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Veļarai-y nikamatu kāviti-iy
Kālitika Antai-a sutan
piņa-u kotupitōn
APPENDIX
No. 4.
PUGAĻŪR, KARUR TALUK, TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI
DISTRICT.
On the brow of the first cavern on the Arunāṭṭār hill near Vēlāyudampāļaiyam.
Dynasty............
Date 3rd-4th cent. A. D.
Purport Records that Ilankaṭuńkö, the son of Peruňkaṭunkön, the son of the king Atan Cellirumporai, caused the stone abode (urai) of the Jaina monk (amannan) Cenkayapan ofyarrur to be cut on becoming heir-apparent.
King: Atan Cellirumporai Language and Alphabet : Tamil, Brahmi
TEXT
...ta amannan Yarṛür Cenkayapan uraiy kō Atan Cellirumporai makan
Peruńkatunkōn makan lļan
katunkō [i*]lankō aka aṛutta kal
Notes: The word pali which is used in the sense of a monastery in Nos. 1 and 2 above came to be written in later Tamil inscriptions as palli.
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The reference to the nigama in No. 3 above shows that, as in later times, Jainism enjoyed the support of the merchant community of Tamilnadu even in the early period.
[Published in Seminar on Inscriptions (Madras), 1966, pp. 60-73].
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