# Puḷiyaṉūr, time of Siṁhaviṣṇu, year 2[.]

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00408

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00408.xml

Language: Tamil [Vaṭṭeḻuttu]

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## Summary

Lacunose inscription; most probably a hero-stone, like the others
inscriptions (Pallava 406, Pallava 407, Pallava 409) found at Puḷiyaṉūr.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-ciṅka-viṇṇa-parumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ Iru⟨2⟩[…] (vē)ṇāṭṭu […]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ ⬦ H; °ciṅ[3+]viṇṇaparumaṟku N. — ⟨1⟩
Iru⟨2⟩[…] (vē)ṇāṭṭu […] ⬦ H; I⟨2⟩[15+]ṭṭu [7+] N.

## Translation

⟨1–2⟩ Twenty-[…] [year] of the victorious king Ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṉ[1] […]
in the Vēṇāṭu […]

## Bibliography

Edited in Hariharan 1974 (2 epigraphical lines), in Nākacāmi 1975 (no.
87; 2 epigraphical lines). Text in Dayalan 2005 (2 epigraphical lines).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Hariharan 1974.

### Primary

[H] Hariharan, S. 1974. “Simhavishnu.” In: Seminar on hero-stones.
Edited by R. Nagaswamy. Madras: State Department of Archaeology, pp.
65–71. Page 69.

[N] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1975. Tarumapuri kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu
Tolporuḷ Āyvutuṟai veḷiyīṭu eṇ [TNSDA series] 37. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu
Aracu Tolporuḷ Āyvutuṟai [Tamill Nadu State Department of Archaeology].
Item 86, item 1972/1.

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava
period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix
I, page 1251, item 18.

[1] Sanskrit Siṁhaviṣṇuvarman.