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

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See ARIE 1939–43 (p. 55): “Highly damaged. Seems to refer to the grant of a kannāṭu to the hero represented, by the side of the inscription, with a bow and a dagger in his hands. The characters are of about the 10th century A.D.”

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00375.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00375.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 13:33 (d9e9623), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (ecb0276).

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Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1939–43 (ARIE/1939-1943/B/1939-1940/209) and in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 375).

Edited (date phrase only, ninth year) in Pūṅkuṉṟaṉ 2021.

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 375, page 774.

[P] Pūṅkuṉṟaṉ, Ra. 2021. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XVIII. Vēlūr māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti I. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 57. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Item 39/2021, page 44.

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 55, appendixes B/1939-1940, item 209.

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