Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, time of Vīrarājendra, year lost

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2025-01-09Z

Editor:   Uthaya Veluppillai.

DHARMA Identifier: INSCirkali00050

Summary: Fragment on an orphan stone slab. The inscription was engraved on at least two stone slabs, of which the present one is the first. Land donation.

Hand Description:

No distinction between e and ē, o and ō, i and ī.


Additional Metadata

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Edition

1Block 1 svasti śrī

v[ī]ra-rā(je(ntira) [?3+] Block 2 [...]
2Block 1 tiru-k-kaḻumala-¡ṉ!⟨n⟩āṭu v¡(i)!⟨ī⟩ra-cōḻa [?2+] Block 2 [...]
3Block 1 viṭaṅkana¡l!⟨ll⟩ūr (I)rāj¡i!⟨ī⟩curam-uṭai [?2+] Block 2 [...]
4Block 1 nāṅkal v-iṭṭa nilam

Ivv-ūril ti Block 2 [...]
5Block 1 ca-vāy⟨k⟩kālu¿k?⟨kk⟩u teṟku mutaṟ kaṇṇāṟṟu mutaṟ Block 2 [...]
6Block 1 [I](ru)-mā v-araiyum cantirātitta-varai ce(l) Block 2 [...]

Apparatus

1 v[ī]rarā(je(ntira)[?2+]v[ī]rarā[...] UV
5 cavāy⟨k⟩kālukucavāykāṟku UV
6 [I](ru)mā varaiyum[5+]yum UV

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1 Prosperity! Fortune!

1-4 [Emptieth year of ...] Vīrarājendra [...] in the Tirukkaḻumalanāṭu, Vīracōḻa [... ...] Viṭaṅkanallūr, the Lord of the Rājeśvara [...] the land that we have given [is as follows].

4-6 In this village [...] south of the [...] canal (vāykkāl), in the first canal (kaṇṇāru) [...] up to (two) s, [this should] proceed as long as the moon and the sun [...]

Bibliography

First reported and edited in Veluppillai 2013 (CEC 50), based on autopsy and photos (G. Ravindran, EFEO, 2005).

This edition by Uthaya Veluppillai (2024). Curated by Emmanuel Francis. Translation (2024) by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

Veluppillai, Uthaya. 2013. “Cikāḻi : Hymnes, Héros, Histoire. Rayonnement d’un Lieu Saint Shivaïte Au Pays Tamoul.” These de doctorat, Paris: Paris 3. [https://www.theses.fr/2013PA030051].
Page 342, № 50. [siglum UV]