Cāḷuvaṉ Kuppam, rock

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-09-06Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSSII0400380

Summary: Donation of land for food-offerings and of gold for a lamp.

Hand Description:

Additional Metadata

No metadata were provided in the table for this inscription

Edition

1svasti śrī

Ic-ca[t]ta-pe-
2rumāṉārkku mati-cūta-bha-
3ṭṭar kumāra-paṭṭiyil tiru-
4-v-am¡i!⟨u⟩t¡i!⟨u⟩kku Oru mā nilamum
5tiru-viḷakkukku kaḻañcu poṉ-
6ṉum kuṭutta[tu]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1Prosperity! Fortune!

1-6For this Cattaperumāṉ↓1, what Maticūtabhaṭṭar gave [is]:

  • one mā of land, in Kumārapaṭṭi, for sacred food-offerings,
  • and one kaḻañcu of gold for a glorious lamp.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1889-1890 (ARIE/1889-1890/1890/56).

Edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4.380).

Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Krishna Sastri 1923, on photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2011) and the estampage online on TNSDA website (accessed 2021-07-26).

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 115, № 380. [siglum SII]

Secondary

ARIE 1889-1890. Page 6, appendix 1890, № 56.

Notes

↑1. That is, most probably, a form of Śiva. See MTL, s.v. cattaṉ: "2. (Śaiva.) The formless Šiva, as the embodiment of energy" .