Cē. Kūṭalūr, time of Mahendravarman, year 38
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00285.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero in a fight.
Hand description:
Two types of ṉ. Compare occurrences in lines 6 to 8.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (350e545), last modified (df38c20).
Edition
⟨1⟩ kō-vicai⟨2⟩ya-ma¡I!⟨yi⟩ntira-paru⟨3⟩maṟ·ku (mu)-p-patt’ eṭṭ-ā⟨4⟩vātu
vāṇa-kō-¡A!⟨v-a⟩raicaru maru⟨5⟩-makkaḷ kan·ta-viṇṇa⟨6⟩(ṉā)r kūṭal toṟu-k koṇṭa ⟨7⟩ (ñ)āṉṟu toṟu Iṭuvittu-p paṭṭā⟨8⟩ṉ poṉ·ṉarampa(ṉā)r kol·laka-c⟨9⟩c(ē)vakaṉ(·) kākkaṇṭi Aṇṇāvaṉ kal
⟨10⟩ kūṭal Iḷa⟨11⟩-makkaḷ naṭuvi⟨12⟩tta kal
Apparatus
⟨9⟩ kākkaṇṭi ⬦ kākaṇṭi CN.
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1–4) Tirthy-eight [year] of the victorious king Mayintiraparumaṉ.1
(4–9) [This is] the stone [of] Kākaṇṭi Aṇṇāvaṉ, the servant of Poṉṉarampaṉār, he who fell recapturing (iṭuvittu2) cattle when Kantaviṇṇaṉār, the nephew of the royal Bāṇa king seized cattle [in] kūṭal.
(10–12) [This is] stone that the ¿people? (iḷa-makkaḷ3) of Kūṭal had planted.
Bibliography
Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/50). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 285).
This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2009).
Primary
[CN] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/50.
[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 676–677, item 285.
Notes
- 1. Sanskrit Mahendravarman.
- 2. That is (?), viṭuvittu, literally: liberating.
- 3. Mahalingam 1988 suggests to translate as "soldiers".
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