Cāḷuvaṉ Kuppam, pillar, time of <unclear>Kampa</unclear>varman, year 17 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00506

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Donation of gold for upkeeping a perpetual lamp and of land to provide sacred food-offerings. Very similar (content, individual mentioned) to INSPallava00507.

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svasti śrī

kampa-va rmmaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉ-ēḻ-ā vatu

tiru-v-iḻiccil subra hmaṇya-bhaṭārarkku maṉaiy yiṟ cāṇṭayalaṉ kiḻavaṉ kayi caṉ makan śrī-kampapattanṉ pirāmaṇi va santa-pirāṭṭiyār kuṭutta patiṉ-āṟu kaḻañcu poṉṉāl kaḻañciṉ vā y Arṟu nāḻi-p palicai-y-āka Ā ṭṭāṇṭu tōṟum toṇṇū ru nāḻi Eṇṇai

Ip-po ṉ koṇṭu Erikka ttu-k koṇṭu nantā-viḷakku Erippōm āṉōm

tiru-v-amirtukkuk kuṭutta kiḻāṉ ceṟuvil na kallilum tiru-v-a vippōm āṉōm

lai mēl tirukkiṉ kiḻavar-āṉa maṉṉa

°va rmmaṟku °va mmaṟku subra hmaṇya-bhaṭārarkku cupra maṇya patārarku

Prosperity! Fortune!

Seventeenth year of Kampavarman.

With the sixteen kaḻañcus of gold that Vasanta Pirāṭṭiyār, the Brahmin spouse of ... gave, ninety nāḻis of oil are to be provided ...

We have become those who, with this gold, will burn a perpetual lamp.

We have become those who have sacred food-offerings fed tiru-v-amirtu ūṭṭuvippōm the field of the landowner given for sacred food-offerings.

. The feet of he who protect this pious act are on my head eṉ talai mēl.

Edited in .

Encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on , not sufficiently reliable. The distinction between vowel akṣaras and markers, and between Grantha and Tamil letters, cannot be implemented with full confidence. The present digital edition is thus provisional and should be revised with proper visual documentation.

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