Āmpūr, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 26

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00189.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kaliyirāmaṉ.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (94611de).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-niru⟨2⟩pat¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikkirama-pa⟨3⟩ruma[r]kku yāṇṭ’ iru-pa⟨4⟩tt’ āṟ-āvatu

paṭuvū⟨5⟩r-k-kōṭṭattu mēl-a ⟨6⟩ ṭaiy(ā)ṟu-nāṭṭu Āmai(y)[ūr] ⟨7⟩ mēl nuḷampaṉ (pa)[ṭai-y] ⟨8⟩ vantu toṟu-k koḷḷa (p)i(ruti-ka)⟨9⟩ṅkaraiyar cēvakar Akala[ṅkattu]⟨10⟩varāyar marukaṉ mā(c)i(ḻu)[3+]⟨11⟩(ṉ)i vētaṉ kaliyirāma[ṉ paṭṭāṉ]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–4) Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Nirupatoṅka-vikkirama-parumar.1

(4–11) When the Nuḷampaṉ came [with] his army upon Āmaiyūr, in the Mēlaṭaiyārunāṭu in the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam, and seized cattle, Kaliyirāṁaṉ, a hunter , the nephew of Akalaṅkattuvarāyar, a servant of Pirutikaṅkaraiyar, died.

Bibliography

Reported in Hultzsch 1896 (ARIE/1895-1896/B/1896/8).

Edited and translated in Hultzsch 1896–1897 (EI 4.23B). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 188).

This revised edition Emmanuel Francis, based on the previous editions.

Primary

[EI] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1896–1897. “Two Tamil inscriptions at Ambur.” EI 4, pp. 180–183. Page 183.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 520, item 189.

Secondary

[ARIE] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1896. G.O. Nos. 814-15, 6th August 1896. Epigraphy. Reviewing the report on epigraphical work accomplished during 1895-96 and directing ist transmission to the Government of India. Madras: Government of Madras, Public Department. Page 9, appendix B/1896, item 8.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.