Pūñcēri, list of names

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00052

Summary: A series of names found on a group of rocks. The six first names (A, B, C, D, E, F) are found on the rock locally known as noṇṭi vīrappaṉ kutiraitoṭṭi ("the watering place of the horse of Noṇṭi Vīrappaṉ"), the seventh name (G) on a second rock nearby (G), the eighth name (H) on a third rock in the same place.

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    First Name

    1ke(v)āta-peru-
    2n·tac·caṉ· |

    Second Name

    1kuṇamal·laḥ

    Third Name

    1pay(·)yami-
    2ḻip·pāṉ· |

    Fourth Name

    1cātamukkiyaṉ·
    2(ma) [1× ...]

    Fifth Name

    1kaliyā(ṇi)

    Sixth Name

    1pe[2×...]

    Seventh Name

    1namaḥ tiruvoṟṟiyūr Ābhājar |

    Eighth Name

    1kol·laṉ(· s)emakaṉ·

    Apparatus

    First Name

    1 ke(v)āta° ◇ ke(vā)ta° SII

    Second Name

    1 kuṇamal·laḥ ◇ kuṇamal·la ARIE 1932-1933

    Fourth Name

    2 ma [1× ...] ◇ SII • This line is not read by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943.

    Seventh Name

    1 tiruvoṟṟiyūr ◇ tiruvoṟṟiyūr ARIE 1932-1933; tiruveṟṟiyūr SII • It seems that this reading tiruveṟṟiyūr by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 is a typo. The ARIE reads tiruvoṟṟiyūr. Kasinathan 2007 also reads tiruvorriyūr or interprets the reading as such. This reading could not however be checked by lack of visual documentation.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    First Name

    The great carpenter Kevātaṉ.

    Second Name

    The virtue wrestler.

    Third Name

    Payyamiḻippāṉ.

    Fourth Name

    Cātamukkiyaṉ [...].

    Fifth Name

    Kaliyāṇi↓1.

    Sixth Name

    Pe[...].

    Seventh Name

    Homage! Ābhājar of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr.

    Eighth Name

    Koḷḷaṉ Semakaṉ.

    Commentary

    Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 notes about A-E, G-H: "The following seven labels are engraved in archaic Tamil and Grantha characters on a group of rocks, one of which, on account of a natural cavity in it, is locally known as ’Noṇḍi Vīrappaṉ Kudiraitoṭṭi’. The names Kēvādaperundachchaṉ and Kollaṉ Śēmagaṉ found in this place indicate that the persons bearing these names belonged to the artisan class. One of the labels also gives the name Guṇamallaḥ."

    Bibliography

    A, B, C, D, E, and F Reported in ARIE 1932-1933 (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/105).

    G Reported in Reported in ARIE 1932-1933 (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/106).

    H Reported in Reported in ARIE 1932-1933 (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/107)

    A, B, C, D, E, F and G, H Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, n° 23A.1-7), with facsimiles (of A, B, C, D, H); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 52.1-7); re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020) based on published visual documentation and photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2011).

    F Reported here and edited by Emmanuel Francis (2020) based on photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2011).

    Primary

    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 11, № 23–A, plate II. [siglum SII]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 168, № 52. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1932-1933. Page 17, appendix B/1932–1933, № 105, 106, 107. [siglum ARIE 1932-1933]
    Kasinathan, Natana. 2007. Ancient Industries of Tamilnadu. Reprint 2007. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, New Series, General Section, 15.5.
    Page 14.

    Notes

    ↑1. That is, Sanskrit Kalyāṇi.