# Kīraicāttu, time of Nandīśvaravarman, year 37

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00426

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00426.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

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## Summary

Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Vakkaṭi.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-nanti¡c!⟨cc⟩ura-parumaṟk⟨2⟩ku yāṇṭu muppattēḻā⟨3⟩vatu

vaḷḷipēṭu-nāṭuṭaiya vik⟨4⟩kiramāttiya nāṭu mārikappā⟨5⟩kiḻār makaṉ
vakkaṭi paṭṭāṉ

## Translation

⟨1–3⟩ Tirthy-seventh year of the victorious king Nanti⟨cc⟩uraparumaṉ.[1]

⟨3–5⟩ Vakkaṭi, son ⟨of⟩ Mārikappākiḻar[2] ⟨in/of⟩ the nāṭu of
Vikramāditya, lord of Vaḷḷipēṭunātu, fell.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1994–95 (ARIE/1994-1995/B/1994-1995/194).

Edited in Avanam (Āvaṇam 7.3). Text in Dayalan 2005. Edited in Irācavēlu
2022.

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

### Primary

Avanam

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava
period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix
I, page 1275, item 40.

[R] Irācavēlu, Cu. 2022. Tamiḻnāṭṭuk kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti XXI. Vēlur
māvaṭṭak kalveṭṭukaḷ tokuti III. TNSDA Epigraphical Series 60. Chennai:
Government of Tamil Nadu, State Department of Archaeology. Page 155,
item 529/2022.

### Secondary

ARIE 1994–95. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1994-95. Edited by
M. D. Sampath. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2001. Page 64,
appendixes B/1994-95, item 194.

[1] Sanskrit Nandīśvaravarman.

[2] Mārikappāvakiḻār in Avanam introduction to the inscription.