Pūñcēri, list of names EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00052

This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence. To view a copy of the licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

Copyright (c) 2019-2025 by Emmanuel Francis.

 2019-2025 DHARMAbase A series of names found on a group of rocks. The six first names (A, B, C, D, E, F) are found on the rock locally known as noṇṭi vīrappaṉ kutiraitoṭṭi ("the watering place of the horse of Noṇṭi Vīrappaṉ"), the seventh name (G) on a second rock nearby (G), the eighth name (H) on a third rock in the same place.

...

The project DHARMA has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 809994).

Public URIs with the prefix bib to point to a Zotero Group Library named ERC-DHARMA whose data are open to the public.

Internal URIs using the part prefix to point to person elements in the DHARMA_IdListMembers_v01.xml file.

 Updating toward the encoding template v03 Creation of the file
First Name

kevāta-peru n·tac·caṉ· .

Second Name

kuṇamal·laḥ

Third Name

pay·yami ḻip·pāṉ· .

Fourth Name

cātamukkiyaṉ· ma

Fifth Name

kaliyāṇi

Sixth Name

pe

Seventh Name

namaḥ tiruvoṟṟiyūr Ābhājar .

Eighth Name

kol·laṉ· semakaṉ·

First Name kevāta° kevāta°
Second Name kuṇamal·laḥ kuṇamal·la
Fourth Name ma This line is not read by .
Seventh Name tiruvoṟṟiyūr tiruvoṟṟiyūr tiruveṟṟiyūr It seems that this reading tiruveṟṟiyūr by is a typo. The ARIE reads tiruvoṟṟiyūr. also reads tiruvorriyūr or interprets the reading as such. This reading could not however be checked by lack of visual documentation.
First Name

The great carpenter Kevātaṉ.

Second Name

The virtue wrestler.

Third Name

Payyamiḻippāṉ.

Fourth Name

Cātamukkiyaṉ .

Fifth Name

KaliyāṇiThat is, Sanskrit Kalyāṇi..

Sixth Name

Pe.

Seventh Name

Homage! Ābhājar of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr.

Eighth Name

Koḷḷaṉ Semakaṉ.

notes about A-E, G-H: The following seven labels are engraved in archaic Tamil and Grantha characters on a group of rocks, one of which, on account of a natural cavity in it, is locally known as 'Noṇḍi Vīrappaṉ Kudiraitoṭṭi'. The names Kēvādaperundachchaṉ and Kollaṉ Śēmagaṉ found in this place indicate that the persons bearing these names belonged to the artisan class. One of the labels also gives the name Guṇamallaḥ.

A, B, C, D, E, and F Reported in (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/105).

G Reported in Reported in (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/106).

H Reported in Reported in (ARIE/1932-1933/B/1932-1933/107)

A, B, C, D, E, F and G, H Edited in (SII 12, n° 23A.1-7), with facsimiles (of A, B, C, D, H); text and summary in (IP 52.1-7); re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020) based on published visual documentation and photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2011).

F Reported here and edited by Emmanuel Francis (2020) based on photographs (Emmanuel Francis, 2011).

11 23-A II 168 52 17 B/1932-1933 105, 106, 107 14