# Toraippāṭi, time of Mahendravarman, year unclear

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00277

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00277.xml

Language: Tamil [Vaṭṭeḻuttu]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero during a fight.

## Palaeographic description

Note the epenthetic u for r at the end of words.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-mayēntira⟨2⟩parumaṟku (ṟaṇṇu)-Āvatu

ka⟨3⟩ṅkaraicar-ōṭu pavvatu kaṅ⟨4⟩karaicaru makkaḷ poṉ⟨5⟩ṉantiyāru
peru-mukai ⟨6⟩ eṟinta ñāṉṟu kaṅka⟨7⟩raicaru cēvakaru Eṟintu ⟨8⟩ paṭṭāru
rārāṟṟū Āṇṭa ⟨9⟩ kuṉṟa-k-kaṇṇiyār ⟨10⟩ kal

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (ṟaṇṇu)-Āvatu • Reading difficult to make sense of. This is a year
in the twenty according to CN. This is the first year according to IAR.

⟨8⟩ rārāṟṟū ⬦ rārāṟṟū CN; rārāṟṟu IP • Reading difficult to make sense
of. The reading rārāṟṟu by IP is apparently a typographical error as he
gives Rārāṟṟūr in his summary.

## Translation

⟨1–2⟩ ¿Twenty-…? (ṟaṇṇu) ⟨year⟩ of the victorious king
Mayēntiraparumaṉ.[1]

⟨2–10⟩ ⟨This is⟩ the stone of Kuṉṟakkaṇṇiyār, who ruled ¿Rārāṟṟūr?, he
who fell fighting/attacking, ⟨as?⟩ a servant of Kaṅkaraicar[2], when
Poṉṉantiyār attacked Perumukai along with Kaṅkaraicar … (pavvatu) and
the people of Kaṅkaraicar.

## Commentary

Kaṅkaraicar: rather than a proper name, a generic title?

## Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/33). Text and summary in Mahalingam
1988 (IP 277).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition.

### Primary

[CN] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21.
Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/33.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 664,
item 277.

### Secondary

[IAR] IAR 1971-72. Indian Archaeology 1971-72: A Review. Edited by M. N.
Deshpande. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1975. Page 59,
item 40.

[1] Sanskrit Mahendravarman.

[2] That is, the Gaṅga king