Kāppalūr, Tirukkāmēśvara, pillar, no king, no year

Metadata

Current Version: draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00021

Summary: Lamp donation.

Hand Description:

Additional Metadata

No metadata were provided in the table for this inscription

Edition

^{Column A} ¹svasti śrī

²kaliyācca-vi-
³ṇṇakarē kā-
⁴mai-nakkaṉ kō
⁵yi(ṟ) pol(iyā)
⁶(r) pu [?3×] (mpu)
⁷l [?3×] ^{Column B}
⁸ṭaippaṉ
⁹na⟨n⟩tā-viḷa-
¹⁰kku vait-
¹¹t [... unknown number of lines possibly lost]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹Prosperity! Fortune!

^2-11In the the Kaliyāccaviṇṇakaram^↓1, ... [of] the temple of Kāmainakkaṉ ... [...]ppaṉ gave a perpetual lamp [...]

Commentary

On the bottom square portions of the same two pillars which also bear INSTamilNadu00020 on their top square and middle octagonal portions.

Thus possibly, even probably, same date as INSTamilNadu00020.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1938-1939 (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/249).

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 36, appendix B/1938–1939, № 249.

Notes

↑1. That is, the Viṣṇu temple of Kaliyāccaṉ. The temple of Kaliyātitta Viṇṇakar Tēvar is mentionned in another inscription from Kāppalūr (ARIE/1938-1939/B/1938-1939/267)