Kāppalūr, Tirukkāmēśvara, pillar, time of Parakesarivarman, year 5

Metadata

Current Version: draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00020

Summary: Lamp donation.

Hand Description:

Additional Metadata

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Edition

^{Column A} ¹svasti śrī

v¡i!⟨ī⟩ra-[pā-]
²ṇṭiyaṉai-t (ta)-
³lai koṇṭa kō
⁴p-parakēcari-pa-
⁵ṉmakki yāṇṭu
⁶Aint-āvatu

⁷cōṉāṭṭu kōmā-
⁸-viyāpāri kōli-
⁹yakuṭaiyāṉ
¹⁰pārttiva-cēkara-
¹¹-makaṉ tiru-v-a(ṭikaḷ-ā)-
¹²kiya piriti-rāma-ceṭṭi
¹³pal-kuṉ(·)ṟa-k-kōṭṭa-
¹⁴ttu vacukūr-¡ṉ!⟨n⟩āṭṭu
¹⁵kāma-p-pullūr
¹⁶śrī-kōyil śrī-kā(m)ai-
¹⁷-nakkarkku vaitta{ṉ}
¹⁸nan=tā-viḷak=ku

Oru viḷa
¹⁹k=ku can=trādit=ta-val E-
²⁰rippataṟku vaitta
²¹bhūmi

pēr-ēri k¡i!⟨ī⟩ḻ ce-
²²ṉṉāya-p-paḷḷat-
²³tu nāvicaṉ-pulattu-
²⁴k=ku mēṟkum
nāṭṭu
²⁵ceṭṭi-pulattuk=ku
²⁶vaṭak=kum mēṟkum
nā-
²⁷ṭṭu ṉāṭṭi-pulattuk=ku
²⁸kiḻak=kum vaṭak=ku
nā[1×]-
²⁹[1×]ṉ-pulattuk=kum
³⁰(pā)[3×]ta-vāykkā ^{Column B}
³¹luk=ku teṟkum

³²In-naṭuvu-p-pa-
³³ṭa nilam mu-k-kā ṉi-
³⁴lamum sabhai-
³⁵yārk=kum Iṟai-¡t!⟨d⟩ra-
³⁶vyamum vilai-¡t!⟨d⟩ra-
³⁷vyamum Aṟa-k= kuṭut-
³⁸tu can=trātitta-
³⁹-val non(t)[ā-vi-]
⁴⁰ḷakku Oṉṟum Eri-
⁴¹ppataṟka vaittē(ṉ)
⁴²piritirāma-c ceṭṭi-
⁴³y-ēṉ

(I)-(dha)mma(m)
⁴⁴rakṣikkum pa-
⁴⁵(n)māheśvara-śrī-pā-
⁴⁶tam (E)ṉ talai (mēla)-
⁴⁷tu (|)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹Prosperity! Fortune!

^1-6Fifth year of the king Parakesarivarman who took the head the heroic Pāṇḍya.

^7-18[There is] a perpetual lamp that Piritirāma Ceṭṭi, alias Tiruvaṭikaḷ, son of Pārttivacēkaraṉ, magnate in Kōliyakkuṭi, a merchant of Komā^↓1 in the Cōṇāṭu^↓2 gave for the glorious Kāmainakkar [of] the glorious temple of Kāmappullūr in the Vacukūrnāṭu, [itself] in the the Palkuṉṟakkōṭṭam.

^18-31The land given for burning a lamp as long as the moon and the sun [is as follows]:

^32-43The land comprised in these [boundaries] ... having given to the members of the assembly provisions for taxes and provisions for sale ..., I, Piritirāma Ceṭṭi, I have given ...

^43-47The feet of the Paṉmāheśvaras who protect this pious donation are on my head.

Commentary

On the top square and middle octagonal portions of the same two pillars which also bear INSTamilNadu00021 on their bottom square portions.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1938-1939 (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/248).

Edited and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on autopsy and photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2019).

Secondary

ARIE 1938-1939. Page 35, appendix B/1938–1939, № 248.

Notes

↑1. That is Kōmal, according to ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/248.
↑2. The same person is mentionned as donor of a lamp in the temple of Kaliyātitta Viṇṇakar Tēvar in another inscription from Kāppalūr (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/267).