Cāṇaṅkuppam, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 12 author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00425.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Viṉaiyittaṉ and donation in honour of the deceased hero. Slab exhibited in Vellore ASI Museum in 2009.

The puḷḷi is used.

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svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-nan·ti-vikkirama-paruma ṟku yāṇṭu paṉ·ṉiraṇ·ṭ-āvatu

paṭuvūr-k -kōṭ·ṭat·tu Aṭaiyaāṟu-nāṭu vicaiyātit·ta ṉ-āṉa kam·paṭikaḷ muruṅkai mēṟ paṭai vanta ñāṉṟu poṉ·ṉēṟar kalḷattiluḷ· pāṉ· mu ttaraiyar marumakaṉ viṉaiyiīttaṉ kutirai muṭṭaṉi mēl Eṟintu pattāṉ

Avaṟ·ku viṇṭa l paṭ ṭiyum cemmā rp·-paṭ ṭiyum kuṭuttu

It’ aḻitāṉ nara

°vicaiya° °vicaiya° The letter ya possibly added below the line. Aṭaiyaāṟu° Aṭaiyaṟu° kalḷattiluḷ· kaḷattiluḷ pāṉ· bāṇa(ṇa)- pāṉ· might be emended to pāṇa-. viṇṭa l miṇa l however comments on miṇṭal in his introduction to his edition.

Prosperity! Fortune!

Twelfth year of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.

Viṉaiyīttaṉ, the son-in-law of Bāṇa Muttaraiyar, fell fighting upon mēl kutirai muṭṭaṉi in the battlefield kaḷam with Poṉṉērar, when Kampaṭikaḷ alias VicaiyātittaṉSanskrit Vijayāditya. marchedLiterally: went. with his army upon Muruṅkai, in the Ātaiyāṟunāṭu of the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam.

To himThat is, in honour of him., having given Viṇṭal Paṭṭi and Cemmār Paṭṭi

He who destroysThat is, harms. this donation he will go to hell ? naraThat is, a lacunose form of narakam..

Reported in (ARIE/1992-1993/B/1992-1993/315).

Edited in (JESI 20.16). Text in . Edited in , with visual documentation (p. 281).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (2009).

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