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

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00368

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00368.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

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

Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See ARIE
1939–43 (p. 88): “In similar characters.[1] Fragment. Mentions a certain
Nantikuṭṭi, son of Mīnakarkāḷi, and Malaiyaṉūr in Mīkoṉṟai-nāṭu, which
he was probably administering.”

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## Edition

[text not available]

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/106) and in
Mahalingam 1988 (IP 368).

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 368,
page 767.

### Secondary

ARIE 1939–43. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years
1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu & N. Laksminarayan
Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 88, appendixes B/1940-1941,
item 106.

[1] Emmanuel Francis: That is, like those of
ARIE/1939-1943/B/1940-1941/105, that is, characters of about the 9th
century A.D.