Kaṭalūr, On a stone outside temple, no king, no year

Author of digital edition: Renato Dávalos (reda).

Summary: Donation of 200 kuḻis of land for a maṭam called Tiruvācakaṉ.

Palaeographic description: On paleographical grounds, it may be assigned to the thirteenth-fourteenth century.

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv30p0i0206.

File path: SII30_adapted/DHARMA_INStfaSIIv30p0i0206.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tiruvāca-

⟨2⟩ kaṉ tirumaṭam kuḻi

⟨3⟩ Irunūṟu ūravar taṉ-

⟨4⟩ mam ௳

Commentary

The unclear passages and gaps are due to the illegibility of the copy.

The transcript mentions that the inscription might be from the thirteenth century, but the printed edition mentions the fourteenth.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1915–16 (ARIE/1915-1916/B/1915/282).

First edited in Marxia Gandhi et al. 2011 (SII 30.206).

This edition by Renato Dávalos, based on transcript kindly provided by the Archaeological Survey of India, Mysore.

Primary

[SII] Marxia Gandhi, N., A. Padmavathy & S. Swaminathan. 2011. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXX: Inscriptions collected during the year 1915. South Indian Inscriptions 30. New Delhi; Chennai: Archaeological Survey of India; Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamilnadu. Page 193, item 206.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1915–16. G.O. No. 99, 29th August 1916. Epigraphy. Recording, with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1915-1916. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1916. Page 25, item 282, appendixes B/1915-1916.

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