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

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-09-06Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSSII0400143

Summary: Donation of a pillar.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1svasti śrī

sundara-pāṇ-
2ṭiya-devaṟkku yāṇ-
3ṭu 2 10 6-vatu

cēlam-
4-āṉa Irājāśraya-{ś}ca-
5turvvedi-maṅkalattu
6kāśyapan nampi-p-pi-
7ḷḷai Eṭuttakai-y-aḻa-
8kiyāṉ-āṉa sundara-pāṇ-
9ṭiya-brahmārāyaṉ dha-
10rmmam· Ik-kāl

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1Prosperity! Fortune!

2-426th year of the king Sundara Pāṇḍya.

4-10This stone↓1 [is] the pious donation (dharma) of the a kāśyapa↓2, Sundara Pāṇḍya Brahmarāja alias Eṭuttakkaiyaḻakiyāṉ, son of Nampi, from Rājāśrayacaturvedimaṅgala alias Cēlam.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887-1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/45).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.143).

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

Primary

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, № 143. [siglum SII]

Secondary

ARIE 1887-1888. Page 5, appendix I/1887–1888, № 45.

Notes

↑1. That is, the pillar on which the inscription is engraved.
↑2. That is, belonging to the gotra of Kaśyapa.