# Taṇṭampaṭṭu, time of Mahendravarman, year 18

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00279

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00279.xml

Language: Tamil [Vaṭṭeḻuttu]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(6edbbfa)

## Summary

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

## Palaeographic description

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-mayīntira-paru⟨2⟩maṟku patiṉ Eṭṭ-āvatu

mī⟨3⟩-vēṇāṭṭu Āntai-pāṭi Īcai ⟨4⟩ perum-pāṇaraicaru maru-makkaḷ ⟨5⟩
poṟ-cēntiyāñ cēvakaru toṟu⟨6⟩-k-koṇṭa ñāṉṟu mīṭṭu paṭṭā⟨7⟩ṉ (vē)ṇāṭ(ṭu)
nanti⟨8⟩(yār) kal ka[2+]

## Apparatus

⟨8⟩ ka[2+] • IP suggests these are to be read in continuation with line
7.

## Translation

⟨1–2⟩ Seventeenth ⟨year⟩ of the victorious king Mayīntiraparumaṉ.[1]

⟨2–8⟩ ⟨This is⟩ the stone ⟨of⟩ Nantiyār of Vēṇāṭu, he who fell rescuing
(mīṭṭu) ⟨cattle⟩ when the servant of Poṟcēntiyāṉ, the nephew of Īcai
Perumpāṇaraicar ⟨of⟩ Āntaipāṭi in Mīvēṇāṭu, seized cattle.

## Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/77). Text and summary in Mahalingam
1988 (IP 279).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

### Primary

[CN] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21.
Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/77.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi;
Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 667,
item 279.

[1] Sanskrit Mahendravarman.