Malayaṉūr, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00367.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952 (p. 88): “In characters of about the 9th century A.D. This is also1 engraved above the figure of a warrior holding a sword by his right hand and bow by his left. Refers to a cattle-raid in which a certain Nantikuṭṭi seems to have lost his life.”

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (374637e).

Edition

[text not available]

Bibliography

Reported in Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/105) and in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 367).

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 367, page 766.

Secondary

Krishnamacharlu, C. R. and N. Laksminarayan Rao. 1952. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Delhi: Government of India. Page 88, appendixes B/1940-1941, item 105.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, like ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/104.