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

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00375

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00375.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-11 17:29 (458e70c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(6edbbfa)

## 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.”

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## Edition

[text not available]

## 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.