Taraṅkampāṭi/Tranquebar, Mācilāmaṇīṣvara temple, Śaka year 1775 (mistake for 1705) author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0400 DHARMAbase Donation of banner-post and pavement in the temple of Mācilāmaṇiyīcuvaracuvāmi, that is, the shore temple in Tranquebar, by a Ceṭṭiyār. On a stone built on the floor () of the Mācilāmaṇīṣvara temple, kept (2025) in the Danish Fort at Tranquebar.

Double kompu irregularly used.

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māci lāmaṇi-y-īcuvara-cuvāmi caṉṉati tu ca-k=-kampamum taḷavicaiyu=M cēṉai -k-kuṭai cuppiṟamaṇiya-ceṭṭiyār kumāraṉ Āpatuttāraṇa-ceṭṭi yār ceyiytu vaitta taṟmam

nitti yam catāceēṟvai .

śubham astu

caṉṉati caṉṉati tu ca-k=-kampamum tu ca-t=-tampamum ceṭṭiyār ceṭṭiyār

Cālivākaṉa year 1775,Read 1705. Kaliyuka year 4884, year Cōpakiṟutu, which was then current, month of Āvaṇi, day 30, on the auspicious day when combined a Friday and the nakṣatra Uttiraṭṭāti.

This is the pious donation tārmamSanskrit dharma. that Āpatuttāraṇa-ceṭṭiyār, son of Cēṉaikkuṭai Cuppiṟamaṇiya-ceṭṭiyār, gave by making a banner-post and the pavement for the temple of Mācilāmaṇiyīcuvaracuvāmi.

This is made in perpetual devotion.

Let prosperity be!

Marco Franceschini kindly assessed the date (email, 2025-11-19), as follows: With the exception of the Cālivākaṉa year, all the remaining calendrical data converge on 12 September 1783 CE, which was Cālivākaṉa (Śaka) current year 1705, Kaliyuga current year 4884, Jovian year Cōpakirutu (Śobhana), Friday, 26th nakṣatra (Uttiraṭṭāti). Thus, Cālivākaṉa 1775 is a mistake for Cālivākaṉa 1705.

Reported in (ARIE/1890-1891/A/1890/76).

Edited in (SII 4.400).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis based on and photo (Margherita Trento, 2025).

120 400 7 A/1890 76