Cēlam, Saundararājaperumāḷ, time of Sundara Pāṇḍya, year 24

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-09-06Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSSII0400157

Summary: Donation of a pōtikai (capital of a pillar).

Hand Description:

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Edition

1kō-c-caṭ¡a!⟨ai⟩-parmar-āṉa tiru-pu⟨va⟩ṉa-c-cak-
2kara-varttikaḷ ciṟi-cuntara-pāṇṭi-
3ya-tēvaṟku 2 10 4-vatu

cēlattil ka-
4ṇmāḷaril Aṇṇāmalai-t-taṭṭā-
5ṉ cūriya¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-āṉa nūṟṟ-e⟨ṇ⟩ma-t-tāṭ-
6ṭāṉ c¡e[v]!⟨ey⟩vitta pōtikai

Apparatus

6 c¡e[v]!⟨ey⟩vitta ◇ ce[v]vitta SII

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1-324th year the glorious Sundara Pāṇḍya, the emperor of the three worlds, alias the king Caṭaivarman (kōccaṭaiparmar).

3-6This is the pillar-capital (pōtikai) that Nūṟṟeṇmattāṭṭāṉ alias Aṇṇāmalaittāṭṭāṉ Cūriyāṉ, [one] among the smiths/artisans (kaṇmāḷar↓1) of Cēlam, had made↓2.

Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1887-1888 (ARIE/1887-1888/I/1887-1888/56).

First edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.157).

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 18, № 157. [siglum SII]

Secondary

ARIE 1887-1888. Page 6, appendix I/1887–1888, № 56.

Notes

↑1. See MTL, s.v. pañca-kammāḷar: "n. pañcan +. The five castes of artisans, viz., taṭṭāṉ, kaṉṉāṉ, ciṟpaṉ, taccaṉ, kollaṉ" . By his name, we know that the donor is a gold or silver smith. See MTL, s.v. taṭṭāṉ1: "n. Gold or silver smith, one of 18 kuṭi-makkaḷ."
↑2. That is, has offered.