pillar inscription, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 26

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Donation of a pillar.

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

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0144.

File path: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0144.xml.

Version: 2026-02-27 16:25 (edeb735), last modified 2025-09-24 17:36 (724458c).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī sundara-pāṇ-
⟨2⟩ ṭiya-devaṟkku yāṇ-
⟨3⟩ ṭu 2 10 6-vatu cēlam-
⟨4⟩ -āṉa Irājāśraya-{ś}ca-
⟨5⟩ turvvedi-maṅkalattu
⟨6⟩ veḷḷāḷaṉ vaḷḷi-
⟨7⟩ marutam-uṭaiyāṉ cā-
⟨8⟩ ttaṉ māṉentiya-
⟨9⟩ kaiyaṉ dharmmam· Ik-
⟨10⟩ -kāl ௳

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–4⟩ 26th year of the king Sundara Pāṇḍya.

⟨4–10⟩ This stone¹ ⟨is⟩ the pious donation (dharma) of the veḷḷāḷaṉ, magnate of (uṭaiyāṉ) Vaḷḷimarutam, from Rājāśrayacaturvedimaṅgala alias Cēlam.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887-88 (1/3) (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/46).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.144).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923.

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. Page 15, item 144.

Secondary

ARIE 1887-88 (1/3). G.O. No. 424, 20th April 1888. Archaeology. Recording letter from the Director-General forwarding Dr. Hultzsch's progress report from 21st September 1887 to 31st January 1888. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department, 1888. Page 5, appendixes I/1887-1888, item 46.

Notes

1. That is, the pillar on which the inscription is engraved.

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