Tiruveḷḷaṟai's well, gnomic verse EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00525

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The puḷḷi is consistently used, although not for most of duplicated consonants and sometimes unduly.

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śrī kaṇ·ṭār kāṇā-v ulakattiṟ· kātal-a cey·tu nillātēy paṇ·ṭēy paramaṉ paṭait·ta nāḷ pārttu niṉ·ṟu naiyyātēy· taṇ·ṭ’ ār· mūp·pu van·t’ uṉ·ṉai-t· taḷara-c· cey·tu nillā muṉ·ṉ uṇ·ṭ’ ēll uṇ·ṭu mik·katu Ulakam·m aṟiya vaim·miṉ·ēy
kātal-a kātal There is not puḷḷi on the final l. One could concur with and emend kātala to kātal, or, alternatively, analyse, without emending the original text, this word as kātal-a, an adjectival form of kātal, “things related to love.”

Prosperity!

Without being passionately attached to this world where men seen today are not seen tomorrow; without giving yourself up to despair looking for the final day appointed by the Creator; and before your limbs become weak at the appearance of old age with its appendage of a stick; if you have wealth maintain yourself and devote what remains to charity so that all the world may know it.

Fortune !

Dans ce monde que ne voient plus ceux qui ont vu, sans t'affairer à l'amour Littéralement "sans t'arrêter à faire les choses de l’amour"., Sans dépérir à penserLittéralement "à regarder". sans cesse au jour qu’a jadis fixé le Seigneur suprême, Avant de succomberLittéralement "ne plus pouvoir tenir debout". à la venue du vieil âge qui ressemble à un bâtonAlternativement: "un châtiment". et te fera décrépirLittéralement "le vieil âge étant venu … et t’ayant fait décrépir"., Si tu as quelque chose en abondanceLittéralement "ce qui est abondant et existe, s’il en est"., afin que le monde sache, donne-le !

See also inscription Pallava 98.

In two instances, consonants are unduly duplicated at word sandhi (uṇṭ’ ēll, ulakamm).

The particle -ē is consistently appended with a y (nillātēy, paṇṭēy, naiyyātēy, vaimmiṉēy). 1577 notes: In these four instances the final y seems to have been inserted to represent the full sound produced in pronouncing the words.

Edited in (EI 11.15); text and summary in (IP 98).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy, photographs, and facsimile published in .

335-336 98 33 B/1905 541 16 40 Summary only.