Mōttakal, time of Mahendravarman, year 32

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00281.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero in a fight with a tiger.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (333a4a5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya mayēntira⟨2⟩parumaṟku mu-p-patt’ iraṇṭ-ā⟨3⟩vatu

po¡ṉ!⟨ṟ⟩-mōtaṉār cē⟨4⟩vakaṉ viṉṟaṇ (va)ṭukaṉ⟨5⟩puli kutti-p paṭṭāṉ⟨6⟩kal

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) Tirthy-second [year] of the victorious king Mayēntiraparumaṉ.1

(3–6) [This is] the stone [of] Viṉṟaṇ (Va)ṭukaṉ, the servant of Poṟmōtaṉār2, he who fell fighting (kutti3) with a tiger.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/89). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 281).

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 1971/89.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 669, item 281.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Mahendravarman.
  2. 2. Cf. Poṟmōtaṉṉār in DHARMA_INSPallava00280, same findspot, king, and year.
  3. 3. Literally: piercing, striking.