Cēlam, Cukavaṉēśvara, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 29

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

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

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0151.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī su-
⟨2⟩ ndara-pāṇṭiya-
⟨3⟩ tevaṟk=ku yāṇ-
⟨4⟩ ṭu 2 10 9-vatu cēla-
⟨5⟩ m-āṉa irājā-
⟨6⟩ śraya-¡śc!aturvvedi-
⟨7⟩ maṅkalattu veḷ-
⟨8⟩ ḷāḷa-vaḷḷimanta-
⟨9⟩ m-uṭaiyāṉ nilai-
⟨10⟩ yiṭṭāṉ cokki dha-
⟨11⟩ ⟨r⟩mmam Ik-kāl

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ 29th year of the king Sundara Pāṇḍya.

⟨4–11⟩ This stone¹ is the pious donation (dharma) of the Veḷḷāḷar Nilaiyiṭṭāṉ Cokki, magnate of/at Vaḷḷimantam, from Rājāśrayacaturvedimaṅgala, alias Cēlam.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887–88 (1/3) (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/51).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.151).

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 16, item 151.

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 51.

Notes

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

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