Veppūrcekkaṭi, time of Narasiṃhavarman, year 10

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00423.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Vaṇṇakka Cāttaṉār.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (350e545), last modified (e773d28).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-naraciṅka-parumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu ⟨2⟩ patt-āvatu

mīkoṉṟai-nāṭṭu pālaikōṭṭu toṟu ⟨3⟩ koṇṭa ñāṉṟu vāṇakō-Araicar cēvakar ⟨4⟩ pālaikōṭuṭaiya vaṇṇakka cāttaṉār ⟨5⟩ toṟu Iṭuvittu nāyavaṉōṭu paṭṭār

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Tenth year of the victorious king Naraciṅkaparumaṉ.1

(2–5) Vaṇṇakka Cāttaṉār, landlord of Pālaikōṭu, servant of Vāṇakōvaraiyar, fell, rescuing cattle along with Nāyavaṉ, at the time of seizing cattle in Pālaikōṭu in the Mīkoṉṟaināṭu.

Commentary

Line beginnings not indicated by Kasinathan 1974, here after Dayalan 2005.

Bibliography

Edited in Kasinathan 1974. Text in Dayalan 2005.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[K] Kasinathan, Natana. 1974. “Hero-stone inscriptions of Narasimha I & II.” In: Seminar on hero-stones. Edited by R. Nagaswamy. Madras: State Department of Archaeology, pp. 33–37. Page 36, item 3.

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1270, item 35.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Narasiṁhavarman, that is, Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, according to Kasinathan 1974.