Pōntai, time of Narasiṁhavarman, year 12

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00302.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (6764560), last modified (ec0d260).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vic¡a!⟨ai⟩ya-naraciṅka⟨2⟩-parumaṟku yāṇṭu paṉṉiraṇṭ-āvatu

⟨3⟩koṉṟai-nāṭṭu pācāṟ’ āḷ pakaimatar cēvakar⟨4⟩toṟu Iṭuvittu paṭṭār vaṇṇakka cāttaṉār

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Twelfth year of the victorious king Naraciṅkaparumaṉ.1

(3–5) Vaṇṇakka Cāttaṉār, the servant [of] Pakaimatar, the man (āḷ) [of] Pācāṟu in Mīkoṉṟaināṭu, fell recapturing cattle.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/91). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 302).

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 1971/91.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 695, item 302.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Narasiṁhavarman.