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

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00375.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See ARIE 1939-1943 (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.”

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (6764560), last modified (374637e).

Edition

[text not available]

Bibliography

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

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.

Secondary

ARIE 1939-1943. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1939-40 to 1942-43. Edited by C. R. Krishnamacharlu and N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1952. Page 55, appendixes B/1939-1940, item 209.